Today is election day. There are important local races everywhere. Please vote!
However, regardless of who’s elected for whatever offices or what ballot issues are passed or defeated, two things won’t change. The political corruption and hijacking of whatever amount of democracy we have/ever had due to corporate constitutional rights and political money in elections defined as “free speech” will remain.
No decree, law or regulation enacted by any elected representative of any political party in any place can alter this. The same goes for any citizen-driven ballot measure in any community or state.
Don’t misunderstand. We need many more responsive public officials and many more educational and symbolic resolutions and ballot measures to build capacity, to educate, to change the culture, and to build an authentic democracy movement. But only by amending the Constitution to abolish ALL corporate constitutional rights (corporate personhood) and “money as speech” can we stop business corporations and the super rich from using these anti-democratic battering rams to do what they want, when they want, wherever they want, to whomever they want — causing further harm to people, places and the planet.
More representative representatives are extremely important at every level of government to push from the “inside” for the #WethePeopleAmendment. But it absolutely must be complemented on the “outside” by a legitimate democracy movement that agitates, educates and organizes to build power — which is what #MovetoAmend is all about.
So please vote today for more representative representatives. But tomorrow join us to agitate, educate and organize to change/amend the foundational rules of the game — the Constitution. It’s the only way to ensure that We the People actually mean All the People.
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