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Legalized bribes that are required to win an election.
Greatest system ever, right there.
Since citizens united this is sadly true. That said, the average contribution was $39. And 97% of the total came from contributions under $200.
It was true before citizens united as well. Citizens united just formalized it.
This is not even where the bribes flow. That's through the PACs. This is almost entirely small, individual contributions from actual people who care more about their stake in society than smug cynicism.
My Modest Proposal is that we dispense with elections altogether, and elect people based on how much money they raise. All money raised, win or lose, goes directly to paying down the deficit. Any money spent on other things (ads, escorts, cocaine, legal bills, etc) doesn't count. If a challenger doesn't at least raise half the money that the victor raises, that party is disqualified from running a candidate again for the next office.
One Dollar, One Vote, just as the Founders intended.
Elon Musk is elected President in this way, because he said "fuck it" and put in $50 billion, with Michael Bloomberg taking the VP spot. As President, by Executive order he decrees your taxes will be appropriated to fund his X-for-everything-app hobby project.
If a "legal person" is allowed to become president then it's President Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google. VP Candidates are Nestle vs. Disney vs. Lockheed Martin.
That's one scary monkey's paw wish.
Musk was born in South Africa and since he's not a natural born citizen, is inelligble to be President.
There was talk of changing that for both Henry Kissinger (German) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian), but it never got off the ground.
If we wouldn't change it for them, we won't change it for Musk.