Is this a way forward?

[JEB]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/05/we-will-only-get-louder-dozens-communities-vote-boot-big-money-politics

'We Will Only Get Louder': Dozens of Communities Vote to Boot Big Money from Politics

Huge margins back up claim that 'nearly all Americans share the sentiment that corporations should not have the same rights as people'
by
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

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"It is time for Congress to pass the We the People Amendment and send it to the states for ratification. The leadership of both parties need to realize that their voters are clamoring for this amendment, and we are only going to get louder."
—Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Move to Amend

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Seems to me to be the heart of the matter.

[JEB]

1. Killing the notion of corporate personhood.

Also from the link:


Citizens in dozens of communities voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which opened the door for the super-rich and corporations to trample democracy.

As they headed to the polls to vote in what turned out to be the most expensive midterm election in history—one in which outside money from undisclosed sources played an outsized role and the number of small individual donors shrank—voters across the country made clear their desire to end corporate personhood and get big money out of politics.