Kimberly:
I don't understand how we're a democracy but when the citizens vote on something, whoever has power/money can appeal the laws. It happened to us in Hawaii, in Maui County. The voters wanted to ban the use of harmful pesticides and GMO products, I think it won by landslide, almost 80% of voters wanted to ban. But several months after, they rescinded the act saying "federal trump state levels." OMG.
I also can't believe that they would consider censoring certain websites! That's very communist, but we're so against communists, right?! >:(
Yeah, it's heartbreaking. Essentially, big money'd interests have had a stranglehold on policy making, and this was really broken wide open in 2010 with the Citizen United which makes it so legally, big money'd interests can spend as much as they wants funding candidates.
As such, the politicians they fund end up serving them directly... hence the internet company lobbies have been able to get through the killing of net neutrality. And taken the interests of the people all but off the table. Heck, the head of the FCC flat out admitted that public opinion doesn't matter to him on the net neutrality vote.
The most important thing we can do is to vote, encourage everyone to vote, and not to blame everyone on the other side of the aisle, and engage in the political system as much as possible and hold them accountable.