content: Money in politics is a function of an electoral system which puts one person in power over a few million. There is no way this system can operate without enormous amounts of resources being spent on advertising. Representative democracies (at least the monopolistic ones, which is all of them) will always be corrupt and no solution has been discovered to date for avoiding this. We don't need to "get money out of politics," we need to ditch democracy and adopt a system which actually punishes corruption. As for citizen's united... do you even know what the ruling is? It's a free speech issue as much as anything else.