The loss of faith in our democracy and congress is due to the justified belief that our elected leaders are owned by special interests.  It's not because most of those people are bad, but because the current campaign finance system forces them to play that game or their piece will be removed from the board.

The problem with removing the entrenched special interests is that they control the very process that would be used to remove them.

Our only power resides in the ballot box.  Early voting starts in 8 days.  A week from Monday.