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— Republicans who take money from the NRA and gun manufacturers
blocking an assault weapon ban and pushing for more guns in our communities and
schools.
— Republicans
who take money from the fossil fuel industry denying climate change and
sabotaging efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
— Republicans who take
money from the Pharma industry fighting Joe Biden’s efforts to allow Medicare
to negotiate drug prices while fighting to protect the industry’s obscene
profits.
— Republicans
who take money from the for-profit health insurance industry obstructing all
efforts to create a national single-payer system that would save Americans as
much as half of what we spend on health care.
— Republicans who take
money from billionaires fighting to protect Ronald Reagan’s, George W. Bush’s,
and Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax cuts and now arguing for more
gifts to the morbidly rich.
— Republicans
who take money from the banking industry preventing even one single banker from
going to prison when it crashed the U.S. economy during the last year of
George W. Bush’s administration, despite massive evidence of fraud.
— Republicans
who take money from the tobacco and alcohol industries fighting
decriminalization of marijuana at the federal level.
— Republicans
who take money from the lending industry preventing students from declaring
bankruptcy on student debt.

In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party—while still hewing
to neoliberalism and austerity politics—hasn’t been completely corrupted
because there are still enforceable limits on campaign spending in the U.K. A
political party can’t spend more than £54,010 for each individual constituency (like a congressional
district here), and an individual candidate can’t spend more than £49,000 in the 55 months leading up to the next election.

The result is that British members of Parliament are more
generally forced to respond to constituents and voters instead of billionaires
and Britain’s largest corporations. A cabinet member in the Conservative
government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, for example, just came out this
weekend bragging about how they’d increased spending
for the National Health Service.