| Acknowledging the potential upside of yesterdayà ??s decision should not be seen as a celebration of the contorted monster of a campaign finance system overlaying contemporary politics in America. The United States should provide generous public funding to its parties and candidates, like virtually every other democracy in the world. Outsourcing our politics to unaccountable groups and anonymous individuals exacerbates the polarization that has come to define our government. Given the political challenges that public financing faces, though, the best we can hope for in the short term is a system that, by giving candidates and parties what they need to compete for votersà ?? attention, channels money away from the shadows and into the open. |
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