Citizens United, the Billionaire Donor Class, and the Quiet Capture of America
Citizens United, the Billionaire Donor Class, and the Quiet Capture of America
How the old problems were never fixed, how new ones were planted, and how the harvest now surrounds us
Whether people first saw that line in a meme, a quote card, or a history book, the point lands because it feels true. Americans forget. We forget scandals. We forget broken promises. We forget who funded whom, who sold out what, who campaigned one way and governed another. We forget the pattern because politics trains us to stare at the leaves while ignoring the roots.
That forgetting is not a side issue. It is one of the reasons the system keeps reproducing itself.
How the old problems were never fixed, how new ones were planted, and how the harvest now surrounds us
Whether people first saw that line in a meme, a quote card, or a history book, the point lands because it feels true. Americans forget. We forget scandals. We forget broken promises. We forget who funded whom, who sold out what, who campaigned one way and governed another. We forget the pattern because politics trains us to stare at the leaves while ignoring the roots.
That forgetting is not a side issue. It is one of the reasons the system keeps reproducing itself.
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- 1Posted by $ jbrenner 10 hours, 30 minutes agoThat forgetting is foundational to the looters' and moochers' success. Have you noticed that producers understand history and that non-producers don't care at all about history?| Permalink
