There are some huge issues with finances in election campaigns specific to the US. The UK has plenty of issues with a lot of political subjects, but one thing we do really well is that we allocate equal funds to each party to run their campaigns and limit the amount one can spend on campaigns, even if a donation is received.
Super PACs in America are fucking insane, for example - you can take money from anybody and people can't even know who has been financing each politician for months, meaning there's a lot of potential to obfuscate funds injected into the campaign before election results come in.
I really hope America puts a stop to all this bullshit sometime during my lifetime.
na, once the firehose was turned on its incredibly difficult of not impossible to stop, citizens united did a huge amount of damage to the ability of congress to regulate elections
Grim, but you'll die long before that ever happens, and so will your grandkids
and it really sucks
Never going to happen. The US government represents corporations and money, not the people. The people are there just to make money off of
The Supreme Court ruled that money and donations to candidates are free speech, and so protected by the First Amendment, and so can't be limited.
I mean my grandkids will live to 2170 or longer, and I'll probably live to 2100. If the US is still corrupt af in 2100 lmao I'm moving.
Yep, I'm aware of the Citizens United ruling - it's so fucking dumb. I know America's rich, but does their policy really need to favour them at this calibre? My goodness...
Blame originalism, the perfect way to radicalize the judiciary. "Consittution doesn't say anything about unlimited political donations ;)"
Need Great Depression 2.0 to get conservatives to realize corruption is a bad thing.
Too many things that can (and probably will) happen before 2100. Peak oil, technological singularity, climate change and assorted crises, food shortages, fish collapse, etc. I'm not particularly optimistic about the far future. But we'll see how it goes.
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