Granny D. (Doris Haddock), of Dublin, N.H., said, “Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.”
She did many things. Perhaps most memorable was her 1999-2000 long walk for cleaner elections.
But the corrupting influence of big money on our national government has gotten worse. Since she left us, we've had misguided, corrosive decisions by the Supreme Court. And on one day last month, with yet another government shutdown looming, we sank even lower, with enactment of a trillion-dollar bill, much of which was written by lobbyists.
That day, our treasury was open, but democracy was closed.