by Robert Reich

The tempest over Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's alleged illegal campaign uses of dark money -- money solicited by shadow political front groups that don't have to report their real donors -- is the tip of an iceberg of political corruption across American politics that will only become worse unless and until we have: (1) legislation requiring full disclosure of all political donations; (2) a constitutional amendment specifying money is not speech and corporations are not people under the First Amendment; and (3) public financing ($2 of public money for every $1raised from small donors) of all general elections. It would be bad enough if 400 billionaires didn't now receive more income than the bottom half of the entire American population each year, and the typical American weren't on a downward economic escalator. But the combination of this increasingly savage inequality with a Republican-dominated Supreme Court and the tide of dark money now engulfing politics is ushering in an era of oligarchy such as we have not witnessed in this nation. Organize and mobilize. Our democracy must not be for sale.

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