1) How much more influence does a citizen gain who spends a great deal of money on a candidate compared with an average citizen who merely casts a ballot? Can votes be “bought” in the sense of understood favors toward certain policies if one accepts money for a campaign?

2) How much does advertising, which must be paid for with money, influence us? How do we make up our minds to vote for a candidate? Are today’s political ads from both parties kin to Hitler’s “big lie”?  Before World War II, he repeated over and over the falsehood that Jews were responsible for Germany’s economic problems. How about Lenin who said: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”?

3) What is our proper attitude toward money? Wealthy individuals fund charities and non-profits as well as political campaigns.

4) Has money become the new world government? Does a wealthy tycoon in Russia have more in common with a wealthy tycoon in Switzerland or the United States or Nigeria than with his or her own citizens?

5) Has money trumped political parties? Do wealthy individuals have more power to win elections than Democrats or Republicans or other political parties?