Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "The Billionaire Family Ruining NASCAR | Ft. John Russell" video.
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@kurtis_schmurtis I've never heard of Snyder v. U.S., but I've heard of Citizen's United. It seems that you care enough to know, so you should also check out:
1. Buckley v. Valeo(1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti(1978)
3. McCutcheon v. FEC(2012)
The rulings in ALL of those cases, including Citizens United, essentially give the corrupt wealthy-class the right to corrupt campaigns and elections. They have legalized bribery.
The rulings in ALL of those cases were decided by RW-Justices on RW-courts.
ALL of those cases impose a disproportionate disadvantage upon the working-class.people who make up the populace-majority -- the rulings are Anti-Democracy in nature.
ALL of those cases give a disproportionate advantage to the populace-minority of the corrupt wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics -- the rulings are Pro-Authoritarian in nature.
Honestly, though, this is really nothing new.
The people in the wealthy-class have been on a quest to remain in the wealthy-class since the invention of currency.
They become like the worst addicts -- they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
They become addicted to their lifestyles -- they'll do ANYTHING to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
They will purchase or bribe anyone, and they'll lie to, cheat, and steal from anyone, just to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
They'll incite sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide just to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
And they've even devised a way, via their corrupt RW-politics, to extract endless-wealth from the sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide: Endless Wars.
Endless Wars need endless supplies. Those endless supplies come from private-businesses. Those private-businesses are owned by the corrupt wealthy-class.
And it is that very same wealthy-class that benefits from the rulings by the RW-justices in those court cases above -- Those rulings, which essentially say that the wealthy-class has the Constitutional Right to corrupt elections and campaigns, thus corrupting politicians and the government.
So, then, those corrupted politicians use their positions in government to vote for the military-legislation that authorizes war, and then they vote for the budget-legislation that pays for the supplies that come from the private-businesses which are owned by the corrupt wealthy-class.
Then the wealthy-class uses some of the profits from their private-businesses to give to the campaigns of the politicians who will then use their positions in government to vote for their corrupt RW-politics.
That whole "Endless War" scheme -- being fueled by a corrupt, authoritarian wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, and being funded by corrupted, authoritarian politicians in a corrupted government -- is now called the military-industrial-complex.
They really started kicking the scheme into high-gear in the U.S. after WW2. General Smedly Butler warned that the wealthy-class was trying to take over the government via coup. But, luckily the coup failed.
Then, in the 1950s, Eisenhower warned that the wealthy-class was trying to take over the government via the "military-congressional-industrial-complex" -- essentially a slower coup.
And each of those RW-SCOTUS rulings, mentioned above, have been small steps towards the slower coup.
The RW-SCOTUS ruling, from the other day, on Immunity for POTUS was another step towards the slower coup.
Add in Project2025 and the U.S. will be many, many steps closer.
The wealthy-class has been using that RW-political scheme of "Endless War" for millennia: the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Confedrates, the N@z!s. And if the U.S. continues to elect the corrupt, RW-extremist Repubs and the corrupt, moderate RW-Dems, then the U.S. is eventually going to meet the same results...
The wealthy-class will start a war INSIDE the U.S., and while the working-class dupes are fighting in the war, the wealthy-class will sneak out the backdoor with their wealth.
It's not just getting worse -- It's getting dire.
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