Dueling Dollars Diminish American Democracy
Via The Huffington Post
Election Day 2014 is over. The winners have been declared.
But the true loser has not. That loser is democracy.
For the past week — and undoubtedly for weeks to come — story after story will be written about the reasons for and consequences of the Republican landslide, their gaining clear control of the Senate, and having the biggest majority in the House since the 1920s.
Only a precious few, however, will be written about the back story which is how money is contaminating our electoral process.
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