> So money, and lobbyists, are just proxies for large blocks of votes. No, it's not. I only have one vote, and a few bucks to donate. Ritchey Rich Jr., over

> So money, and lobbyists, are just proxies for large blocks of votes. No, it's not. I only have one vote, and a few bucks to donate. Ritchey Rich Jr., over there, has only one vote, and $100 million to donate. He trumps me by many orders of magnitude. And his money is a proxy only for his own self-interest. That is the real problem nowadays.