I have agreed with very few things Gore has ever said (I won't get into details because this shouldn't devolve into a Gore flame war). However, I agree with thi

I have agreed with very few things Gore has ever said (I won't get into details because this shouldn't devolve into a Gore flame war). However, I agree with this one. And I hope he can use the influence he has to influence change. Citizens United may have been a death blow to our functioning republic. It was already on life support previous to that, but with the addition of unlimited amounts of corporate funding, Congress now has little incentive to look at "real" people. Instead, its constituents are now people of the corporate variety, and all of its decisions are made for them[1], even if a veneer of "it's for you" is laid over it. Without a way to undo the damage of Citizens United (and the path that led up to it), I don't see how we can solve the fundamental problem of Congress not representing the "real" people. And any attempt to solve Citizens United would be met with huge amounts of lobbying and media buying against it, making a grass roots effort nearly impossible, especially when most people would much rather just pick up some coins on Dullsville. I'm greatly disheartened with the US at the moment, and I'm not sure it is going to get better. We need another social revolution akin to the 60s, but I think it will be much harder to make happen today. I know I have no ideas of how to make it happen. 1. I believe there are a few representatives who are outside of that mold, but they tend to be freshmen with little political power. By the time they've gained political power, they generally fall into the "mold". Of course, there are always exceptions, whom I admire greatly.