2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff"
"That the United States is now an oligarchy in which unlimited political bribery has created a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors. Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. - Former President Jimmy Carter.
"CARTER: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now its just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now weve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the elections over.
The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebodys whos already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody whos just a challenger."
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/
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(1,748 posts)Anyone supporting the new democrat/neoliberal movement has no room to criticize republicans for voting against their own self-interest.