When money has a voice and a vote

"When the people's house is no longer for the people then it is no longer able to function in the way the Constitution intended."

There is a theory that all modern power in the United States Government is held on our benches, in the Justice Department, particularly the Supreme Court. The only way to change the systemic problems that have had generation to fester is to tackle them from the ground up. If it’s just judges imposing their interpretation of laws, it will never be the will of the people. Therefore, it will always be called into question. Our constitution is meant to give power to the people, and when their voices are drowned out by the dollars of the super-rich and companies, then it is no longer a democracy. By upholding Citizens United the courts told the American public that they were not the beneficiaries of the government, that the only people who are intended to be are the elite. By putting unlimited funds behind political races, it makes politicians beholden to their sources of finance, and no longer the people. It’s why so many politicians feel that they can skip town hall meetings now, because the people are not the ones that they answer to. Unlimited money in our government has only worsened the corruption of our politicians who are more concerned with lining their pockets than in doing the work that will help their constituents.

We need a massive group of people who understand this who already have the needed tools to stand up for everyone else to run for offices around the country from local to federal governments. That is how we change to the path of success for everyone. It won’t be fast unless there is such a backlash to the current situation that the population decides to make decades happen in a matter of years. The bottleneck is the current leadership in Congress; they need to either retire or get out of the way of those that are ready to take up the fight. It’s time for them to trust the upcoming leaders and let them out of the gate.

The will of the people must have more value than the will of the courts in matters of elections. The elections are supposed to be the free will of the people in practice, but the courts chose to negate that by upholding Citizens United. The other problem is the Electoral College which gives a handful of people the ability to overwrite the will of the people wholesale except in those states that have enforced regulations upon their EC representatives. When the people’s house is no longer for the people then it is no longer able to function in the way the Constitution intended.