Reelecting Trump, With Dark Money and Pricey Dinners

ALMOST UNBELIEVABLY, Donald J. Trump is launching his reelection campaign, presumably assuming that he will complete his first term, which considering the prodigious litany of corruption emergent within his administration during its first five months, he indeed might not. The kickoff event is an upcoming thirty five thousand dollar a plate fund raiser at the Trump hotel just down the street from the White House. One might hope that the actual dinner will include a sprig of fresh mint on the plate's periphery, a finger bowl, and perhaps cloth napkins monogrammed "DT". Maybe even silverware wrapped in pretty paper with a ribbon wrapped around it. Certainly one could expect nothing less. Is this crazy corrupt, or what? the purchasing of the presidency. the conflicts of interest. the list seems endless. Add a few more lawsuits to the more than four thousand in which the chief executive is presently embroiled. Wasn't it the Donald himself who, upon commencing his latest political campaign, declared his intention of financing the entire process with personal funds? Thanks to "citizens United", the supreme court decision of 2010 which opened the spigots for big, dark money, our public offices are more for sale than ever. Pensively frustrating is the thought that the solution to the ownership of our country by billionaires consists in a mere seven words: "the purchase of political advertising is prohibited." The argument would be that prohibiting paid speech does not impinge upon free speech, but only on paid speech. the next problem would be how to convince a right wing money is speech supreme court that such a law would not only save the country, but would be thoroughly constitutional. good luck with that.