Campaign Finance Isn’t Bad Today. It’s Much, Much Worse.

But in any event, the campaign finance system is now completely in control of the super-wealthy on both the left and the right. Members of Congress certainly don’t control their own fates. They spend the vast majority of their time raising money to try to protect themselves from vicious ads, but the money they raise is a drop in the bucket compared to the money spent by various billionaires who have money to burn and seem more than willing burning to pay for political advertisements.

Campaign Finance Isn’t Bad Today. It’s Much, Much Worse. - Washington Wire - WSJ