Answer: Its cost. Democracy's marriage to unfettered capitalism is the most serious
Step-by-step explanation:
Democracy marriage to unfettered capitalism is the most serious when checks and balances are not in place to prevent the democratically elected officials from being bought by the large corporates and super wealthy. While in theory, many small donations from all of us should trump one or few large donations, in practice this is not so.
I read the other day that a US senator needs to bring in nearly $15000 a day to keep their seat. Why is this? These costs need to be looked at and the playing fields leveled or paid for by the state, so that politicians having policies with the people's interests at heart (but not profitable policies for corporates) do not have to rely on donations to stay in politics. All donations above a certain amount should be banned, with a cap per year.
All donations should be made to a central donation organization to establish full disclosure, and to prevent the wealthy from making many consecutive donations.
If politicians have to rely on donations from the people, their policies will be for the people