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How campaign finance disenfranchises America's silent majority of socialists

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageSocialists: please raise your hand.Reuters

It took the excitement generated by the political campaign of a self-described socialist, Bernie Sanders, to put into stark relief the extent to which the United States political system fails to reflect and respond to the aspirations of most Americans.

That’s because decades of income stagnation have...

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