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Boggles the mind that people still call this a democracy.
Imagine a world where "money = speech" reconciled with the notion that when it comes to elections, everyone should have an equal voice, and the result is that a fixed amount of money was made available to candidates, split evenly among every citizen, and we were able to choose who our portion went to. No outside funding period.
Apparently Brazil passed such legislation. They have a national electoral fund that they use to fund electoral campaigns. Individual citizens can donate up to 10% of their income to the fund per year.
Funny enough some states in the US also had such laws but they were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Are you saying they progressively cap what you can donate, based on the donators income? That sounds like it blatantly disenfranchises poor voters, but maybe I’m misunderstanding. I would think, there should be a hard cap on the amount you can donate. If anything would be progressive, I’d think the government should match your donation (not to exceed the cap) for poorer voters. Like, if you’re on food stamps, you basically only have to pay with half as much as everyone else (or something).
Representative government who only represents the donors and not the constituents, especially after an election, is definitely why we can't have nice things.
I'm kinda surprised no one has come in with the "It isn't a democracy, it's a Democratic Republic!"
Fuck, keep forgetting I'm not on reddit.
Cause the issue isn't how people are represented, but that money means more representation. Doesn't matter if it was straight democracy or democratic republic, it ain't really either if people with money get more representation.