What do you pay

I don't really understand why it takes so much money to win an election.

I do understand that it takes money to run a campaign, but in this day and age I get most of my information from the radio, internet and televised news. Trump was on the news nearly every hour of every day.

Evidently all you have to be is inconsistent, rude, bigoted, prejudiced and bad mannered. Truth is irrelevant because, like children, the people who voted for him want what any sane person knows they aren't really going to get.

Information is there for the asking, but many people don't want information. You could spend ten billion dollars putting information in front of the people who voted for Trump and most of them would still do exactly what they just did.

They simply looked for ways to justify voting for a man who was obviously exactly what he has proved to be.

But I did hear and do hear about candidates who seem much more viable and I do not have to go to big expensive conferences, where they pay for buildings and transportation and the upkeep of a huge staff to learn about these people. In this day and age that kind of information is available on all sorts of media.

If people really want a better government they have to pay - attention - and think.  It isn't brain surgery to understand most of this stuff. The hardest things to understand are the games politicians play and the constituents who buy into them.