Well, you need to support the narrative you prefer financially, because money IS speech.  It's an effective way to express your opinion.  It doesn't matter how good a candidate's message is if he doesn't have the money get his message out to the people.  The cost of of the 2016 Presidential election was about $5 billion, including the primaries (Hillary spent about twice as much as Trump).  Most of it came from "special interest groups" of which we are all a part of several.  The problem with the system as that "we the people" don't tend to donate much directly to the candidates we want.  If the average voter donated about $100/yr per election cycle, the money from "the people" would dwarf the money from special interests by about 11 to 1.  If the politicians didn't have to depend on the special interests, they'd pay more attention to the people.  But the people want something for nothing.  We spend about ten times as much on chips and dips as we spend on electing our government.