If you look at the last Presidential campaign, and know where the money was, and how they fought the campaign, then you would know what sort of mentality that the disparity would bring to this nation. Democracy has a point. A handful of few stick on issues that are only entirely to their interest groups. This democracy, however, also is affected by the disparity to the point that it only say "we are doing for business". The word public good or for the public just does not have any sort of significance any more.
So what were the rich talking about in the last campaign? It hardly impressed me in their effort to press upon their points, except that the candidates were so eager to collect money from their contributors. Attending the parties paid by the rich donors and spending the party caucus in a yacht off the coast while broadcasting traveling ads to Israel did not appear to be that they were thinking about us.
Meanwhile, what was revealingly clear was the debate between Al Gore against then the candidate G. W. Bush in the 2000 Presidential campaign. He said that the tax surplus will be back in the hands of us the taxpayers. The rest, I believe he was on the defense. That, however, was something more telling than anything about his leadership. He knew what the people want and what the people want the most. His triumph in his announcement when he said that the money should belong to you, is what democracy is.
The democracy, however, ended up in some tragic way. It turned out, that people wanted wars. It was not proclaimed as a revenge but apparently has that element. The US forces and allies' occupied Iraq and then the nation became not a democratic nation as supposed to but a chaotic despot where endless civil strife killed over a million. The war was on a credit card, paid by borrowed money. This is what this democracy is. And the borrowed money has side effects.
At the United Nations Security Council, nations now take up the issue of North Korea.
Do nothing bureaucracy around the world has let the Stalinist nation hang on the absolute authoritarian communist regime which lives on exports of weapons and counterfeit money. It successfully launched a rocket that easily can be converted into an ICBM.
Now North Korea (+ China) tested a nuclear weapon underground, and openly claimed that it targets the US.