Is our campaign finance system so corrupt that billionaires can buy elections?

[Anonymous]

Our campaign finance system is totally corrupt, and billionaires can spend as much money as they want to buy elections. Super PACs from AI, crypto, AIPAC and other special interests will be spending many hundreds of millions of dollars in the midterm elections to buy elections and protect their interests.

[MrChinaski]

Nope. Your President was appointed on the basis of his well-reasoned and carefully developed policy platform designed solely to improve the wellbeing of the American people. You are too skeptical.

[Asker]

I don't know if you are kidding or not, but if you are kidding, it was a very subtle joke. I don't know whether I should keep laughing or I should feel annoyed or wonder about your reality testing. Or perhaps wonder about my own reality testing. Or maybe both.

[ThisSiteSux]

No. Billionaires have tried to buy every Texas election since I moved here in 2014. They spent 10 to 100 billion and they didn't even come close lols.

[Asker]

Those People who have been unsuccessful at buying every election have managed to install some pretty disgusting Republican trash in your state.

[ThisSiteSux]

If by trash you mean the second best economy ever n the country and you can't murder your children and the only better state is also Republican and you can't murder your children, then yes.

[Asker]

It might be a good economy, but the whole damn place is not livable with all the fascists. You have

[katiesmuff]

I agree as well and wish there were a way the general public had a method to fix it.

[exitseven]

@katiesmuff. I think term limits would help. Outlawing SuperPACs too

[Telekinetic-Potato]

They can do that anyway. People should worry less about the weapon and more about the murderer

[exitseven]

I am more afraid of foreign countries than I am of billionaires. Still there is too much money in politics.

[Asker]

That's because during your whole life you've heard nothing but the propaganda of the US government rattling your ears. You've come to believe what the government tells you and you've never been to any foreign countries or have. You've never spent any time there to find out that there's nothing to be afraid of. If you want to be afraid of something, be afraid of the sociopaths and criminals that are running this country and have absolutely no regard for your life whatsoever.

[exitseven]

I think that if a foreign country spends billions to put their guy in the Senare or even The White House they will not have America's best interests at heart. Look at thr mess Biden made.

[Asker]

Oh yeah, well, I can certainly see that Trump has Americans' best interests at heart, molesting children, and starting wars without any legal basis for doing so. The list goes on of how good he's been and how much he loves our country.

[exitseven]

Trump is America First. Strong military, energy independence, secure border , mass deportation, pro business.
We had 4 years of a bought and paid for president.

[Asker]

Crimes, deportation, undeclared wars, illegal wars, graft, corruption. Yeah, America first, my ass. Try Trump first.

[exitseven]

Law and order, energy independence, Mass deportations, lower taxes, strong military, tariffs on foreign goods, record stock markets, and no men in women sports.

[236color]

Not always, not the very rich do exert outside influence.

[Anonymous]

Yes, used to be pharma, tobacco and the war machine that paid in

[Asker]

Now the government pays the war machine.

[Opinion Owner]

Always did... we get you in then you give us money for war supplies

[NotSomeUserName]

Money influences politics.

[_Jenny_]

Maybe sometimes

[RedInnocent69]

Not quite, but close