Ever since Citizens United, outside spending on elections by groups like super PACs has skyrocketed.

The biggest individual donor to outside spending groups in 2024 was Timothy Mellon — heir to the Mellon banking fortune.

This is how dynastic wealth corrupts our politics.

One of Trump's biggest promises was to address the rising cost of living. But will he do anything to challenge the main source of high prices — corporations who have gobbled up their competitors and now have enough market power to keep prices high even as their costs have dropped? Of course not.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.

This is why we must fix the system.

“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. ‘Necessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” - FDR in his 1944 State of the Union.