No Democracy can survive where a small group of people have far greater access to the means by which voters receive their information, yet that is the situation NOW in America, made worse by the Supreme Court, in the Citizens United Case of January, 2010. The decline of real journalism has also worked to increase the influence of the wealthy and corporations.
We must find a way to honestly inform voters on the real issues of a campaign and connect these issues to the beliefs, actions, and track records of the candidates. It is essential to do this, and the only way is through public funding of all elections and insisting that TV and radio stations contribute free and equal air time to the candidates. If candidates were not driven to constantly raise money for re-election then they would not be under the thumb of corporate lobbyists, with their million dollar “contributions.” This is how the system is being run now, and it is destroying the middle class, and destroying democracy. All of the richest and most powerful corporations, with the sole aim of increasing their private profits, are manipulating our system to their great advantage. We believe in the principle of “One Person, One Vote.” Not “One dollar, One vote.”