Kyrsten Sinema epitomizes 21st-century political corruption -- but she didn't cause it
Kyrsten Sinema epitomizes 21st-century political corruption — but she didn't cause it
What happened to Kyrsten Sinema? The real issue is what happened to American politics after Citizens United
By THOM HARTMANNPUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2, 2021 6:00AM
https://www.salon.com/2021/11/02/kyrsten-sinema-epitomizes-21st-century-political-corruption--but-she-didnt-cause-it_partner/
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Increasingly, because of the Supreme Court's betrayal of American values, it's become impossible for people like the younger Sinema to rise from social worker to the U.S. Senate without big money behind them. Our media is absolutely unwilling to call this what even Andrew Jackson would have labeled it: political corruption. But that's what it is and it's eating away at our republic like a metastasized cancer.
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A guest on Brian Stelter's CNN program this past weekend pointed out that there are today more autocracies in the world than democracies and, generally, democracies are on the decline. This corruption of everyday politics by the rich and powerful is how democracies begin the shift to autocracy or oligarchy, as I document in gruesome detail in "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class."
While the naked corruption of Sinema and Manchin is a source of outrage for Democrats across America, what's far more important is that it reveals how deep the rot of money in American politics has gone, thanks entirely to a corrupted Supreme Court.
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