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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 11:42 AM
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How to STOP corporations from buying off our Dems once elected?
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Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 12:09 PM by BlooInBloo
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000935.php

This is a problem concerning the *dynamics* of politics, and not the *statics*.

As the country's population goes more and more against gw, and republicans generally, they lean more and more towards Democrats.

Lobbying firms aren't blind to this, and naturally start investing more of their money in the future - i.e., Democrats.

The end result of this is that when Democrats take over Congress in the fall, it's entirely possible that they'll be every bit as bought off as republicans are. Or at least bought off too much for us to be happy with, at any rate.

What can we do to prevent this from occurring?

Some sort of Democratic pledge to remain true to one's constituents and never be beholden, even in appearance, to large corporations, perhaps?

Thoughts?


EDIT: Corrected "bought".
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