I think our present situation became inevitable once the loathsome Newt Gingerich convinced the GOP that people who disagree with them are an enemy to be destroyed rather than people who need to be convinced or compromised with.
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CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 3 days agoI don’t necessarily agree but one could argue in 2000 after SCOTUS stopped the recount and the dems just politely conceded.
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aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made it inevitable.