Steve's Barking at the end of American democracy as we know it.

In the dawn of the two party system in of our great democratic republic we came upon the system were the parties had actual conventions that meant something. One didn't know who would be the parties nominee till the middle of the convention. Now the nominees were picked by uh, how shall I say it. OK they were picked by party bosses. The party bosses held power by a thing called the spoils system. Now this was  deemed corrupt and very undemocratic. A brilliant idea to make things more democratic was thought up. They called this idea called primaries, it was a more democratic idea, even though those people called the bosses from each state still ran the conventions. Then things seem to get more democratic, the convention became more dependent on the primaries. As what happens to most good things they turn sour.
Candidates lock up the convention way before a good portion of the states vote in primaries, partially because of this thing called money, if you are though of as loser, no money for you. Who cares that the people in those states voting at the end of the primary season love you, ya got to drop out.

Is it just my imagination or does money drown out common sense?
Why is so much money 100s of times more then what the jobs are worth being spent on the congressional and presidential elections. How much is it worth to the contributors?
Lies were always spread by backers of one candidate against the other candidate but there never was the ability to blanket the nation  with the stuff that comes out of a male cows backside as there is now.
So I ware black, and raise my glass to propose a toast to what democracy in America could have been.