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The Politics of Political Campaign Donations

The supreme court issued in 2008 The Citizens United case and that Citizens United did something very unusual and I think very troubling and dangerous Which is the supreme court said that monetary donations to political candidate are the equivalent of speech. And so they cannot be regulated they're protected under the first amendment under freedom of expression So we now have arrived at a situation in our country where it which is the exact situation that we We had a revolution to get away from  a rule by the oligarchy a rule by the aristocracy because the only person people of the ear of congress is this aristocracy. They all have become part of this system where they're you know They're uh They're protecting the interests of the of

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