“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both,” wrote Louis D. Brandeis, a Supreme Court Justice appointed by Woodrow Wilson. He goes to heart of the matter today, 77 years after his death: if America is a plutocracy (ruled by the rich) then it cannot be a democracy (ruled by the people). Given that we the people only get to vote for the candidates that the rich supply us, I think it is obvious what the United States has become. Donald Trump is not causal, he is merely the most blatant example of a truth we are reluctant to admit. He has torn the bandage off the wound festering on the abdomen of Liberty. It is up to us to decide whether he has done us a favor, and treat the wound, or let him and the Party of the Rich dig at the wound until Liberty dies.
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