• Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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    They have no easy path to fix it because they take billionaire and corporate money. If they stopped doing that, the path would’ve been obvious this entire time.

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      The US political system has been destroyed by money. Many other western democracies are so much healthier than in the US because there’s very little money in politics.

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        Unfortunately, I’m not sure how folks in the US pull it back. The weight of money draws in so much disinformation and outright media complicity that even grassroots movements (eg. Bernie, RCV) have been safely tampered out.

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      You’ll have to provide them with an alternate source of funding. I’m glad this will be easy for you to figure out. I look forward to this simple solution of yours. Because entire generations have tried to solve this for 40+ years. Since Reagan broke the unions. Who used to provide most of the Democrats funding. You might check into that. There could be a correlation.

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        It wasn’t Reagan that sent those union jobs overseas though. But Biden and Reagan did share the fact they busted up union strikes.

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          What’s with the straw man? Clinton did that because Reagan broke the unions. They no longer were the source of the parties funding or power. Instead going after funding from wealthy corporations and businesses who wanted those jobs outsourced. Is this really that hard to understand? Both things were bad one is in effect the other was the cause. You are not rebuting what I said. You’re just playing a game of whataboutism.