Voters are mad and I can’t blame them. Like many Americans I find myself deeply frustrated with our current political landscape.

Stick with me. I do bring perspective to this frustration. As founding chair of the Santa Clarita Valley Democrats, a former legislative staffer for two incredible assemblywomen, and someone involved in multiple community nonprofits/organizations since age 13, I’ve witnessed politics from multiple angles. These experiences have shown me both the promise and peril of our democratic system. And there is one peril I can’t stop thinking about.

There is a tangled web of shady priorities in a lot of political circles. A messy web of wealthy donors and corporations who will stop at nothing to make sure our government passes laws that allow them to do whatever they want in the name of making more money. And while political leaders on both sides are caught up in this web, it is the Republican Party as a whole that has embraced this system of focusing on legislation not for the people, but for their wealthy donors. Leaving behind the most vulnerable among us, including their very loyal voters.

And what’s at the center of this tangled, messy web? Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — a 2010 Supreme Court decision that essentially said when it comes to free speech, corporations are equal to people and because money........

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