A report from the Democracy Policy Lab at UC Berkeley finds Americans are confused about the meaning and practices of democracy and deeply distrustful of public institutions — and each other. Strong “democracy policy” could help renew national bonds, the authors say.
Money is speech, corporations are people, “we the people in order to form a more perfect union” has become “we the companies in order to form a more exploitable customer base”
“Money is speech” might have a whole lot to do with it.
We don’t have representation of the electorate, we have a system of open bribery for the rich to control everything with their bought politicians.
Money is speech, corporations are people, “we the people in order to form a more perfect union” has become “we the companies in order to form a more exploitable customer base”