Wacky Quacky
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- May 16, 2011
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If there is one person on MSNBC that Conservatives should watch, it's Ratigan. He pulls no punches on anyone and I think he's right on the button with what's wrong.
here's the rant....
‪Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air‬‏ - YouTube
He is spot on! There is no legislation, or repeal of legislation, that will do any good until our politicians are no longer bought and paid for. The problem is that there is almost no way to do that. No matter what type of rules and regulations you dream up stating that politicians can't accept campaign money, they WILL find a way around it. They won't accept the money, they'll create a puppet business that accepts and uses the money for them. You can't outlaw political commercials, that's against the 1st amendment.
How do you take campaign money away from politicians???
campaign finance reform,
They can still have puppet organizations collect and use the money.
publicly funded campaigns,
Politicians will never turn down more money.
runoff voting,
I don't see how that would help anything. Maybe I'm just not seeing it.
maybe term limits.
Whether the people being paid off are new guys or old guys really won't make a difference.
there are a ton of options, and they're pretty easy to do. the thing is, we've got this wacky idea going that spending money is speech and corporations are people, and until we turn that around, corporations are going to be the only people with rights and money is going to be the only form of speech, because they're drowning out everything and everyone else.
Even if you reverse that, businesses themselves can still put out whatever commercials they want on behalf of the candidate.