Laurel Libby was on Dec. 14’s front page (“Maine sued over new voter-approved campaign finance limits“) for supporting a move to overturn a law backed by a strong majority of Maine’s voters (some 600,000) to outlaw contributions of more than $5,000 to political causes.

Clearly, this shows a valuation of money’s terrible dominance in politics. While most of us have long believed that money is the root of all evil, that thought has disappeared from all too many. This is terribly dangerous to democracy, which is under severe threat in the U.S.

There never was a time when the world’s wealthiest leaders and the peasants got together to form a democracy. Sadly, that has most often required a revolution, and most fail.

Syria is trying to achieve a democratic resolve after a surprisingly successful overturning of the Assad dictatorship. Let us all hope for them.

The U.S. is under more danger than most Americans believe, because that is an outcome our country has long averted. This is the most hazardous situation that I have ever seen our country reach.

Too much money in politics, and too much desire by an incoming president to change our governmental function to increase the role of wealth in our country, and to decrease the number of people who share that wealth. After all, do we really need Social Security? Like medical care and so much else, that too is under threat.

Let’s all work together to work to reduce inequality and preserve the rights of all who don’t happen to be enormously wealthy.

Jim Wellehan, Auburn