If you ain’t first, you’re last.
-Ricky Bobby
Elected Officials cannot be expected to support an agenda that conflicts with the special interests funding their elections.
That explains why income inequality gets worse every year. Wealth is extracted from the powerless and funneled upwards to the top. The Elites use that power to control government officials to further enrich themselves. It’s an addiction that no longer has anything to do with money itself, because the quantities have reached absurd levels, but more to do with rankings among peers.
We are in a bind. We want to win elections, we need money to win, and the majority of money comes from the very sources we seek to break-up.
It may be that we’ve gone about it all wrong. Democrats have tried to limit capitalism instead of embracing it in the electoral process.
NASCAR Politics
At the start of each election cycle, Democratic candidates will auction their services to the highest bidder. E-bay or a similar formatted website will suit the purpose. At the conclusion of the auction, each candidate has their own unique special interest sponsor who can donate unlimited funds, or as established by law. Each candidate can have only one such sponsor on the Democratic side, but small donor contributions will be unlimited. If small donations dwarf the corporate sponsor , the candidate can ignore the wishes of the sponsor and get a new one next cycle.
Likewise each special interest can only purchase the services of one Democrat per elected body. On the national level, that’s one Representative, one Senator, and one Presidential candidate. They can also invest at the State level, in as many States as they wish, but only one candidate per elected body for Democrats.
This solves the problem of undue influence. Individual corporate interests cannot buy entire bodies. They can buy just one vote. It will allow legislation to pass if the majority of corporate sponsors don’t object to it. That will be the trick, finding space between where corporate interests overlap.
Now you may be wondering what happens if the corporations unionize by banding together bought elected officials of certain industries to vote for common interests. That might prove unstoppable.