The reason why there is so much money getting into politics is because we have given government so many powers over us, which makes those powers attractive to money... Unfortunately we will then try to fix this by giving government even MORE power, which will further the corruption, etc. If government didnt have certain powers that someone wanted to control, then they wouldn't bother wasting money trying to buy it...
But in any case, to the doom and gloomers...
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