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socialist_n_TN

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12. I don't have a problem with anyone working..........

Sun Apr 8, 2012, 12:25 PM

Apr 2012

to get money out of politics. I just don't think that it can ever be effectively achieved until capital is overthrown and economic democracy is instituted. Money has ALWAYS affected politics, even if only in subtle ways. Think back to the Jay Gould quote from the Gilded Age. "I can always hire one half the working class to kill the other half." THAT'S money affecting politics and no amount of Constitutional amendments can change that. Only a system change can.

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