notyou2 wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:Gillipig wrote:It may not work but it's a beautiful thing.
It did work, does work in areas where people are not so heavily vested in corporations that they cannot afford to question them... and forget that corporations are ONLY about making money and protecting the investors, not anything that is right, just or any other value... no matter what the parties in the companies might wish or believe.
What impact do voters have on the democratic political process?
Less than major corporations that unduly influence the political process, yet aren't voters.
How do you know?
For example, if voters wouldn't choose politicians who even thought of taking corporate funding, then the more corruptible politicians wouldn't survive the competitive process. But... voters do choose such politicians. Ultimately, votes determine the character of the politician; voters don't want a politician lecturing to them about how their beliefs are mistaken; they want someone to yell about how awesome they are.
It's more sensible to put most of the blame on voters (it's not like voters are the bastions of rational thought in the political process). Blaming 'teh big business' for hijacking democracy is a pleasant story, which to some degree is true, but it doesn't explain the bottomline issues (e.g. selection of politicians). People won't like my story because it blames them for being irrational.