Politics is about deciding who gets to exercise power and what they get to do with it. Politics detached from power is just pointless squabbling.

All reactions are taking this comment seriously, but I think it can be also read as "money equals power" (which I strongly believe - there's some power without money and sometimes money without power, but mostly those two are fungible) - and then pointing to the futility of getting money out of politics, since politics is about power.

But really what people mean is "prevent paid political advertisement of all kinds", which seems about as hard as "get rid of all kinds of advertisement" - at some point, you're back to power, communication, attention.

Hard problems. Probably there's a reason all ancient democracies did not survive.

I wish we had direct voting on important decisions

Power exists whether you like it or not and when power gets away from decisionmaking you just generate a power vacuum.

Power needs to be placed in the hands of better decision-makers. That starts from getting money out of politics.

What is money if not a proxy of power? If money didn't buy power, no one would be interested in attaining billions in wealth.

Once you figure that out, get to work on the flying pig.