Carter says he thinks the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has “changed our political system from a democracy to an oligarchy. Money is now preeminent. I mean, it’s just gone to hell now.”
He says he believes that the nation’s “ethical and moral values” are still intact and that Americans eventually will “return to what’s right and what’s wrong, and what’s decent and what’s indecent, and what’s truthful and what’s lies.”
But, he says, “I doubt if it happens in my lifetime.”
Journalists Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan / Source: The Un-Celebrity President
Quoting Jimmy Carter, president on the Supreme Court decision (Citizen’s United, 2010) to allow unlimited corporate/special interests funding for political campaigns/elections.
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And what chance of change?
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I ponder this repeatedly. Most of the time the answer seems to be slim to none. I also go down the path where, since we are in uncharted territory, it ends in some violent French or Russian revolution scenario. Over half of the American population is progressive and globally oriented and were cleverly disenfranchised in the last election. Will they respond with loud voices, as in the 60’s or will they be silenced by the weight of the power and wealth accumulated by a handful of sociopaths who know hold sway over the planet.
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Oops now not know. Auto correct strikes again.
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