mplane72
PMA Member
Just do a little research and see who routinely makes it harder to vote. Things like tightening poll hours, reducing poll locations, purging voter rolls so close to the election that people wrongly removed don't have time to contest it. Just google "what party makes it harder to vote" and pick your poison.... When voter turnout is high it USUALLY favors D's. Low usually favors R's. Do I think there's something to theory D's want more immigration because they think it favors them? Of course. Do I think that all the illegals are going to get to vote, sway the election? No. Just like with guns I do NOT support taking away or restricting any Citizens right to vote to prevent a possissible illegal vote.
A few posts back someone mentioned "the machine". That machine is money. That is our core problem and it is embedded deeply in both our political parties. Look at all the billionaires backing Harris openly saying they are lobbying her to remove Biden's head of the FTC Lina Khan because she's hard on big business. She's also backed by all the Silicone Valley money trying to keep their monopolies. As far as Trump he's also terrible. Hosts the heads of big oil at Marolago and tells them for a billion he'll give them everything they want. You really think don't Musk is angling for something? Look at all the government contracts he has. Drain the swamp my a$$. Corruption is alive and well in our politics, it's right there for all to see and is now basically becoming legal. Citizen's United, the supreme court case is now being used to reverse convictions of politicians from both parties who have been convicted of taking bribes. Buying politicians is becoming legal.
Two men jump out when looking at how money corrupts our politics are Biden, the Senator from MBNA and John McCain, of the Keating Five. Both at times have been pretty open about what they've seen and the temptations they dealt with. Both where/are champions of campaign reform.
Biden in an interview shortly after his surprise win in 1974 at age 29.
"Well, I'm not sure you should assume I'm not corrupt, but I thank you for that. The system does produce corruption—I think implicit in the system is corruption. In fact, whether or not you can run for public office—and it costs a great deal of money to run for the United States Senate, even for a small state like Delaware—you have to go to those people who have money. They always want something."
I think his career is a case study in what money in politics does.
I support campaign finance reform and public funding of elections.....
A few posts back someone mentioned "the machine". That machine is money. That is our core problem and it is embedded deeply in both our political parties. Look at all the billionaires backing Harris openly saying they are lobbying her to remove Biden's head of the FTC Lina Khan because she's hard on big business. She's also backed by all the Silicone Valley money trying to keep their monopolies. As far as Trump he's also terrible. Hosts the heads of big oil at Marolago and tells them for a billion he'll give them everything they want. You really think don't Musk is angling for something? Look at all the government contracts he has. Drain the swamp my a$$. Corruption is alive and well in our politics, it's right there for all to see and is now basically becoming legal. Citizen's United, the supreme court case is now being used to reverse convictions of politicians from both parties who have been convicted of taking bribes. Buying politicians is becoming legal.
Two men jump out when looking at how money corrupts our politics are Biden, the Senator from MBNA and John McCain, of the Keating Five. Both at times have been pretty open about what they've seen and the temptations they dealt with. Both where/are champions of campaign reform.
Biden in an interview shortly after his surprise win in 1974 at age 29.
"Well, I'm not sure you should assume I'm not corrupt, but I thank you for that. The system does produce corruption—I think implicit in the system is corruption. In fact, whether or not you can run for public office—and it costs a great deal of money to run for the United States Senate, even for a small state like Delaware—you have to go to those people who have money. They always want something."
I think his career is a case study in what money in politics does.
I support campaign finance reform and public funding of elections.....
