Forum Post: THE demand of the protests should be CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 10, 2011, 9:33 p.m. EST by LSN45
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For decades now both the right and the left have been bought and paid for by corporations and special interests through the current system of legalized bribery (campaign donations) and paid lobbying. Securing real, loop-hole free CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM is the first step to getting our democracy back. Until the money is taken out of our politics our "representatives" will continue to be the lap dogs of the corporations and special interests. I read about a lot of people wanting tighter term limits, sensible financial regulations, or effective health care policies - these, and any other meaningful reforms, have next to zero chance of happening unless we get the money out of our politics. Unless we get the influence of the corporations and other monied interests out you can count on your children becoming the 21st century equivalent of the "landless peasant" (the 1% like to call it capitalism, but what we really have now is crony-capitalism or no-fuedalism).
I agree; this is the fundamental problem.
Campaign Finance Reform thread topics
http://occupywallst.org/forum/forum-topics/#comment-308077
Yeah!
Protest elected and appointed officials, departments or other entities that obstruct independent non-corporate candidates from getting on ballots.