[The Urban Sombrero]

I completely agree with the Citizens United agreement. If you favor strict regulation of campaign financing, then you are saying you are okay with incumbents and celebrities enjoying a near monopoly on political power in this country. The only reason politicians favor so-called campaign finance "reform" is that it always benefits candidates with strong name recognition.

The more campaign spending is restricted, the more likely clowns like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton end up in the White House. I cannot believe how gullible people are who think that restricting the right of people to donate money to candidates of their choice is a good thing. Take the McCain-Feingold law. John McCain was near the front of the line in exploiting the law to build a massive campaign war chest.

There is one thing that you can be sure of in life - when you think that politicians are voting against their own self interests - you are mistaken. Any campaign finance law that has been signed into law in the past and any such law that may be passed in the future will make it more difficult for challengers to defeat incumbents in elections. That is the only reason that such laws ever pass.

Right now, perpetual fund raising is a place where the legislators of the two major parties meet in unity. "Pay to play" has no favorite red or blue suit. When a group of people form a corporation, and then like-interests corporations form strategic lobbying groups pumping mega green into the digestive bowels of elections at every "check and balance" level? Isn't it a tad "gullible" to believe that the best interests of individual citizens and communities are best served by giving Big Money all the real seats at the table?