Reclaiming democracy requires ending big money in politics, stopping corporate welfare, busting up monopolies and stopping voter suppression. It is the bedrock for everything else America must do.
I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved"left" and that some Democratic candidates may be"too far left."
Yet as wealth and power have concentrated at the top, everyone else – whether on the old right or the old left – has become disempowered and less secure. The oligarchs know politicians won't bite the hands that feed them. So as long as they control the money, they can be confident there will be no meaningful response to stagnant pay, climate change, military bloat, or the soaring costs of health insurance, pharmaceuticals, college and housing.
So long as the oligarchy divides Americans – splits off people of color from working-class whites, stokes racial resentments, describes human beings as illegal aliens, launches wars on crime and immigrants, fuels fears of communists and socialists – it doesn't have to worry that a majority will stop them from looting the nation.
He knows how to stir up fears of brown-skinned people from"shitholes" streaming across the border to murder and rape, and stoke anger about black athletes who don't stand for the national anthem.
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