The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Is there decency left in American politics?

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow.
"What's that?" asked Lorina.
"It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

The political power of the purse string has a place in America only when there are lots of little purses, and has no place in an American society when it exist only in the hands of a super rich minority. Monopoly is anti-American and anti our original reasons for independence from Britain.

American politics is always an open competition.