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It's beyond time for some good-old-fashioned truth telling. There's a singular cancer at the core of our democracy and it shows up in dozens of ways that don't seem related to most Americans. It's tearing our country apart, paralyzed our government, and has gutted our middle class.

That cancer is big and dark money in politics.

The story of how we got here is fascinating and I'll get into it in a minute, but suffice it to say that fraud, lies, and corruption are at the core of every aspect of it.

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Its main cause in the present moment is one of the most corrupt Supreme Court decision in history, where 5 on-the-take Republicans on the Court ruled in 2010 (Citizens United) that corporations are persons and money is the same thing as free speech. The wreckage of this decision is all around us.

Without Citizens United we'd have a national healthcare system like literally every other developed country in the world.

We don't because the for-profit health insurance industry (which doesn't even exist at this scale anywhere else on Earth) extracts hundreds of billions in profits from us every year and uses Citizens United's legalization of bribery to pay off legislators to maintain the status quo. Big Pharma and Big Hospital are also in on the game, and massive New York hedge funds are buying up physician practices as fast as they can nationwide, knowing that people will pay almost anything to regain their health or postpone their death.

Without Citizens United we'd have high-quality public schools in every community in America.

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