On Jan. 21, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations and special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections and unleashed a nightmare on the American electorate.

Six days later, in his state of the union address, President Barack Obama said, "With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests--including foreign corporations--to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people. And I'd urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems."

But neither Democrats nor Republicans passed that bill. Now, it appears it is up to us to take responsibility for fixing what politicians refuse to fix.

This year, nearly 15 years to the day that Citizens United was decided, our billionaire president was re-inaugurated, surrounded by his billionaire handlers who quickly went to work dismantling every part of the federal government that displeases them and remaking the federal........

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