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by Ruth Westreich
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Title
Democracy for Sale
Description
THE 26 RICHEST PEOPLE on Earth now own as much as the 3.8 billion who form the poorer half of the planet’s population. Concentrated wealth on this scale invites corruption. Corruption makes it impossible to fight stagnant wages, climate change or any other problem facing the vast majority of the world’s population.
Our democracy relies on free and fair elections that guarantee citizens’ equal rights. Therefore, does foreign political spending influence our elections? In a recent case affirmed by the Supreme Court, the District Court of the District of Columbia stated that the ability to exclude foreigners from our elections is “fundamental to the definition of our national political community.”
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Ruth Westreich
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Conversations of Consequence
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Ruth Westreich, “Democracy for Sale,”
Conversations of Consequence by Ruth Westreich
, accessed June 14, 2025,
https://biblio.csusm.edu/context-library-series/westreich/document/215
.