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How to explain modern American politics in one chart

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I suspect this charts says more about the number of billionaires than about how much rich folk are donating.
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@KeithWM The percentage is of the total volume of dollars contributed, not the number of contributors.

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@KeithWM

The wealthy are also laying fields of landmines to torpedo democracy for decades to come.

Dead billionaires can buy elections long after they pass away, thanks to their think tanks, tax havens, & trust funds.

Corporate personhood violates one person, one vote democracy.

Bradley passed away in 1965. His money is close to buying the overturn of the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchising women.

2010 is when a corrupt Supreme Court turned on democracy.

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The entire planet is at risk of ecocide just from a tiny number of billionaires buying Supreme Court Justices.

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@Npars01 @KeithWM Gonna argue that it happened in 2000 when Sandra Day decided Shrub should be president so a democrat wouldn't pick her replacement.

But yeah...

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@Npars01 And to think it looked like you guys had it all sorted in the 18th century while were still messing around with our monarchs...