I want rich people fo own our politicians. They’re smarter than us. After all, look how well things are going?
Largely true when the universe, statistically speaking, is dems and pubbies; however, if the universe of possible leaders included conservatives/tea partiers and libertarians, then we haven’t seen that yet.
[ Enter campaign finance reform. The theory goes like this. First, rich people fund political campaigns. Generally the better funded campaign ends up winning. So money buys elections and rich people get what they want. We’re good on the first part. But the theory falls apart when it says that money always wins. It sounds right, but doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. ]
In all the recent GOP primaries their Tea party opposituion has been outspent in some cases 20 to 1 and even if the establishment candidate wins it is with less than 60% of the vote and they are still declareing it a great “victory” over the tea party, but it you figure the amount of money spent per vote the establishment is clearly losing ground to the these tea party upstarts.
There really is only one way to fix this, and that is to DRASTICALLY reduce the scope and reach of Government.