Bernie Gets It

[Scuba]

[raidert05]

1. Money..

Buys all sort of things these days

[Nye Bevan]

2. The Koch Brothers' bid to buy the 2012 election failed utterly.

So I don't see the "obvious need" for a Constitutional Amendment.

Let these people continue to throw their money away with nothing to show for it.

[Cleita]

4. Their money succeeded well enough in giving us a Congress that

can't get business done. We need Citizens United to be overturned. Our democracy depends on it. To think otherwise is very naive.

[Nye Bevan]

5. That was mostly through gerrymandering (nt)

[Cleita]

8. Gerrymandering occurred because of Republican majorities bought

by right wing billionaires including the Koch brothers in the states. They don't just fiddle in national politics.

[rhett o rick]

9. That is very dangerous thinking. They failed to elect the President

but corp-money bought lots of elections including local elections like school boards, etc. Our biggest threat is corp-money controlling our elections. They will fix those areas where they failed. We had the luxury of an popular incumbent president. We wont have that luxury in 2014 and 2016.

[Zorra]

3. Not quite. We are already a country of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

We passed that milestone a while back.

[flamingdem]

6. Give 'em hell Bernie!

[ananda]

7. Thanks.

He does get it.

[rhett o rick]

10. I so wish Democrats would be as outspoken. nm