Nixon showed us it can and does go all the way to the top. "All the President's Men" is worth a watch to see how cheap it is to buy the country. The Committee to Reelect the President brought the Democratic frontrunner to tears in public, and eliminated him from the election, with a measly $3,000,000. Power can be bought at a cheap discount, and only "democratic norms" seem to protect us from this behavior most of the time.
