Fighting to Restore American Democracy

The potential for an American form of fascism to develop due to corporate infiltration of our political process via the Congress is growing day-by-day.  The Supreme ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, allowing unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns, dealt a serious blow to the principles campaign finance reform supporters have been pushing for years.  Have we crossed the line?  Is there anyway to return democracy to the hands of the People? 

 

Lawrence Lessig, the renown media and legal scholar, has written an article for this week's The Nation entitled How to Get Our Democracy Back, and with it has launched a movement toward the one option the People are left with:  a constitutional convention.  In his thinking Congress is too corrupt to pass an amendment neutralizing the Supreme court ruling.  But, if two-thirds of states apply for a constitutional convention, democracy would at least have some hope of dodging the bullet of corporate control.

I encourage you to read the article, then sign the petition.

How to Get Our Democracy Back

Change Congress Petition

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