Reply #21: The fellah contributed generously to the Democratic Party.

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From firedoglake, via Babylonsister: Madoff was a huge Dem donor

Which goes to show that there's corruption on both sides of the aisle. RFK Jr. estimated 95-percent of GOPers are corrupt and about 75-percent of DEMs because the money needed to get and hold office is so great. The source for funding is the same for both -- wealthy folk and big corporations.

It's almost easier to understand when one considers the amounts of money are so huge and the power of access is so great.
Machiavelli: Use money to obtain power. Use power to obtain money. Repeat ad infinitum until the Prince holds all of both and We the People have zilch.

Going by the trend line, we're heading to become a Haiti with 300 million poor people and about 3 million rich people. That may explain why the powers-that-be seem to always support the dictator over the common people in country after country, from Guatemala to Iran to Greece to Nicaragua to El Salvador to even commie China and a lot of other nations.