Thomas Freer on The Role of Money in Politics
Thomas Freer
The Role of Money in Politics
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Yeah, um uh this is a great great discussion.
- 0:03 And I actually posted something similar about a day ago.
- 0:06 But one of the things I left out that you touched on was that you know, these super high net worth individuals are donating to these political campaigns, they might expect special treatment.
- 0:19 And I didn't touch on that, but that's you know, at the root of it, that's one of the worst things that can come out of the um unlimited money being able to be donated in these elections.
- 0:31 You know, that literally makes rich people, their voice matters more than people who are, you know, not even just less fortunate, just normal people who can't donate millions of dollars to a political campaign.
- 0:47 Um and that's not what it should be.
- 0:49 It's supposed to be every vote counts the same.
- 0:52 And if you're you're able to just buy influence, influence your way through a political campaign and then have that guy in office or woman in office uh backing whatever helps your uh investments or companies, uh, that's that's just not what it should be.