Thought for the Day

In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision unleashing corporate control of elections, I wonder if any current politician will have the guts to stand up and say something as forceful in response as Robert LaFollette (1855-1925) did when similar issues threatened to undermine our democracy over eighty years ago:

"That tyrannical power which the American people denied
to a king, they will no longer endure from the monopoly
system. The people know they cannot yield to any group
the economic life of the nation and preserve their political
liberties. They know monopoly has its representatives in
the halls of Congress, on the Federal bench, and in the
executive departments; that these servile agents barter
away the nation's natural resources, nullify acts of
Congress by judicial veto and administrative favor,
invade the people's rights by unlawful arrests and
unconstitutional searches and seizures, direct our
foreign policy in the interests of predatory wealth,
and make wars and conscript the sons of the
common people to fight them."