{"id":7153,"date":"2014-11-19T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:55:18","slug":"who-does-the-government-work-for-the-answer-is-easy-the-people-who-bought-it-dana-milbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/who-does-the-government-work-for-the-answer-is-easy-the-people-who-bought-it-dana-milbank\/","title":{"rendered":"“Who does the government work for?” The answer is easy: The people who bought it. – Dana Milbank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Democrats need rich people, too – The Washington Post<\/a> by Dana Milbank<\/p>\n

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Yet there\u2019s a limit to how far Warren, and the Democrats, can go with their little-guy theme, for one simple reason: They can\u2019t afford it. <\/p>\n

More than ever in America, elections are purchased, not won. And that money comes from corporate and wealthy interests. Run against corporations and you lose that money \u2014 and the election. \u2026 <\/p>\n

In addition, the wealthy are finding more ways to exploit the 2010 Citizens United<\/i> ruling and other campaign-finance decisions that give super PACs and unregulated \u201cdark money\u201d even more influence \u2014 further diluting the power of low-dollar contributions. \u2026 <\/p>\n

This leaves Warren well-qualified to ask what she calls a \u201cfundamental question\u201d: \u201cWho does the government work for?\u201d <\/p>\n

The answer is easy: The people who bought it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why Democrats need rich people, too – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Democrats need rich people, too – The Washington Post by Dana Milbank Yet there\u2019s a limit to how far Warren, and the Democrats, can go with their little-guy theme, for one simple reason: They can\u2019t afford it. More than ever in America, elections are purchased, not won. And that money comes from corporate and … Continue reading “Who does the government work for?” The answer is easy: The people who bought it. – Dana Milbank<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}