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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
The OP states it is to sell your vote forever. I don't see that as a negotiable saleable item.
If it was to sell it for one single election, I think you'd be right, everyone does have a selling price for that. But to give it up forever?
What I do find surprising here is that people are willing to sell it forever. They are willing to lay down and roll over. This suprises me just as much as those students polled a few years ago that suggest curbing the right to free speech because media outlets go too far.
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Write me a check for a few 100 million and you can have my vote. I'll be liberal proof forever, and I can even join them Barbara Streisand style, flying to feel good functions in my private jet.
I'd also be able to influence more people so while maybe MY vote is gone, I'd be able to swing skulls of mush to where I'd want to vote anyways.
Lets think of it this way. Being able to vote in a fair system, is a huge deal for the average citizen. Its a form of power sharing thats pretty rare in world history. Having a lot of money is a form a power thats pretty damn traditional in any government. So obviously no one would be stupid enough to offer me 'vote money' in a sufficient amount to convince me to to it, I do have a price, when the money I gain would be greater than the 'power' of the vote.
Now you couldn't pay me enough to say turn the country into the dystopia the country would be if some of our left wing TFPers had sway, but thats not the question here.