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Reflection assignment for political science (250+ words). Please read through all the rules and required readings before answering the questions. Please use *APA citation format* for both in-text citations and work citations (Include URL if there is any). Topic and Rules are attached.
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Dollars in USA politics1
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1st May 2017
Dollars in USA politics2
USA politics are guided and dominated by power of the dollar. Those with more dollars
have more votes which they buy using their financial power. This means that elections and the
campaign process have no democracy. In democracy, people have equal chances of being voted
for, however, USA politics is guided by dollarocracy, whereby the rich have higher chances of
being voted in office.
These politicians raise funds for their campaigns through private or public funding.
Private funding comes in when an individual donates money to a politician and can chose to
remain anonymous. However, this money is paid back whereby the politicians make policies
that favor their donors (Bennet 2012) This means that the voters are short changed whereby, they
vote in leaders who instead of serving them, they serve those who fu...