Too Big To Jail?

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26. So, we move on and fix it, dammit. And for us there is a

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fix: We vote for and encourage others to also by supporting Democrats. No excuse for not. The weakening of democracy and downward spiral of our nation into corruption occurring during the same period as a national shift to conservative domination of government is NOT coincidence. It's everything.

What has to be guessed at this point about what allowing the development of new billionaire and centimillionaire classes has done to us? They're only 70,000 or so families altogether, including liberal ones, though. Out of over 300,000,000 people.

Those who say they want and believe in our traditional liberal principles and values are a sizable majority. So how'd all these Republican wealth-serving fascists and the corruption they've been instilling into our systems get and stay in power?

Once again, we have to say a huge no to the lies of false equivalence between the Democrats trying to protect government of, by and for the people and those who are proving it can happen here. People who fall for the lies that "both parties do it" are the problem more even than the Republicans in office because they helped put them there. We're so close every election. Just a little more intellectual honesty and guts in a few and this could never have happened.

We can fix it, some things wonderfully fast, much else will take time. Every year in power the Republicans have deliberately been instilling enormous corruption, including through packing the courts with their hard-core RW political agents.

But that's NOT to be mistaken for that poisonous lie, "Anyway, both parties do it." No, we do not.
The Democrats' giant corruption and elections reform bill currently passed by the House is an enormously important first step. The Republicans and the powers using them know that -- they must stop it from becoming law and crippling them. But they're the minority they always were and incredibly self weakened. And our new kleptocrats? They know we can smash them too. After all, our grandparents did. It's not like we'd be the first.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi quoting liberal Justice Louis Brandeis at the opening of the 116th congress.