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Description: Dr. Dan McMillan - Get Money out of Politics. The Time is Now - Site features a blog and other work by author Dan McMillan about money in American politics and campaign finance reform. It also describes Dan McMillans first book, about the causes of the Holocaust.
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“Two things are important in politics. One is money. I don’t remember what the other one is.” – Mark Hanna
After finishing my book on the causes of the Holocaust in 2013, I began researching and writing a book about how big money in politics – the financing of election campaigns with high-dollar donations – has damaged our democracy. What I learned horrified me.
Campaign cash has robbed Americans of the franchise by rendering their votes nearly meaningless. Although we can still go to the polls and vote, big donors have effectively chosen the candidates for whom we may vote, and set limits to the policies which these candidates can support. Big money has reduced government policy to the lowest common denominator of the wishes of donors. Lobbying, which gains its muscle from political donations, fosters gridlock, creating a political system in which several thousand
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