Nothing is more democratic than a system like ours that shows such a tolerance for candidates who want to run for public office.
Truth be told, there’s nothing more democratic.
Literally anybody can do it, if they can come up with the filing fee required to get on a major party ballot or a requisite number of signatures in lieu of that. To run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican or Democrat, a would-be candidate has got to come up with roughly $3,100…