Saving Democracy

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM is sick as a dog, rotten to the core, all cliches aside, and must be drastically reformed and overhauled if democracy in these United States is to be salvaged. As of now, American democracy appears to be collapsing inward towards the center, congealing, coalsscing within the wealth and purchased political power of the ultra wealthy plutocracy,our wealthy powerful elite "corporate masters", as gore Vidal termed our rulers. The fact that big wealthy corporations own the country and the political system is evidenced by the simple fact that virtually every important political office in freedom's land is bought and paid for by its occupant-owner. Hence, what we have in these United States is government by the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy.As Congressman Davy Crockett famouosly said "It is my firm belief that Congress ought to at least occasionally legislate for the poor." Laws limiting political campaign contributions, public funding of political campaigns, regulating political advertising,including bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine", would be instrumental in ending or reducing the corruption. It almost begins to seem as if nobody wants to end it, certainly those who benefit from it. Now that SCOTUS has ruled that gerrymandering is legal, we can expect a veritabel avalanche of it. A nation broken into political enclaves, each enclave doing its very best to preclude the opposition party from having any real participation in governining. In every one fo the fifty nifty, the party in power seems poised to gerrymander and rig elections. Any real resistance to this has either been silenced, or ignored. We seem destined to possess fifty equally corrupt political systems, all adding up to national corruption of gigantic proportions. As we seemingly slide inexorably towards this this undesirable state of affairs, the problem is, or certainly seems to be, that nobody cares. As often happens in these United States of Avoidance, the corruption grows, unchecked, uncontested. Politics at the state level is being bought and paid for by the wealthy elite few. Wherever you live in the U.S., if the other party is perpetually in power,you and your party officially have no voice, no vote, no power. Since the SCOTUS strangely says that money is free speech,we the teeming masses of the wretched poor must, so it seems, fight tooth and nail to invent and install a democracy where it isn't, or at least, isn't always present. We the people must demolish once and for all the absurd, outdated notion that is is some sort of sacred human right to us private money to influence the political process. Without proper,effective constraints on the use of personal wealth for political gain,inevitably super wealthy individuals or groups will use money to keep corrupting our sacred American democracy, such as it is. If and when the people generally lose faith and interest in popular government of, by, and for the people, those who seek to use their personal wealth to purchase political power to estabilish a capitalistic corporate dictatorship in America, which, in any event, is, in our current political environment, far more likely, and far less desirable to the working poor than a socialist democracy, will succeed in completing the work of fully, formally establishing a corporate dictatorship in the United States.Humans are by nature inclined to exploit and dominate one another, even as they simultaneously otherwise cooperate. Democratic government, in order to endure, must be constantly sustained and strengthened by the strongest potential force in human affairs; the will of the people.