How come Hillary supporters can't present an argument for her?

[dreamnightwind]

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I am quite serious about this, it's been an idea lurking for a long time. I'm sure many others have the same or similar ideas. It is a path to deal with the circumstances we are up against.

If we can do a good job of connecting corporate contributions to legislation that negatively impacts people, we can get somewhere. I saw one website once (forget which) that attempted to do that, but it was a lot of data and very difficult to figure out what was what. It needs a very simple front-end, like a voter's guide, with the ability to click all the way down to specific contributions, allowing the voter to examine a candidate (or a ballot initiative) along the issues the voter most cares about. And it needs a forum behind it, for targeted discussion of these specific candidate/issue/donor threads. The candidate's own words should be a part of this, with the candidate strongly encouraged to post and explain their reasons for their positions and their reasons for accepting particular donations.

We should be able to sufficiently stigmatize the acceptance of corporate donations to offset the advertising advantages these candidates gain from accepting these donations. Money can buy advertising, but it can't actually buy votes, though obviously at this point it is pretty successful in doing so.

I realize it's much more difficult than I lay out here, donations are often obscured or even entirely secret. We can work to change that, but in the meantime, there is a lot of information we could do something with.

It needs to be laid out in a very direct and simple way, at least on the surface. Most people don't have enough time to dig deeply into funding issues, they need a streamlined front-end that is logical and clear, with the ability to dig as deep as they want through by clicking through underlying links.

I had hoped DU would do something like this, but actually I believe such an effort needs to be non-partisan.

The front-end could present pictures of the candidates covered Nascar-style with the corporate logos of their donors, these logos could be hotlinked to the donations and their related issues. I dunno, it could take many forms, just throwing stuff out there hoping to spark up some interest.