In the past decade, we've seen many changes in our government, as corporations and the ultra-wealthy have found more and more ways to have their voices heard to the virtual exclusion of the voters who put them in office. Even that process has been warped beyond recognition by the corrupting influences of money, special interests and power, so that today, candidates and parties pick their voters as opposed to the ideal where voters pick their candidates. The result of this distortion has been that the government seems to work only for the monied interests, and the concerns that the rest of the
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