Reply #30: The problem, of course, [View All]

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is that the very same people that are needed to put limits on out-of-control corporate financing are the very same people who are benefiting from that same system.

And I'm going to take this a step further. The people in the highest echelons within the Democratic Party are at least equally tainted by corporate monies and it's those same people who control who's candidacy they will/will not support. I truly cannot see the DCCC, DNC, DSCC and/or the DLC supporting a candidate that will turn off the the money spigot.

We basically have two choices: 1) work from the grassroots level to defeat corporate-sponsored candidates and, in many cases, that will mean working against the Party Favorite, or 2) amassing a viable third party. OK, I know we can't advocate for the 2nd choice on DU, but we can certainly discuss the first. THAT is the direction I think DU should be going. (That advice, of course, is worth exactly what you paid for it.) :-)