Meet the Mega Rich Families that own our Politicians

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/mega-rich-families-who-own-our-politicians

The Mega-Rich Families Who Own Our Politicians

The Supreme Court's malevolent Citizens United decision has produced an insidious platinum class of mega-donors and corporate super PACs.

Nearly all of their money is backing Republican presidential hopefuls who promise: (1) to cut taxes on the rich; (2) cut regulations that protect us from corporate pollution and other abuses of the common good; and (3) to cut Social Security, food stamps and other safety-net programs that we un-rich people need. The great majority of Americans adamantly oppose all of those cuts -- but none of us has a million bucks to buy an equivalent amount of political "free" speech.

It's not just cuts to taxes, regulations and some good public programs that are endangered by the Court's ridiculous ruling, but democracy itself. That's why a new poll by Bloomberg Politics found that 78 percent of the American people -- including 80 percent of Republicans -- want to overturn Citizens United. But those 358 families, corporations and Big Money politicos will have none of it.