Caring about citizens is a litmus test for whether someone is an ignorant liberal or not

Liberals think if it weren’t for that, “there wouldn’t be money in politics.” In the real world, capitalism affords inordinate political and economic authority to the capitalist class, and this is true even if you have really strict rules on direct donations or funding campaigns or whatever.

Liberals have this fucking fantasy in their heads of a pre or post Citizens United world where the rich don’t influence politics, but that’s what it is, a fucking fantasy. Capitalism is inherently incompatible with actual democracy because the ownership of capital itself is what affords the capitalists political influence. Biggest employer in a town? You have inherent influence. Own the newspaper, TV or radio stations? You have inherent influence.