No electoral system is corruption proof, but that first-past-the-post system used in the US (and in Britain, as well), combined with other election practices that tend to disenfranchise certain sections of the population on the one hand and increase campaign spending on the other, certainly do tend to make legislators, judges, and the executive more and more susceptible to the power of the greenback dollar. And given the worship of Mammon and his representatives that is the country’s real religion (don’t be offended ; we’re almost as bad here in Europe or in some instances worse - look at Berlusconi’s Italy), there’s almost no countervailing power to speak of….
No electoral system is corruption proof, but that first-past-the-post system used in the US (and in Britain, as well), combined with other election practices that tend to disenfranchise certain sections of the population on the one hand and increase campaign spending on the other, certainly do tend to make legislators, judges, and the executive more and more susceptible to the power of the greenback dollar. And given the worship of Mammon and his representatives that is the country’s real religion (don’t be offended ; we’re almost as bad here in Europe or in some instances worse - look at Berlusconi’s Italy), there’s almost no countervailing power to speak of….
Henri