Comment by vkou

One man one vote is a little different from one dollar one word, or one dollar one vote.

In most civilized countries you have privacy in the voting booth (because without it, buying votes becomes trivial), but no privacy in financing campaigns.

Some of those countries even have rules about when campaigns can and cannot run, because there are benefits to living in a society that's not actively bombarded by polarizing political screeching 24/7. It does some to cut down the influence of dollars in politics.

I guess it makes people in the advertising business, and people looking to buy political influence very unhappy.