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alp227

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Sun Mar 31, 2013, 08:30 PM Mar 2013

How Much Does it Cost to Win an Election?



"What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to their major business sponsors? We gave it a try—and then kept crunching the numbers to find the top 75 corporate spenders of all time, this year's most loaded candidates, Capitol Hill's BP caucus, and much more."*

Politicians need to raise certain huge amounts of money to win senate and congressional seats- millions. How are they able to do this? By promising to serve corporations over people. Is there any way to fix the system, to make citizen interests more important than corporate interests? Cenk Uygur explains the way to end the cycle of bribery, is to get money out of politics.

Visit Wolf PAC to find out more and help: http://www.wolf-pac.com/

* http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/incumbent-campaign-fundraising-advantage-congress

(From the March 12 Young Turks show)
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How Much Does it Cost to Win an Election? (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2013 OP
Rich people have been choosing who we elect, and who we don't elect for a long time... Larry Ogg Apr 2013 #1

Larry Ogg

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1. Rich people have been choosing who we elect, and who we don't elect for a long time...
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 07:55 AM
Apr 2013

Their might be the occasional exception when one of their venal sock puppets looses to someone who has a conscience, but that someone would be an exception to the rule, and their influence marginalized to little or no affect.

But for the most part, the idea that we live in a Democracy is nothing more than an illusion that is intended to make the slaves think that they have control over their leaders, and sovereignty as a nation, but nothing is further from the truth.

Why the voters refuse to see this is a tragedy of our own psychology, i.e. the impoverished understanding of our own minds, as well as the minds of predators.

What we don't know can and will be used against us.

The good news is that we are capable of learning, the bad news is that most refuse to learn because the truth conflicts with all their comfortable beliefs, and the natural tendency is to avoid cognitive dissonance at all cost.

And this avoidance creates a phenomena that has plagued the human race for time immemorial, or as Thomas Jefferson said, "all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Fact is that, if we want change for the better in this country, we need to change the way we elect our government, and if we could get that right, we could change the World for the better.

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