Most of this intransigence is due to corruption, starting with a billionaire cabal’s influence over the supreme court. Citizens United has all but granted the power to decide elections to super PACs, and therefore to the billionaire donor class.

Unfortunately with 90% of broadcast television soon to be owned by a single family, overturning this corrupt power may be even more difficult.

I think it’s time for society as a whole to reconsider the social contract legitimizing the wealth of these oligarchs.