“The American people are very right. The American people are also very wrong.

96 percent of Americans agree that it is important to reduce the influence of money in elections. This is a no-brainer. Just about the only people who disagree are five Supreme Court justices and the corrupt Congress who got elected through that money. Otherwise, real Republican, Democratic and independent voters all agree: If you take a lot of money from someone, you are likely to do what they ask you to do. This used to be called bribery. Americans are correct that this is a massive problem, and it’s the first issue we must address, because it affects every other issue that you care about.

91 percent of Americans believe there is nothing we can do about this corruption. Those are the same folks who would have asked the Suffragists, “How can women ever get the right to vote, if they can’t vote in the first place?!” Pessimism always seems like the right play in the short run, but it is almost always historically wrong.”

Read more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/a-new-hope-for-2016_b_7545630.html

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

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