How Billionaires Control the Government by Controlling the Public

EZ—billionaire owns at least a thousand million dollars, and that’s far more than is needed in order to fund the careers of (by advertising, and hiring of campaign aides, for) politicians to win office on the basis of lies — public promises that are no more credit-worthy than are forged currencies or checks. By contrast, the private promises to those megadonors must be fulfilled, because once having won office this way, a politician is forever afterward dependent upon them, not only by having been bought, but also by those megadonors total knowledge of the dirt in their personal background that could destroy them and even blackball them into…