One would be hard pressed to find people more concerned
and in love with this country
then Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Jimmy
Carter!
When they speak the world listens!
Well DUH!
My
words to Thom Hartmann,
"If
you do not want the answer, why ask the question?"
President Jimmy
Carter, the best for this country in 50 plus years was beat out by an old, fast
talking, long winded, Hollywood 'Bit Actor' and our country quickly tanked!
As he has proven
thousands of times from that day to today, this country screw up
'Big Time!'
And we keep tanking
and tanking with each congressional election!
As proof I give you,
his opinion of the
2010 Citizens United decision
and
the 2014 McCutcheon
decision
Both decisions by
the five Republican judges on the U.S. Supreme Court. These two historic
decisions enable unlimited secret money (including foreign money) now to pour
into U.S. political and judicial campaigns. Carter answered:
"It violates
the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now
it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of
getting the nominations for president or being elected president. And the same
thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and congress members. So, now
we've just seen a subversion of our political system as a payoff to major
contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for themselves
after the election is over. ... At the present time the incumbents, Democrats
and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to
themselves. Somebody that is already in Congress has a great deal more to
sell."
He was then cut off
by the program, though that statement by Carter should have been the start of
the program, not its end. (And the program didn't end with an invitation for
him to return to discuss this crucial matter in depth -- something for which he's
qualified.)
So: was this former
president's provocative allegation merely his opinion? Or was it actually lots
more than that? It was lots more than that.
Jimmy Carter Is
Correct that the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy
Posted: 08/03/2015
11:48 am EDT
Oligarchy- a form of government in which all power is
vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the
few.