For almost 50 years after the Watergate scandal, the mainstream media and liberal advocacy groups railed self-righteously against the corruption of American politics by campaign contributors.

Suddenly, they stopped. Was it because money suddenly lost its supposed magical powers to undermine democracy?

No. What changed is that, as this chart shows, Democrats now utterly dominate the raising and spending of election-related money, inside and outside campaigns.

We’re happy to see campaign finance reform fanatics cool their enthusiasm for limiting free speech but they aren’t intellectually honest enough to admit they now LOVE seeing “big money” money spent on politics for two reasons. First, so many Democrats live in the swamp and make their Rolex-watch-living off of politics. Second, for many in the anti-free speech echo-chamber, those dollars now end up in their pockets.