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[–] TheStapler 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

In democracy, money == politics.

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[–] NeoGoat 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

In a better democracy, this corruption would be illegal.

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[–] GIF-lLL-S0NG 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

News flash: the USA is not a democracy.

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[–] eggmunkee ago 

Actually, persuasion == politics. When degeneracy rules the nation, money is all it takes to buy peoples opinions, which includes the voters that are bought by promises of other people's money. A thousand times, the people have sacrificed their rights for something illusory and usually, stolen goods, so counter-persuasion against the large-scale opinion forming press is how you actually fight "money in politics".

Asking politicians to stop selling themselves is unlikely to succeed, while we could be more informed about what we demand and expect from politicians we do help elect. Asking corporate/globalist news outlets to stop selling themselves is unlikely to succeed, while we could stop consuming their product and financially support truthful news outlets which change the opinion and worldview landscape and enable us to actually work on real problems, as opposed to the created crises that we are usually chasing after. These things are harder than saying "get money out of politics" though, and I'm not saying I live up to this, but I think these are real solutions in part.

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[–] TheStapler ago 

Good insight. I think democracy itself falls on the spectrum of degeneracy. It's a result of tearing down monarchy. After democracy you get tyranny, which we are seeing everywhere--privacy invasions, criminalization of politically incorrect speech, etc.

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[–] LazarusLong ago 

That is every form and actual instance of government, ever.