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Super Pac's Influence On Politics
The Political process in today’s presidential race deals primarily with money spent rather than votes earned. Due to delegate rule on our voting system and corruption brought about by money funded corporations and media, candidates promises are more discriminatory than for the people. The presidential race has always had the influence of money and media in order to catch the public eye. Super PAC’s and corporate influence as well as television and news outlets have the most influence on politics. In recent times, influence of corporations and Super PACs has grown exponentially due to the wage gap in today’s economy. The wage gap, being brought about by corporate influence in congress has allowed them to stalemate legislations and anything …show more content…
The solution of petitions is to gain enough signatures for congress to see that the American people have been aware and are calling for change. The change from the petition also includes goals like “Stopping political bribery so special interests can’t use job offers and donations to influence politicians. Ending secret money so people know who’s buying political power. And Fixing our broken elections so the people, not the political establishment, are the ones in control”(anticorruptionact). This solution however requires mass involvement and requires our congress to take steps toward removing corporate grasp on their votes. Which involves congress and the senate deciding whether they want to continue being paid off or break up big …show more content…
“The current campaign finance system makes it possible for industries that are responsible for some of the worst pollution problems facing our country to use millions of dollars in political contributions to elected officials to buy access and influence”(Dem. Matters). The result is corporations being given a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue harming the environment as a result of deregulations. Emphasising on the environment and pushing aside religious ideologies in the government would allow for more regulations to be put in place, allowing more environmental aid to be taken into effect. The emphasis on the environment will raise awareness for environmental protection and lower the depth of issues causing pollution and waste distribution in not only America but the world. With religion lessened in politics, we could progress the vote of the people as opposed to one ruling religion. With that we could focus on fixing issues as opposed to getting offended with its moral integrity on certain individuals as opposed to it being better for the greater good. The government was meant to oversee without religion, not for
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