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> * They were not interested in a level playing field, they were again protecting their interest.*

A system where the person with the most money wins is a level playing field?

I'm very happy I'm not playing your silly game.

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The most money does not win, the most votes does. Advertisements, books, DVDs... do not translate into votes. They are a part of public discourse that can be as easily celebrated as ignored.

If the people are too stupid to make wise decisions, and only go where the most funding is, then we may as well throw in the towel on democracy right now; what's the point?

Come on now. It's not this black and white. Political campaign teams are masters at manipulating public perception and obscuring facts. Even for an informed voter, it's hard to tell whose facts are true given the media bias, corporate bias, and various other misinformation out there. Pumping more money into this machine doesn't seem to me to be a good idea.

Being propagandized into voting against one's interests != stupidity.

If you accept the premise that you can just buy votes with money, then it's not even stupid. Soda machine is not stupid for reliably giving your soda for your money - it's just a mindless robot. If people are mindless robots, there's no point in voting anyway. If people can be convinced to take decisions which you wouldn't like - that's life for you. Money or no money, that's always going to happen. People take bad decisions all the time, and money has nothing to do with it.

The people should have open access to all the information they need to make wise decisions, rather than people with money manipulating the information and access to it, so they can manipulate the people.

We will have the best democracy money can buy

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