I thought maybe I could get most everyone here upset with me

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53. Your suggestion to eliminate contributions from rich contributors because enforcing regulations is

too difficult penalizes honest contributors because they will be eliminated while dishonest people like the Koch brothers and Wilbur Ross will simply find new avenues of subterfuge.

While there is a basis for regulating and making contributions more transparent there is no constitutionally acceptable way of eliminating it as you wish so its really a waste of time to discuss it.

The larger issue which you missed entirely is that accumulating wealth so that you can become part of the progressive and even revolutionary political/philosophical life of the country wasn't something that some people were involved in but was a core part of our history. I am sure that there were many other ways that Gen Washington or President Jefferson could have done but they chose to use their wealth for revolutionary actions.

You want to abandon a key core American value because regulation and transparency is too difficult, the Constitution protects against such an attempt but if it were put into effect the wealthy benefactors of the reactionary right wing would subvert it in a New York minute while law abiding progressives would follow the law. It would in effect be a one sided disarmament that would adversely affect the Progressive movement.