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The Money Primary

Running for America’s highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush.

In this exclusive election, Jeb is way out front of the GOP pack with a record haul of $100 million, while Hillary has bagged $45 million to lead among the Dems.

Hold on. Here come the Koch brothers from out of nowhere, overwhelming all the other campaigns with nearly a billion dollars for their secretive effort to put the presidency under their private control.

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s corporate-friendly Citizens United ruling, running for America’s highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. Candidates shamelessly grub for cash, molding their policy proposals to fit the narrow interests of plutocratic elites.

The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.

By using money to shove the vast majority of people out of the democratic process, they’re mocking America’s essential egalitarian ideal that we’re all in this together, destroying their own moral legitimacy, and fueling an explosive fury among alienated voters.

Some 84 percent of Americans tell pollsters that money has too much influence in elections, resulting in policies that favor the donors. The majority also rejects the Supreme Court’s coddling of fat cat donors, with three-fourths of the people wanting limits on how much any donor can give and demanding that “dark money” front groups reveal the sources of their money.

Of course, the aloof political-money class won’t stop their own corruption, but We the People can. And we must. To help, go to www.DemocracyIsForPeople.org.

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