And as long as candidates need enormous sums, they will give excessive weight to the interests of their big contributors.
The likely losses will be enormous, but they will be smaller than will arise in a future war.
Pamela Reeves, a recent PLEN seminar keynote, hit the nail on the head when she said that "we cannot underestimate how important the support of other women is to these aspiring leaders: the act of communicating "we have been there, we've got your back when you walk down that path" is a small contribution to the enormous gift they will be giving all of us by their success".
And if they don't get it in the form of enormous bonuses, they'll take it in higher salaries - or move to Switzerland, New York or Singapore.
The temptation to do so will be enormous, since they'll see it as the best possible time for some movement towards independence.
They must decide whether to take the initiative and steal a march on the future, with the enormous financial risks that entails, or wait to see what evolves, with the equally enormous risk that they will be left floating helplessly in the wake.
Jordan, Turkey and Iraq will be subject to enormous strain and they will seek other help to handle it, most likely from GCC countries.
Sitting in a plush five-star hotel in central London last week, Lando Norris and George Russell looked unflustered by the enormous obstacles that they will have to contend with this year.
As the RMT have said in order to pay the enormous sums promised they will have to strip out all the shops and catering vehicles from the Pendolinos and Super Voyagers and replace them with seats leaving the only catering facility on journeys of up to 5 hours of a trolley.
"City are a very strong team after an enormous investment and they will be a rival of the highest level," said Real director Emilio Butragueno.
