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The Best Government Money Can Buy

The dog’s breakfast that is electoral politics in the U.S. is, at base, a simple, market-oriented process.

1) It costs millions of dollars to run for almost any national political office.

2) Anyone running for national office – no matter how idealistic they may be when they begin – must raise a whole lot of money, unless thay have millions of their own to blow.

3) In order to raise these millions, the candidate agrees to work for the interests of people who have millions to give them. In other cases, this would be known as becoming an employee.

4) Once the candidate is elected (the one point where you enter the process, assuming you haven’t been shafted at the polls), the process of raising money for the next election begins anew.

5) To help you find out who’s paying the millions, how they pay it, and what they get for their money, a public interest research group called The Center For Responsive Politics maintains a website called OpenSecrets.org .

Highly enlightening.

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