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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWant to know what someone will get done as President? Look at who their big $$$ contributors are?
And the American Public was getting crumbs long before Citizen's United.
Reich referenced a Princeton survey that included analysis of 1,799 policy issues from 1981 to 2002, and which ultimately concluded that The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically insignificant impact upon public policy. Reich added that since 2002, the Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions have only opened the floodgates to big money even more.
http://usuncut.com/politics/robert-reich-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-best-candidate/
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Want to know what someone will get done as President? Look at who their big $$$ contributors are? (Original Post)
Skwmom
Jan 2016
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)1. And a bit more from the article:
Laughing off Bill Clintons assertion that Bernie Sanderss health plan was a recipe for gridlock, Reich wrote that these days, nothing of any significance is feasible and every bold idea is a recipe for gridlock.
Detailed policy proposals are as relevant to the election of 2016 as is that gaseous planet beyond Pluto, Reich said. They dont have a chance of making it, as things are now.
Therefore: This election is about changing the parameters of whats feasible and ending the choke hold of big money on our political system The upcoming election isnt about detailed policy proposals. Its about power whether those who have it will keep it, or whether average Americans will get some as well.
In his post, Reich referred to Bernie as a political activist who tells it like it is,who has lived by his convictions for fifty years, who wont take a dime of money from big corporations or Wall Street or the very rich, and who is leading a grass-roots political revolution to regain control over our democracy and economy.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)2. And at the contributors to the Congress. n/t
KoKo
(84,711 posts)3. ...! Yes, that, also.