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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]...raising money from small donors doesn't get us any closer to overturning Citizens United. You made a concrete claim about how he was getting us closer. How?
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You're confusing me with another poster. Overturning Citizen's United is a matter for the court.[/quote]

Sorry for the confusion.  That's exactly my point!  One of the PPs said Sanders was getting us closer to overturning CU.  That's not up to him, and no failed presidential bid is going to affect SCOTUS on this. [/quote]

It is not about being closer to overturning Citizens United. It is about the novel idea that a politician should be free to act on the interests of the people and on her or his own ethical standards rather than being beholden to one's contributors. For example, it is naive to think that a president who has taken a great deal of money from the fossil fuel industry, will then work to protect the environment from the fossil fuel industry. [/quote]

And yet Obama did receive funding from the fossil fuel industry and is constantly being accused of trying to kill the coal industry, so your theory kind of doesn't hold water. [/quote]
Yes, I notice the PP also failed to note that coal miners vociferously protested Hillary and accused her of trying to kill their industry. [/quote]

The point is that when a politician takes large sums of money from a bank or an industry, that politician is somewhat beholden to that industry. You can choose to disbelieve the fossil fuel connection if you like ( though there is ample evidence of a very different story) but you really can't take apart her ties to big banks and corporate interests. I used fossil fuel as an example of a larger issue. You are harping on that one statement when the issue is much bigger than that. The point is, she has to answer to those who give her money. Sanders takes money from labor unions and from the people and that tells us who he would answer to if given the chance. [/quote]

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