Ruled by money
Your editorial When Money Runs Politics (Dec. 8) gets the disastrous outcome for democracy right: When 50 individuals contribute 15 per cent of the political donations, it’s clear that the donor class is the ruling class.
Lest readers lament that the prototypical, representative republic-of-the-people-by-the-people has been hijacked recently by the donor class, they should pay close attention to the country’s history.
In America, rule by money is history developing as planned.