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Every federal government candidate has rich sponsor(s) because our political system is a massive cash laundering machine, as it has been since "we" (not the voters) decided that corporations are people and money is free speech.
They will always win, because they have much more money than the voters themselves. These multi-generational constructs control our rotting political system.
There is no legal solution, unfortunately. Our "representatives" aren't going to wake up tomorrow and say "you know what? I have so much money that I actually feel guilty. Let's throw a bone to the proles ( i.e. raise minimum wage, universal healthcare, term limits).
With our legal bribery system, there's no longer any need for backroom cash deals, it's very efficient. Their only limit is their discretion, for appearances sake.
If someone gets busted for bribery or similar, that only means that they have displeased someone else with a bigger pile of money. That's it. So we get the appearance of the rule of law without any actual rule of law.
At this point, the only thing that will drag down this decrepit empire is the inevitable economic collapse that is our heritage. The unbridled greed becomes unsustainable.
But please vote, I did! Every good comedy routine needs a "straight man", the "foil", and that is our role as voters. Just be in on the joke.