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Former Vice President Al Gore says democracy has been overtaken by corporate special interests, and its up to web-based activists to take it back.
We as U.S. citizens need to pay careful attention to the fact that our democracy has been hacked, Gore told Motherboard. Big money has perverted our democracy, hacked it, taken it over and twisted it to serve the purposes of special interests.
Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush as the result of a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling, said Americans must recognize that new reality and then accept the challenge of fixing it.
We need an Occupy Democracy, if you will, Gore said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/30/al-gore-our-democracy-has-been-hacked-and-survival-of-civilization-at-risk/