1. Elections cost shit tons of money.
2. People don't donate money if they're not passionate about something.
3. Moderates aren't typically passionate enough about something to donate.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:59 PM
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:02 PM
Edited by Gorix, 03 October 2012 - 06:03 PM.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:12 PM
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:13 PM
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:29 PM
And what do you suggest in its place?.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:29 PM
moderate
the Green Party
Campaign finance reform is probably the first place to start. That and having the FCC do it's job and fact check the bullshit it allows onto the air. Yep, the Republican is asking for more regulation. Sigh.
If you take the money out of politics, you solve a lot of problems.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 01:18 AM
I think everyone notices that both parties are heading further away from the middle. My simple reasoning for this:
1. Elections cost shit tons of money.
2. People don't donate money if they're not passionate about something.
3. Moderates aren't typically passionate enough about something to donate.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 09:56 AM
I've never really understood why American politics insists on spending billions of dollars on election campaigns. Our last General Election cost around $50 million in total and the result was still the same in the end.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 10:00 AM
Because it's ~freedom of speech~!
(The current supreme court is conservative. Conservatives have more money to spend on campaigns. Their thought is that more money= more votes. So the court decided that spending money is a form of free speech.)
(As silly as that is)
Posted 04 October 2012 - 11:05 AM
Paying off the media? I kid, I kid.
Mostly traveling, and promoting their 'causes' if I was to hazard a guess.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:13 PM
Posted 04 October 2012 - 03:11 PM
I just don't understand how it is actually possible to spend $6 billion (the estimate for the 2012 election) on an election campaign...what is that money being spent on?
Posted 09 October 2012 - 12:26 PM
Posted 21 October 2012 - 02:53 PM
Well... sort of... People complain here and think it is ridiculous but it isn't government tax money that is being spent. It (nearly) all comes from private donations to campaigns and super-PACs.Does nobody over there complain about how much is being spent on it though? Surely it would make more sense to spend that money on something more useful like paying off some debt, paying for some school kids to get educated or for healthcare for a few thousand people than paying millionaires to travel around for a few months promising things they inevitably won't deliver?
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