“System Change” Means Removing Money from Politics
Progressives hope to see systemic changes to our world that will make this planet a greener and more just place to live. That means many things, but especially decarbonizing our transportation and energy sectors, while dealing with our huge and ever-growing wealth inequality.
If you’re asking yourself why essentially none of this is happening, you really don’t have to go any further than the massive amounts of money that are inflecting our lawmaking.
To take just one small example, how is it possible that 89% of Americans want to see gun laws into place that are proven to reduce the carnage in our day-to-day lives? Here’s a list of U.S. senators who accept financial contributions from the gun lobby, in exchange for their blocking legislation that would make us all safer.
It’s not rocket science.
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Here’s a reminder from John Locke, one of the very few philosophers whose thinking informed the original design of the United States, on exactly how close the U.S. came to tyranny.
These people are raising investment capital, or at least claim to be, for 
As suggested here, humans aren’t the only ones who suffer the senseless loss of loved ones.
This fellow makes a good point.
If you want an honest answer to the question posed at left, you’ll need to ask the National Rifle Association. How, precisely, did they buy our lawmaking processes? I’m sure it’s an interesting story.
Unless you’re a seditionist and/or hard-core religious zealot, these are not good times for America.
From my colleague Joe Spease:
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