Bottom line -- it seems to me that these people care too much about money, because money is so important to getting elected and re-elected. I once ran for the local school board as a protest candidate and to the surprise a lot of people, I beat two incumbents. Once I was in office I found that it was often difficult to persuade the other board members to do what they knew was right, because the others were worried about making waves and offending special interests. I think that our best hope would be a third political party with a platform that is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and willing to go to war with the special interests that suck trillions of dollars out of our economy. It would take some money and some dedicated people to get this going, and this is an idea that people have pursued without success, but it seems to me to be our best hope.