To a large extent, I think that it’s that each side assumes its president is doing it for the right motives. So if Obama pushes a $1 trillion spending bill, he must be doing it out of Blue motives. But if Trump does the exact same thing, he must be doing it for Red reasons. Etc.etc.
“Same - same.” Got it.
“Same - same.” Got it.
It’s taking longer than we thought indeed.
You proved my point.
Getting big money out of politics is good, but if you replace it with small donors that could create its own issues.
Concepts like matching small donations, democracy vouchers, etc. combined with bans on spending large sums of money would in theory push some of the large spenders out of the ability to influence.
But it could also create incentives for politicians to do brazen things for publicity and be very ideological to shore up small donations. Nobody wants to spend their small donations on the local state senate race, but the federal politician who yells populist slogans will be drowned in small donations.