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Simple. Make it impossible for private individuals or organizations to fund political campaigns. Find some other way.

This may be impossible to do overnight, but during the transition period, one possibility would be for people to contribute to an agency that would forward the $ to the candidate, without telling him who donated it. This way there would be no "favors" owed. But even that should be eventually phased out and some other mechanism for funding campaigns should be made available.

In a society where you need money to get elected, people with money will be able to get their people elected. It is inevitable and inescapable. Maybe not all the time, but most of the time. This is so obvious to me I simply cannot take anyone seriously who believes otherwise.

As long as politicians have to look for financial support from interest groups, we do not have a democracy.

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