Can Mr.Smith get to Washington? NO SIR!!!!!

In today’s society, the most important aspect of elections is the money. Without it, it would be impossible to get elected. Usually the more money a candidate has, more likely will they get elected. Since with that money, they can buy more air time on networks, travel to more places and spread their ideas. Everything else like political ideals, character, image and expierenc e are all second to money. Since with money, all these things can be spun to look good or bad, and turn an election for a candidates favor. Before the Bipartisan Campaign reform, soft money ran rampant in the political system. It basically allowed for major corporations to buy in an official that would help them. After the McCain-Feingold (BCRA) passed it made soft money illegal in the United States, but instead the 527 commitees formed. Even though they could not support a candidate directly, they were allowed to support issues in campaigns, and literally pour tons of money to getting their “issue” into office. Unlike soft money, hard money is legal and it sets a cap per person on the amount which thy are allowed to donate. Even with this cap, because of the 527 committees, it has little effect. Just based on money, the man of the people cannot get elected, that time has passed and gone. All of those that claim to be from the people, usualy are from wealthy families and have rarely if ever faced the same challenges and roadblocks. Just because of the money factor in elections, it prevents many good candidates from getting elected because they do not have the capital to back up their good ideas. Many times these people with good ideas get overseen by the PACs because their ideas aren’t good for the top, or elites. Instead the PACs choose a cadidate which will favor major corporations and the upper class, with just enough attention to the masses to keep up the illusion of “the man of the people”. The only true democratic part of our politcal system today is paper. In reality, no matter which political party gets elected, things rarely change drasticly, as neither party is truly that different. When those who have good radical ideas that a worth a shot to try, the parties shun them away saying its better to wait, since the public isn’t ready. On top of the already biased opinions of the parties, comes the media itself. No matter how hard they try to hide the bias, it would always be present. Most of the time, the media outlets would rather bash a candidate, or their ideas, then bring up real facts. Most of the time many of these stations are run by the extremeist that give their over party a bad name, for either being a gun crazy war monger or a socialist loving hippie. Yet even with all these problems, the real problem in our political system is the low turn out. That most people would rather believe that their vote doesn’t matter and just ignore the problem, then take a measly hour out of their day to help bring their ideas to life. Our society doesn’t want to take the responsibity to pay attention to the government and question in because that is too much work.