I agree with you on banning PACs and corps from spending on and engaging in campaigns.

My point is you aren’t going far enough. If you think $100 million spent for a candidate in 2002 is an ideal worth striving for or somehow equal to no money in politics, you are in for disappointment or you don’t remember that era well enough.

This still nearly entirely excluded normal people from becoming a candidate. Corporations were still writing our laws during that time through lobbying. Not to mention a dozen other in roads for money in politics during that era, such as insider trading.