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I know i'm not the sharpest biscuit in the breadbox, but i can usually parse my way through an argument. This one has me confused though.
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Well. As I understand it the suggestion seems to be that the presence of such donations in the democratic system is undermining the basic foundations of a democracy...thats how i read it anyway. If thats what was being suggested then I applaud and agree.
Election campaigns in my opinion should be run at the electorate's expense ( frightening word "expense" , but really it would be a fly in a compost heap compared to invading other people's countries) with strict limitations on how much gets spent .....maybe the candidates will pay more attention to how tightly they use the time/exposure/funding they are given by the people to whom they are addressing their manifesto.....of course it helps if you dont have a lobby system which seems to an outsider to weigh heavy with the invested interests of the economic and political elite....If such a lobby is in effect...then maybe donations from the little people has a slight....very slight balancing effect