Perish the thought.

for example, invest in democratic candidates and well as republicans. It's all about $$$$$'s in a drastically skewed to the wealthy capitalistic country.

I've often said why even have elections anymore in the US. Put the candidates on the auction block and the highest bidder wins them. Thanks to Citizens United, we might as well let eBay do the presidential election.

small donors, generally expect something in return.

You have to be an idiot to think they're just being patriotic, knowing they do everything they can to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Only the Republicans are corrupted by big corporate money. Democrats would never in a million years be corrupt on this issue.

Are they buying influence?

We're supposed to have influence. We hold elections for candidates to represent our interests and promote the general welfare.

align more closely with yours? Wow.

You're quite convincing.

Keep 'em coming.

I certainly hope Bernie will be influenced by the millions of us giving small donations. Laws of for and by the people.

Do you get it now?

and the big donors must know that.

They might get their ideas heard. I don't know why that's harmful. If they really went against the good of the people overall, the President would not want to go along with it either. How would a POTUS get re-elected if they really allowed the banksters to take over or whatever it is they are accused of.

Also a lot of times there are no big donors, just the employees of a big company adding up.

Democrats like Obama and Hillary have also listened to ordinary people. How many campaign stops have we seen? Even after Obama was President he did that.

Overall GDP has boiled away all of the subtleties of life to make it this simple quid pro quo thing that every politician must certainly be corrupt. This is only telling me what the accusers think they would do if they had the money.

They make the laws - isn't that the point.

Is she going to include them alongside Kissinger as her 'progressive' influences?