Why Bribery Still Works in Canadian Politics
It’s not hard to imagine a stadium filled with tens of thousands of young people cheering wildly. But, before 2015, it would have been difficult to imagine them cheering for anything other than a pop star or sports team, let alone a dishevelled seventy-four-year old man ranting about campaign-finance reform.
Yet that’s exactly what happened when Bernie Sanders crossed America like a rock star, waving his hands in the air while declaring, “We need to get big money out of politics and restore our democracy to combat a corrupted political system controlled by deep-pocketed special interests and the billionaire class.”