“The increasing dominance of money from the super-wealthy would be less significant if their concerns and attitudes paralleled the concerns and attitudes of most other Americans with the same party affiliations. Under these circumstances, the power of the Democratic billionaires presumably would countervail the power of Republican billionaires. But in fact the rich have quite different priorities from average Americans. Dueling billionaires are no substitute for countervailing power.”
Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism