Good article at progressive breakfast, it says
The federal government is a corrupt set of institutions beholden to the rich and huge corporations. It hasn’t been a servant of the people for decades. But people still want to give more power to the government even though it has been shown that corruption is the only thing that results from that added power. Basically, the average voter is an idiot, or following the phrase “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.”
There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far broken ranks against Trump. That reason is a corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. In 1976 and 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that when corporations and billionaires purchase their very own politicians, it is constitutionally protected “free speech” rather than “bribery,” which is how we defined it from the beginning of our republic until 1976. In 2010, the Supreme Court doubled down on its betrayal of American democracy with its Citizens United decision. After those twin decisions in the 1970s, money from corporations and the morbidly rich began to flow into the coffers of the Republican Party, hoisting Ronald Reagan into the White House. Nixon’s impeachment hearings happened in 1974, before the Supreme Court legalized bribery—and so the Senate voted 77-0 to forward the investigation, and the House voted 412-3 to accept the Judiciary Committee’s report showing “clear and convincing evidence” of Nixon’s corruption. Republicans were more concerned about their voters than about their donors back then. But as long as their owners and funders continue to pay Republicans to keep Trump in office, they’ll continue to say, “How high?” every time Trump yells, “Jump!”
The federal government is a corrupt set of institutions beholden to the rich and huge corporations. It hasn’t been a servant of the people for decades. But people still want to give more power to the government even though it has been shown that corruption is the only thing that results from that added power. Basically, the average voter is an idiot, or following the phrase “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.”
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