Reply #25: It's the golden rule you are left with: He who has the gold, makes the rules.

[Selatius]

There's a trade off to everything. If Americans don't want a publicly financed election system, then they will be stuck with the current system, and there are consequences to that. Conversely, if they want such a system, they're going to have to put forth the effort to fight for candidates who favor reform, but it's not easy. Nothing so good ever came so easily. Currently, I am skeptical that the crop of leaders on the Hill have the vision to push forward such a fundamental reform, a necessary reform, and we haven't yet addressed the issue of the gigantic roadblock to such reforms currently sitting in the White House.