corporate_cash unhinged 'thomas ferguson, the political scientist who's the leading specialist on campaign funding, has developed what he calls 'the investment theory of politics,' implying that business and investors, not the voters, have tremendous influence in the political system. i mean, candidates are going to continue to need billions of dollars in campaign funding and where do you go - especially after citizens united, which frees up corporate funding? if you want to be in the game, you go to the center of the corporate system. the funding for campaigns is not just to get the candidate in. if you're funding a candidate, it buys access. every funder understands that. that candidate is going to give you privileged access, because he or she wants the funding to continue. and when the candidate wins, privileged access means that your corporate lawyers go to the staff of the legislator, the people who actually write the legislation. the legislators often don't even know what's in it, but the people who actually do the work - your corporate lawyers - go and deluge them with alleged data, arguments, and tons fo material; they basically write the laws. so, what comes out as policy is pretty much what's written by corporate lobbyists and lawyers, who gain access thanks to funding.' - noam chomsky the mayor of seattle was a corporate lawyer before she was a politician. i don't care if she says she's a democrat. anyone that takes a job as a corporate lawyer has only one moral and that moral is money. 180909 ... dafremen Yep. 180910 what's it to you? who go blather from