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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by _silicon on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:52PM (#46536103)
Companies with tremendous wealth manipulate voters and lobby their representatives. Don’t presume that voters are remotely well-informed of who backs their interests.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by mpyne on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:37PM (#46548612)
If wealth could simply buy elections then Clinton would have won over Trump in 2016 and Sanders would have won the primary over Biden in 2020.
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