Sounds like a conspiracy theorists

[FluffyMcDeath]

Shadowy entities indeed.
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Still, he speaks a lot better than the guy before him.

 

[Glaucus]

Even without the conspiracy bits, what he says makes a lot of sense. Why would anyone allow foreign entities to influence your own elections? I also don't understand what's in it for the Republicans, unless they've been bought up by foreign corporations or nations (China?) already.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

I also don't understand what's in it for the Republicans, [...].

Foreign money is still money.

 

[Glaucus]

Perhaps only loosely related but didn't feel like starting a new thread for this...

Google wants to help fight the good fight: Google: political system is "shocking," we want to change the game

Google CEO Eric Schmidt dropped by the Washington Ideas Forum last week. It was clear from his comments that he and his company remain deeply attached to the search giant's self-image not only as a force for good, but as a bastion of innocence, peering into the political system from the outside.

"We've heard a fair amount at this conference over the last couple of days about what Washington doesn't get about what's going on in the country and what's going on in the world," began Atlantic editor James Bennet in an on-stage Q&A interview with Schmidt. "What do you think that Washington doesn't understand?"

"I would invert the question," Schmidt replied. "I would say the average American doesn't realize how much the laws are written by lobbyists."