Wealthy donors are being granted more access to the party, receiving leadership positions, and being floated as political candidates.
The 2011 Citizen’s United ruling and other similar decisions have enabled corporations and wealthy donors to flood political campaigns with money. In an inevitable next step, wealthy donors are running for political office. Since Donald Trump demonstrated it’s possible for a billionaire with no political experience to win political office, mainstream media outlets and several politically inexperienced billionaire donors have floated the possibility of their own electoral bids.
Mark Zuckerberg has been floated as a potential 2020 presidential candidate. His announcement that he would be visiting all 50 states this year incited speculation he was testing the waters for a future political run.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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