Billy wrote:

Paraphrasing Jim Hightower, "If God wanted us to vote, she would have
given us candidates.", CANDIDATES, not PACs and corporate bribes. As
long as the corporations control the campaign money and the media in
the US, there will be no elections based on merit.

A common misunderstanding, also known by the name of "special interests," or
"lobbyists."

"Special interests" act as a separation of power force against the ignorant,
unwashed masses. On the one side you have the "people" with a mob mentality.
They are, collectively, as dumb as a crate of anvils, but they can vote. On
the other side, you have the PACs, corporations, special interests, and
various influence peddlers. They can't vote, but do have money.

It averages out, unless one side or the other obtains an unfair advantage,
such as having dead people vote in Chicago or limiting the power of the
elite such as with McCain-Feingold.