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In reply to the discussion: I'm really annoyed that someone people have JUST discovered the consequence of gutting the VRA [View all]Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)is that Democratic Party was being dominated, financially, by the corrupt/bought and paid for GOP.
Then and now it is common knowledge the GOP represents only the wealthy but uses average people's bigotries to get votes.
The Democrats had to figure out a way to compete, and what they did was open themselves up to being as buy-able as the GOP to the rich.
Then human nature took over. I truly believe Bill Clinton before this happened would have been happy not to be a part of that, that is to become rich as he has, if he could have still garnered the presidency and power without it.
I dont think money is what drove Bill and Hillary Clinton to where they are, but once it was offered to them, they took it, along with just about every other single member of the party.
This is what Bernie was observing and commenting on from outside the party.
Anyway, how do we get back to a non corrupt system? Has to start with the Supreme Court, so anyone thinking even remotely about sitting out the election, is in reality working to make sure we can NEVER fix it.