Democracy is supposed to be a government of the people by the people for the people. But in reality in the country we live in, it is a government of the corporation by the corporation for the corporation. Take a recent Supreme Court ruling that corporations are considered people when it comes to campaign donations. What does that even mean? Corporations are extended much of the same right as us real people. They are allowed to pay for as much political advertising as they want, because the Supreme Court ruled that to disallow them from doing so would be a violation of their 1st amendment right to free speech.
Politicians also take massive donations from companies and lobbies. How can someone claim to represent the people when they are getting fat checks from big tobacco and oil? Instead they represent the issues of these big companies, rather than the constituents that they are elected to serve.
To truly practice democracy you need to have a smaller body of people to govern. It is impossible to truly have democracy with a population nearing 400 million people.
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