Authoritarianism and American politics

[Kinser79]

(01-23-2017, 03:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: The opposite. No Russian money, no NRA money, etc, etc.

Only tax payer funded candidates allowed.

The rumors of Russians spending money on the election are over blown and even if they did they probably spent it in favor of HRC in 2016 as she is a known intitity and thus predictable.  As of yet the only credible evidence is that some Russians bought some adds on Facebook.  So unless you want to ban ads on facebook (and thus their revenue stream) that isn't happening.

The rest of it will result in only establishment candidates being presented unless an insanely rich person is driven to run for president or other office through self-funding.

For someone who yells loudly about being anti-authoritarian and anti-totalitarian this policy would result in  both an authoritarian and totalitarian government.  I'm unsure if this is due to a lack of self-awareness, paranoia or a more basic ignorance of the law of unintended consequences.

Thankfully we usually don't write laws on the whims of the ignorant, unaware or mentally ill, well, unless one lives in Commiefornia.