Lauren, thanks for sharing your perspective on Medium.

My primary source informs me that the love of money is the root of evil.

Your analysis confirms this.

I wonder, what would it take? to propel some other factor--say Justice--into the highest priority for elected officials.

Or Equality. Could the ideal of Equality, elevated as the highest principle, motivate a people toward proper governance?

Could such a thing ever really happen?

Would a socialist system serve us any better?

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic sought to replace the old-world, privileged aristocracy/plutocracy . . . with a noble idea.

How did that work out?

And now that trump is striving to destroy democracy and replace it with his neo-Mussolinian fascism, what can citizens with nobler intentions do to divert the course of history away from the almighty fucking dollar, and toward . . .? You tell me.