Nobody needs a bullhorn....

The powerful concept of "one person, one vote" is being shredded by our increasingly money-fueled, partisan campaign antics and attack ads that smother debate and intensify ideological standoffs. Politics in a democracy is not supposed to be an endless round of ear-splitting, doctrinaire screams, and it's not supposed to be only about the money.

Kevin Baker said it this way in The New York Times recently:

"Participating in a democracy means more than simply insisting, over and over again, in as loud and arrogant a voice as possible, in as many venues as your money will allow, what it is that you want. It means listening... convincing... compromising — all those skills that political parties and their leaders used to be fairly good at, and that political campaigns taught them to be good at...that doesn't much matter to candidates who owe their first loyalty to one or two wealthy sponsors."