Unless People Realize What is Happening

and are willing to push back against the tide, this country will go from a democracy or representative democracy, to a plutocracy. I totally agree with Robert Reich:

Who are these people? With the exception of a few entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, they’re top executives of big corporations and Wall Street, hedge-fund managers, and private equity managers. They include the Koch brothers, whose wealth increased by billions last year, and who are now funding tea party candidates across the nation.

Which gets us to the second part of the perfect storm. A relatively few Americans are buying our democracy as never before. And they’re doing it completely in secret.

I'll tell you what: This is a country on its last legs, I'm afraid.