I think we need to realize, though, that Hillary Clinton will not do this--will not right the wrongs of Citizens United and many stolen elections, including most of the current 8%-approval-rating Congress. She is quite happy with the way things are, and is raking in billions of filthy lucre. To her, this is power. She won't change it.
And the Democratic president that will be elected will certainly get the chance to straighten that mafia out for a long, long time to come.
I don't know if you are a Clinton supporter or a Sanders supporter. I'm not regular enough on DU these days to know everybody. If you are a Clinton supporter, I'm sorry if I offend you with this. But I am convinced that the only chance we have of reform in Washington DC is Bernie Sanders, who won't accept corrupt money--not superpacs, not billionaire money, not corporate money. He is not for sale. Clinton is. And of course all the Republicans are. And just about everybody else in public office.
And of course this is why everything has been heavily stacked against Sanders from day 1 of his announcement, and even way before his announcement with all sorts of arrangements to prevent a grass roots candidate from achieving the nomination. The "red state" stacked primaries. The "super delegates." The multi-millions needed to run, ensuring corrupt candidates. The DNC utterly neglecting grass roots activism. Plus the Corrupt Media black-holing Sanders no matter what he wins or how much he wins it by.
He has foiled them all, thus far. He just won't go away. It's marvelous! He's marvelous! What a gift to the American people to have such a candidate!
I think his impact will be lasting, even if they foil him in the end. But it will take much longer in that case to restore democracy. If he does succeed, he will easily beat Trump or any Republican, and then the gauntlet will be down at the Supremely Bad Court. His first priority is Citizens United! If he can get a decent Congress by, say, 2018, he may have to do what FDR did, threaten to "pack the Supreme Court" (in the rightwing terminology of that day), that is, the Constitution does not specify the number of justices. Nine is an arbitrary number, and it is perfectly legal and constitutional to add justices, if Congress agrees. FDR's threat alone saved Social Security from being declared unconstitutional! And the number stayed at 9. But that CAN be changed.
Yup, I wish to live to see that happen!
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