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For decades conservatives have had this country by the balls, repealing one law after another that previously prevented a tsunami of corporate money and allowed the degradation of everything from infrastructure, social programs, and even the system that increased the national minimum wage with inflation.

As it stands, every president who's been in office after Johnson at the very least ruled mostly as a conservative to varying degrees based on their party. Even the 'wimpy' Carter who often speaks as a leftist now, he was at best what a centrist during his administration. But now that the right has very literally gone mad and it's own reasonable members have been abandoning ship, I think we may well be back on the path to sanity. Ever more so, I've seen more and more public figures condemning the corporatist congress and emphasizing the need to put an end to corporate-funded political campaigns.

It's gotten so bad that even Nancy Pelosi has gone so far as saying this issue is deserving of an amendment to the constitution. Even TYT, a leftist news show, has its own PAC by the name Wolf-PAC entirely dedicated to passing an amendment that is the following.

"Corporations are not people. They have none of the Constitutional rights of human beings. Corporations are not allowed to give money to any politician, directly or indirectly. No politician can raise over $100 from any person or entity. All elections must be publicly financed."

Even though another Clinton corporatist is bound to take the oval office and drag us on through what will likely be another eight years of stagnation, at least we have people in congress like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders; maybe even more importantly, the Republican party's very noticeably getting tired of the psychopaths they adopted.

wolf-PAC for the win!

honesty it goes in cycles, we will most likely become a little more liberal for awhile because the republicans have ****** everything up. but then people will forget and we will be screwed again.
maybe if the U.S. uneducated fundamentalist population went down (not likely they seem to be breeding like rabbits) then maybe we could go forward with social reforms and liberal ideas like equality, fair pay, and of course Cenk's goal of getting money out of politics.