campaign money is such a narrow factor in elections. While I think these efforts are well intentioned, they will not be effective.
Billionaires buy media companies that lose money (Jeff Bezos is just the latest one). why? because they want to influence culture/elections/policy. The media has way more influence in elections than crappy ads. But I don't people running around talking about the 0.1% controlling the media in America or doing anything to address that.
Here is the problem: Most voters are dumb / don't care. Rich people can spend money to influence dumb, apathetic people.
Solve that problem and you can get money out of US politics. Focusing on campaign money / lobbyist jobs is just a microcosm of the problem, and will only result in the money being moved to other ways of influencing elections/policy (whack-a-mole).
Show me a solution that prevents rich people from creating the stage for Bill O'Reilly and Rachel Madow.
Billionaires buy media companies that lose money (Jeff Bezos is just the latest one). why? because they want to influence culture/elections/policy. The media has way more influence in elections than crappy ads. But I don't people running around talking about the 0.1% controlling the media in America or doing anything to address that.
Here is the problem: Most voters are dumb / don't care. Rich people can spend money to influence dumb, apathetic people.
Solve that problem and you can get money out of US politics. Focusing on campaign money / lobbyist jobs is just a microcosm of the problem, and will only result in the money being moved to other ways of influencing elections/policy (whack-a-mole).
Show me a solution that prevents rich people from creating the stage for Bill O'Reilly and Rachel Madow.