From reading many of your posts last week, I mulled over previous notions about campaign finance reform, clean elections, and other notions that seemingly advocate for a political system with less focus on money and more focus on the masses.
Reform is a political beast. Honestly, reform of financing in our system seems so overwhelming in terms of what can actually change. The McCain-Feingold reform was a rollercoaster with lots of hype, but in the end it was just a bunch of loopholes. This is frustrating to those who value the ideals of democracy.
There are advocacy groups, one here on campus in fact, that work toward cleaner elections. Group's website. Their ideas are working toward a more ideal democracy; potentially a more democratic democracy, but how do I know it will matter? Activity toward reform still seems so overbearing it's hard to latch onto on more than a conceptual basis.
Reform is a political beast, but just not a sexy beast.
This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 421: Party Politics in America at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
