Re:Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends
by sjg007 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:01PM
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One more reason why we need to overturn Citizens United.
Re:Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends
by ethbro on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:36PM
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Money has always been integral to political campaigning.
But I'd say the 2016 election clearly refutes your assertion.
Republican fundraising as of 6/22/2016 in USD$millions, {total}, {candidate}, {affiliated PAC} [1]: Donald Trump (67.1, 64.6, 2.5), Jeb Bush (162.1, 35.2, 126.9), Ted Cruz (158.0, 92.6, 65.4), Marco Rubio (125.0, 47.3, 61.8)
If one wants to blame the Illuminati for secretly supporting candidates... this is a harder point in history to find support.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/electi...
I honestly and genuinely don't think that's much of a question.
I encourage you to read Lawrence Lessig's "Republic, Lost"[1] - which talks about how the big money behind campaign financing makes average Joe's feel as if they're choosing a politician based on their will, which turns out to not really be the case. Rather, they're choosing from a select group of politicians already rubber stamped "OK" by deep pocketed donors.
A good quote (not verbatim) from the book is basically how deep pocket donors have a sense of: "Let me choose the potential candidate options, and I don't really care who wins".
So it's the "will of the people" only so far as the people's will aligns with something they have 0 control over - the intentions/ambitions of those with money - which doesn't sound much like free will.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Version-Lawrence-Lessig...