Forum Post: Buying elections and Monopolizing power

One of the main goals of OWS should be to galvanize support for EXTREME campaign finance reform. The kind of finance reform that doesn't consider major donations "speech", but rather considers them a form of anti-competitive conduct. The same basic antitrust principles that guide the federal government and the courts to mitigate mergers between major corporations should be the same principles that prevent a few major corporations from merging with candidates to form the ultimate monopoly.