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[–]Trajan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

a system that's stacked against them

It's reassuring that CEOs, politicians, well-funded activist movements, and major corporations found the strength to fight back against this system that oppresses them.

And people archive because pages can be changed, and news outlets aren't exactly consistent in documenting edits made to their content.

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Believe it or not, these groups were not that helpful in previous elections, where minority candidates like Trump, Bush Jr, and others could be elected with corporate trickery and alliances. And the rewards for these corporate and special interest groups representing the 1% were substantial. (Consider that we're now 27 trillion in debt because of them, and the 99% will pay for it. The 1% is much richer - in the trillions.) All of this support by these groups was necessary to get the candidate with the majority of votes elected. (And 99.9% of the additional 5 million votes were counted by Democrats and Republicans.)