Quote:I disagree. The government and elected officials (for the most part) report to the corporations among other special interest groups. The push to globalization is not from the government directly but indirectly (and directly through legal bribes) through the corporations since the economy has been globalized. For them it's a natural progression. This push and the legislation like the TPP and others is a direct result of corrupt campaign finance. It was already bad and Citizens United pushed it over the top. If we had publicly funded elections or some other form of real and comprehensive reform for elections I highly doubt a thing like TPP would even be talked about in a real way. 

Not a fan of publicly funded elections. 


I think part of money raised by candidates for a presidential election should go toward paying down the deficit (I'm sure that's not a popular thing).  Corporate influence should also be removed from politics (because corporations do not have the interests of people in mind, only profits).  


We also need to move away from the two party system, though that has little to do with campaign finance reform.

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