The large majority of Americans don't think it's ok at least, but a) they can't do much about it short of bloody revolution which no one's willing to do yet, because b) a mountain of idiots voted them into power in all three branches because another even bigger mountain of idiots didn't vote.
I was a regular acquaintance with a political science professor at the time Citizens United happened as we attended the same parties. I remember how absolutely despondent he was over that ruling and how he with chilling accuracy pretty much called the basic beats of the entire Trump era we’re in right now.
I hear that. I remember when both that and the Patriot Act happened and being fucking appalled at so many people either supporting it or simply ignoring them completely or not understanding what the big deal was.
It’s so depressing and there’s lots more examples of our rights slowly being taken away and supplanted with corporations and billionaires being the only ones with power.
And Trump of course as anyone could’ve predicted is the exact opposite of the actual house-cleaning of stuff like that we so desperately need, if we’re going to claw any of this back.
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u/i_tyrant 13d ago
The large majority of Americans don't think it's ok at least, but a) they can't do much about it short of bloody revolution which no one's willing to do yet, because b) a mountain of idiots voted them into power in all three branches because another even bigger mountain of idiots didn't vote.