This is how our political system works now. People endorse and donate to politicians with whom they agree in hopes of furthering their message and thus gaining more support. Corporations are empowered to do the same with their vastly larger mountains of excess cash.
It's supposed to work that a politician as a platform and a company or individual donates to support that platform. It DOES become bribery when those funds are given with an expectation that the politician will act against his platform and instead in the interests of that 'donor'.
It's an incredibly thin line.
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This is how our political system works now. People endorse and donate to politicians with whom they agree in hopes of furthering their message and thus gaining more support. Corporations are empowered to do the same with their vastly larger mountains of excess cash.
It's supposed to work that a politician as a platform and a company or individual donates to support that platform. It DOES become bribery when those funds are given with an expectation that the politician will act against his platform and instead in the interests of that 'donor'.
It's an incredibly thin line.