I couldn’t agree more. Ever since the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United our elections have been for sale. As a start, we need to adopt an enforceable ethics code and a mandatory retirement age. We also need to remove the ‘shadow docket’, through legislation if necessary, and expand the court.
Robert ReichElon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.