Posted on 10/05/2015 8:24:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Serious scholars of the Roman revolution and the advent of Caesarism and Empire would probably agree with you. Many of the problems of American democracy (which is now being "participated" in by Saudi plutocrats and KGB thugs supporting Manchurian candidates like Slick and Obama) can be traced to the now nearly-mechanical connection between access to cash and access to high public office.
For the record, Lyndon Johnson started the Democrats' practice of raiding the public treasury for thinly-disguised political money. Earlier operators simply stole it and spent it as their own.
High-grade the graded votes, IOW?
I have never found this to be a satisfying explanation for the mass betrayal we see again and again from so-called Conservative Republicans.
In 2014, more than 50% of newly elected Congress people were millionaires BEFORE they got to Washington D.C.
If wealthy candidates were just interested in money, the most sensible thing to do would have been to stay home and continue to focus on the private career that already made you wealthy.
Once they get there politicians don't want to leave.
And a million dollars doesn't go that far in DC.
That's the way it was 150 years ago, when Lincoln went up to DC (per David S. Donald, Lincoln, 1999).
The average congressman served a single term, a few served two. A dinosaur like John Quincy Adams, serving multiple terms, was a freak and a museum exhibit.
Old Sen. Norris Cotten of New Hampshire once referred to the corrupting influence of "the sweet smell of white marble".
And a million dollars just isn't a million dollars anymore. A 2007 dollar was worth 10¢ in 1950 dollars. (T. Rowe Price, 2007 subscriber mailout.)
Sure. Get the GOP out of their management and do their homework on candidates...then report and rate them according to what they actually do.
“People need to do their homework for themselves, not rely on rigged ratings.”
Ratings don’t mean crap.
1) Look who gives the elected politician thew most money.
I have to wonder what little actual thought goes through people’s heads. If you got a guy associating hisself with people that are actively backing things contrary to your beliefs, it’s a pretty friggin safe bet that they will govern contrary to your beliefs to keep the money rollin. He needs ‘us’ once every couple years. He needs them for his entire future.
And ‘we’ proved to be rather ‘sheepish’ in our activities in the voting booth already.
” If you got a guy associating hisself with people that are actively backing things contrary to your beliefs, it’s a pretty friggin safe bet that they will govern contrary to your beliefs to keep the money rollin. “
EZ call.......if one has a brain.
Thats why we’ll have statues my fellow Captain...we saw the obvious when none dared to ;)
If they got elected to stand for something then stand for it. Then you get re-elected. If you worry about the money to get elected then you just got lucky once. The money isn’t important if, once elected, you DO WHAT YOU PROMISED and let your district voters know that.
I always figured we would be 98% accurate, but I will take what looks looks like 100% forever!
LOL
Not ONE government employee other than military personnel should ever receive a lifetime pension for bureaucratic paper pushing.
Sarah Davis is my state rep. also.
Dagnabbit.
5.56mm
If they come from safe Republican districts, PRIMARY THEM! No need for moderates in areas that are strongly conservative.
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