Presidential Candidates: A Case Study
Ever since the Citizens United decision made by the Supreme court, an unlimited amount of money has been poured into supporting candidates for president. We need to enact a new amendment to stop major corporations from limitlessly funding candidates to heavily influence the American system and regulate the amount of money given to presidential candidates.
The Citizens United decision allowed many wealthy people and capitalists to influence election to help elect presidential candidates whom they support. In 2012, billionaires, corporations and even foreign donations were sent in to take down the Democrats (Hamilton, "The Citizens United Ruling Will Increase Corruption in the US Government."). Typically, those with more money would be able to give them an advantage. Republicans tend to be right winged, meaning that they support government free regulations, focusing more on business. With an absurd amount of money that surpasses that the Democrats can muster, Republicans would be able to easily cover the cost for running for office. By being able to out fund their opponents, wealthy people …show more content…
As TV stations looked to earn a better revenue, they look towards political advertising where politicians who spend the most money would be able to secure stations to endlessly show ads supporting them or negatively against opponents (Nichols, "The Citizens United Decision Will Increase Negative Political Ads."). People would not care about the consequence in their actions as long as they are able to earn easy extra money. All the advertising times would be bought up by politicians to shine a negative light against opponents, with those spending the most, having more time. This would be mutually beneficial to TV stations and candidates, but would cause a one sidedness as only those heavy supported by the rich would have a bigger
The Citizens United decision allowed many wealthy people and capitalists to influence election to help elect presidential candidates whom they support. In 2012, billionaires, corporations and even foreign donations were sent in to take down the Democrats (Hamilton, "The Citizens United Ruling Will Increase Corruption in the US Government."). Typically, those with more money would be able to give them an advantage. Republicans tend to be right winged, meaning that they support government free regulations, focusing more on business. With an absurd amount of money that surpasses that the Democrats can muster, Republicans would be able to easily cover the cost for running for office. By being able to out fund their opponents, wealthy people …show more content…
As TV stations looked to earn a better revenue, they look towards political advertising where politicians who spend the most money would be able to secure stations to endlessly show ads supporting them or negatively against opponents (Nichols, "The Citizens United Decision Will Increase Negative Political Ads."). People would not care about the consequence in their actions as long as they are able to earn easy extra money. All the advertising times would be bought up by politicians to shine a negative light against opponents, with those spending the most, having more time. This would be mutually beneficial to TV stations and candidates, but would cause a one sidedness as only those heavy supported by the rich would have a bigger