People want to advance their beliefs. B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver tries to create an artificial distinction between time spent earning money to donate and time spent doing campaigning directly, such as phoning and preparing mailings.
His position is consistent with Marxist teachings that anyone who has money stole it from someone else B次元官网网址� fixed pie economics denying the human mind and a vague power theory. In fact, companies and organizations like political movements have begun from very little, in the face of established entities.
U.S. experience is that campaign finance restrictions favour incumbents, who have name recognition B次元官网网址� Weaver is now an incumbent whoB次元官网网址檚 been busy getting publicity for his party toward the next election.
Note, too, that money has not elected several presidential wannabes in the U.S., such as Ross Perot. Donald Trump is winning for a different reason B次元官网网址� heB次元官网网址檚 successfully hooked into voter disgust with conventional politicians, which Weaver has become.
Canadian experience is that conservative parties do well with small donations B次元官网网址� thatB次元官网网址檚 why neo-Marxist parties were yelling and screaming about loss of the system that picked taxpayersB次元官网网址� pockets to fund them.
Limiting large donations seems convenient for Weaver, as he thinks they donB次元官网网址檛 go to his party B次元官网网址� unions want jobs, which his policy of de-industrialization would eliminate.
But much money goes to WeaverB次元官网网址檚 eco-friends from large organizations such as Tides, engaging in a continual campaign, and from corporations hedging their bets and pandering to his irrationality for PR purposes.
Is he willing to forgo that help, by eliminating any promotion of ideas, any time of any year?
Keith Sketchley
Saanich
