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Blue Meany

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4. I agree that Citizens United pretty much ended democracy, but I don't think its
Mon May 15, 2017, 09:52 AM
May 2017

just dark money from Russia. There's probably money from Israel, Saudi Arabia and China, too. And much of it will never be detected. But I don't think that the entire GOP is in on it--that's too big a conspiracy and there are a few who wouldn't go along with it. At the same time, there are probably Democrats who have benefited from the foreign gravy train. The real problem, though, is that money from anywhere is allowed to have such influence on elections. I doesn't make feel better to think that the name of the donor is Koch rather than Putin. Oligarchs aren't really American, anyway, they are globalists.

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