I don't quite buy the easy rhetoric of pox-on-both-their-houses, they-are-equally-vile party equivalency. Democratic pols at least occasionally consider the interests of those of us in the bottom 90 percent of the income distribution. And I believe their attitudes toward us are, on average, less contemptuous than the average Republican's.
Still, I understand the cynicism. Politicians of all stripes are far too beholden to their contributors--too consumed by the need to "dance with the ones that brung them," as the late, great Molly Ivins used to quip--and too willing to profit from their government connections once they leave public life. The only way out, in my view, is the enactment, at long last, of honest, thoroughgoing campaign-finance reform. But until that day comes, here are two articles that remind us why such reforms are so urgent--and why the accompanying cynicism is not so unreasonable.
Candidates For Sale - Rolling Stone
Where Obamaism Seems to be Going - The Progressive
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