Dick, yes, labor unions and liberal-leaning groups or people like George Soros (if he wanted to) can also buy campaign ads and radio stations. But the unions and anyone but the very rich can't compete with the deep pockets of multinational mega-corporations, and there are far more multi-millionaires and billionaires who want to promote and maintain plutocracy than there are who really have the interests of the common people at heart and who want to reduce the power of what FDR called the "economic royalists."

We do need to get the $ out of politics. That's something Russ Feingold fought hard and long for, with some success. So the big-business interests targeted him and took him out.