The most depressing graph I've seen in a while

[n2doc]

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/non-party-spending-house-and-senate

[Doctor_J]

1. The final nail in the coffin of democracy in the US

1: Telecommunications Act, handing the airwaves over to the fascists
2: Bush v. Gore
3. CU

[progressoid]

2. Good lord.

[Scuba]

3. Rec

[TransitJohn]

4. This should be one of the higjest rec'd threads ever on DU

We'll see.

[Rex]

5. That is how plutocracies work.

The buying and selling of our government in chart form!

[ReRe]

6. Holy-moly guacamole...

K&R

The fall of the American Empire, right in front of our eyes.

[liberal_at_heart]

7. we cannot ignore this!

[lunatica]

8. Money talks. Now it votes too.

[indepat]

9. One word comes to mind re the Citizens United ruling: heinous; one word come to

mind re those who gave us that ruling: traitorous.

[Phlem]

10. Crushed by Corporate

"Corporations are people my friend" and unless you own one your toast.



-p

[East Coast Pirate]

11. Our politicians are now employees of corporations.

They don't represent us.

[CrispyQ]

12. This is the brick wall.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

~Zappa