The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections – How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United and turn America into a kleptocracy — and how this nightmare can be stopped
Source: Quirkie
The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections – How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United and turn America into a kleptocracy — and how this nightmare can be stopped
Source: Quirkie
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Citizens United would no longer exist if we had elected Hillary.
People forget, it was her #1 priority to appoint justices that would overturn it. And she’d have 3 justices, more than enough.
After all, Citizens United involved a movie about her… _”Hillary: the Movie.”_
It only makes sense that I should be considered the same as Greystar, a $79B real estate holding company with properties in 17 countries. We are clearly equals. /s
“could expand… and turn America in a kleptocracy”???? WTF is what we have now? This is 100% a kleptocracy already.
Tbh, this ain’t even a surprise anymore. Freakin’ billionaires always tryna buy their way into power and control, while the rest of us’re just strugglin’ to make ends meet. Ffs, it’s high time we put a stop to this crap, or we’re all screwed. Wealth should never define someone’s voice in politics
Everything old might be new again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscription
The term originated in Ancient Rome, where it included public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state and it often involved confiscation of property
Secret?
>and how this nightmare can be stopped
American voters consistently choose kleptocracy. Much like a little kid who just can’t help but reach for the hot pan on the stove, voters are going to need to feel the pain before anything changes. We’re not there yet.
Nah. But we are going to impeach every single conservative, corrupt justice and overturn their decisions.
guessing the author didn’t follow the money. /s.
[https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors](https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors)
Sorry to break it to you, but we are already there. The rich have bought and paid for our elections and politicians. They control all 3 branches of government.
Wake Up!
Lol it’s not a secret plan, citizens united legalized the process long ago
Fucking Comey, and that damn Email server.
How is this a secret, they’ve already done it
Full article
https://archive.ph/FgzJw
I always wonder what they mean when a maga says the “left was doing this same stuff”. Are they referring to all of the bullshit from Fox News that never had a shred of evidence?
…secret?
Pretty sure they already did it. Case in point: Pennsylvania.
> But conservatives, their oligarch benefactors, and the Supreme Court clearly have a master plan to try to lock in the kleptocratic status quo.
> They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want — and so they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy.
We really need more politicians in office that embrace the same view Texas Rep. James Talarico expressed in this rally speech.
Texas Rep. James Talarico – [Austin 7/25/25](https://www.reddit.com/r/FortWorth/comments/1mb56zq/we_are_focused_on_the_wrong_1_look_up/) (1:52)
“*We are focused on the wrong 1%.*
You know, the more I see what’s happening at our state capital and our national capital, the more I think the only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people are 1% of the population.
Muslims are 1% of the population.
Undocumented people are 1% of the population.
*We are focused on the wrong 1%.*
Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare.
Muslims are not defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians.
The culture wars are a smokescreen.
So many of the divisions in this state and in this country are manufactured by billionaires who want us fighting each other instead of fighting them. They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them.
The biggest divide in our politics is not Left vs. Right, it’s Top vs. Bottom.”