I wrote in the last post I'm an independent simply because I don't want nagging for donations, and that's probably a bigger fuck up on my part. The Sanders campaign touted "$27," his average donation amount, meaning ordinary people funded him instead of the rich. That's nice and all, but besides Sanders who else can claim that?

We all agree money is a problem in politics, but what have we done to remedy that? Again, it's great that people are contributing to the Sanders campaign, but the president isn't in charge of the money. Isn't in charge of making the laws. Isn't the one being lobbied. It's congress. How many of us contribute money to our congressman or senators? I've given $0 to Rangel, Schumer, or Gillibrand, and I can guarantee most of us claim the same. So without any cash from the citizens, legislators turn to big donors and then they have greater sway in the Capitol Building. I did some poking around, and it turns out on average for senators about 14% of their campaign funds come from the small donations, congressmen about 10%. So really, how can we whine about money and politics when none of us are trying to solve it?