The Fossil Fuel Industry's Dirty Secret

[Phil the Kilibuster]

Uploaded this morning:

You know, maybe it's time for us to storm the Capitol. And the various corporate headquarters. And Wall Street. Our country has been taken from us. ALL of us. At some point, someone's going to take it back, and I prefer that it not be the wingnuts!

[Dustlawyer]

1. How about we end campaign donations, Super PACs, Dark Money, and the

Revolving Door? Prevent oil companies, other corporations, and billionaires from buying our politicians? Enact Publicly Funded Elections to stop their control over our government.

This is the root problem, let’s fix this so the will of the people shines through.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

And a new tax structure that eliminates the ways in which businesses and churches don't contribute to the well being of the country by avoiding taxes.

[Dustlawyer]

4. Yes, but we don't get that unless we get the money out of politics first.

It is one of two root problems we have that is ruining the country. The other is the media. Big corporations and the wealthy use their ad money to control messaging. They use it to manipulate us with propaganda. We must require truth in reporting and not allow them to knowingly present false information.

[2naSalit]

5. That's true.

It's the primary thing, everything else can't happen until that one thing is done.