Reply #14: We have to get the money and the corporations out of politics

[housewolf]

for that to happen. With elections being so extremely expensive, many potentially good leaders can't even enter the competition. And those in power all too easily become behholden to their corporate sponsors.

We need to get congressional elections opened up again, to where they are actually competitive and we can vote people out of office. The lock that the parties have on all the districts hurts us and our democracy.

We need to somehow get our govenment back from the corporate influence that has hold on it. It is not right that non-human entities have more influence on the decisions that our government make than citizens do. I don't know how we do this, I just know that it is absolutely critical that we do so.