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One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than
by nritchie 2y ago
One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.
- peutetre 2y agoDonald Trump's only virtue is that what you see really is what you get. He bluntly asked for $1 billion in campaign funding from oil companies in exchange for government policy that will benefit the oil business. Everything is transactional with Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...
- voisin 2y agoPeople took his rhetoric figuratively when they should’ve taken it literally. Now we know!
- red-iron-pine 2y agotransactional is preferable for many people. to paraphrase Aristotle Onassis, never trust anyone who won't take a bribe
- Sammi 2y agoA system where you can buy politicians is not democracy.
- hacky_engineer 2y agoBut it's still the one we have...