How our attention is drawn away from Citizen's United

After the nation’s founding, corporations were granted charters by the state as they are today. Unlike today, however, corporations were only permitted to exist 20 or 30 years and could only deal in one commodity, could not hold stock in other companies, and their property holdings were limited to what they needed to accomplish their business goals. And perhaps the most important facet of all this is that most states in the early days of the nation had laws on the books that made any political contribution by corporations a criminal offense.

Jefferson said,

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Jefferson, one of the most prominent founding fathers, also said this in 1816,

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

John Adams also had an opinion.

“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”

Lincoln wrote,

“We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood … It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”

Why do * hate the Government so much?

Why do republicans hate the Government so much?

why do democrats hate the work so much

Some things just never change around here do they. Mean while, Millions of real poor people are walking, running and even crawling hundreds and thousands of miles to come to America so they can get a real job in "Corporate infested America". All to have a far better life than anything that they have in their native countries. When they get here, they do everything they can to stay and work their asses off for "Corporate infested America" in this totally fked up country of ours. Pretty stupid of all them millions and millions that have done so aint it....

Remember when we used to be a great country.

We were greater when we didn't fight illegitimate wars for oil.

We were greater when we welcomed those millions that wanted to join us rather than try to criminalize them.

We were greater when we didn't require the middle class to work multiple jobs to support a family.

We were greater when someone like the Donald would be laughed out of town on the crazy train.

We were greater when education was affordable.

We were greater when we didn't have the highest incarceration rate of any major country (and 2nd highest of ANY country).

We were greater when someone like the Donald would be laughed out of town on the crazy train.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism.[6] The first organization sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by violence against African American leaders. It ended about 1871.

We were greater when education was affordable.