Carter: ‘Stupid’ Supreme Court Ruling Turned America into ‘Plutocracy’

Breibart ^ | 7/9/2015 | pam key

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Wednesday on “The Stephanie Miller Show,” former President Jimmy Carter said because of the “stupid” Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case, America has become a “plutocracy.”

Carter said, “The basic structure of our moral values of the framework of our democracy has gone down the drain in the last twenty years or so and it’s now become pretty much a plutocracy where money determines who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees. Money determines who will win election for Congress or for the U.S. Senate or for the governorship And the massive infusion of money that has come into the political process because of the Supreme Court’s stupid ruling on Citizens United has resulted in using a lot of those funds for negative commercials to tear down the reputation of our opponent, which generates animosity, which carries on into Washington so it’s a very horrible thing that happened to American political systems.”

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The old fogy got something right for a change. Too bad he didn't blame his own party for the bulk of the change. The Supreme court was just one of the last domino's to fall.

[mountainlion]

Jimmy, I don’t think you want to be using that word.

[DoughtyOne]

Carter is so stupid he doesn’t realize he and his party are responsible for all this.

[ETL]

Coming from former president Jimmy Carter this is significant. After all, who knows more about stupid than him, except maybe Joe Biden.

[BuckeyeTexan]

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[freedomfiter2]

This may be the first time that I agree with the second worst President in history.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He’s out plugging a new book.
Still delusional, tho...

[L,TOWM]

Yep, he still runs behind LBJ in my book.

[freedumb2003]

>>Jimmy, I don’t think you want to be using that word.<<

A goofyocracy?

[Olog-hai]

I’d say “nihilocracy”, just judging by the way the current POTUS is “leading”.

[Gay State Conservative]

"When I look at all my children sometimes I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

Lillian "Miss Lillian" Carter,Jimmah's mother

[Fiddlstix]

[smokingfrog]

when has Jimmy ever gotten anything right?

[KSCITYBOY]

Jimmy is a dumb ass!

[Fast Moving Angel]

Not quite right ... this is a REPUBLIC, not a Democracy, Jimmy. Sorry if you don’t know the difference after all your years of service (?) to it.

[TXnMA]

"Yep, [Carter] still runs behind LBJ in my book."

Where, then, do you put 0b0z0?

[TWhiteBear]

I dunno about this Pluto stuff, but Carter, Clinton and Obama have sure made America into a Micky Mouse country.
Mz Clinton is rather like Daffy Duck.
TWB

[sauropod]

Don’t agree with you.

The Citizens United case opened up the electoral process for everyone.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Actually it just limited conservatives. There are plenty of other “Decisions” that preceded this, it’s difficult to point to just one.

[Verginius Rufus]

The US has been a Plutocracy since the Gilded Age, right after the Civil War. Carter just noticed.

Geld regiert Amerika. Headline in an Austrian newspaper, 1969, for an article about the book The Rich and the Super Rich

Before it was a Plutocracy presumably it was a Neptunocracy.