For my money, corporations took our democracy over a long time ago, so this is closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. Still I’m glad to hear Dr. Utopia say this:
They want to take Congress back and return to the days where lobbyists wrote the laws. It is the most insidious power grab since the monopolies of the Gilded Age. That’s happening right now. So there’s a lot of talk about populist anger and grassroots. But that’s not what’s driving a lot of these elections.
We tried to fix this, but the leaders of the other party wouldn’t even allow it to come up for a vote. They want to keep the public in the dark. They want to serve the special interests that served them so well over the last 19 months.
Cue Charles Lane and Megan McArdle whining that Obama hates free speech.