Best political quote I've heard since Jesse Unruh said "Money is the mother's milks of politics."
Sanders' quote has fabulous educational value, re "Citizens United." It's so damn clear! Also, it's a fabulous summation of just about everything that's wrong with this country right now, and how to fix it--end corporate "personhood"!
Unruh was part of the money-sucking game he was talking about, in his "mother's milk" quote, but he was also known for his plain-speaking--or at least told the truth plainly in that instance. His quote didn't change the horrid reality of money sucking the lifeblood out of our democracy--indeed, it became kind of a mantra for justifying (rather than reviling) Democratic leaders, elected officials and aspirants becoming as money-grubbing as Republicans always are. Now that I think of it, I don't much like Unruh's quote--maybe because it didn't change anything, and it may have made things worse, and because real mother's milk has been sullied and poisoned by pesticides and other pollutants precisely because both our Republican and Democratic leaders suck up to Big Money and protect criminal corporations from regulation in the public interest and liability for their crimes.
Sanders' equally memorable quote contains the solution to the problem he is describing--end "corporate personhood." I like it for that. I like it for its pithiness. I like it for its educational value. And it has no downside. Sanders really means it.
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