The cost of this election cycle surpassed $2 billion – all to reproduce the status quo: the same president, and the same balance of power in the US Congress. Money has become a corrosive agent that is eroding and redefining the democratic process, with the mobilization of personal energies giving way to the enlargement of campaign budgets.
当然，美国民主的伟大不能掩盖其严重的缺陷和最近的乱象。此次大选周期的成本超过了20亿美元——所有这些只是为了复制现状：同样的总统、同样的国会权力平衡。金钱成了腐蚀剂，侵蚀并重写着民主进程，个人能量的动员让位给了竞选预算的扩张。