Frenchman Joseph-Ignace Guillotin solved this problem in the 18th century.
Money in politics is a topic that’s been discussed ever since I was old enough to read newspapers, 50+ years…
The problem is it was only “discussed” instead of “railed against”. Then the Citizens United ruling came around, and the country was lost to the oligarchs.
Reminder that Citizens United was 2010. Just before the bump in the graph. Hard to argue it’s had any effect! /s
It’s not new, but the spending by the richest has gotten to be a much much larger fraction of the total in recent years
This lets them alter the rules of society so that things aren’t just a little tilted in their favor, but are enormously so.
If they weren’t scared those notoriously stingy bastards wouldn’t have spent all that cash trying to maintain their power
The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.
