On the “Main Objectives” page of this site, I referenced the 2020 US Senate race in North Carolina. In that race – the most expensive US Senate race of all time – $282 million was spent on an office that will only earn $174,000 a year. The question for me instantly became, “Why have our legislative seats in Washington become so valuable?”
Of the $282 million number above, only $76 million was raised by the two candidates. That means outside groups – those political action committees that are almost completely unregulated – spent $206 million on that US Senate race.
My problem is this: As a voter, my voice is my vote, and it is equal to every other United States citizen with the power to vote. I don’t think it is in the best interest of our citizenry to have so much less a voice than corporations and political action committees whose gigantic wallets, combined with the gerrymandering tendencies of BOTH parties, have created a huge swath of voters who are so disenfranchised with the system that they don’t even bother to vote because they realize how small their voice truly is. Somehow, some way, that needs to change. Because those disenfranchised voters are not wrong.
Original source can be found here.
