Of course I know that. But corporate lobbyists are not the ONLY money in politics, and it is simplistic to think that.
For one example, when most of our higher up/nationally visible politicians come from Ivy universities and other old money institutions, it makes you wonder exactly what “friends from their college days” they have that they give advantages to. No direct money is exchanged, but you have to have money to enter these institutions.
I would also argue something like the Reagan tax cuts on the uppermost earners of the country is an example of the interplay of money and politics. That didn’t just come from nowhere.
Citizens United made it so that these same “captains of industry” could bribe whoever they wanted legally with no upper limit, effectively outspending any citizen groups or individuals. But money has been infecting politicians long before that, and it’s a bit naive to think it wasn’t.
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The meme-ification of politics has been a disaster for the human race.
Id say money in politics is the problem.
Memeification…monification…tomato tomato.
Yeah, but that’s an ages old problem we haven’t solved since the Greeks, so I don’t think that’s going away anytime soon 🙃
Did you know that lobbying was at one time illegal in the United States?
Of course I know that. But corporate lobbyists are not the ONLY money in politics, and it is simplistic to think that.
For one example, when most of our higher up/nationally visible politicians come from Ivy universities and other old money institutions, it makes you wonder exactly what “friends from their college days” they have that they give advantages to. No direct money is exchanged, but you have to have money to enter these institutions.
I would also argue something like the Reagan tax cuts on the uppermost earners of the country is an example of the interplay of money and politics. That didn’t just come from nowhere.
Citizens United made it so that these same “captains of industry” could bribe whoever they wanted legally with no upper limit, effectively outspending any citizen groups or individuals. But money has been infecting politicians long before that, and it’s a bit naive to think it wasn’t.