Songwriter Randy Newman said it best "It's the Money that Matters"--as AP and the other news agencies fawn over Mitt and Hillary's ability to load up at the campaign money trough, the message seems to be, "unless you can get the Fat Cats to support you, go home!"It is a sickness. It says to regular people "you can't play this game, what you think doesn't matter". We need publicly-funded elections. It is the only way democracy can thrive in a climate of where throwing money around is an industry that produces people who are in the grips of very few people.
The problem is, how do you get the rules to change when the rule makers have no reason to change them?
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