Some massive dark force has deformed American politics. The result is that billionaires get whatever they want and average Americans get screwed. What’s going on here, and when did it start?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-is-the-invisible-dark-force-832
What is the Invisible Dark Force Destroying Everything?
In our post-Citizens United world, when industry or a “generous” billionaire opposes a policy, what they want beats democracy almost every time...Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)
Shannon Skinner (she/her)
in reply to Thom Hartmann • • •My answer to that question is always that America's decline into vast inequity began in earnest with the presidency of Ronald Reagan and his free market, pro-deregulation, trickle-down bullshit.
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TenPastTwo
in reply to Shannon Skinner (she/her) • • •If you did the top 0.1% you'd need a logithmic scale just to keep that and the median in the same graph.