Corruption is legalized through campaign finance. Policy failure isn’t incompetence, it’s design. Until money is divorced from politics, Congress will remain an auction house, not a legislature, where public interest is always outbid by private capital.

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Right now, money equals speech in U.S. politics. The only sustainable change is to either (a) reduce the role of money in politics, or (b) give the public ways to compete with big money influence. Overturn Citizens United & Electoral Reform:Ranked-choice voting. Limit big $, and empower voters!

Right now, money equals speech in U.S. politics. The only sustainable change is to either (a) reduce the role of money in politics, or (b) give the public ways to compete with big money influence…Or Overturn Citizens United, Electoral Reform: Ranked-choice voting.

"Late stage capitalism"... the "prelude to socialism." It's popular to speak about the "wonderful virtues" of socialism, while ignoring the 100M+ who died in brutal regimes that subscribed to those ideologies. Capitalism isn't perfect. It's 99% better than socialism can ever be.

capitalism is the sole cause of climate change which will kill millions capitalism put a billion people into slums capitalism commits genocide for realty meanwhile communism has a rocky history from american interference and suddenly that’s the cause of the horrors

There’s capitalism and then there’s crony capitalism. An economic system in which individuals and businesses with political connections and influence are favored (as through tax breaks, grants, and other forms of government assistance) in ways seen as suppressing open competition in a free market