How many commentators on GC believe that it is a good thing that the GOP increased the amount of money corporations and individuals can give a political office seeker? The first five Presidents of the USA all wrote at length of the threat money given to politicians would offer to our Republic. They were adamant that money should NOT be involved in the seeking of political office and that those offices should be held by people who wanted to serve the people, not just a few people and their selves. Politicians constantly invoke the will of the founders when they run for office or try to frighten us into voting against the ‘other side’, but if people take the time to read the letters of our Presidents and other founders, we quickly learn that today’s politician is less like those who signed the Declaration of Independence and assembled the Constitution, and more more like Imperial Europe. Both parties have set themselves above the law, and made voting an exercise in futility or simply too bothersome for our bread and circuses culture to deal with. Corporations are not people, and most are international concerns with no real loyalty to the nation that helped them become wealthy and powerful.Respectfully,C.
How many commentators on GC believe that it is a good thing that the GOP increased the amount of money corporations and individuals can give a political office seeker? The first five Presidents of the USA all wrote at length of the threat money given to politicians would offer to our Republic. They were adamant that money should NOT be involved in the seeking of political office and that those offices should be held by people who wanted to serve the people, not just a few people and their selves. Politicians constantly invoke the will of the founders when they run for office or try to frighten us into voting against the ‘other side’, but if people take the time to read the letters of our Presidents and other founders, we quickly learn that today’s politician is less like those who signed the Declaration of Independence and assembled the Constitution, and more more like Imperial Europe. Both parties have set themselves above the law, and made voting an exercise in futility or simply too bothersome for our bread and circuses culture to deal with. Corporations are not people, and most are international concerns with no real loyalty to the nation that helped them become wealthy and powerful.Respectfully,C.