Gary Hart: Billion-dollar Clinton campaign should 'frighten' Americans

[fredamae]

143. SCOTUS changed the Political game

rules for the Global Billionaires Club.
From my political vantage point:

One side Really, Really Wanted to change the game rules to allow unlimited, unidentified donations to "buy" seats....and the other didn't and they're Over-Ruled" by the 2010 SCOTUS Citizens United decision.

We understand the problem...So, What alternative do you suggest? The "poor peoples" candidates sat in Horror as all these "theatrical, Horror/Thriller themed docudramas" were being produced to scare the living Hell out of us...keep us scared...and they have No cash of their own to rebut?

I'd like to believe any "good" candidate can win on the merits of their own actions/records etc...like Sanders does in VT.

It doesn't work on a National Stage. VT is a tiny, tiny state compared to the rest of the country.
We're in an "electoral rut" in that far too many people are so Disgusted, So bored or So overwhelmed trying to survive "this"..that they actually use these awful "million dollar ad buys" as their "information dock" from which they draw their voting decisions.
At this point, I'm beginning to see how SCOTUS "kettled" both the candidates And the electorate. I don't see relief anytime soon.

Money was flowing pretty freely anyway but SCOTUS Dismantled the rest of the Dam....for wall street/kochs/big corp/adelson et al and now we're all drowning in a Flood of Cash.

We, Us, The Voters must learn to Shut Off the Loud/Screaming intrusions of these multi million dollar investments into Buying Our government.

It means it's our responsibility to see MSM for what it Mostly is: A Big 'Ol Political Infomercial...FOX is constantly "plugged" on M$NBC, Crazy guests mostly go unchallenged, Commercials last longer and longer as the Scripted Actors share Elaborated Horrors experienced from "the other side".

It is up to us to screen calls, donate Directly to favored candidates-(they're the ones who need it), hit the Mute button and so on...see it as it Is, not as "it" was or how "it" Should be and start dealing with reality.

Do your Own research, background checks on candidates. Talk to other folks. Join your local party and become a pcp. Get involved locally.

"They", as we sit here Bitching about Our candidates "taking dirty dark money" are simultaneously Buying US (our votes with nasty lying ads)..And "we" Don't See That!
WE Are Guilty of the Same Moral Crime IF We Allow "Them" to Buy Our Votes (by voting for the "Star" of their info-docudrama ads) and as we are distracted by our own criticisms of Them...and all their Money we say we Loath- Their Money Is buying us Every time we Vote for the "Stars of the Political Runway aka:"old guard" that brought us this misery in the first place.
Vicious circle.
What are We going to do about it? Shake things up, collectively? Or just keep bitching as we go along with the status quo..............again?

We need more than just having the "problem" pointed out and discussed ad nauseam..over and over again. Nothing will change without also talking about and doing something about the solutions and What part We, the electorate can play in making it come to fruition.....
All, imvho...of course.