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[guillaumeb]

25. All excellent points.

Organization and mobilization are effective tools to counteract the influence of money. Unions and other forms of collective action are very effective at mobilizing. THAT is why the right hates unions and is doing all that they can to destroy unions.

Considering that union households generally vote Democratic by significant margins, the failure of Democrats generally to defend and promote unions is discouraging. Our current President has done nothing to promote unionization, utterly abandoning his campaign promises to promote things like the Employee Free Choice Act. Empty words about lacing up walking shoes and joining workers in Madison Wisconsin cannot atone for his failure to even talk about unions.

Now, when you said:
"But the perception that money is the only thing that counts is part of the problem, too. Part of what we see going on in our own party is the drumbeat that only well-ensconced beneficiaries of the wealthy in-groups are viable candidates, so we may as well roll over and turn the whole party into a slightly less offensive version of the corporate subsidiary the Republican Party has been for years."
were you speaking of any particular candidates? Because, considering his pathetic poll numbers vs the heavy money investment in him by the Koch brothers, this definitely also applies to Scott Walker.