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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I donated a metric amount of dollars over years to campaigns of one of my former classmates who is now a (D) senator and I was so proud of them when they were elected.

For several years I've now been sincerely buying into the idea that they are just holding on to office knowing they can't change a thing just to keep that donation money flowing in.

Didn't realize I was just such a small fry until I got an invitation to attend their inauguration ceremony and took it seriously with the RSVP included and everything.

I RSVP'd and got all excited I'd finally see Washington DC and my daughter would get to meet a US senator, and then I got a call from an apologetic assistant that it was not actually a "real invitation" it was just a "courtesy" for donors like me. And that we were not actually expected to respond affirmatively.

And that no one would get "face time" with "the senator" but that they could hook me up with hotels where they would have live feeds of the swearing in ceremony.

That's when I got the first inkling that I was only as important as my (small - $2700) check. [/quote]

This is why we need serious campaign finance reform, and to undo Citizens United.
Until that happens, any hope of genuinely changing anything else in politics is completely impossible.

I think we need a political questionnaire army with THAT as the one and only litmus test issue - come up with a proposal to limit campaign contributions to limit it to INDIVIDUALS ONLY (whether donors or recipients) and that it be capped at something the everyday American could afford, like $50 per candidate per cycle with strict penalties (like felony and ban from any political activities) for even a penny spent on politics beyond that.  And out of that questionnaire, publish the results on a website, and anyone who said no or refused to respond should be boycotted completely.

And then track it - if those who said they would agree to it don't sponsor, don't try to pass, don't vote for it, they get added to the boycott list.  Make that the one and only issue until it succeeds.  Only after that can we regain control of our politics and have a chance rather than having everything controlled by a handful of wealthy mega donors.

It would be a bitter pill to some but something that absolutely needs to happen.[/quote]

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