re: #100 Gus 802

I doubt the founding fathers, like many other things, envisioned this.

They were mostly wealthy landowners. Ben Franklin ran a printing press, which is about as much “control of the media” as you could have back then. But I think “the richer guy wins” was pretty well established even then. The notion of the “populist outsider” politician didn’t really form until Andrew Jackson came along, and even then he had a tough time elbowing his way into being accepted by the political establishment.