Could you be more specific with this charge you are making?
Otherwise, this is just artful but meaningless hyperbole.
I'll pretend we haven't discussed this 100 times before.
For every politician we complain about being bought and paid for, there is someone doing the buying. For every politician we complain about being influenced, there is someone doing the influencing.
Rush likes to call them the 'donor class' and makes them synonymous with the establishment.
For all the complaining about this on our side, look who is leading on our side, the one who has been one of the poster child for the donor class of political influencers, to the point he even brags about it.
Unlike, for example, the Koch Brothers who are big members of the political class yet through their PACs primarily support Conservative and Libertarian causes, our leading candidate has been playing this game for decades not to enhance conservatism and free markets, but to undermine them for his own gain. He pays off politicians and uses influence to take private property, he uses it to have businesses condemned when he needs their land, he uses it to block competing businesses out of the market so he has a monopoly, he uses it to 'grease the wheels' and get taxpayer funded grants under the guise of tax credits to build more of his empire. It is a textbook definition of Corporatism or Cronyism and is right in line with what Harry Reid's family has done in Nevada for decades that we condemn as corruption at the highest level.
Yet, because a certain candidate this year is saying things we want to hear, all that doesn't matter. He is being dismissed as 'just doing as what needs to be done as a developer' or many other dismissals.
If the latter is the case, don't dismiss him in one breath then complain about politicians being bought and paid for in the next breath.
