http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/112628/jimmy-carter-on-the-american-oligarchy
From the SmirkingChimp.com website, today, January 9, 2025 which is National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day as well as the Funeral of Former President Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter
by Robert Reich | January 9, 2025 – 6:59am
— from Robert Reich’s Substackan
” interview he did with Thom Hartmann on July 30, 2015.
In response to Hartmann’s noting that the Supreme Court now allows “unlimited money in politics,”
Carter said this:
“It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members.
So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over. …
The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody’s who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger.””
