Step-By-Step Guide to Buy a Senator
Step-By-Step Guide to Buy a Senator
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/399058
- Donate the maximum amount legally allowed (as an individual).
- Tell the Member that you would like to become a bundler.
(A bundler is a person or small group of people who pool or aggregate contributions "from the community" and then deliver them in one lump sum to a political campaign).
- Once you have raised a sizeable amount, deliver the money to the Senator so they can use it wisely. In turn,
trade stock options based on insider information to the tune of millions, be super glad that you helped the democratic process!1% vs the 99%
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Even if both were ilegal the democratic political system is still corruptible. Let's say you want to make a law that's going to help a lot of people, you still need others from the opposing party to vote for it, (even if there are more than 2 parties) so they also need you to vote in something for them. Even if there is no money in the middle, it is still a corrupt system. Is there a better one today? I don't think so. But still crap
That’s not corruption. That’s politics.
EDIT: in advance of questions, to explain the difference, what you have described is called political compromise (finding solution that suits both parties). We need MORE of that. Corruption is when politician personally benefit from "selling" their votes.
Believe it or not, you could have more than 2 parties to vote for.
The stated problem is actually more pronounced with a larger number of parties than 2. If the governing party is strong, but doesn't have majority, and the opposition is split, they usually need to trade favours with the opposition parties to get anything done.
Or you could be like Italy:
- Everyone and their mother has a party
- Each party is equally corrupt
- No one has majority
- They have to form coalitions or no one reaches the minimum number of votes for elections
- With multiple parties in government there's opposition within the government
- They still don't get anything done (except some decrees for show)
- The favors they trade don't go nowhere
- Money just gets syphoned into pointless campaign