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librechik

(30,956 posts)
9. that is how it used to be done, before Citizen's United. Now the bigger bank account
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 12:09 PM
Dec 2014

will always win out over the populist independent candidate; There are other loopholes to stop them, too. Not to mention The Final Solution, which our PTB use when they're really up against a mass movement, like Civil Rights or Peace.

And it's not just money, but a network of powerful organizations that frankly will stop at nothing to get their candidate elected. Or in the case of the Democratic Campaign Committee, abandon them if the polls are down.

I admire your loyalty, still_one, but we need a new paradigm. I hope the Millennials can come up with something because the only solutions i can think of are bloody and unpredictable.

It would help if we had some portion of the justice system on our side, but we haven't since Clinton, at least.

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