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In reply to the discussion: Why on Earth should we nominate a presidential candidate who voted for war with Iraq? [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)with the fundraising and putting together an election team within the next 6 months to a year. It's the nature of our hideous election system that it takes a BILLION dollars to fund a long, drawn-out fight, and it takes serious money to even start the process. It's sick, I know, but no one with the power to change this seems to want to. In fact, with Citizens United, there's an expansion of this sick funding/vetting/buyout process.
There's a certain point where the system is broken but no one in power wants to fix it, because it is generally profitable for them. We're at that point, IMHO.
One thing I can't figure out, though, is why some very wealthy liberals don't use Citizens United to fund their own liberal candidate, someone like Dr Dean. Or why they don't fund other things that might help this country, like a leftie Fox News. All I can assume is that nearly all rich people are very happy with the way things are. That makes them sociopaths, of course.