So says Dilbert-creator on his blog in a fun--and sometimes, interesting--piece on why he doesn't vote.
You know, he might have something. Most of the money raised for political campaigns related to advertising in one way or another. If pols were freed of prostituting themselves to get the money from special interests that they use to pay for all the polling, producing, and purchasing of ads and air time and space in periodicals, they might be fre to make sound decisions. Hmmm.
Free speech issue? Not if all campaigns were banned from having advertising and if you made provision for all points of view and all candidates to get access to the public.
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I think we should make it so that any monetary donations are okay, but who donates money to whom, and how much, should be easily accessible by anyone anytime, in real time. No secrets. If a politician is virtually owned by Exxon, or Archer Daniels Midland - that's okay with me. But everybody should know about it.
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