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tclambert

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25. Exactly right.

Sat Feb 7, 2015, 01:14 PM

Feb 2015

"Hey, what if we get our lobbyists to write a law, shop it around, get some Congesscritter to sponsor it, and make our highly immoral, highly corrupt behavior technically legal? If we can profit off it, the bribery required to subvert democracy is a small cost on the balance sheet."

"And hey, what if we call it 'buying access' instead of 'buying influence' or 'buying votes?' And instead of bribery, we call it 'contributions to anonymous political action committees?' Remind me to send a thank you note to Chief Justice Roberts for that Citizens United decision that legalized buying elections. Oh, gotta remember to say 'money is free speech' rather than buying elections."

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