Here's the story about the 2016 election that the mainstream media is refusing to talk about:
2016 Elections: Now You, Too, Can Use Your Millions to Buy a President
U.S. Inc. — Free speech is the dominant issue in the 2016 presidential elections—that is, if you subscribe to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United that ranked political spending on par with your right to speak out against it. According to a report by the New York Times, nearly half of the hundreds of millions raised so far in the elections was donated by less than 400 families—a
dubious ratio indicating the greatest concentration of wealth among the
fewest people than at any other time in modern history.
Though candidates are ostensibly shackled to a $2,700 per donor
limit, Citizens United paved the legal avenue for defiance of that cap
in Super PACs, which have no such fetters—allowing corporations, special
interests, and billionaires to indirectly flood the campaigns with unlimited cash. And Super PACs are incredibly expeditious as fundraisers, “sometimes bringing in tens of millions of dollars from a few businesses or individuals in a matter of days,” with an aggregate portion leaning Republican.
