A root cause to our societal problems is corporate influence. Short of a ban on lobbying and a shift to federally/state funded elections that give equal time and money (hell will freeze over first)nothing is going to change. The corporatons are relentless. This is a movement that needs to grow...
You, and everyone you know need to sign this petition. As a matter of fact Dailykos should have a link to this site permanently placed on thier homepage. Honestly,why they do not is sort of puzzling. Maybe this is old news but click the link and sign the damn petition! HERE Overturn Citizens United
Its a site whose chief purpose is to get corporations out of our government. They are not people, they do not have consciences, they do not have empathy, or any redeaming quality for that matter. Okay, I am sure thier are a few out thier that do, or I should say they have leaders that do. As of right now around 97,000 have signed it. I expect it to grow rapidly after being brought up on this site. I guess we will see what we're made of.
UPDATE: its up to 99,000 now. Of course I did post this late last night so I can see that having an effect on the slow increase. So and update hopefully will help it out.