I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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