[consteval]

While money is just one form of influence, it’s the most flexible. Those other forms of influence can be bought, just as everything can be bought.

We may instate rules to prevent such buying. No problem, undo the rules because undoing rules can be bought because everything can be bought.

Look at something like Citizens United. Does anyone want that outcome? Not really. A few, very rich, people want that outcome. And so it is made. How we got there is unclear. What is clear, in my mind, is that the benefactors made it happen.