The Poisonous 'Citizens United' Decision Gave Corporations the Power to Slash and Burn (BBB)

[AZProgressive]

If President Biden's Build Back Better plan goes down in flames, you can blame the US Supreme Court. Their Citizens United decision, in fact, is destroying both American politics and the planet.

Case in point: Oil industry executives testified before Congress this week, suffering a barrage of questions, including particularly intense ones from Reps. Ro Khanna, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Katie Porter.

The CEOs exhibited the same sort of arrogant insolence Mark Zuckerberg displayed in July of last year when he was hauled before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law. It was, basically, a smug, "Screw you, Congressperson."

We have to get money out of politics and the only way to do that is to get more people in office who are not addicted to or corrupted by money.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/29/poisonous-citizens-united-decision-gave-corporations-power-slash-and-burn-build?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1635532662

[CanonRay]

1. Then you elect a Sinema who was a climate activist

and clearly not addicted to money and looks what happens. We have to somehow make non individual contributions illegal and strict caps on individual contributions.

[empedocles]

2. TY. Huge, huge decision a by the very suspect 'Justice' Kennedy, - and his sycopahnts.