What I find inconceivable is that your laws would openly allow such a thing. All laws have loopholes but to be able to let everybody know that you want to buy their votes, that’s where my issue would be.
Chaos?
No system of law is perfect. Similar loopholes surely exist in British Law.
In British elections at every level candidates have a maximum allowable spend. They must submit their accounts to a speclfied body. Any American would be astonished at how small those allowances are.
To be able to control the news and direct people's thoughts and views more than he even can now
To be able to develop his products without risk of litigation if they start killing people.
Exactly!
I think US politics desperately needs something similar to reduce the dependency on, and power of lobbyists.
Yep. Nothing will change in America as long as they continue to basically allow corporations to bribe politicians and in many cases, basically write the laws for them. Literally every social problem in America seems to be ‘most Americans want X, but this privatised industry funds the politicians and makes sure it doesn’t happen.’ From healthcare, to prisons, to even minor things like having to file a tax return every year. Do you think there’s any normal person on either side of the political spectrum that wouldn’t fuck off filing your own tax returns every year? Yet it still happens because there are big companies profiting off the requirement.
