I’ll meet conservatives halfway on money in politics.
by J.A. Myerson
I can imagine good results coming from electoral campaigns voluntarily funded by private donations, as long as everyone had about the same amount of money. So if the important thing to conservatives is that electoral campaigns be voluntarily funded by private donations, then I am willing to meet them half way, so long as they accept my demand that we make everyone have about the same amount of money.
Those are the two philosophies in competition here, and it would be really good for everyone to figure out which side they are on. As we see demonstrated before us, it is unworkable to have both expansive economic freedom *and* privately funded political campaigns. The result is necessarily the rapid acceleration of a) extreme amounts of wealth in the hands of minute few and b) very meager means on a widespread basis.
The movement for publicly funded elections really had better get its ass in gear, because I somehow don’t see conservatives relenting on the economic equality question.
J.A. Myerson 
Exactly. I always tell them that their precious “free market” capitalism gets hurt with money in politics. Corporate monopolies are created by favoritism in the legislative, executive, and even judicial (where we see elections for judges) branches of government, which injures ingenuity. Publicly funded elections are the only way to go and would have the awesome side effect of shortening our ridiculously long campaign seasons to something that people can actually follow, or maybe even care about.