“So Trump promised to attack a broken system. I get it; it’s a ripe target,” Ossoff said. “Yes, this system really is rigged, but Trump is not unrigging it. He is re-rigging it for himself.”
And it is worse than ever now. Citizens United was the worst court decision in modern American history. And when members of Congress aren’t begging for money from lobbyists, they’re trying to dodge getting carpet bombed by these super PACs. Senators get threatened every day with millions and millions of dollars of attack ads over the votes that we take.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: I get why people voted for him. Because even before he came on the scene, America had the most corrupt political system in the Western world. It’s been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, on both sides.
And see, this is why nothing works for ordinary people. It’s not because of woke college kids or trans students, because there are interracial couples in cereal commercials. It’s because the people’s elected representatives don’t represent the people; they represent the donors.
And that corruption is why they just defunded nursing homes to cut taxes for the rich. Corruption is why you pay a fortune for prescriptions. Corruption is why your insurance claim keeps getting denied. Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, driving you out of the market, and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak. Corruption is why that ambulance costs $3,000 after you just had to get your choking toddler to the hospital.
So Trump promised to attack a broken system. I get it; it’s a ripe target. But here’s the thing: he is a crook and a con man, and he wants to be king. Yes, this system really is rigged, but Trump is not unrigging it. He is re-rigging it for himself.
Opinion from M.A.: I have recently coined the phrase: Trumplestilskin: entity who can spin Gold into Shit!
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