We're coming to the end of what might be called the anti-democracy decade. It began January 21, 2010, with the Supreme Court's shameful decision inopening the floodgates to big money in politics with the absurd claim that the First Amendment protects corporate speech.
Big corporations and the super-wealthy lavished their donations on the Republican Party because Republicans promised them a giant tax cut if they won. As Lindsey Graham warned his Republican colleagues"financial contributions will stop" if the GOP didn't come through. The anti-democracy decade has been hard on American workers. Despite the longest economic expansion in modern history, real wages have barely risen. The share of corporate profits going to workers still isn't back to where it was before the 2008 financial crisis. Never in the history of economic data have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for so long.
Enter Donald Trump."Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place," he charged in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in 2016, and then he rode the rigging all the way into the Oval Office.
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