Originally Posted by
ManRam
I guess Sluggo prefers political systems where the rich and powerful can buy off politicians over healthy Democracies where everyone's say is truly equal. Why worry at all about who is paying the President?! Jeez.
If there exists a video of any politician arguing anything that you'd figure every average person in this country would nod their heads to, it's videos like that. I guess not. So thank you, Republicans of PSD, for always standing up and fighting for the mega rich! You're always willing to do their bidding -- defending corporate welfare, defending corruption, defending deregulation, etc. -- despite how counterproductive and antithetical to a healthy Democracy it always is.
There's only one sect of politicians pushing for true and necessary campaign reform, and it's coming from the left. If you want to stamp out corruption, make fairer elections, make our Democracy more representative, and so on, well, there's only one option. No one is more interested in defending and strengthening our Democracy than them. It's not even up for debate. A lot of Dems will pay lip service to a lot of issues relating to corruption, campaign finance reform, voter rights, etc., but few of them have ever been as comfortable with making it a significant part of their platform. The new wave progressives get it.