How do wealthy people and groups attempt to influence elected officials today?
How do wealthy people and groups attempt to influence elected officials today? What can ordinary citizens do about it?
1. Form aggressive PACs and NGOs to support their candidates and belittle their opponents
2. Control of information and information dissemination by their own mass media outlets. Blitz news cycle with pundits, talking heads, and policy wonks.
3. Censorship of media through economic boycott or advertising revenue deprivation
4. Direct and soft money payments to candidates and their political parties
5. Whisper/black mail campaigns
6. Lobbying groups advocate in sympathy or contrary to positions advocated by elected officials
7. Low interest loans and sweetheart real estate deals for favored candidates and officials
8. Direct huge sums of money towards projects favored by chosen candidates and away from disfavored candidates
9. Manipulate and tinker with credit, stock, and other financial markets during critical times of election campaigns
10. File lawsuits against unpopular candidates to bankrupt them.
May 26th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
The same way they have been influencing them for hundreds of years. Ordinary citizens can vote them out when they’re up for re-election.
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May 26th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Money is essential to politics. As such, people with money want to maintain it thus they influence the legislative process to their advantage.
Voting and organizing others is the only way ordinary people can do about it.
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May 26th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
1. Form aggressive PACs and NGOs to support their candidates and belittle their opponents
2. Control of information and information dissemination by their own mass media outlets. Blitz news cycle with pundits, talking heads, and policy wonks.
3. Censorship of media through economic boycott or advertising revenue deprivation
4. Direct and soft money payments to candidates and their political parties
5. Whisper/black mail campaigns
6. Lobbying groups advocate in sympathy or contrary to positions advocated by elected officials
7. Low interest loans and sweetheart real estate deals for favored candidates and officials
8. Direct huge sums of money towards projects favored by chosen candidates and away from disfavored candidates
9. Manipulate and tinker with credit, stock, and other financial markets during critical times of election campaigns
10. File lawsuits against unpopular candidates to bankrupt them.
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May 26th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Wealthy people create superficial differences between candidates and pound out message of fear and warfare.
Also own all the news papers and assassinate independent media in South America.
What ordinary citizens can do about it is find U.N. Military manuals and train themselves to enforce
The U.N. Charter and use Universal Declaration of rights to get the planetary vote.
In addition perhaps if population already not strong enough the book Night Of Power a science fiction book can be sold everywhere to finance campaigns as well as the book 1984 by Orwell.
Also Betrand Russell ’s works, and Albert Einstein’s warnings in 1950’s on necessity to stop war.
In addition it can be understood citizens are not free untill the have control of their destinies.
Also to create alternative media and emplace buttons to remove propaganda from news seen on the web. Plus requirement that a vote be taken before the propaganda is removed.
References :
Bertrand Russell,suggestions, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Problems With Freedom.