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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the main reasons America is collapsing is because the wealthy can buy politicians. [/quote]

True.  When corporations became people under Citizens United, and campaign finance died, our Democracy was basically doomed.

Add in a culture which is more and more anti-education and this is where you end up.

The fact that the divide between the richest the vast majority of Americans who have little generational wealth grows wider each year due to Ronald Reagan's tax reforms, and you end up with the toxic morass of American political life today.

Let's be clear that every single one of these trends was advanced and primarily championed by Republicans.

When people say that both sides contributed to this equally that is a bald-faced lie.[/quote]

The Citizens United ruling was a GOP initiative. Since then, a very small percentage of our GOP and Dem Congress members have spoken out against the toxic influence of money in politics while the rest have performed their puppet acts willingly. It's difficult to see a path out of dysfunction and toxicity for the GOP and Dem Parties at this point. When one party nominates someone as awful as Trump three consecutive times and the other party is so weak and dysfunctional that the lose to Trump in 2 of 3 general elections, you have all the proof you need of two parties that are no longer viable.[/quote]

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