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ecib · 4807 days ago · link · · parent · post: ACLU report on the rise of 'for profit' prisons and what that means for our society.
I could not agree more.
Honestly, there are a lot of problems with our country, but there is not one issue that would go so far to ameliorate so many than campaign finance reform. Somehow we have to restrict the flow of large sums of money from special interest lobbyists, corporations, and unions. Money talks. You pay our leaders and they do what you want them to. Anybody who thInks otherwise is living on another planet. Votor's wishes will get ignored over massive campaign coffer injections the majority of the time.
I don't see it happening either. Not for a long time, and after much more damage is done.
It's so very weak that people in a democracy can be made to believe that government is the problem. IT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT. Now we are giving our government away. Socialism for corporations. That's what we've got.