Year after year, election after election, it is increasingly clear that the most significant Supreme Court ruling was not overturning Roe v. Wade, but granting unlimited power to money as a weapon of free speech. Money is now a dominant force in politics, leaving Parties racing to raise money. Combined with our toxic concentration of wealth and the ability of media platforms to control information, this further weakens public influence in political dialogue. We no longer have a government “…for the people…” but one controlled by a wealthy elite legislatively protecting its hold on power. To a degree, this is exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind in writing the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence applied only to British rule.

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