Now it’s official. Twenty-seven men run this country.
Pundits are fond of saying, “The President of the United States is the most powerful person in America.”
He’s not and hasn’t been for over a decade. Political power in this country, since five Republicans on the Supreme Court fully legalized both overt and secret political bribery in their 2010 Citizens United decision, is now centered in the money bins of the morbidly rich.
Political pundits also say that, for example, Val Demmings outraising Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race bodes well for her and bad for Rubio in the upcoming election. In fact, it’s only marginally relevant because billionaire dark money doesn’t show up in official fundraising numbers. And Rubio has multiple billionaire backers.
A small number of rightwing billionaires today run the show, at least for the moment, and, according to a new study, 27 of them basically own the GOP and thus the ability to block most positive and forward action by the Biden administration.
In 1776 we declared independence from the world’s richest man and the planet’s largest corporation, […]
I agree with you Stephan, except that I KNOW that the America I grew up in does not exist and hasn’t for a long time!
P.S.: This is not 1776 and we need to update our constitution to fit the years we are living in now.