Let's talk economy and less politics

Perhaps the solution to our economic problems would be more choices, rather than a choice between a Democrat or a Republican solution applied nationally?

 

That's what I've been saying. And with more political party competition, each of the Republican and Democratic Platforms can shrink a bit too instead of being so broad.

 

Thought money could buy an American election? You ain't seen nothin' yet
The supreme court's relaxing of donation rules just made US elections even more undemocratic and corruptible
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/06/money-bought-elections-us-donation-rules

The rich, already powerful, punch way above their weight. In 2010 just 0.01% of Americans accounted for a quarter of all the money given to politicians, parties and political action committees. If anything this makes the loosening of donation rules more damning, not less. For at a time of escalating economic inequality and declining social mobility, the pool of politicians' paymasters will shrink even further.

In a system where money is considered speech, and corporations are people, this trend is inevitable. Elections become not a system of participatory engagement determining how the country is run, but the best democratic charade that money can buy. People get a vote; but only once money has decided whom they can vote for and what the agenda should be. The result is a plutocracy that operates according to the golden rule: that those who have the gold make the rules.