Trump to become first president to speak at anti-LGBT hate group's summit

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(10-13-2017, 01:49 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yuuuup. Party "principles" are all well and good until someone who stands for everything they're supposed to oppose offers them large sums of money and/or support for reelection. Doesn't matter which party.

Politics here are desperately in need of removal of money being such a factor, but the problem is the people who could make that happen are the people who are profiting so greatly by how things are now.

That sounds about right. 
It just seems even you sometimes fall into the partisan trap of claiming or proving one side is worse or more hypocritical, which might very well be the case (I feel the same sometimes, only more often in the opposite direction), but in this case.... I give "the right" the courtesy of not associating them with your current abomination of a president (forgive my honesty), but I feel you should also give "the left" the courtesy of not associating them with Obama donors.

And in the end, I don't even know if I can blame Obama (or any republican) for that. The candidates can be principled and say "no" to certain donors, all fine and respectable, but they will never get any votes then for the public wouldn't even know their name. When your ambition is to become a political figure and change things, and these intentions might be oh so noble, you have no choice but to play along, or you do not stand a chance. This is one of the most inexplicable things about US politics for an outsider. From the staunchest conservative to the most fiery leftist hothead, all of these people, the whole spectrum, should agree with what you said here and so lay the spark for a change. Yet partisan issues always seem to take precedence in the end and nothing changes. It's a political demand that has to come from the people, I agree with that; the politicians themselves won't and even if the wanted, probably couldn't change it without great public awareness of that.