Money That Buys Elections...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Money talks. It buys air time, effective ads, the best marketing firms, politicians, and ultimately influence. The kind of influence you and I can only dream of. Powerful special interests with bundles of money to spend on their interets do so with the hope and expectations of influencing elections. With the help of the SCOTUS and Citizens United funneling huge sums of special interest monies have become easier. Unfortunately corporations and billionaires are not thinking about the public interest or you and I. They are thinking about their interests and their interests exclusively. There is really no problem with this per se as each of us are bound by a need to consider, think about, and then act in our own rational self interests. But unlike those spending mega millions to influence elections we have almost no power over politicians or election outcomes, other than our vote and perhaps a few measly dollars we might se...