Noam Chomsky on Money in Politics

[@BrentRJones]

The actual order of influence is: 1 - Money (direct donors, PAC/corporate donors, lobbyists, party donors) 2 - Media & Polls 3 - Party leadership 4 - Feedback from voters You may get elected with votes, but you can't "listen" to them. Polls are actually akin to voter feedback. 3 To get significant congressional committee appointments and leadership positions you must be loyal to your party.

[@iversonmatthew]

1 lobbyist clicked dislike.

[@secularsam7678]

Rumor is he's still roaming the halls of Congress to this day.

[@Indianart1]

....only 2,108 have heard this? So, we are no further ahead than when we started. What's the end product of getting all this knowledge then? Probably that knowledge doesn't isn't power, it doesn't get you power, it gets you frustrated.

[@takepartlive]

Folks needs to try and vote in every election!

[@jackwagonjim6255]

Vote for who, exactly? Big Money chooses our candidates for us. We will never vote ourselves out of this mess.

[@salasvalor01]

He is for the truth. The archetype of modern minds, he is. His mind is the most free-thinking enterprise I've seen- it seems taboo and popular opinion is foreign to him. Btw, and this is odd and in no way an insult, he reminds me of Eddie Van Halen around 2007. Maybe you'll see it, maybe you won't.

[@eoindiff]

#wolf-PACk #tyt