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Our forefathers worked hard to create a government that would be fair to all (at least that's what the history books tell us). They created a three-part government of executive, legislative and judicial branches to provide checks and balances meant to keep any one group from obtaining too much power.
Today the oligarchs are providing the checks and the legislature is the primary recipient of the balances. Seeing what has happened in the Supreme Court with regard to politics and the First Amendment, you have to wonder if some justices are also receiving some balances. With the growing discrepancy in money distribution among the classes, I fear we are observing the death of our beloved democratic republic and slipping rapidly into an oligarchy. May we not rest in peace but fight with all means available to keep the republic alive.
Bill Adams
Murray