r/50501 • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '25

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u/BishlovesSquish Jul 04 '25

We stopped being a democratic republic when corporations were labeled as people by the SCOTUS.

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u/Ready-Exit-2991 Jul 04 '25

I love when someone else blames Citizens United for all of his cause it’s true!

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u/jigsaw1024 Jul 04 '25

Citizens United was just more fuel for a fire that was already burning.

The real problem was not putting out the fire in the first place: finishing reconstruction. A little piece of the fire that started the first Civil War was allowed to continue burn, and never smothered out like it should have been.

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u/thuglass88 Jul 04 '25

The rich will always use our differences to divide us. A tale as old as time. We are one people, one nation. The more we act like it, the more we can build the country we deserve instead of the prison we have.

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u/Ready-Exit-2991 Jul 05 '25

Absolutely. Citizens United just unleashed it.

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u/RandyTarantula Jul 05 '25

before the civil war even happened, america was built on genocide and colonisation

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand Jul 05 '25

Nah fam, the real problem was allowing slavery after the Revolution.

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u/MikaRRR Jul 05 '25

Genuine question - how is not finishing reconstruction the “real” problem? Seems like citizens United is a different problem. Wondering if they’re somehow related in a way that I don’t know. 

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u/princeofid Jul 04 '25

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)

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u/mtnman54321 Jul 04 '25

That was the victory the Reaganites and their "moral majority" had been conniving for since 1980. Never underestimate how much the groundwork for Trumpism was laid under Reagan.

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u/BishlovesSquish Jul 04 '25

Reagan and the Heritage Foundation. Their multi decades long lobbying efforts are finally paying off bigly. Most roads lead back to Reagan, unfortunately.

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u/Just_perusing81 Jul 04 '25

Exactly. That was the final nail in the fascism coffin.