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To me, nothing is more significant than this. It's bad enough Congress is lobbied to death, but this is the final nail in the coffin of the once great republic. The government is no longer "for the people," so get used to it. Judging by the lack of interest in this development, it's easy to determine that what the Kardashians are doing this week is much more interesting and newsworthy. :roll:
Wake up, America.
Bill Moyers: WATCH: Fighting Disclosure, Killing Democracy
Wake up, America.
Our politics took a nightmarish turn this week. Senate Republicans twice blocked a vote to require corporations, unions and obscure organizations hovering in the shadows to tell us who's putting up the millions and millions of dollars for all the propaganda assaulting the public during this political year.
The bill the Republicans killed was already a weak parody of its original intent. It wouldn't even go into effect until after the November auction when the buying and selling of the White House, Congress, state legislatures and courts will have been completed, and the dark money will have done its dirty work. By then a vast pall of secrecy will cover the tracks of the secret donors. The knife plunged into the heart of democracy will have been wiped clean of the fingerprints of those who wielded it. The public will not even know who owns title to our government.
Bill Moyers: WATCH: Fighting Disclosure, Killing Democracy