Bernie Sanders Calls Clinton Foundation Money A "Very Serious Problem".

[RiverNoord]

122. There sure are no shortage of people

in the world who need to be right more than they feel a need to learn...

The bottom line is this - you can't have big money involved with candidates and political causes you like without big money involved with candidates and political causes you despise.

Also, people who authorize expenditures of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign expenditures on behalf of their corporations aren't doing it because they're good citizens. They damn well expect returns on their investments, both in terms of limiting which perspectives make it into public discourse (if you aren't in the big money club, the corporate media will keep you out, or distort what you say), and once the candidate gets into office. Who heads up regulatory agencies these days? People who really work for the corporations in the industries that the agencies are supposed to regulate. And the ones who donated plenty get the best shot at getting their people in.

In that sense, political candidates who take in millions of dollars in campaign financing from large banks and oil and gas companies are probably worse, in general, than the Kochs, who make no secret of their intentions.