Hum... An expert has been living under a rock for the last year.
The US still may come back from being an autocracy. But it's been there for a while.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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I always think about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 2010. That decision effectively removed restrictions on corporate donations to politicians, finding that those donations counted as speech, and (oddly) affirming the concept of corporate personhood in the US.
But obviously, corporations will always have resources that are orders of magnitude greater than a person, which makes equating them absurd. In effect, it allows corporations to own whatever politicians they want, and because it's the rich who also own the corporations, they just end up with vastly more representation.
It's barely been 16 years, and here we are.
Also Harlow V Fitzgerald. That case laid the groundwork for all of this illegally, and no one involved could be charged with anything, as the illegal amendment of section 1981 of the federal code happened in 1884. At that time a single unnamed secretary took it upon themselves to amend a law, by removing a crucial 16 word clause, while copying the 1881 Congressional Record into the Federal Register. Because of that Qualified Immunity became a thing in 1982.
there is a reason its one of the most common thing for bernie to talk about.
first sign. EVERYTHING!!!!
My guess would be the thousands of pieces of evidence that everyone looking can see?
The first sign was election day. The second sign was inauguration day.
The first sign was a decade ago.
That too. It I was speaking about Volume 2
The fact that it's been one for like twenty years?