corporate campaign contributions. Corporations do not get to vote for a reason! So why do we allow them to donate the largest amounts of money to political campaigns?
Politicans care about one thing: staying in power. Why should they bother worrying about what is best for the people when its the corporations which give them the money it requires to win? Statistically the candidate with the most money wins.
What we need is to ban corporate campaign contributions altogether. If this was the case, politicans have no loyalty to corporations. (unless there is some shady dealings under the table which there no doubt would be, but at least it would be illegal and they could be held accountable for it!) With no bought loyalty to corporations you better believe candidates would give a shit about what joe public thinks.
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corporate campaign contributions. Corporations do not get to vote for a reason! So why do we allow them to donate the largest amounts of money to political campaigns?
Politicans care about one thing: staying in power. Why should they bother worrying about what is best for the people when its the corporations which give them the money it requires to win? Statistically the candidate with the most money wins.
What we need is to ban corporate campaign contributions altogether. If this was the case, politicans have no loyalty to corporations. (unless there is some shady dealings under the table which there no doubt would be, but at least it would be illegal and they could be held accountable for it!) With no bought loyalty to corporations you better believe candidates would give a shit about what joe public thinks.