“Allowing people and corporate interest groups and others to spend an unlimited amount of unidentified money has enabled certain individuals to swing any and all elections, whether they are congressional, federal, local, state … Unfortunately andrarely do these people have goals which are in line with those of the general public. History well shows that there is a very selfish game that’s going on and that our government has largely been put up for sale.” – John Dingell, 29-term Democratic Congressman from Michigan, in 2014, just before he retired.
The Dingell oligarchs roll on the backs of “we the people”.
We were WARNED about this in the late 1700s
Rules for changing a limited republican government into an unlimited hereditary one.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/FRENEAUbanking.html
Michigan downriver...Wayne (Detroit) County (corrupt) oligarchs. BEYOND fixable. It’s where I grew up.
aka “DeToilette”, home of Cynthia “Cueball” Johnson, election fixer and racist POS.
I must admit post WWII through 66 was a great time to grow up in and around Detroit. Suburbs being built, malls, city vibrant on all of the major thoroughfares, parks, pools, schools, friends, sports, banks, restaurants, stores, movie theaters (great ones downtown), auto factories, MOTOWN, Cobo, Tiger Stadium, Olympia....all of it. We...had...it...all. ANY Detroit old-timer can verify what I am saying.
The “new normal” is not good. I have a lot of friends in Detroit.
You don’t realize what you’ve got till it’s GONE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg