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rdubwiley

(518 posts) Sun Jan 12, 2014, 02:47 PM Jan 2014

Campaign Finance Reforms

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Campaign Finance Reforms (Original Post) rdubwiley Jan 2014 OP

This is the biggest barrier to majority representation in America. dotymed Jan 2014 #1

Those who profit from running the current system will not be persuaded to give it up. ancianita Jan 2014 #2

dotymed

(5,610 posts)

1. This is the biggest barrier to majority representation in America.

Reply to rdubwiley (Original post)

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 03:27 PM

Jan 2014

Citizens United ingrained fascism into our politics.

IMO, publicly financed elections is the only way to Democracy.

ancianita

(36,132 posts)

2. Those who profit from running the current system will not be persuaded to give it up.

Reply to rdubwiley (Original post)

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 04:21 PM

Jan 2014

If it were the litmus test of both parties' politicians in this Congress, they'd all have to be replaced. But money in politics won't let that happen, anyway. Of those who get in by passing the voter litmus test, at least half of them will sell out while in office, and the process of getting a Congress willing to give up its owners will take at least a generation.

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