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"If you become a member of Congress, you’ll get a card from the head of your party that you will spend five hours [each] afternoon talking to donors. That’s not
by cs702 10y ago
"If you become a member of Congress, you’ll get a card from the head of your party that you will spend five hours [each] afternoon talking to donors. That’s not the only time you spend with donors—they’ll take you to dinner, cocktails—but these five hours are important. The message is clear: You are a slave to the donors. They own you. That’s [the] real corruption, the ownership of Congress by the rich."
In other words, if you live in the US, your congressman/woman is spending FIVE HOURS A DAY (!) on the phone raising money from people at the top of the wealth/power distribution.
Yikes!
- cies 10y agoI don't teach my children they live in a democracy. Maybe we should all stop doing that and maybe we can start to address the lack of democracy (and excess of lobbycracy/plutocracy/capitalism) as a problem.
- cies 10y ago> and maybe we can start to address the lack of democracy (and excess of lobbycracy/plutocracy/capitalism) as a problem. Instead of cheering how "democratic" we are.
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- narrowrail 10y ago>I don't teach my children they live in a democracy. That's good because if you read the Federalist Papers, you will see the founders explicitly set out to design a Republic at the federal level. Each state, however is a democracy, but people seem to ignore state-level politics for some reason.
- cies 10y agoSorry not living in the US. :)