This is capitalist democracy: "Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has poured $46.6 million of his own cash into his campaign for a second term, including nearly $20 million on advertising, according to finance reports." Pericles in his funeral oration said: "Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition."