Letter: Parties Are All About The Money

National politics is all about money, and where the wealth will be distributed. It is not about guns, gays, and God. I’m a “peopleist” not a corporatist. Democrats are just the other wing of a one-party system — that’s the “corporate party” — and it doesn’t have your interests in mind. If the establishment, big donor, let’s compromise, shake-hands-across-the-aisle candidate Carolyn Long wins the primary, we might as well keep that other corporate shill, Rep.

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