This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
And let's bear in mind that, overwhelmingly, those donors do not live in the constituencies of the people they're donating to.
Our representation is being sold to the highest bidder and then that rep/senator will come home during election time and blarney you about everything they've done for you.
Robert Reich
Hawkmoon