Politico Magazine interviews the speech regulator – Al Gore.   He even inserted the Koch brothers as a boogeyman.  Gore is a multi-millionaire pointing fingers at “Big Money” yet he plans to spend $300 million in issue advocacy on climate change.  

PM: Define the political tipping point. Is that a moment in American politics?

AG: Every issue is paralyzed now because our democracy has been hacked and we’re suffering from what some have called demosclerosis.Big money is now at toxic levels.

…PM: Sen. John McCain supported cap and trade but backed away from it when President Obama was elected. He had his primary that he was thinking about in 2010.

AG: Hello! The Koch brothers and the others who operate the way they do have worked overtime to put fear in the hearts of Republicans that if they as much as breathe a favorable breath about solving the climate crisis they’re going to get a well-financed primary opponent. And so they’re all running scared. And this is part of the hacking of American democracy. Money. Big money has paralyzed American democracy to a shocking extent. Now it can change. And it will change.