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In reply to the discussion: Who will choose our 2016 nominee? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)decides our elections, where does the money come from? If it were coming from the people there would be a better chance of the people influencing the choice of candidates. But if you look at the donations they are coming from mostly from Big Corporations who have a vested interested in what laws are put in place that might affect their businesses.
I haven't done it yet, but a study of the donations would help to understand some of the reasons why we get candidates (speaking of Dems) who speak about issues we care about, seem to be sincere in their support for those issues, then we are disappointed later when they flip flop on some of the most important issues.
Were they sincere during their campaigns or just working to get the votes they need to win? Take Wheeler eg, nominated by Obama who was absolutely convincing in his campaign that he would fight for Net Neutrality. But his nomination of Wheeler seems to say something else. Wheeler was a Cable Co. Lobbyist. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have nominated someone who had no such conflict of interest? Then see the money Wheeler donated to his campaign. Was he owed that position because of that money?
Another possibility is that Obama thought he could get him on our side and better to have an insider, INSIDE in order to influence him not to work on the outside, influencing members of Congress eg, with donations etc.
Whatever the reason, nominations like that raise questions as we now see the result with Net Neutrality looking more and more threatened.
That is just one such nomination.
Or is it something more ominous. Are there 'national policies' in place that no president can change? And do they know that before they get to the primaries?