Original title: Singaporean scholar Ma Kaishuo: The United States is not a democratic country, it is controlled by the source of money: CCTV News Client
The United States has always called itself the “democracy beacon” of the world, declaring that the people have the right to participate in public affairs. But the reality is that money politics has already penetrated all aspects of American politics. In this regard, Ma Kaishuo, an outstanding academician of the Institute of Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, said recently that in the United States, it is “money”, not the people, that has freedom of speech and decision-making.
Ma Kaishuo, distinguished academician of the Institute of Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore: It is obvious that the United States is a rich and powerful country, not a democratic country. Democracy represents a government owned by the people, governed by the people, and enjoyed by the people. The rule of the rich means that the government is owned, governed by, and enjoyed by the rich.
Ma Kaishuo believes that in 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court allowed companies and labor unions to “unlimited” donations to the “Super Political Action Committee” supporting candidates, which means that U.S. law grants “money” the right to freedom of speech, which will further strengthen the United States. Pushed to the rule of the rich.
According to statistics, 91% of the U.S. Congressional elections are won by candidates who have received the most funding. Large companies, a few wealthy people, and interest groups are more generous and become the main source of election funds. After these so-called “public opinion representatives” are successfully elected, they often serve the funders behind them and become spokespersons for vested interests. Scholars from Princeton University and Northwestern University in the United States have studied nearly 2,000 U.S. policies and found that wealthy people and interest groups representing large companies have a strong influence on American politics, while ordinary people have almost no influence. In addition to the legislative and executive branch elections, the US judicial field has not been spared from being encroached on by money. The Democratic Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island mentioned in 2020 that the nominees for judges at all levels are manipulated by big money owners with “dark money”, and the total amount can reach hundreds of billions of dollars.
Wertheimer, chairman of the American non-profit organization “21st Century Democracy,” once bluntly stated that American corruption is a systemic corruption of the political process itself. “When you deal with billions of dollars, most of which is used to buy influence, the system It is destroyed, and it is even more difficult to maintain the representation of ordinary Americans.”
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