Over $6 billion will be spent on getting into power during this run of US elections. This runs from the bottom to the top of the US democratic system.
The Money Behind the Elections.
Donor Demographics.
This one clearly shows who's buying power. Mr Average isn't funding the people who makes the big decisions that govern his life.
In Europe it's no better. The EU is slowly coming under the control of big business driven by the ease of doing business. Yet for Mr Average in all the the economic EU power houses. Life is getting worse, for those below that level it's getting very bad. Come the British EU IN or OUT referendum the big money will quietly be behind the IN campaign, they have to keep it quiet as Mr Average will vote OUT if big money is too blatant. It will be there though.
We need big business, but not big business that exports jobs and buys power over the rest of us.