For a long time I’ve talked about how this government – “of the people, by the people, for the people” – has as one of the main flaws of being a capitalist democracy, plutocratic tendencies. We know our government suffers from this because of Princeton’s long-term study.

Corporations have many, many times more say than we the people in American legislations. The fix for this was to rebuild corporate excess influence & reduce it to a trickle with lobbying & campaign finance law & other yet-unpublicized parts of our system of government.

Excess corporate influence has been a longstanding problem & reducing it – today in the form of “The Anti-Corruption & Public Integrity Act” & “The For The People Act,” – each seem like the best moving-&-shaking I’ve seen in this direction I’ve seen since I started talking about this.

These are great steps for a great democracy to become grand – or be on our way there.

Kudos to Elizabeth Warren & House Democrats & all involved for doing all the hard work required to put these bills on the road to heightening our democracy & providing a cleaner legal flow for the dealings of this country, & inasmuch we are that “city on the hill,” setting a precedent for the world.

Onward & Upward, America.

Thank You.

– Joe