People here constantly bitch about the fact that there are no true conservatives in Washington. What we're talking about right now is why that is. Big money and average people do not and never will have the same political needs. The fact that these politicians are taking checks from big international interests should be very alarming. How can he serve Americans when he works for the very people that want to push globalism?
What big solely domestic interests are there? In a global economy, if you are big, you are international.
Whether it is oil, steel, agriculture, whatever, global markets mandate international corporate interests. Only smaller corporations can be solely domestic, and even those have to compete with the big boys in markets for commodities that are globally traded.
In North Dakota's 2018 Senate race, for example, Heidi Heitkamp (D) incumbent received roughly 24 million in contributions, 95% of which came from out of state. Kevin Cramer (R) senator elect, got 4 million and 70% of that was from out of state. Despite out spending Cramer, Heitkamp, an incumbent, lost--not even those millions from elsewhere could save her in a state fueled by oil and gas and agriculture.
But let's look at il and gas and agriculture. The big players on those fields, from Exxon Mobil to ADM and Monsanto, are indeed international corporations with international interests. You can't escape that unless you are going to do some serious campaign finance reform. Someone would still find a way around that, like Obama's collecting of millions through small contributions made with prepaid plastic from afar during his first run.
