Reply #26: Have to disagree [View All]

[MadHound]

All your proposal does is solidify the "two party, same corporate master" system of government that we're operating under now. Hell, the vast majority of your big time corporate and individual donors already give to both parties come election season, and generally at the same aprox. amount. This is called hedging their bets, whoever wins is still beholden to them and their money.

And frankly I have a huge problem with the entire concept of monetary donations being defined as "free speech". Money talks, I grant you that, but it isn't a person or living thing. Frankly this concept is about as wrong as granting corporations "personhood" as we see in the current growing trend. And frankly, if we want to get around that, instead of passing PFEs as a law, make it a Constitutional Amendment.

If we want to take the monetary corruption out of our government, we're going to have to remove the money. We remove the money and that will allow a broader spectrum of views to be represented, and corporations will not be able to easily craft legislation that benefits them as they do now. PFE's have already been passed in four states, and they have benefitted from the law. It is high time that we took it nationwide.

It is time to return government of the people, by the people and for the people back to the people.