I support Sanders for a number of reasons, foremost among them is that he refuses the very money you want to get out of politics. If Hillary was worth her rhetoric, she would refuse corporate money for the primary, Bernie is, and it would be a fair fight. She doesn't need it for the primary, yet uses it anyway, because that's who she is and who she represents.
The DLC/Third Way was actually started by representatives of large corporate interest, not by Dems frustrated that they were losing. There have been a ton of great OP's on this site about it, some of them by MadFloridian or whatever her user name is. It was their way to move the whole spectrum and frame of debate away from populist interests. You seem pretty uninformed, frankly.
How are you working to change campaign finance laws? I like groups like RootStrikers, they are serious about it.
I also like, and have myself advocated for, the idea of setting up a mechanism for swapping public money for corporate money, allowing honest candidates to get their money the right way without unilaterally disarming. Sanders has co-sponsored legislation to do just that. So on that, you and I agree.
Another way to be comng up with a mechanism for stamping a candidate with some widely recognized certification, not black and white but showing degrees of corporate sponsorship, with the ability to drill down into it by donor/relevant issue, and make it socially uncool to vote for anyone accepting such money. It could effectively neutrailze campaign ad buys, since the ad buys would just feed into the negative certification and people would turn off to the candidate.
None of this would do a damn thing to get Wall St. out of Hillary's pockets. The best way to do that is to support Sanders. Rewriting the laws will take a long butter struggle if we ever are able to do it. So will the other things. Start now, with a candidate who actually lives what you say you want.
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