“I have issue with rich people buying politicians.”
Why blame a rich person for donating to a campaign? The problem is more fundamental - it is corruption. It isn’t just money. Poor people as a block have lots of influence. Dems steal from rich people via taxes to buy these votes. Our enemy is not rich people but corrupt government.
Corruption plays a part by the seller and the buyer of votes. The true remedy is diverse, localized and weak government with little ability to fund itself.
When we allow government broad powers, the ability to centralize and be remote, the ability to self fund by using its own legislative functionaries to vote theft, we have what we have seen arise the last 80 years — Leviathan.
It is now so large, it is self-healing, self-innoculating, and delegitimizes every effort to de-fang it.
Were gt talking the same thing.
“Poor people as a block have lots of influence.”
Ding, ding, ding!
One “wealthy” (subjectively defined, of course) man donating to a candidate stands no chance against the slobbering force of the poor when there is free money to be handed out for voluminous votes.
Politics (and politicians) is corrupt. Always has been and always will. Removing corruption is an impossible dream. The only thing that can be done is to remove POWER from politicians so that their corruptive effects are negated.
You try to change basic human behavior and you will always lose. You can only alter the rules to your favor.