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Citizens United allows for money to speak. Recent SCOTUS case allows for paths towards legalized bribery.

Neither party offers a real solution, so folks go with the person promising to break everything, even if he has already proven he won't follow the law, enriches himself, and destablizes global politics.

Yeah, it might break a logjam. But don't expect things to be better after a flood.

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Bubububutttt he’s totally going to bring back those 6-figure factory jobs in the Midwest and make houses cost $150k again by….deporting large portions of the underpaid manual labor force, taxing foreign goods at 100%, and ending all government programs including public education.

I'm still staggered by the thought of brain-worm being charge of all things health related and potentially (although that appeared to be a joke) in charge of everything save oil profits.

RFK says some wild stuff, but he does have a track record of being pretty vicious with large corporations that threaten public health.

I am scared of him cutting a bunch of vaccines, but I am excited that he will go after food manufacturers who have been maximizing profits at the cost of public health.

He won't.

The US is going to be transactional instead of principled for a long time.

What a shame.

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