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In reply to the discussion: For any who believe Occupy to be dead, you need only look into a mirror. [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)which allows corporations and individuals unlimited funding of those they support, such as the Koch brothers supposed $100,000,000 choice of Paul Ryan as VP, as one DUer recently posted because in two years the Koch's industry investments will have to upgrade to EPA standards or shut down. How much easier and far less expensive to purchase a legislator who will simply end the EPA instead.
No politician is seeking to end Citizens United. It is not part of the platform of any major candidate of which I am aware. It is up to the People to bring enough pressure to force the system to end CU, because financial influence of the state is Mussolini's definition of Fascism.
It's here. This is Fascism by its pure definition. America is now a Fascist country, driven and purchased by business and money. Occupy seeks to end that. Most obviously, voting will not change this because it is not on the ballot.
Those who argue against Occupy...baffle me. And this is only regarding a single issue.