Buying America
The U.S politics have become to be a game of wealth and foolery. Nowadays, dark money has infiltrated our public affairs by buying out running candidates and corrupting our elections. Dark money’s role in our politics is that high dollar corporations and million and billionaire “investors” are able to fund and tell the candidate what to say and vote for in order to benefit the corporations and influence the election and not disclose their donors. The effects of dark money can be seen from its past history, and both its positive and negative effects. The use of dark money has been used by politicians throughout the last several elections. With high end corporations funding and buying out candidates for votes, dark money has plagued our nation. In both the last election and in the 2012 race, politicians have been funded by enormous companies in order to sway their views and buy votes, all of which help benefit the corporations. By leaving people in the dark about where the politician’s money is coming from, no one really knows his or her full intention and whether or not they were bought out. Politicians might as well wear NASCAR suits with each of their sponsors in order for America to know who is backing them up. Beginning back in 2008, the U.S supreme court ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Court Commission, which dealt with whether or not campaign finance rules were considered unconstitutional under the first amendment, ruled that the federal government cannot limit corporation, including those 501(c) and social welfare organizations from spending money to influence the outcomes of any elections. This ruling lead to the outcome of super PAC, a relatively modern breed of political action committee that is allowed to raise and spend money from corporations, unions, individuals, and association, and thus dark money was born. Some of these group that are dark money supporters/funders include anti tax Club of Growth, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, abortion-rights activist groups Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc. and NARAL Pro Choice America. From spending $5.2 million in 2006, the 2012 campaign from both parties spent a total of well over $300 million. One of the biggest controversies during election season while using dark money was the 2012 election forerunners Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. A 501(c) group known as Crossroads GPS was able to create slandering Tv ads with the helpful anonymous donation of $10 million dollars, later on to find out that the contributor was George W. Bush’s advisor Karl Rove. Crossroads GPS reportedly spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election. Dark money used in the 2014 election alone was $174 million and made up 4.6% percent of all campaign spending. The New York TImes editorial board …show more content…
With the politician voting in favor of the company, their decision can have negative effect on the public and therefore the country. millions of dollars are poured into politics from companies and high end investors, usually the 1% of people that actually can afford it. Not to mention that most of dark money is used towards negative ads towards the other running candidate, rather than showing the positives of the one who sending out the negative
The U.S politics have become to be a game of wealth and foolery. Nowadays, dark money has infiltrated our public affairs by buying out running candidates and corrupting our elections. Dark money’s role in our politics is that high dollar corporations and million and billionaire “investors” are able to fund and tell the candidate what to say and vote for in order to benefit the corporations and influence the election and not disclose their donors. The effects of dark money can be seen from its past history, and both its positive and negative effects. The use of dark money has been used by politicians throughout the last several elections. With high end corporations funding and buying out candidates for votes, dark money has plagued our nation. In both the last election and in the 2012 race, politicians have been funded by enormous companies in order to sway their views and buy votes, all of which help benefit the corporations. By leaving people in the dark about where the politician’s money is coming from, no one really knows his or her full intention and whether or not they were bought out. Politicians might as well wear NASCAR suits with each of their sponsors in order for America to know who is backing them up. Beginning back in 2008, the U.S supreme court ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Court Commission, which dealt with whether or not campaign finance rules were considered unconstitutional under the first amendment, ruled that the federal government cannot limit corporation, including those 501(c) and social welfare organizations from spending money to influence the outcomes of any elections. This ruling lead to the outcome of super PAC, a relatively modern breed of political action committee that is allowed to raise and spend money from corporations, unions, individuals, and association, and thus dark money was born. Some of these group that are dark money supporters/funders include anti tax Club of Growth, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, abortion-rights activist groups Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc. and NARAL Pro Choice America. From spending $5.2 million in 2006, the 2012 campaign from both parties spent a total of well over $300 million. One of the biggest controversies during election season while using dark money was the 2012 election forerunners Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. A 501(c) group known as Crossroads GPS was able to create slandering Tv ads with the helpful anonymous donation of $10 million dollars, later on to find out that the contributor was George W. Bush’s advisor Karl Rove. Crossroads GPS reportedly spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election. Dark money used in the 2014 election alone was $174 million and made up 4.6% percent of all campaign spending. The New York TImes editorial board …show more content…
With the politician voting in favor of the company, their decision can have negative effect on the public and therefore the country. millions of dollars are poured into politics from companies and high end investors, usually the 1% of people that actually can afford it. Not to mention that most of dark money is used towards negative ads towards the other running candidate, rather than showing the positives of the one who sending out the negative