Why is allowing corporations and people giving millions upon millions of dollars... [View all]
To a political candidate NOT grounds for having undue influence over that candidate by a donor?
Why is that not considered as even the appearance of having undue influence by a donor?
Does this mean that it's now OK to BUY politicians if you're rich enough and the government is powerless to stop it?
What if a donor's candidate actually gets into office, decides to run for reelection but is refused the support of their wealthy former donor friends unless that person comes through on some shady, underhanded deal?
If there were no documents or witnesses to a quid pro quo does that mean that no crime was actually committed?
How is giving that much power and influence to rich and powerful corporations and peopled supposed to be reconciled which a political system that's obstensibly based on representative democracy and the popular vote?
The questions are all rhetorical, of course.
If you ever see people defending this state of affairs or if they refuse to acknowledge the problems inherent in the meaning behind these questions, that should expose those people as either benefitting from these problems or they're to fricking stupid to understand that this sort of crap is turning America into an outright plutocracy.
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