Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 on Nostr: True. And some would argue that the political process had been irreversibly tainted ...

True. And some would argue that the political process had been irreversibly tainted by corporate cash by the mid-20th century.
Perhaps Citizens United was just the last nail in the republic's coffin.
It is, however, an indisputable fact that the United States of America is now an Oligarchy.