Why BIG Money Controls All Politics
by kavips
…unless you are Bernie Sanders, which makes him even more amazing than he already was… Out-raising Clinton? Impressive. Not to mention blowing the doors off all feeble Republican efforts.But I’m riffing on this topic today, so here it goes.
The reason is because a lot of progressive type people as well as far righters rail at their politicians for being what has often been titled “corporate whores”…
Doing whatever corporate donors ask and then getting a few bucks for it…
What most of you don’t realize, is that elected officials really don’t have a choice. Citizens United changed the playing field so that ignoring BIG money kills you off early.
(Which is why we elect progressive type people and become dismayed to find they too gyrate to corporate philosophies faster than we can find their replacements..)
For new comers to this process, we should say, it was not always this way… There was a time when BIG MONEY was just a player like everyone else. If they had good ideas, you listened. If they were a crock, you ignored their pleas…
Citizen’s United changed that playing field by…
…unless you are Bernie Sanders, which makes him even more amazing than he already was… Out-raising Clinton? Impressive. Not to mention blowing the doors off all feeble Republican efforts.
But I’m riffing on this topic today, so here it goes.
The reason is because a lot of progressive type people as well as far righters rail at their politicians for being what has often been titled “corporate whores”…
Doing whatever corporate donors ask and then getting a few bucks for it…
What most of you don’t realize, is that elected officials really don’t have a choice. Citizens United changed the playing field so that ignoring BIG money kills you off early.
(Which is why we elect progressive type people and become dismayed to find they too gyrate to corporate philosophies faster than we can find their replacements..)
For new comers to this process, we should say, it was not…
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