Having just read Jane Mayer's 2016 book Dark Money, this article does not surprise me at all. The dark money of billionaires has infiltrated, like the tentacles of an octupus, every corner of America, in their so-far completely successful attempts to change public opinion, laws, philosophies, freedoms of choice, you name it. Betsey Prince DeVos already admitted to this years ago. Others of her ilk and societal levels have done more damage to America than anyone can comprehend. The 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, removed 100-year old constraints on campaign finance, opening the doors to unlimited spending, overty and covertly, brushing up against remaining few laws. The influence of the far right extends everywhere their money is accepted, which is everywhere, from Congress and the SC, through the WH on down to whatever field you might have interest in. The U.S. of Corporate America needs a new flag. One with a crooked dollar sign on it, landing in the palms of elected and appointed officials. Too bad too. This experiment in self rule, not without its problems from the beginning, was the most successful of all mankinds' many attempts to live under semblance of law, order, and civility. That is all gone now, and I do not know how to get it back.

America is a oligarchy/plutocracy now. 

Forget our Constitution and the balancing branches of govt. Self-rule has been abused and replaced by the wealthy who have adjusted the system to their benefit.

I love this country too. But the reality is, we no longer follow our Constitution. We are in national debt over our eyeballs and no plan to address it. We insist on foreign entanglements/war, because it is good for business (just the billionaires who benefit). 

I suppose it might be possible to return to the good old days of three balancing branches of govt. Takes a responsive Congress that hasn't sold out to the highest bidder. That happened decades ago. Even the Supreme Court has bent over for Corporate America. 

Why do you think nothing changes? Because those in power behind the throne, making enormous wealth, want it that way. A revolution aimed not at Washington, but at the billionaires behind the scenes pulling all the strings, is necessary to restore our Constitution as the actual Law of the Land. Every time a figurehead president (all of them since LBJ) signs an Executive Order, he goes right around the entire process, thus weakening it further. 

Time to change our flag to one with a Dollar Sign.

And yes, my flag is still up in my front yard. Happy 4th. I guess. (boy this is going to piss some people off....)