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Here is the truth. (Original Post) Uncle Joe Feb 2022 OP
Yes. Exactly true. dchill Feb 2022 #1
Now a handful of corporations can control our National elections. And not just by money. Midnight Writer Feb 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Feb 2022 #3
And that is the truth malaise Feb 2022 #4
+++ KPN Feb 2022 #9
K & R - nt Ohio Joe Feb 2022 #5
K&R. nt c-rational Feb 2022 #6
K & R for Truth no matter what side you are on. Tommymac Feb 2022 #7
Kick. dchill Feb 2022 #8
The wealth gap is expanding at a very rapid rate and wages for most have stagnated for decades. Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #10
I wish Bernie was 30 years younger. LiberalLovinLug Feb 2022 #11
To my way of thinking, Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #12

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)
2. Now a handful of corporations can control our National elections. And not just by money.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 08:25 PM
Feb 2022

All that needs to happen is for the oil companies to raise gas prices before the election, and the incumbents lose.

And the giant food corporations can follow suit.

And the giant media conglomerations can hammer away incessantly at the incumbents.

We have let the corporations get too big and powerful, and now they control the country.

Corporations are more powerful than the government that regulates them, and they are more powerful than We The People.

We should have nipped this in the bud with anti-merger and anti-monopoly laws, but now I am afraid we are too late.

They will never give up their power, and we are not strong enough to take it back.

Response to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Evolve Dammit

(16,733 posts)
10. The wealth gap is expanding at a very rapid rate and wages for most have stagnated for decades.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 10:16 PM
Feb 2022

Unsustainable.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
11. I wish Bernie was 30 years younger.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 10:20 PM
Feb 2022

One of these times he's going to win, and change the face of America. But only if he can make a deal with the devil, and lose a few decades.

Uncle Joe

(58,364 posts)
12. To my way of thinking,
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 10:25 PM
Feb 2022

Bernie has already won because he's a person of conscience and on the right side of history, the preeminent question being whether the rest of the nation follows suit?

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