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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

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How many aspects of our daily lives are directly impacted by just a handful of billionaires? And I’m not talking about the services or products they provide, it’s their Pet Projects… their Hobbies. Whatever happened to collecting STAMPS?

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-hitler-paintings-nazi-memorabilia-1234711860/

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They’re obviously smart, they went to Ivy League schools. They’re obviously successful, if MONEY is your yardstick…

**So, they should already KNOW.**

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-gifts-collections.html

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Consolidation spells disaster for their bottom line. Rigging the system to benefit themselves, creates the precedent for them to suffer the SAME at the hands of someone else.

History shows us… the pendulum swings TRUE. Take heed Mr. Crow, it’s only a matter of TIME. And when it does come, it’s not just your interests that will be destroyed.

Manipulating legislatures, corruptly influencing Judicial Institutions, elevating Elected Officials in order to SILENCE competition… the short-term gains realized will not outweigh the long-term consequences of those actions.

Eventually… that system will turn on YOU. Your empire, no matter how much it is WORTH… will become their empire. For the good of their CAUSE. When there are no guardrails, that cause is subject to change… without notice.

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To be generous, as a bow to polite society, it seems to me that these Titans of Industry are simply IGNORANT of our history… an oversight. They are older than I am, maybe they didn’t waste as many HOURS as I did watching History Channel documentaries late into the night. Maybe they just don’t understand what it is they are doing.

Or maybe… they do. Maybe they know exactly what they’re doing… because they believe they know what’s best.

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My daughter keeps reminding me that we live in a capitalist society… and I am grateful that we do. Our Constitutional Democracy has provided fertile ground for the development of every major scientific advancement of the 20th Century.

From the airplane to the Moon Landing… from agricultural dominance to Artificial Intelligence… down to the very device that allows my words to be shared with the rest of the world. But…