@rbreich "Whether it is the unwillingness of Congress to reauthorize the assault weapons ban, or the inability of the same to allow for the negotiation of prescription drug prices by Medicare (both popular with a majority of Americans), we have to arrive at the obvious conclusion that America is no longer either a democratic republic or a constitutional democracy, but, rather an oligarchy of multinational corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, and...https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-congress-supreme-court-nra-medicare-20180316-story.html