Buying America
The U.S politics have become to be a game of wealth and foolery. Nowadays, dark money has infiltrated our public affairs by buying out running candidates and corrupting our elections. Dark money’s role in our politics is that high dollar corporations and million and billionaire “investors” are able to fund and tell the candidate what to say and vote for in order to benefit the corporations and influence the election and not disclose their donors. The effects of dark money can be seen from its past history, and both its positive and negative effects. The use of dark money has been used by politicians throughout the last several elections. With high end corporations funding and buying out candidates for votes, dark money has plagued our nation. In both the last election and in the 2012 race, politicians have been funded by enormous companies in order to sway their views and buy votes, all of which help benefit the corporations. By leaving people in the dark about where the politician’s money is coming from, no one really knows his or her full intention and whether or not they were bought out. Politicians might as well wear NASCAR suits with each of their sponsors in order for America to know who is backing them up. Beginning back in 2008, …show more content…
With the politician voting in favor of the company, their decision can have negative effect on the public and therefore the country. millions of dollars are poured into politics from companies and high end investors, usually the 1% of people that actually can afford it. Not to mention that most of dark money is used towards negative ads towards the other running candidate, rather than showing the positives of the one who sending out the negative
The U.S politics have become to be a game of wealth and foolery. Nowadays, dark money has infiltrated our public affairs by buying out running candidates and corrupting our elections. Dark money’s role in our politics is that high dollar corporations and million and billionaire “investors” are able to fund and tell the candidate what to say and vote for in order to benefit the corporations and influence the election and not disclose their donors. The effects of dark money can be seen from its past history, and both its positive and negative effects. The use of dark money has been used by politicians throughout the last several elections. With high end corporations funding and buying out candidates for votes, dark money has plagued our nation. In both the last election and in the 2012 race, politicians have been funded by enormous companies in order to sway their views and buy votes, all of which help benefit the corporations. By leaving people in the dark about where the politician’s money is coming from, no one really knows his or her full intention and whether or not they were bought out. Politicians might as well wear NASCAR suits with each of their sponsors in order for America to know who is backing them up. Beginning back in 2008, …show more content…
With the politician voting in favor of the company, their decision can have negative effect on the public and therefore the country. millions of dollars are poured into politics from companies and high end investors, usually the 1% of people that actually can afford it. Not to mention that most of dark money is used towards negative ads towards the other running candidate, rather than showing the positives of the one who sending out the negative