According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.”
According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United.
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I’ve added Carter’s statement to this list of politicians acknowledging that money controls politics.
Please let me know if you have other good examples.
(Thanks to Sam Sacks for pointing this out.)
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