(08-02-2019, 02:43 PM)mikesez Wrote: Voters for both parties believe false things about the past.

Democrats believe that in the past, rich people in this country didn't have political power in proportion to their wealth.  They absolutely did.  They always did.  It was less obvious in the past because both parties used to want to hide this fact.  The media would help them hide it.  But now we demand transparency.  We got transparency, but we are dealing with the naked reality we see like kids who thought grandma was going to live forever.  There must be something else the doctors can do!

You might as well outlaw gravity - it would be just as effective as trying to prevent rich people from spending their money to influence the government.

The good news is that the side with more money doesn't always win.  Money can influence votes, but most of us vote our conscience, not for who spent the most money on ads.

That's all true.  Rich people have more power than poor people.  It's part of our incentive-based capitalistic system that has produced the greatest prosperity the world has ever seen.   

I agree with the Supreme Court on the Citizens United ruling.  We should not restrict political speech.  Besides, any restriction on corporations' political speech is pointless because it wouldn't work anyway.  There would be way too many loopholes and ways to get around the restrictions.

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