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Friday, April 20th, 2018

Who Will Protect Elections From U.S. Oligarchs?

Author:     Paul Street
Source:     truthdig
Publication Date:     Apr 18, 2018
 Link: Who Will Protect Elections From U.S. Oligarchs?
Stephan:   Citizens United, perhaps the worst decision ever taken by the Supreme Court, legalized bribery and made it possible for the rich to purchase the government they want. The election of Trump is one result, as well as a demonstration that it is easy to manipulate an ignorant, frightened, resentful, White minority. If you give them the right dog whistles they will happily go to the polls and vote against their own self-interest.

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I recently heard on cable news that special counsel Robert Mueller wanted to interview some “Russian oligarchs” about their supposed influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Liberal talking heads at such organizations as MSNBC and CNN keep warning that nothing has been done yet to protect the integrity of our voting process against “Russian interference” as the 2018 midterm elections loom ever closer on the nation’s horizon.

What about the American oligarchs, I wondered, people like businessman Richard Uihlein, who regularly distort U.S. elections at every level—local, state and federal? Who will protect our “democracy” from the plutocratic “wealth primary” power of the American oligarchy?

If you are like most U.S citizens, you’ve never heard of Richard Uihlein. An heir to the Milwaukee-based Schlitz beer fortune, Uihlein is the billionaire CEO of Uline Inc., a private, family-owned Wisconsin company that sells shipping and packaging materials to the tune of $2 billion in annual revenue. He lives in a mansion in Lake Forest, a hyperopulent preserve north […]

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