Screwing Average Joe
The Young Turks
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Money in politics means that corporate interests have a larger voice, a louder voice than ordinary voters. If you've got defense contractors throwing millions of dollars at these elections, politicians are going to listen to them and what they want. That is part of the reason why there is so much waste in the Pentagon. They don't know how to account for 61% of their assets. It's just a money sucking machine. And it feels like there's nothing we can do about it. But what we could do about it is change the system and demand that we have publicly financed elections.
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