(10-25-2011, 04:36 PM)kandrathe Wrote: When Micheal Moore or Citizen's United make a movie, they are not giving me money. I think they may be attempting to change my opinion by misrepresenting the truth, and so YOU may want to accept their word at face value without your own independent investigation. But, then, I think you would be in that number of stupid people you mentioned earlier.
I understand your way of thinking but let's not try and find extreme cases here. There is a clear difference between countries like the US and Italy and countries like e.g. Holland and Sweden. Of course in the Netherlands we also have our share of populists and poltiticians who arrange certain things behind the backs of voters, but you must agree with the fact that private payments tho campaign funds and owning 75 % of a countries media are completely different things.
What I mean to say is that to me the difference between the Dutch and the US system is bigger than the difference between the US system and the direct buying of votes. And don't start playing the communist card here, this has nothing to do with communism and everything with democracy.
Of course drawing a line is not easy, but I think making it illegal to get private (corporate) funding for election campaigns would be a big step.