Bernie Sanders: Saving American Democracy
Message from Senator Bernie Sanders:
I know that many of you are deeply concerned about the economy, health care, education, global warming and the environment, Social Security and Medicare, civil liberties, war and peace and the national debt. But here's an issue that's even more important because it encompasses all of these issues -- and much more.
Will the United States survive, in any significant way, as a democracy in which ordinary people can control their future? Or, will "democracy" simply become another commodity owned and controlled by billionaires and corporations in order to serve their own purposes?
Today, as a result of the absurd Citizens United Supreme Court decision, corporations and billionaires can spend unlimited sums of money, without disclosure, in political campaigns. And that is exactly what they're doing.
Karl Rove's American Crossroads has already pledged to spend at least $240 million in the elections of 2012. The extreme right-wing billionaire Koch brothers may be spending even more. And then there is Wall Street, the oil and coal corporations, the insurance and drug companies and the military-industrial-complex with all of their money.
More: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/37820-saving-american-democracy
Petition in support of a Constitutional Amendment making Corporations not People: http://democracyforamerica.com/activities/726?ak_proof=1&akid=1597.1521014.oS0Wui&rd=1&t=2
Sign that sucker...