Daily Take: Who Needs Democracy? Inside America's Billionaires' Brazen Attempt at Fascism - Part 1
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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America is the only developed country in the world that’s allowed an unaccountable, unelected Supreme Court to hand its political system over to its richest citizens…
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| 1:05.1 | brazen attempt at fascism, part one. The biggest lesson Americans learned this election year is that |
| 1:13.5 | billionaires basically own half of our political process. In the seven most tightly contested |
| 1:19.3 | Senate races, billionaire spending on Republican candidates outpaces that on Democratic ones by |
| 1:24.6 | seven to one. This is not how a democracy is supposed to work. The demos in |
| 1:30.6 | democracy means the people. Democracies are supposed to fulfill the will of the people. Add the |
| 1:36.9 | protections for minority groups or republic provides, and you have Republican democracy. We used to think |
| 1:42.8 | that if billionaires participated in politics in a big way, |
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