Letter: American people impatient with political money, two-party system
The popularity of Sanders and Trump are due to the impatience of the American people with the corrupting influence of money in politics and the stagnant two-party system.
As for Hillary, can we really expect her to support campaign finance reform, or the middle class? One of the things she’s most proud of is her work on Dodd-Frank. This 2,300-page replacement for the 1933 Glass-Steagal act (47 pages) was weak to begin with, and has been further changed (and weakened) since passage ... with hardly a complaint from her.
Her five largest contributors include Citigroup, Goldman-Sachs, DLA Piper, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley. Why so much from the banks, and high finance? There are only three possible answers. She already will do as they wish (and has a proven record of doing so), so that she will do as they wish, or they simply think she’s the best candidate.
Which then raises the question, why do they also make campaign contributions to her opponents? Will she protect us from Wall Street?
I suspect she already is a pawn of Wall Street, and the millions given by campaign contributions and Super PACs.
D. L. (Andy) Anderson, Richland
This story was originally published February 8, 2016 at 5:25 PM with the headline "Letter: American people impatient with political money, two-party system."