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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCitizens United has now ensured citizens no longer have a voice in the US. Money will
bend and shape the voice of the citizens to ensure great wealth now runs and directs the future of the US oligarchy with little interference from the highly propagandized "yes sir" citizens of serfdom.
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Citizens United has now ensured citizens no longer have a voice in the US. Money will (Original Post)
RKP5637
Nov 2014
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Orsino
(37,428 posts)1. Well, we just had a voice. Far too many simply chose not to use it.
We can't blame it all on the money quite yet...but eventually our voices could be extinguished.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)2. Very good point! n/t
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)5. Voting is meaningless when all the candidates are capitalist tools.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)6. If voting were truly meaningless, they wouldn't be spending money to outlaw it.
There is still more than a dime's worth of difference between the parties.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)3. A little ironic when you post a message that is visible to all of the over 80% of Americans
who have internet access, to complain about "not having a voice".
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)4. It's a message that Citizens United must be eliminated. n/t