Reply #61: You know if it is that high, then there might be a silver lining to this.. [View All]

[cascadiance]

Then it might be easier to get more of a universal and non-partisan opinion in the U.S. voting electorate that the system is broken and needs major fixing to prevent what is now legitimized bribery in the way our campaign financing laws work now.

If people on both sides of the aisle see that this is a universal problem that is systemic and corrupts people in both parties that might not otherwise be corrupted if the system were fixed, that will lead to a huge grassroots movement to change the system and not just apply bandaid solutions (like the watered-down Feingold/McCain campaign financing "reform" was).

If the Dems then take the leadership and try to clean up both sides and come up with substantive ways to fix the system itself, they WILL be the majority party again. No doubt in my mind! I really believe that is ultimately what the American public wants done