Hamilton: How Money is Ruining Politics
Via The Detroit News
Money is poisoning our political system.
The people who matter most to a representative democracy — the ordinary voters in whose interests elected politicians are supposed to act — feel as though they’ve become an afterthought in the political process. The tidal wave of money washing over our elections, with no end in sight, is causing Americans to lose faith in the system. In that way, the course we’re on threatens the core values and principles that define us as a nation.
Oddly, many politicians see no problem, except perhaps the inconvenient need to spend a significant portion of every day dialing for dollars. They don’t believe they’re selling their votes, or even that money influences their behavior.
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