nnat two sixty seven democratic senator Eugene McCarthy entered the primary here

in New Hampshire to challenge his own party's sitting president because he feared the most important moral

issue of the time the Vietnam War I was going to be invisible in that election in four months McCarthy went from almost

nothing in the polls to almost beating Lyndon Johnson in the primary and the one issue that no one wanted to talk about became the one issue

that no one could ignore at the core of our democracy there is a basic inequality

not the inequality of wealth though that is a problem or the inequality of speech though something about a problem too but

the inequality of citizens Jefferson's truth all are created equal has

become Orwell's medium some are more equal than others and with this change the

core commitment of a representative democracy has been lost nnj

nnj nnj this inequality shows itself in a thousand ways it's why we must even

say black lives matter it's why Congress bends over backwards to benefit those who find their

campaigns it's why a huge proportion of us don't waste our time voting it's

why the system as Elizabeth Warren puts it is rigged rates to block reforms that most Americans

would benefit from rigged to help the very few those with the money to fund the politicians campaigns we

need to challenge this rig to system like McCarthy challenged the war we need to make fixing

it the first priority of the next president and next Congress because until it is fixed no

sensible reform is even possible yet though every major candidates in

the democratic primary for president has acknowledged this corruption so far every one of them just

put said to one side as if without fixing the rig system first we could get climate change legislation or

sane limits on guns as if without changing the way campaigns are funded first we could reform wallstreet or