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Robert Reich Sep 26, 2023

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.

2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.

3) Donors make a huge profit.

4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

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StarkRG

@rbreich Have the Election Commission provide the funding for campaigns, a fixed amount for each candidate in a given race, then make *all* campaign donations illegal. It seems like an obvious solution, but I always get pushback from normal, everyday people when I suggest it, claiming that they don't want their tax dollars going to fund candidates they don't like. I never know how to argue against such short-sightedness.