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This is the Tom Hartman program. Starting out, my op-ed over at HartmanReport.com today is titled

Ending Money as Speech is the only way to restore democracy. Basically since 2010,

when the Supreme Court just tripled down on their doctrine that corporations are persons

in money as speech, since that time, Congress has been basically paralyzed. There's been no

really major consequential legislation passed. Certainly nothing to dealing with the really big

issues of our day. Things like tens of millions of people who have no health insurance or climate

change crawling up our back sides here coming after us. I mean, we have paralysis. Why do we have

paralysis? Because the Supreme Court said that billionaires may own their very own private

politicians as can giant corporations. And so now, whenever you try to do anything,

you get the entire Republican Party, which is totally sold out to the billionaires in the

corporations. And a few hangers on in the Democratic Party, who probably, if the Senate goes

Republican, will become Republicans, like Kirsten Sedema and Joe Manchin. And, you know,

a few folks in the Democratic Party in the House who are just on the take. There's no other way

to say it. After all, the Supreme Court made this legal. I mean, if the law said that you could

just walk into any supermarket and just pick up any candy bar on the counter and just start eating

in the supermarket, even though you really should pay for it. How many people do you think would,

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