Why is pay for play a scandal? 100 % do it.

[procon]

8. This IS the system we have!

We've sat back and watched it metastasize for decades, and done damned little to curb the influence of money on our doomed little adventure in democracy. No one should be trying to climb up on that snooty high horse and pretend that it's anything different than what is is today, and tomorrow, and most likely for years to come.

The paltry efforts at reforms we've seen in the past have been eroded away by big money interests who paid off politicians to do their bidding, grease the skids, and make life ever so much more fun for the rich and famous. By and large, the voters don't care because they stupidly keep reelecting the same politicians who freely tell them that they intend to make life at the bottom even worse.

Suddenly, this year, there's an awaking and some people have had an eye opening moment of epiphany. Hurrah! Change the system, if you can. Clean out the corruption at every level of government, if you can. Get better politicians effected to pass the strong laws necessary to make a democratic system work fairly and equitably for everyone, if you can.

You'll need to organize a national grassroots effort, and that takes time and money before there is sufficient mass to institute any meaningful change in the calcified government culture we have now. Good luck with that.