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When will the massive influence of money stop in the U.S. elections?

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St-Sinner 9 May 23
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so long as we have a fiat currency financial system..never.

You mean bring the Cryptocurrency?

@St-Sinner ,
not a believer in bitcoin. i do keep 20% of my investment accounts in gold bullion ETFs & gold miner shares.

@callmedubious Ah, the ETFs. A good idea.
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Level 8

When politicians have no idea where the money comes from.

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Level 8

It would be great to stop the robo calls...I tend to forget where I already sent money...

Please keep me in mind next time... lol
I will remember you.

@St-Sinner Who are you? 😉

@thinktwice I will tell you later. Can you please send ASAP? 🙂
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Level 9

Eliminate and dissolve Citizens United, then dissolve all 527 PAC’s and 501c dark money groups!
Stop all dark money from groups like The Heritage Foundation, NRA, and all think tanks!

It is time to Eradicate and eliminate any type of overt contribution to any political party or candidate!

Stop the wealthy and their corporations from contributing more than any one individual is allowed to contribute to any political cause!

The Right says...

  1. Eliminate Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
  2. Eliminate Planned Parenthood (PP)
  3. Eliminate Entitlements
  4. Eliminate Public University Funding
  5. Eliminate Abortion Clinics

Who should people listen to? To the loudest voice?

@St-Sinner Interesting to see those points listed like that...all I saw was

  1. the elimination of free arts, music and educational programs to all

  2. the elimination of health care and birth control to women who are poor, elderly, students, etc.

  3. the elimination of money taken from paychecks as assurances against poverty beyond working years, ie. the elderly at retirement

  4. the eliminiation of expertise and critical thinkers; the dumbing down of America

  5. the elimination of safe and personal choice rights of women

@thinktwice Ok since you put it that way and exposed the conservatives. Now you cannot live in Alabama or Mississippi... lol

@St-Sinner already lived in Alabama and Mississippi as well as Georgia, South Carolina and now headed to North Carolina... I am going to give them hell...ha ha ha

yeah, a gun owning rich liberal...now that is quite an oxymoron...
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Level 8

You have a better chance of seeing god! 😣

But I do not want to see him 🙂 If you said a goddess, I can understand.

@St-Sinner well, to quote Roseanne Roseannadanna "nevermind"🤭
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Level 8

Since 1818 corporations have been deemed to have the same rights as individuals. Is there anything wrong with that?

Everything wrong, corporations are not people.

Corporations also can have owners that live outside the US.

@St-Sinner They are composed of people, and those people have rights collectively. Nobody thinks that a corporation is a person but there is a very long legal tradition that corporations be treated the same as if they were individuals. Is there something immoral or wrong about that? If so what? Do you suggest that corporations are bad and should be outlawed?
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Level 8

Tell the whole story. They have royalty. They have the House of Lords. They have the landed gentry.

Remember too that the US is a large federation of states, each with limited sovereignty. It would be hard to emulate their system. Maybe we should be more like the EU, with no popular vote at all for president. Every four years we could hold a Convention of States to address constitutional issues and to elect a president and vice president—that is, if we really are a federation in more than just name.

We don't have to borrow bad things. Just borrow good things. What is the harm?
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Level 7

Now you know the dark secret, that the USA is a plutocracy, not a democracy. The interests of the common citizens has no statistically relevant effect on what bills get passed, unless they are wealthy and can pay for lobbyists.
[represent.us]

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Level 8

Never

lerlo Level 8 May 23, 2019
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Level 9

Never.
As long as there is money to be made, the PTB won't do anything to get
it out of the process.
Too many people are getting much wealthier with every election cycle.

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Level 8

It will not happen. 'merca is controlled and governed for the sole benefit of the wealthy and powerful. They will never give that up.

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Level 7

It is interesting that DJT won the election spending only half of what HC spent.
[washingtonpost.com]

What about PACS?

@St-Sinner Inform me.

@PBuck0145 No
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