Save our democracy, defeat dark money

We are living in very difficult times, but they are our times. Times we have helped create and need to help heal. For democracy to work we need a healthy government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Dark money stands between us and the healthy government we need.

Maude Barlow served as the senior water advisor to the UN General Assembly promoting water as a human right. In her book, “Still Hope,” she says, “Oxfam and the British social justice organization Global Justice now have documented the rise of transnational corporations: of the top 100 economies in the world, 69 are corporations, and only 31 are nation-states.”

She goes on to say, “Apple’s revenues exceed the GDP of two-thirds of the world’s economies. Exxon is bigger than India. Walmart’s revenues exceed the GDP of 157 countries, including Spain and Australia. BP is bigger than Russia. China’s National Petroleum Corporation is bigger than Mexico. The latter decades in the 20th century and the first two of the 21st saw power transfer from nation-states to transnational corporations. By 2020, 12 American billionaires had amassed a combined wealth of $1 trillion, many made richer by the COVID pandemic.”