Campaign finance reform will make it difficult for non-incumbents to raise money. Thus, the foundations and the elite will continue to have men and women in office they can control. People who have shown they will go along to get along. As long as the elite controls our politicians they will NOT do what is best by the Constitution or the American people. The campaign finance reform movement is nothing more than an effort to control all the variables that might create a desperately needed change to the entire political system.
Foundations play no small part in maintaining elite control of our institutions.
Before and during the war in Germany, the elite, corporations and intellectuals gave the seed money to promote the ideas at the root of National Socialism - such as eugenics, nature worship, and perfecting the race. They turned their backs on the horror as it grew because they never believed for a minute it would ever touch them. Apparently, some American foundations and philanthropists believe that the things they fund will not ever impact on them or their descendants. Either way the foundations are out of control. Our tax system is one of the major reasons for this state of affairs.