In the world of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) money is evil. People who give to candidates they like, especially people who have private sector jobs (i.e. members of a special interest) are horribly and intrinsically evil.

In order to save candidates from having to talk to people who have jobs the WDC suggests coercively taking money from citizens and giving it to all candidates equally. That is to say that every idiot who can't find a real job, and every loon who believes the moon is made of green cheese would be able to run on a "level playing field." In the Editor's opinion if you subsidize lunacy and weak candidates that is what you will get more of. How this is good for representative democracy is unclear.


What the WDC is good at is occasionally pointing out the obvious. In this case they put together a report that indicates that few people contribute to campaigns.

Shocking.