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Video: Bernie Sanders speaking on the Senate floor about Super PACs (Original Post) portlander23 Sep 2015 OP
Incredible speech. If anyone doesn't understand the significance of what Brock was exposed sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #1
K&R liberal_at_heart Sep 2015 #2

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1. Incredible speech. If anyone doesn't understand the significance of what Brock was exposed
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:08 PM
Sep 2015

trying to do today, they need to seriously listen to this speech.

Brock was earning some of those billions of dollars in dirty money pouring into Super Pacs which make the shadowy people behind them, whose identities CU protects, MORE POWERFUL than both political parties.

To grasp that is difficult. We CLAIM to be a democracy. But we are NOT, and there is simply no doubt about that now.

David Brock among other shady characters, who also want to keep their IDs secret, do the actual dirty work.

They work hard to do, what Brock called today 'opposition research' or, to put it more accurately, SMEAR CAMPAIGNS.

For this they are well paid. And they are depriving WE the PEOPLE of fair and honest elections flooding the dialogue with lies and smears and deceptions in order to ensure that the Oligarchs who fund them, get the candidates THEY want not those the PEOPLE want.

It is disgusing, it is despicable and shameful that this ever happened in this country.

But like every dark cloud, it has a silver linging.

Brock was outed, rightly so, so we know now that whoever funds this Super Pac he is running, WANTS a certain candidate to win this election.

What does this tell us?

I hope every decent person will ask themselves that question. And I hope when they see the answer, which is clear as day, they will make their decisions based on what we know, thanks to the stupidity of Brock.

Mine was already made, but I think a whole lot of people are going to be thinking twice about supporting a candidate the Oligarchs are so willing to pay to elect.

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