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Hard to broadcast your contempt for democracy more profoundly than by voting against disclosure of large campaign contributors.
Here's the list of senators who did just that, filibustering a vote on the DISCLOSE Act.
“I think the most stupid decision that the Supreme Court ever made and one of the most damaging was to rule that corporations are people and that major corporations now can give unlimited supplies of money to candidates."
-- Jimmy Carter
This is an astounding reversal, entirely due to Bernie Sanders preparing to make Moderna a poster child of corporate greed, along with the public organizing against the company.
Sanders: Will you lower the price for the US govt?
Moderna CEO: We have "complexity."
Sanders: You made $21B in profits and you've become a billionaire. Doesn't seem so complex.