Money Is Ruining Democracy
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2023
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"Money is ruining democracy, but here let me sell you this product" 😂😂😂 the lack of self reflection here was staggering.
@@RagazarYour comment doesn't make any sense. Sponsorships and lobbying are two completely different things. Your comment is so stupid I am not exactly sure how to respond to it.
@@Ragazar Just because we need to make money to make ends meet and survive in our current brutal capitalistic system doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t criticize it smh 🤦♂️
I wanted to ask your advice as a lawyer with more knowledge and access to info about one aspect of this topic.
Is it possible for states to put ballot initiatives up for vote for the citizens to pass a law that limits spending/financing on campaigns within that state for either state candidates' or presidential candidates' within that state? And if so, what would the process be.
Yea so...The USA has never been the home of the free and land of the brave. It has always been the land where the rich abuse and use the poor! Get over it! If you are poor the government does not care, and the sooner you die, the sooner you can be replaced.
IMO, Lobbying is the #1 problem with our democracy. Private donors are the reason this country is run like an oligarchy
I second that emotion. If we could get rid of Lobbyists, this country would be better off. They are the ones who help the corporations enter into our political system.
how is it democracy if you have zero influence over the rules that govern your life? thats not how democracy works. stop calling it that and distorting the reality of the matter. you dont get to say "only rich people can vote or have influence here" and also say "this is a democracy" lol
Seriously. Lobbying needs to be outlawed. It's just a fancy word for corruption.
Not "run like", "is" an oligarchy.
@@bluegold1026Yeah what is called lobbying in the US is called corruption in the criminal code of other countries. Lobbying is still a word in those, but it's less about direct money transfer and more about supporting conservative economic policies
Can we please add (reasonable) term limits for all government officials, ranked-choice voting, the termination of gerrymandering and the electoral college, and easier access to voting 💯
As long as there's people with the amount of money the 1% have lobbying I'd never gonna disappear
That would be amazing, but each of those are a super hard ask on their own... together virtually impossible
Hard no on term limits. They're anti-democratic. I don't want to be told that I can't vote for a candidate I like just because they've served some arbitrary number of terms already. That's garbage.
It's called an election, you get what you vote for, that's the responsibility that comes with democracy. Also it should be harder to vote, letting tons of people who are just in it for themselves vote is how you get what we have now.
@@darkgardener9577 There are plenty of totalitarian countries for you to move to if that's how you feel. I'll be damned if I'm going to let you degrade my democracy further.
This video should have been titled "How the US legalized bribery," which is basically what happened and why in almost every other country on earth, it is still called bribery and it is a felony.
... and USA ambassadors in those countries don't mind dercying the level of corruption their corporate overlords don't benefit from.
The irony...
Fr.
And the hypocrisy of it is maddening. I know people who work for the government, and they have all sorts of restrictions on what they can and can't accept from certain affiliations precisely to avoid even the slight whiff of conflict of interest. Meanwhile, politicians can go out for expensive lunches and takes trips on someone else's dime for donor/lobbyists' interests as if it's just a casual meeting with a concerned citizen. It's legalized bribery, plain and simple.
Biden set up 10 offshore bank accounts to receive all his bribe money . 50 MILLION DOLLARS found so far . Nine Biden family members were receiving this illegal bribe money . Thats means Biden and nine of his family members need to be charged with money laundering and tax evasion
Nice!
"For the love of money is the root of all evil." Capitalism enforces the love of money.
I use money to buy food.
@@JayBee-cr8jm I wish I had money to buy food. I enjoy my low level job though more than the ratt race. Gotta pick your poison.
@@seraphcreed840 You picked correctly.
Under capitalism you are never free to not participate in capitalism. It is an ideological, economical, & sociological hegemony.
@@Matthew.E.Kelly. This is true.
People too lazy to contribute to society should go hungry.
People who helped society are rewarded....as they should be.
These Billionaires and Millionaires don't fund these elections without expecting something in return
And idiot voters line up to give it to them!!! Isn't democracy wonderful...LMFAO!!!!
Donald Trump Said it when he was running for president “I donated a million to his campaign you think he doesn’t answer the phone when I call?”
@@gabrielmaroto18he should have added - “that is why I will fight to keep this broken system working for people like me”
Yeah, no shit.
@@gabrielmaroto18 Joe Biden took 6x more dark money than Trump.
My husband is from a country where they lobbying is illegal because it is considered to be the same as bribery, and he thinks it’s wild that it’s legal and public in the U.S.
Every so-called leader all over the world no matter what you want to call their government, is thirsty for money. It's the same everywhere you go, not just the United states. Doesn't mean two wrongs make it right but I'm just saying
I find it more and more difficult to believe in a country that clearly doesn’t even believe in its own system.
It'd be a lot easier to believe in the country if the system was fixed. It doesn't take much, but the people who don't want it to change are also the people in charge. (rich people)
The system is working as designed… firing on all cylinders…
It's basically legalised bribing at it's finest
Corporations are people. Money is speech. Who are you to know better than the country's finest legal minds?
@@rustyshackle917someone not paid for by said corporations.
It's real easy to win when you pay off the ref
@@rustyshackle917 oh yeah I remember that foundational American principal “we the people who shall be spoken for by the countries finest legal minds without question” in order to form a more perfect union…
@@rustyshackle917 corporations are not on your side lil bro. they exist to maximize profit
@@rustyshackle917 Wait, did you just say, with your whole chest that you not only agree with them, but to fall in line and not question authority? ...😬
As someone who has volunteered for more than one local election where the opponent was a very wealthy individual and the candidate I was working for was not, this matters a ton. The number of people I’d talk to while knocking doors who had heard of the rich person but not our candidate was super high
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties or Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
@@Uncanny_Mountain
Local can be more corrupt sometimes.
Already when money get sent to states for project it disappears.
I have thought get rid of electorial college all money is divided ,% for each state according to population each state has a bank account and after a project is done the check goes directly to the ones who performs the jobs our account is for all to see where every penny goes it never gets pocketed because each year we know what we had and where it went.
That money could also be used to bring business or if not wasted for ordinary folks to start businesses etc.
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@@Uncanny_MountainConsidering the American electorate, that idea terrifies me. Even though roughly 50% - 60% of the population is sane, if America had direct democracy, the other 40% would absolutely manage vote in horrendous laws as soon as the sane half looked away. And believe you me, they would be laws that constrained the power of the majority, as we see from Republicans today. For cultural reasons*, Americans are also very susceptible to fearmongering and foreign manipulation, and it wouldn't take much to get the population to do the most horrendous stuff.
*E.g. my own take is that America's frankly insane gun culture, which is leading to an unbelievable murder and mass-shooting rate, and also leads to all Americans knowing at the back of their heads that anybody else could be bearing lethal force against them, leads to a culture where people can be easily fearmongered into hating particular groups, such as Mexicans or black people. In America, bad people are so 'bad' that it's bordering on obligatory to actually kill them. Other countries don't even think that way at all.
How is that a bad thing? Most wealthy persons have proven their ability to function at a high level in society. They should have more recognition and be sought out as leaders. Ideas about creating a nice place do not prove ability.
@@diggernash1 Well, let's compare:
Alice is a nurse. She spent years learning how to help people not die. She helps them feel good when they are seriously injured or sick, and deals with all the physical and bodily grossness that is associate with it. Despite doing one of the most important jobs in the world, she is going to be somewhere between dirt-poor and just-barely-doing-ok.
Bob is a financier. He makes literal millions by trading stocks at the speed of light, moving them back and forward from where they aren't needed, to where they also aren't needed, back to where they originally weren't needed again, to take advantage of tiny market fluctuations. His net contribution to society is roughly zero. He has tens of millions in wealth, including tens of millions worth of properties, which he rents, at zero time and labor to himself, to desperate families at exorbitant prices. If he retired tomorrow, his massive property portfolio will feed him an income, basically 100% time and labor free, in the many millions of dollars per year for the rest of eternity. His great-great-great grandchildren will literally want for nothing.
So... yeah. Bob's the real 'leader' because he plays the 'let's exploit the system for insane wealth' game? The only way you can make mega-bucks is by definition gaming the system and exploiting others - one person cannot do the work of a thousand people, but our system can sure be gamed that one person can syphon off the work of a thousand people into their own pockets. What he actually does has no real value to society, compared to poor Alice who not only does something genuinely important, is prepared to live modestly to do it.
Getting Dark money out of politics should be a priority, Glad you are shining light on this.
Civils rights movement showed the wealthy and influential that us voting will change things. They sought ways to undermine democracy and have succeeded. We must restore voting rights, make gerrymandering illegal, and make dark money illegal!
Banning money from politics entirely.
All money in politics is dark.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties or Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
@@achillespollo Joe Biden took 6x more Dark Money than Trump.
In Europe we now talk about the US Banana Republic. The USA runs organized legal corruption instead of unorganized illegal corruption like in Latin America.
Ray Epps will never be arrested for the crimes he committed on video.
europe never stopped having total control of america. why do you think we didnt dissolve and turn europe into labor colonies after ww2 when we had absolute power and reason to do so? why does america send more money to europe every year than they use on their citizens in need over FIFTY YEARS if we are corrupting everyone else? why is europe the money laundering center of the world where all major criminals in all countries go to launder their blood money? how has europeans quality of life steadily gone up for the past several decades while americans has dramatically gone down despite americans productivity skyrocketing and europes productivity almost completely disappearing? yall cant accept that USA is a european labor colony despite eurocentric culture being forced violently down everyones throats here lmao.
Guess which country is responsible for much of the corruption in Latin America? You know, the one responsible for the term "banana republic" to begin with.
Not even in Latin America is so open and obvious.
Ok, shut up. America has problems, but it's not a corporate dictatorship. Unlike what people may imagine, lots of people decide for themselves who they truly vote for and a lot of those politicians truly try to achieve what they want.
I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it again. Politicians should have to wear nascar style suits that have patches for all of their corporate donators. I wanna know what companies are buying who in politics.
Obama would need '' U.S TAX PAYERS '' On their suits . Since Obama and Biden are laundering U.S tax payers money in Ukraine and then using it to fund radical leftist groups like antifa and blm .
This is genius. Too bad they'd never wear them.
.... whelp, time to open photoshop!
Biden would have CCP on his
@@indigopines Brand it on their foreheads
I love it I can just see it now I candidate on TV with all these imposed donors all over his body
There is an excellent book about all this called: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer. I agree that this horrible problem needs an immediate solution.
Cos America is a Jesuitocracy, Barr, Cippolone, Gore, Guiliani, and Leonard Leo are all Opus Dei, Trump trained alongside Epstein and Roger Stone under Roy Cohn, who admitted to trafficking kids for the purposes of blackmailing politicians on behalf of Mossad. Cohn trained under Meyer Lansky, who trained under Hoover. Robert Mercer and Rupert Murdoch are both Knights of Malta.
Thomas, Alito, Barrett, (also all Opus Dei) Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Sotomayor, Kennedy: 7/9 members of the Supreme Court are Catholic, with the remaining 2 training at Jesuit Schools like Georgetown
Rogan and Crowder associate Brian Callen also has ties to the CIA, and is the co founder of _Diligence,_ a spook foundation connected to the CIA and israel, just as Bannon was the CEO of Breitbart, an israeli publication.
Elon's friend Peter Theil owns Palantir, a data mining company that worked on Project Lifelog for the Pentagon. Theil was also Facebook's first investor a year after Lifelog shut down, turning a "lucky" $100k into $5 billion plus, hiding it all in a ROTH fund. He also sits on FBs board of Directors. Both UA-cam and Facebook use algorithms and bots to boost right wing content. 70% of all social media is bots. The Paypal Mafia is also behind Bitcoin and Etherium, a dark money laundering scheme based on Pennystock scams run by Mafia in the past.
Facebook was just fined $1.2 Billion in the EU for breaching user privacy when it sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, an israeli Psy op company that offered to blackmail left wing politicians in the UK using underage girls, and utilised data mining, just as Epstein associate Robert Mercer, a Knight of Malta, who also uses _Psychographics_ to streamline right wing messaging. Psy Ops is an israeli export, they even use obscure Orwellian names to hide; like Donor Group, Psy Group, The International Democratic Union, Citizen's United, Mother's for Liberty, Veritas, Vox, Vice, and The Federalist Society. You can learn to recognise these Greco Roman taglines everywhere.
They also all have the same routine as Tate, a popular guru; Mr "Joe Average", with the keys to Nirvana, wealth, and girls MLM/NXIVM 101, Mystery Religion, alluding to undefined terms that trigger feelings of nostalgia for an idealised past, mirroring the cults of Odinism, and the Thule Society.
It also promotes magical thinking and assumption based collectivism. Like the Crusades, Pogroms, Witchhunts and Inquistions.
It was the Catholic Church that gave Nazis a way out of Germany, via the ratlines.
The term Lügenpresse, 'lying press', was used by the German National Socialist Party before and during the Third Reich to discredit the news mediaa
Donald John Trump (King John the Great) Born to Fred Christ and Mary McKleod on a Super Wolf Blood Moon 700 days before the founding of israel on the day of the Pharaoh, 7 days before the Summer Solstice, keeps a book of Hitler's speeches next to his bed called _"My New 0rder"_
and reads from it verbatim at his rallies.
His mentor Norman Vincent Peale was a 33rd degree Master Mason, He lives in 666ft Trump tower on the 66th floor in a 33,000 square foot Penthouse modelled after Versailles in Paris, built by Lious XIV the Sun King. He was inaugurated on the 100 year anniversary of the Bolsheviks aged 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old, moving the embassy to Jerusalem on israel's 70th anniversary. Baron is another name for Fuehrer, a Title bestowed by the Holy Roman Empire.
He also gave the Saudis whom he accused of 9II permits to make Nuclear reactors
The documents he stole likely pertained to the operation of the reactors, which can be used to make Nukes.
Saudi Arabia was founded by Churchill and the Crown in 1934 to protect israel from Arab Revolt, it's the home of Wahabbism, the ideology of Isis banned by Islam proper. Epstein's passport listed Saudi Arabia as his country of residence, and he had a Wahabbi funeral, just like Osama, whose family were doing Brunch at the Bush family mansion on the morning of 9II, and now handle the Pipeline contracts through Isis controlled Syria, particularly the Golan Heights, which Trump ceded to israel in 2017, and where Genie Oil operates.
Elon also has ties to Genie Oil via Texas Senator Bill Richardson who gave Elon $3 Billion in taxpayer subsidies, and whose on the board of Genie Oil, as well as Rupert Murdoch, US Treasurer Larry Summers, CIA Director James Woolsey, Art Smuggler Michael Steinhardt, Sec Def Donald Rumsfeld, Treasurer under Trump and CEO of the Bank of Cyprus Wilbur Ross, as well as Jakob Rosschild
They're controlling public discourse to prevent spontaneous labor movements from gaining ground. Twitter is a $44 billion dollar shitpost before the 2024 election cycle, to ensure Trump has the best chance at winning. Hero of dupes everywhere Julian Assange helped Roger Stone and the Trump Campaign in 2016, being the first to suggest challenging the outcome if he lost, and asking to be made the Australian ambassador to the US. Margeret Sunbyrne, the head of the Sun Worship cult he was raised in was also protected by the CIA in the Australian Supreme Court, on grounds of "National Security"
Edward Snowden worked for Rabbi Dov Zakheim, Pentagon Comptroller in 2001 who "lost" $4 trillion dollars, and owner of CPS, which rolled out remote hijack tech in the AA Fleet in June 2001. Remember Snowden was revealed to us via Glen Greenwad, who now rubs shoulders with Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Jimmy Door.
At the same time Guiliani's Chief of Police Bernard Kerik went to israel and received $250k from Billionaire Eithan Wertheimer. Kerik was responsible for the passports found that day, handed to him "by some guy". Trump later pardoned Kerik for fraud relating to selling his 2001 story in 2020, he then got a job at Fox News. They also both covered up the Truck Bombers caught on the George Washington bridge, and both participated in the planning of Jan 6.
Clearly Epstein was working for Trump, who is related to Hillary, and both share charities started by Epstein at the same tax haven address 1209 Nth Orange st Delaware (Biden's seat) where 250k companies occupy the same building. Pelosi's father was a prominent member of the Chicago Mob.
The Clintons, Oprah, Dr Oz, Gayle King, Billy Bush, Epstein, and Ghislaine all attended Trump's wedding to his second trans Slovenian wife, whose father was a prominent member in the Tito Communist Party. Elon too had ties to Epstein along with Bill Gates Bezos, and Amber Heard, and posted links to NXIVM, promoting what was found to be an operation not unlike that run by Andrew Tate, who dated Jordan Peterson's daughter, and hung out with the likes of Paul Joseph Watson, Grandson of famous Eugenicist Bertrand Russell, and Milo Yilanopouse, a Catholic who seduced his own Priest.
"I propose an Aryan/Semitic alliance in order to create a superior caucasian race"
Benjamin Disraeli UK PM 1890
_"But they want nothing but Palestine, because Palestine represents the geostrategic center for World Control"_
Dr Nahum Goldmann
_"Today I declare the Crusades won"_
General Edmunde Allenby 1917 upon liberating Palestine.
_"We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Caliphate, so we must ensure that there will never rise again unity for the Muslims, whether it be intellectual or cultural unity.“_
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British Foreign Minister 1920.
_"The NW0 will begin Sept 17 2001, during Rosh Hashanah Feast of Trumpets, Resurrection of the Dead, on the First Crescent of the New Moon, in the year 6000 of the Great Pyramid Calendar, in order to cleanse the earth and humanity in preparation for his Kingdom to come"_
British Israel Foundation memo 1922.
They're also all Catholics: Bezos, Gates, Koch, Rogan, Dore, Knowles, Kulinksi, Ball, Iverson, Icke, Woods, Watson, Cernovich, Abbott, Jones, Robinson, Woods, Pool, Rubin, Peterson, Posobeic, Duke, Molyneux, Yilanopouse, Fuentes, Crowder, Kirk, Dice, Walsh, Gionet, Richardson, Tillerson, Greene, Manaforte, Flynn, Ducey, Acosta, Attwood, Stone, Pence, Desantis, Meadows, Trump, Eastman, Black, Kerik, Melania, Barr, Bannon, Hawley, Gingrich, Abrams, Comey, Cuomo, Kerry, Abrams, Gore, Spencer, Blassio, Pompeo, Bolton, McCarthy, Nugent, Cruz, Rubio, Gaetz, Santos, Tucker, Gutfield, O'Reilly, Beck, Scarborough, Devos, Kasich, Mercer, Murdoch, Rosschild, Ingram, Kelly, Lake, Conway, Coulter, Huckabee, McEnany, Hannity, Spicer, Christie, Prager, Maher, Colbert, Corbett, Hayes, Biden, Harris, Fauci, Pelosi, Pirro, Manchin, Cooper, Maddow, AOC, Newsom, Uyger, Dawkins, Hitchens, Hancock, Sitchin, Ventura, Morgan, Cowell, Farage, Johnson, May, Merkel, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Mogg, Benjamin, Trudeau, Putin, Bolsanaro, Stalin, Lenin, Tito, Trotsky, Hitler.
Special mentions (adjucants): Dawkins, Hitchens, Miller, Watters, Greenwad, Blumenthal, Maté, Camp, Brand, Loomer, Shapiro, Thatcher, Bush, Obama, Merkel, Greer, Summers, Silverstein, Adelson. Greenblatt. Wexner. Also Hindu Nationalists Tulsi, Haley, Hirsi, DeSouza.
33% of the Senate, yet only 22% of the population.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without parties or politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
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A good recommendation.
There's also a book by Kevin Phillips titled "Wealth and Democracy" ... he also wrote "The Politics of Rich and Poor"
I read that book. It is a must read.
The radical leftists launder tax payer money in countries like Ukraine . This began under Obama and never stopped . Biden is still laundering tax payer money in Ukraine and giving the laundered money to radical leftist groups .
It's unfortunate that the very people who need to see this video won't see it... What a time we live in.
fr, Leeja needs to make a "conservative" channel.
I dislike this timeline very much. I do not find it interesting at all. It is very stressful. I did not vote for Trump, but I did not fear his presidency as much as other people did. I HAD complete faith in the “checks and balances” our government supposedly had/has. I also thought that Trump would be such a clown and be so incompetent that people would surely see that the Emperor has no clothes. I had no idea just how hateful and uneducated many people are out there.
MONEY is not free speech!
Thank-you Leeja for, once again, clarifying an issue and issues so we can all understand just how broken our system is. I look forward all the time to your posts!
Money talks?!🫢
If you tax a black owned business, expect them to run campaign ads during campaign season.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
And, more importantly, Corporations are not people.
I can buy money is speech, but whose speech should be allowed in politics. Why do corporations, who aren’t people and don’t get a vote, get to speak about elections at all?
@@rationalpear1816 i had been worried about the curtailing of money elections as hampering freedom of speech.
The...."some people have nearly all the speech they can get while others have practically none" almost did it for me, but still missing smthg....
Then I heard about the dissenting supreme court opinion in a 1970s case. The opinion was that money was not speech, but property. And that laws could regulate the transfer of property in election campaigns.
To me, this did it. Sometimes the majority does get it wrong. The Dred Scot decision, for example. And we can also amend the constitution anyway. Overrule the court. A tall order, as they say. But such would be just, imo, and many others might agree. Sometimes the courts become out of touch and obsessed with protecting their own interests or being biased in favor of them.
I swear, "first amendment" has slowly become a dogwhistle of "side with us, or else".
Same with the flag. Now whenever I see someone flying an American flag all I see is fascism. The right wing is ruining everything.
Move to China then
Two Supreme Court cases come to mind that have allowed this to happen. In addition the ability of members of Congress to trade stocks on information not available to the rest of us.
Of course; insider-trading. I mean they serve the corporations and Wall Street so they can get rich that's all it is. Everything else is a bald-faced lie.
That's cos America is a Jesuitocracy, Barr, Cippolone, Gore, Guiliani, and Leonard Leo are all Opus Dei, Trump trained alongside Epstein and Roger Stone under Roy Cohn, who admitted to trafficking kids for the purposes of blackmailing politicians on behalf of Mossad. Cohn trained under Meyer Lansky, who trained under Hoover. Robert Mercer and Rupert Murdoch are both Knights of Malta.
Thomas, Alito, Barrett, (also all Opus Dei) Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Sotomayor, Kennedy: 7/9 members of the Supreme Court are Catholic, with the remaining 2 training at Jesuit Schools like Georgetown
Rogan and Crowder associate Brian Callen also has ties to the CIA, and is the co founder of _Diligence,_ a spook foundation connected to the CIA and israel, just as Bannon was the CEO of Breitbart, an israeli publication.
Elon's friend Peter Theil owns Palantir, a data mining company that worked on Project Lifelog for the Pentagon. Theil was also Facebook's first investor a year after Lifelog shut down, turning a "lucky" $100k into $5 billion plus, hiding it all in a ROTH fund. He also sits on FBs board of Directors. Both UA-cam and Facebook use algorithms and bots to boost right wing content. 70% of all social media is bots. The Paypal Mafia is also behind Bitcoin and Etherium, a dark money laundering scheme based on Pennystock scams run by Mafia in the past.
Facebook was just fined $1.2 Billion in the EU for breaching user privacy when it sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, an israeli Psy op company that offered to blackmail left wing politicians in the UK using underage girls, and utilised data mining, just as Epstein associate Robert Mercer, a Knight of Malta, who also uses _Psychographics_ to streamline right wing messaging. Psy Ops is an israeli export, they even use obscure Orwellian names to hide; like Donor Group, Psy Group, The International Democratic Union, Citizen's United, Mother's for Liberty, Veritas, Vox, Vice, and The Federalist Society. You can learn to recognise these Greco Roman taglines everywhere.
They also all have the same routine as Tate, a popular guru; Mr "Joe Average", with the keys to Nirvana, wealth, and girls MLM/NXIVM 101, Mystery Religion, alluding to undefined terms that trigger feelings of nostalgia for an idealised past, mirroring the cults of Odinism, and the Thule Society.
It also promotes magical thinking and assumption based collectivism. Like the Crusades, Pogroms, Witchhunts and Inquistions.
It was the Catholic Church that gave Nazis a way out of Germany, via the ratlines.
The term Lügenpresse, 'lying press', was used by the German National Socialist Party before and during the Third Reich to discredit the news mediaa
Donald John Trump (King John the Great) Born to Fred Christ and Mary McKleod on a Super Wolf Blood Moon 700 days before the founding of israel on the day of the Pharaoh, 7 days before the Summer Solstice, keeps a book of Hitler's speeches next to his bed called _"My New 0rder"_
and reads from it verbatim at his rallies.
His mentor Norman Vincent Peale was a 33rd degree Master Mason, He lives in 666ft Trump tower on the 66th floor in a 33,000 square foot Penthouse modelled after Versailles in Paris, built by Lious XIV the Sun King. He was inaugurated on the 100 year anniversary of the Bolsheviks aged 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old, moving the embassy to Jerusalem on israel's 70th anniversary. Baron is another name for Fuehrer, a Title bestowed by the Holy Roman Empire.
He also gave the Saudis whom he accused of 9II permits to make Nuclear reactors
The documents he stole likely pertained to the operation of the reactors, which can be used to make Nukes.
Saudi Arabia was founded by Churchill and the Crown in 1934 to protect israel from Arab Revolt, it's the home of Wahabbism, the ideology of Isis banned by Islam proper. Epstein's passport listed Saudi Arabia as his country of residence, and he had a Wahabbi funeral, just like Osama, whose family were doing Brunch at the Bush family mansion on the morning of 9II, and now handle the Pipeline contracts through Isis controlled Syria, particularly the Golan Heights, which Trump ceded to israel in 2017, and where Genie Oil operates.
Elon also has ties to Genie Oil via Texas Senator Bill Richardson who gave Elon $3 Billion in taxpayer subsidies, and whose on the board of Genie Oil, as well as Rupert Murdoch, US Treasurer Larry Summers, CIA Director James Woolsey, Art Smuggler Michael Steinhardt, Sec Def Donald Rumsfeld, Treasurer under Trump and CEO of the Bank of Cyprus Wilbur Ross, as well as Jakob Rosschild
They're controlling public discourse to prevent spontaneous labor movements from gaining ground. Twitter is a $44 billion dollar shitpost before the 2024 election cycle, to ensure Trump has the best chance at winning. Hero of dupes everywhere Julian Assange helped Roger Stone and the Trump Campaign in 2016, being the first to suggest challenging the outcome if he lost, and asking to be made the Australian ambassador to the US. Margeret Sunbyrne, the head of the Sun Worship cult he was raised in was also protected by the CIA in the Australian Supreme Court, on grounds of "National Security"
Edward Snowden worked for Rabbi Dov Zakheim, Pentagon Comptroller in 2001 who "lost" $4 trillion dollars, and owner of CPS, which rolled out remote hijack tech in the AA Fleet in June 2001. Remember Snowden was revealed to us via Glen Greenwad, who now rubs shoulders with Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Jimmy Door.
At the same time Guiliani's Chief of Police Bernard Kerik went to israel and received $250k from Billionaire Eithan Wertheimer. Kerik was responsible for the passports found that day, handed to him "by some guy". Trump later pardoned Kerik for fraud relating to selling his 2001 story in 2020, he then got a job at Fox News. They also both covered up the Truck Bombers caught on the George Washington bridge, and both participated in the planning of Jan 6.
Clearly Epstein was working for Trump, who is related to Hillary, and both share charities started by Epstein at the same tax haven address 1209 Nth Orange st Delaware (Biden's seat) where 250k companies occupy the same building. Pelosi's father was a prominent member of the Chicago Mob.
The Clintons, Oprah, Dr Oz, Gayle King, Billy Bush, Epstein, and Ghislaine all attended Trump's wedding to his second trans Slovenian wife, whose father was a prominent member in the Tito Communist Party. Elon too had ties to Epstein along with Bill Gates Bezos, and Amber Heard, and posted links to NXIVM, promoting what was found to be an operation not unlike that run by Andrew Tate, who dated Jordan Peterson's daughter, and hung out with the likes of Paul Joseph Watson, Grandson of famous Eugenicist Bertrand Russell, and Milo Yilanopouse, a Catholic who seduced his own Priest.
"I propose an Aryan/Semitic alliance in order to create a superior caucasian race"
Benjamin Disraeli UK PM 1890
_"But they want nothing but Palestine, because Palestine represents the geostrategic center for World Control"_
Dr Nahum Goldmann
_"Today I declare the Crusades won"_
General Edmunde Allenby 1917 upon liberating Palestine.
_"We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Caliphate, so we must ensure that there will never rise again unity for the Muslims, whether it be intellectual or cultural unity.“_
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British Foreign Minister 1920.
_"The NW0 will begin Sept 17 2001, during Rosh Hashanah Feast of Trumpets, Resurrection of the Dead, on the First Crescent of the New Moon, in the year 6000 of the Great Pyramid Calendar, in order to cleanse the earth and humanity in preparation for his Kingdom to come"_
British Israel Foundation memo 1922.
They're also all Catholics: Bezos, Gates, Koch, Rogan, Dore, Knowles, Kulinksi, Ball, Iverson, Icke, Woods, Watson, Cernovich, Abbott, Jones, Robinson, Woods, Pool, Rubin, Peterson, Posobeic, Duke, Molyneux, Yilanopouse, Fuentes, Crowder, Kirk, Dice, Walsh, Gionet, Richardson, Tillerson, Greene, Manaforte, Flynn, Ducey, Acosta, Attwood, Stone, Pence, Desantis, Meadows, Trump, Eastman, Black, Kerik, Melania, Barr, Bannon, Hawley, Gingrich, Abrams, Comey, Cuomo, Kerry, Abrams, Gore, Spencer, Blassio, Pompeo, Bolton, McCarthy, Nugent, Cruz, Rubio, Gaetz, Santos, Tucker, Gutfield, O'Reilly, Beck, Scarborough, Devos, Kasich, Mercer, Murdoch, Rosschild, Ingram, Kelly, Lake, Conway, Coulter, Huckabee, McEnany, Hannity, Spicer, Christie, Prager, Maher, Colbert, Corbett, Hayes, Biden, Harris, Fauci, Pelosi, Pirro, Manchin, Cooper, Maddow, AOC, Newsom, Uyger, Dawkins, Hitchens, Hancock, Sitchin, Ventura, Morgan, Cowell, Farage, Johnson, May, Merkel, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Mogg, Benjamin, Trudeau, Putin, Bolsanaro, Stalin, Lenin, Tito, Trotsky, Hitler.
Special mentions (adjucants): Dawkins, Hitchens, Miller, Watters, Greenwad, Blumenthal, Maté, Camp, Brand, Loomer, Shapiro, Thatcher, Bush, Obama, Merkel, Greer, Summers, Silverstein, Adelson. Greenblatt. Wexner. Also Hindu Nationalists Tulsi, Haley, Hirsi, DeSouza.
33% of the Senate, yet only 22% of the population.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without parties or politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
Thorium energy renders their global energy monopoly obsolete
The solution to those 'officials' who 'made official decisions' on those two cases, to the extreme benefit of their 'private benefactors', is the SAME framework currently being deployed in Georgia.
show me where europe stopped having total control of americas culture and economy. all i see is european loyalists laundering all their money into europe and using the us government to shower europe in QUADRILLIONS of free dollars. there are more people living in their cars in america than there are people who live in houses that cost less than 100k. europeans quality of life has been gradually going up despite their productivity completely disappearing. how does that happen if they arent in control of the worlds most powerful economy and military?
One being Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)
End capitalism entirely.
*snort* and replace it with what exactly? Socialism and communism lack a successful model.
@@wormer104you can't ignore that a big part of why socialism/communism has never succeeded is because of interference by capitalist countries. Socialism has never been _allowed_ to succeed
@@wormer104 Socialism has been crushed by the Capitalist Empires
@@wormer104capitalism has killed more people than communism has.
'success' is a matter of opinion, especially when you have capitalist systems actively fucking over socialist ones
@@wormer104enjoying that idiotic smugness of thinking you know more about economics and government?
I remember reading Theordore Roosevelt's autobiography and there was a time in his early political career where it was discussed whether or not lobbying should be outlawed and he basically said, "eh it sucks, but it should be a looked at as a moral test of the politician" and I was just like 🤦
haha... great thinking teddy
typical individualist thinking.
I feel like Americans get so obsessed with having rights that we forget about the reason having them is good in the first place.
Americans are obsessed with the idea of *_unlimited_* rights. But such a thing does not exist when you live in a society because there will _naturally_ be times when your right to one thing may affect another person's right to something else. Rights are not unlimited in the face of the welfare of the larger community.
Yeah. And in the US, there has always been a tier system of whose rights matter more.
We just need equality and safety, to be for the well of the people.
Money should be taken out of politics all together. We no longer have representation in any branch, office or party. Small individual donations which are tracked, NO stock trading including spouses and children while in office. Cannot work as a lobbyists for 10 years after leaving office. SCOTUS must report ALL gifts which are then scrutinized and followed up reguarding pending & future cases involving gifters. Real punishment given to those who commit fraud. President cannot pardon elected officials especially when crimes could involve president himself. FOIA request cannot be refused or delayed beyond a reasonable time. Using office for financial gain is strictly prohibited, including family members which may or may not hold positions within government (Hunter/kushner). Politicians cannot sit on committee whose decisions may lead to committee members financial gain or regulatory advantage. TERM LIMITS in every elected office including SCOTUS and age limits to reflect current generation and populous.
Would an age limit be discriminatory?
Otherwise, 100% agree with the other proposals. We can't even begin to tackle issues until our govt functions at a base level for the avg citizen.
Right on!!
@@Krazie-Ivan i dont believe humans were meant to live past 40 or 50. you can tell because they ALWAYS lose their minds after that age no matter how nice or easy their lives are lol. also need to remind you that the new deal happened when most power on earth was being held by people below the age of 50. something to think about.
@@HadenBlake ...i agree that the 35yr limit to be POTUS is also age discrimination - great call. :)
to clear up your assumptions ; i think the only min age limits that should be in place for working, are those that prevent employers from taking further advantage of child labor. if people think someone is too old to fulfill their elected duties (which i also think has been the case a lot lately), we should vote em out (system needs some fixes for that to be accomplished, as the OP noted too).
This is what we used to have in citizens united took it away from us and because they relied on voters politicians had to at least pretend to have integrity and have someone else mind their businesses while they were an office Trump is the first to not do that
Citizens United did incalculable harm to this country. I fear that overturning it or negating it with legislation is our only hope for actual progress.
Amen brother keep saying the same thing. I'm old enough to remember that if enough people wrote or called their Congressman something changed. The last time I wrote my congressman told me what the hell he's going to do let me know he didn't care what I thought about it.
I think getting money out of politics should have massive bipartisan support. It's the number 1 problem with politics in our country
It's not bipartisan though because rich people overwhelmingly benefits one of them
This is why the GOP, Grifters On Parade, is where it is now. Their depending on donor money to keep them afloat. Now seeking private donors. One grift at a time. 😊😂
@@moosesandmeese969 once you take money out of politics Republican elected officials will have to worry about being elected, not about the rich people who cut them checks. Most red states are not exactly swimming in money, they would start working for their rurral and blue collar voters, though they could still get away with lying to the mostly uneducated, it would still change everything.
That's precisely why they don't. They benefit from it. Same reason why they do everything they can to stop 3rd parties from gaining any meaningful traction like they do in other countries.
@@moosesandmeese969 I mean bipartisan support among the voting class. I know the donor class and politicians would never support fighting a system they benefit from
Culture wars be damned! We need to be focusing on CLASS issues!
Yes... been clear as day this is our Union's biggest ailment.
As a non American who follows what happens in the states, the way I see it as an outsider is that the main reason America struggles and don't get anything improved is because of the political corruption. It's also the source for why so many Americans don't trust their government; they feel they don't get anything back.
This is because with the passing of a bill called citizens united we no longer can know who is contributing money to political campaigns or how much that we can't know who is buying our congressman. We need to end citizens united but how do you get a bunch of people to vote against their own money source? That is the question
As long as money rules the day in Washington we're going to continue to get grifters looking to get rich instead of taking care of our country. It's obscene & heartbreaking. Good video as always. Take care Leeja. Thanks.
The top ten richest Senators are all democrats
End citizens united go to congress.gov and read what it is and how it got here
Great video. I am a woman identifying member of the LGBTQ community making plans to run for an open seat on my township board. While federal and state politics are a shit-show, local government is still accessible to the average citizen (unless you are in a major city). Thanks for the solutions and resources on how to start a campaign.
Hell yeah! Good luck!
Good luck!! Can I ask what state? Just to doublecheck the list of people trying to run in mine and see if theres someone I didn't notice before
Michigan - Delta Township@@indigopines
Thats Capitalism Babeee! Money rules the system and will always fight for more control. We need a true representation without any influence from money.
Money, Racism, Fear. Or Racism, Money, Fear. Wait i got it Fear, Money, Racism.
@@gabrielmaroto18RIGHT. you are ON POINT. We'll never move forward because of those 3 exact things.
It's not about capitalism, this crap would be illegal in most civilized capitalist countries, it's about greed and special interests that have hijacked what should be a representative democracy. Capitalism generates wealth, you just have to regulate it, for obvious reasons. It's not being regulated when electing officials, are youi going to blame the corruption or just do the easy thing and blame money. They're no synonymous, just because they can coexist it doesn't mean they're the same thing
What we need is for people to stop obsessing over “isms” and to just pay attention to what’s happening in their governments (plural) and to vote accordingly in every single election. This isn’t a philosophical exercise and both political “sides” are not the same.
No, that is Socialism and the result of taxation. If government collected no taxes, there would be no free money for the greedy to steal. Capitalism is supposed to be voluntary, but the flow of money from me to the government and then to private interests is involuntary.
We're freaking doomed. 😢
I agree, thinking the voters will ever take responsibility for their vote is silly, THAT would never happen.
Thinking that voting matters at all is silly. Unless you live in a swing state, your vote literally doesn't matter. I do it just so I can shove it back in the "blue no matter who" crowd's faces but I'm not fooling myself, I live in a red state in a city that is infested with literal nazis. It doesn't matter what box I check, cause everything is gerrymandered to keep this city/county from flipping blue, not that the color matters much when the entire political field is right wing (just to different degrees). My brown trans queer ass is fucked no matter what. The American experiment is a failure and needs to be dissolved.
A quote from Frank Herbert comes prominently to mind:
"Governments, if they endure, always tend toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been able to avoid this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops government tends more and more to act in favor of the ruling class, whether that ruling class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or theocratic clergy."
If this is the case, why are our rich so burdened by taxation?
@@diggernash1They aren’t 😂.
@@Updog89 even if a person that earns 10 million is able to work the tax code to reduce their income tax to 10%, they still pay 1 million in income tax. How many years would it take you to pay in 1 million?
@@diggernash1 It would take me forever to pay a million dollars because I am not rich. But for a rich person it’s not a big deal at all.
I would happily sign up for such a deal if it meant I got to be rich. Taxes aren’t a burden for the rich, they are rich. They aren’t victims. By definition they have the money to pay for to and still be rich. It’s not rocket science.
@@Updog89 You only think that way because you are not rich. As a person's bank account grows, so does their conservatism. A dollar taken is the same whether it is the first or the 999,000th. And they all belong to the person who earned them; not the person that "needs" them.
Money destroyed democracy a long long time ago.
Upon seeing the video in my feed, my first thought was "Thanks Citizens United /s".
This is what I've been saying for years. Money in politics is the biggest source of corruption.
You had me with the title of this update alone. It's not rocket science that I can't afford $5 for my candidates while corporations/wealthy can donate thousands. They rigged the system by the money they stole from workers.
The marketplace of ideas cannot survive in a capitalist system.
Then move to a socialist country
@@rickminear9029doesn’t exist.
Unfortunately, the only way to solve this issue is to pack the federal courts, but no one is willing to discuss that openly.
I believe former President Dump has already done that.
Republicans not only discuss it but have also completely achieved it. A real shame they're the ones passing the tax cuts.
Most that's gonna do is increase the amount of people who have to get bribed to get a favourable law passed, the problem is not the courts, is the system itself
They could, but then the other side would just stuff it more. Not a long term strategy. In short the SC is the most anti democratic part of the US government, but that's by design.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties or Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
It's hard to ruin a democracy when you technically never had a democracy to begin with.
The U.S has never been a democracy so that makes it even harder to ruin the democracy
Exactly the system was designed this way and works as intended.
Let's start with rooting out conflicts of interest. If politicians are prevented from personally profiting from holding office in any material way, then only those who wish to serve society will be running for office.
In a true democracy, each *human* citizen gets a vote of equal value to other citizens.
Money always corrupts. For a viable democracy, citizens should control the flow of money by voting for where public funds are spent. Even after a democratic election, we give politicians a blank check, giving up control of where tax money goes, and give them way too much power which corrupts them.
Scotus not knowing what the fallout of citizens United would be is a level of charity I’m not willing to extend to the federalist society members of the court.
Believe me they knew. They bowed to their funders.
"I dont need you to remind me, you're my only option." This is even further exacerbated by the cost of a regular person volunteering 20hr is much more expensive than someone who can just pay a bunch of people to be politically active for them. The only saving grace, is the body count game. There's millions of them, there's hundreds of millions of us. I think we have to stop playing the partisan game, and focus on uniting regular people. There's way more we agree on, that disagree on. Even between Biden voters and Trump voters.
Who's "regular people"? That sounds like a dog whistle to me. Y'all wanna throw us in oppressed groups under the bus then wonder why nobody likes y'all. What we need is an actual strong left wing. Not two flavors of right wing.
I agree
How woukd you reconcile the foundational differences? Abortion? second amendment? Religion?
Very optimistic.
Trump/maga/republicans literally want to erase my existence, family, and bloodline from this earth. I know because they told me to my face.
@@diggernash1 by getting people to see the things VALUE are mostly THE SAME.
Two people on opposite sides of the political spectrum are still both likely to be living paycheck-to-paycheck. They're suffering from rising prices. They're worried about the division in their own families.
Healthcare is stupidly expensive. So is college. Who hates fighting with insurance? Everyone.
All of these problems are rooted in big money corruption. Our government works for the rich. Not for us.
We all are against bribery, and most of us can see easily how letting billionaires and whole corporations give literally as much money as they want creates terrible incentives.
We can form a coalition despite right or left differences, but we're GOING TO NEED A NEW PARTY. Too many people view the opposite party as the "enemy" and will NEVER cross over.
So well done! We cannot vote our way out of this.
Any attempt would have to start at the state level. In states that allow citizen ballot initiatives (so they don't need to rely on their State legislature), voters need to get measures on their ballots to address these things. Start at the lower levels until there's enough grassroots citizen demand that it _has_ to be addressed higher.
@@LittleHobbit13 yeah well. 30 years ago when I finished high school, we tried rock the vote. All the voting for the lesser evil got me 30 years of nothing. The game is completely rigged. And we don't even have the time left for a couple more election cycles. We will have millions dead within ten years due to climate change because we've done nothing. In fact, we've done more damage in the past 30 years to our planet than in the entire history of humanity prior to 30 years ago. Even if had a magic answer to energy and stopped all the bad stuff today, the already done will cause disaster after disaster for the rest of our lives. Arizona is running out of water. We have forever chemicals in the Colorado River. We have entire eco systems lost due to ocean temperature increase. We cannot reverse what took millions of years to create and only decades to destroy. This is what happens when all the guests pee in your pool. The party is over. The rich have super yachts and bunkers. Look how slow the government is in Maui. The writing is on the wall.
None of the parties will ever put forward a reform on campaign finance if they control all branches. None of them want it to happen.
A PAC literally just called me for a donation as I'm watching this lol
New viewer here. Your videos kept popping up on my feed and I am enjoying the content. Keep it up!
Over turning the Supreme Court's disasterous Citizens United decision is priority number one.
The people who claim to be the best politicians are often the worst, and the people who don't want to be politicians would often do unreasonably well in the role.
off topic, but I love to see your channel growing so fast! So good to see that people are genuinely interested in these topics
It's not about the message, it's about sending the money.
"Money is ruining our democracy"
Me:- no, the concept of money is ruining everything under the sun
Right, we could have come up with a societal system 95% better than the current one, where everyone is treated fairly, but this money obsessed dystopian dumpster fire is what we have due to the rampant greed and ignorance. We want our utopia! We don't have to suffer like this!
This is what Estes Kefauver, Senator from Tennessee, warned about in his book “Monopoly in America” in 1963
If there is a minimum wage in the USA there should be a maximum amount of money that one person is allowed to have not maximum wage a maximum amount of money that 1 person is allowed to have and it should be way way under 1 billion dollars
Let's do that for musicians too.
Once you get a top 10 hit, you must retire.
@@JayBee-cr8jm That is not the same thing at all. Many musicians would create music even without financial compensation because it's their passion... just like most artists would.
@@chihirostargazer6573 Many musicians exist simply to rob others of praise.
Imagine if we had stopped Michael Jackson. Other less talented peoples could have written his songs and got paid.
INSTEAD, THEY STARVED.
It's so refreshing to watch a progressive youtuber who releases high quality content on a regular basis. It feels like almost everyone else is busy creating high budget arthouse films that take MULTIPLE MONTHS or YEARS to create and don't provide important information during the most important time in our lives. Keep it up :-)
"I can't tell you the last time was influenced to buy or do anything from a television ad."
The sad truth is that even if an individual is aware of the effects of advertising and propaganda, it still has an influence on them, albeit smaller. This is especially true when the message is repeated frequently.
Once again, you put it so much better than I could. Thanks and Sharing!!!
Your integrity is refreshing keep up the excellent work.
Discovered your channel last week. You are a very talented writer and speaker! Love the topics!!!❤
She's a propagandist for the Cabal
@rickminear9029 Get some help man 🙄
@@millenialsmom2214 To help me fight government disinformation ?
@@rickminear9029 Let's start with Christo Fascist propaganda.
@@millenialsmom2214 I'd rather start with democrat's brain washing centers commonly refered to as schools . Where the kids are all taught the democrat's talking points , But can't read , write or add two plus two
This is the result of a number of different issues, all centered around the GOP policies that shift money to the wealthy. The lowering of the tax rates, the dismantling of rules surrounding stock trading, the opposition to publicly funded elections, destruction of employee unions and the supreme court decisions on election contributions by corporations. If you give all the money to a small subset of people like the US has done for the last 40 years, those people will eventually have all the control, too. They'll change the rules more and more until they're done (never)
Effective limits to private wealth and spending is important. The only reason we have billionaires is because the law/government allows billionaires to happen. It can just as easily enforce the opposite.
The government could be in charge of making sure people don’t get too powerful or wealthy. It already does that, but mostly limits and burdens what poor people can do.
Love your videos, I was wondering if you could explain this phenomena in our politics; I get the sense that nobody (on either side) approves of any person in our current government (mainly senate, congress, idk), why is it that they are our only options for nominees? Like Mitch McConnell, he’s been in senate my whole life, why? Nobody likes him, or Ted Cruz, why do I have to hear about them every year? Why do they keep getting nominated
The money from the corporations that buy his campaign each year outshines the vote. Additionally. No one fact checks debates live- the twisted politician's tongue.
They get nominated the same way all republicans get nominated, by saying ignorant things about marginalized groups lol
Ever heard of a thing called gerrymandering? There's your answer. ESPECIALLY if you have a GOP Grifters On Parade Governor.
The decision to view corporations and other such entities as “people” in the eyes of the law is one of the most dystopian things ever done by humans. I’d personally rate it in the top 10.
I just saw Microsoft owes 28.3 billion in back taxes.
Now no individual could get away with this BS.
So how are corporations like people and when do they go to jail?
We are all so tired of the legal fiction that props up this system.
"The care and happiness of humans, not their destruction, is the First and Only object of Good Government."
"We have the best government money can buy." Mark Twain
I would love to see a person running for any election completely open their books. A live feed to their accounting department 24/7. They can keep their household spending private. No one needs to know which toilet paper they are buying. Everything else open to the public. Is that a solution? I do not know. I'm just putting my wish out into the world.🤷🏿♂
I really appreciate this video. Every time I have tried to explain campaign finance reform to my AP US Government class, it gets really muddled and difficult to understand. This video does break down the impact of cases like Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. Plus, now I have another case to write a sample SCOTUS FRQ to compare to Citizens United. Thank you, Leeja - keep doing what you do!
To me, the best example of learning about how money influnces politics is by watching the Frank Capra classic, "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", starring Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold and Thomas Mitchell. The movie is almost 100 years old and yet it's a classic by giving the viewer a political education that's easy to understand! Watch this movie and compare it to how dark money is STILL tainting American politics (and it wouldn't surprise me in just worldwide politics in general).
"Money Is Ruining Democracy" It's funny how you think what we have now is a democracy... We crossed the oligarchy line a long time ago.
Thank you Leeja for all you do!
This video nails the crucial issues with campaign finance in the U.S., especially the outsized influence of wealthy donors. The staggering figures from the 2020 election and the Georgia runoff highlight how money is drowning out ordinary voices. It's alarming but not surprising that the "For the People Act" stalled, revealing the self-interest inherent in our political system. The Citizens United decision and historical precedents show that this problem, although not new, is escalating. Essentially, our democracy is increasingly at risk without significant campaign finance reform.
Another great video essay, thank you Leeja.
I've been waiting for this one!
Love your channel, Lee. Keep up the great work!
This is a video that needed to be made. Kudos.
I love you for the quality work you’re doing. Thank you!
Yes! I’m always trying to bring this up
Constitutional Amendment: Money is not speech
Great video Leeja. Thanks for using your legal expertise to expose and explain this issue.
Your videos are so well-researched and so well done visually! Ty!
All I can say is THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, counselor...that's all to be said.
⚓️ Thanks Leeja 🌈
I am quickly arriving at the conclusion that the rest of our political problems will never be solved unless and until we start expropriating all private wealth above a certain threshold (and by expropriating, I just mean taxing).
Thank you Leeja. It helps to be well informed, and you are, without a doubt, one of the best & trusted u-tubers out there. Rock On Girl! :)
Thank you Leeja!
Providing recourses at the end of the video is a great way to get people (me) to stop bingewatching and actually get involved & informed. Please keep doing that whenever you can!
Oh my god, Leeja just says the quite part out loud! God I love this channel!
The same principle works for the tax free status of the (mega) churches. Being tax-exempt and free of governement oversight, they can indirectly influence the political process by the methods outlined here, with the donating members getting a tax credit to boot.
It's just ridiculous how much money is used to control candidates platforms, how they vote, and the very candidates we get stuck with. I can only think of one politician who can't be bought, Katie Porter, in California. The rest of them are all on the dole to some point. No wonder we have no prayer of real democracy or a representation for the every day person. It's so damn depressing.
Thank you!! I wanted to be able to understand this better, bc it's been really bothering me, but I was too unsure about the deets to speak very deeply on it. You're so amazing!! Your channel is important, and we're lucky to have you 😍
Engagement for the engagement god! Capitalism ruins everything!
So if having a right to your own labor and property, and the freedom to exchange it with others ruins everything....who or what do you think should own your labor and property?? Since you owning your labor and property, is ruining everything and all.
@@darkgardener9577 Dude, I'm an anarchist & these are UA-cam comments. We're not going to have a productive discussion about this. If nothing else, I have to keep the job I need to have to survive at all in this world. Whee!
@@meander112 Would you like for me to send you some of my cotton? I picked it myself.
@@meander112 Oh surprise surprise.... you just want what you want. Well in that case....come and take it. 😀
@@darkgardener9577 You don't own your labor in capitalism lmao
1) glad I'm Canadian and we don't have this BS. 2) This was highly informative on the history of US election law. Thanks.
We have this BS.
It’s just not as blatantly overt to the level of the US.
And Poilievre will win next election, and lobbyists will get stronger. Harper tried to reform campaign cycles into more of a US style theater.
I’m starting a moving to Canada SPEEDRUN
Thank you for covering this topic. Your direct and concise overview of complicated but impactful legal issues is something I've come to appreciate.
Another banger! Great vid. This is probably the singularly most important issue facing us now.
I always include FNB v. Belotti (1978), which helped established corporate personhood, as a contributing factor to the situation we find ourselves in. Buckley v. Valeo: money = speech. FNB v. Belotti: corporations = people. FEC v. Citizen's United: people (corporations) have the right to unlimited speech (spending money) to influence elections.
thanks, Leeja for standing on the barricades fuelling democracy with moral girl power. love it!
Thank you and thanks for captions
Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge, Leeja!
I've always been of the idea that campaigning money should be equally distributed between all candidates. Unfortunately, capitalists dislike the word "equally" a lot.
Move to a socialist country and live day to day eating out of a dumpster
Finally. The beginning of the journey to the Commons and finally breaking the wheel, once and for all!
Thanks for doing a video on this subject as its near and dear to my heart❤