re: #29 freetoken

The idea of “one man one vote” sounds good on paper, but society has always had a pecking order (we are primates, after all) and, put simply, some people get their way more than others.

Which is why I applaud the effort of the Dkos diary but they’re only beginning to to ask the right questions. The focus on something like Citizen’s is still a vestige of the noise machine. Removing the money from politics is probably not practical and I think they’d be disappointed that the end result would probably not be a progressive utopia. However, they’d be much more likely to succeed in their goal by thinking about solutions rather than just pointing fingers at Republicans. For example, they’d be much more likely to succeed in pressuring Obama for appointing donors and blunderers than stopping the next Republican president for doing the same thing.