YES! Lawmakers could introduce progressive legislation.
25%
NO! Focus should be on getting money out of politics altogether.
75%
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Yes! The focus should be on winning!
No! I don't give a shit if your Mother Teresa, money corrupts - period!
Come on People, help me out here, or am I being vague again
No, the only way to have a true functioning democracy that includes all comers--not just those with the most money--with the best ideas is to have public funding of elections--everyone gets equal TV/Media time, only ideas are aried, no mudslinging. The answer is not to throw money at the problem; the solution is to eliminate it. Our current political funding system subverts and destroys democracy. We, the taxpayers, are paying our elected officials to spend most of their time raking in money rather than in doing the business we elected them to do.
Impeach the K-RATS, lapdogs of the wealthy, in the Supreme Court and get rid of the Citizen's United and McHutcheon decisions and all the other lame, subversive, and treasonous decisions of that bunch of intellectual lightweights.
The corrupt rich would only accept reducing money=politics, if the American people beats them at their own game.
It's totally pathetic, they have to distort all that's good, to win.
An alternaive to ALEC already exists. It's called the State Innovation Exchange (SiX). It combines 3 progressive state policy non-profits--Progressive States Network (PSN), ALICE (American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange), and CSI (Center for State Innovation). This is the progressive alternative to ALEC and will help promote progressive ideas and oppose regressive laws put forth by the likes of the Koch bros and other destructive groups.
What is needed is ot get money out of politics (and that includes reversing the "Citizens United" ruling). I would also support term limits across the board and restrict the "revolving door" between government and Big Business.