Money Corrupts The Process Of Reasoning.

One Great Feature Of Modern Society Is The Institutionalized Respect We Give To Processes Designed To Destroy The Past.

Legislation Needs A Better Reason Than That Lawyers Like It, And That America Does It.

When You Think About A Presidential Candidate Spending All Of His Or Her Time Talking To That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of Us Who Have The Capacity To Fund Political Elections, It's Obvious Why The Perspective Of Government Is Skewed Relative To What Most Americans Care About.

The Electoral College Is A Project That Calls On Their Judgment. If We Don't Like It, We Can Talk About How To Eliminate It. I'm Not Quite Convinced We Should Eliminate It Completely. I Think It's Important To Have A Final Check Be Somebody Other Than The Supreme Court. But Given That It's There, We Should Take It Seriously. And Taking It Seriously Says They Should Exercise Their Judgment According To The Moral Values, The Principles That Are Part Of Our Constitutional Tradition Today. And Those Principles Say Equality.

The More Important Point, However, Is Not About What The Money Does. It's About What Has To Be Done To Get The Money. The Effect Of The Money Might Be (democratically) Benign. But What Is Done To Secure That Money Is Not Necessarily Benign. To Miss This Point Is To Betray The Robin Hood Fallacy: The Fact That The Loot Was Distributed Justly Doesn't Excuse The Means Taken To Secure It.