Joseph: Are you suggesting therefore it is okay to allow bribery? If that isn’t what you are suggesting, what was your point about that?
Of course, it is not OK to allow bribery. I was just trying to point out that even something as bad as bribery had its place. The Rabbonim were not against using it for the frum community’s benefit to influence government officials, when govt was corrupt.
Bribery in government is nothing new, and while it is wrong and distasteful, I don’t think that banning campaign contributions will accomplish what you think it will. That’s all.
Are you saying that the Torah’s system of judges will work in a goyishe society? Review the Torah requirements for judges, and tell me if this could ever happen in golus without moshiach.
And shouldn’t we improve the model?
Yes, but it is debatable whether banning campaign contributions would be a better scenario, due to the reasons I and ICOT have outlined above.