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Right, they should follow our lead in the west where we recognize that campaign donations are speech and end up with the CEO of a major corporation as the next
by noobermin 10y ago
Right, they should follow our lead in the west where we recognize that campaign donations are speech and end up with the CEO of a major corporation as the next Sec. of State. We don't just do bribery, we've legalized it.
- matthewbauer 10y agoCan't both things be bad?
- noobermin 10y agoBoth are indeed bad, but the original comment was an exhortion to "[move] away from this oligarchical bs and embrace a true liberal democracy and market economy." It's almost as if it's implicit there is some model "true liberal democracy and market economy," an instantiation of a noble ideal in the real world to look to...but it can't be us. Unless they to embrace an ideal that we ourselves haven't been able to achieve, which if they could, would be great. Not that it isn't noble to strive for liberal democracy, but market based, liberal democracy in our case, has of late merely had the vestiges of a free market and democracy but is more and more like an oligarchy, not too unlike what we see here in SK.
- chajath 10y agoGiven the choices, I'd much rather see legalized, but fully transparent political donations. That way, voters will at least know which of the parties are more prone to Chaebol influences.
- wu-ikkyu 10y ago>legalized, but fully transparent political donations Shell companies easily allow for "legal" circumvention of transparency.
- AnAfrican 10y agoTo be fair, that's mostly an American thing. compaign donations are tightly controlled in almost all the rest of the West.
- gambiting 10y agoStraight up illegal in Poland.
- golergka 10y agoStrange; are you suggesting that being a CEO of a major corporation is bad work experience for secretary of state? Why?
- enraged_camel 10y agoThey are very different. Most CEOs come from a business background and possess related skills. Secretary of State on the other hand needs to have a deep understanding of history, world affairs and international politics.
- golergka 10y agoCEO of an international company needs to know exactly these things. To me it seems like a much closer fit than a politician who's campaigning all the time, or a university professor.