I'm Douglas Waggener

Another month until the elections. All the money. All the negativity. I don't see it changing via the legislature. From all that I have read, it appears to me that a representative form of government, such as our republic, was conceived to better the more direct form of democracy, which had the potential of mob rule due to ignorance of the masses.We could end up smack dab in the middle of a monarchy, where ignorance of the masses lives happily ever after. I think the only way to end the campaign financing situation we are now in is by ballot iniative or ballot referendeum. There is too much potential for reform to be defeated by a few well connected or well financed parties. I can't see the legislature even remotely addressing the issue.