Plutocrats of the New Gilded Age: The Wizards of Was
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In their January 2010 Citizens United ruling, the five Republicans on the Roberts Supreme Court effectively turned all our future elections over to powerful corporations by allowing them to spend unlimited, anonymous dollars on their candidates. Then, the majority of those who voted in the 2010 elections gave the Fox “News”-Republican-TEA Party control of the U. S. House of Representatives and gave them more seats in the Senate to make that body even more dysfunctional.
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My comment...
While the author certainly has a Democratic Party bias, this piece is worthwhile reading simply for its historical perspective and its educational value. If we don't understand our political and economic history as a nation, we risk repeating the same mistakes that were made over a century ago.
TheNewGildedAge.blogspot.com This blog focuses on the growing inequality of income and wealth in the U.S. As Warren Buffett said in 2008: “There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”
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