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I am thinking that in the future campaign contributions might eventually matter less than it does today. For example, it is a good thing all 40 states in the US does not do the presidential primary on the same day.

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How so? I think the biggest problem with campaign contributions is that ads are so incredibly effective at getting congresspeople reelected. Maybe if everyone agreed to ignore these ads campaign contributions would be worthless. But there's a significant enough number of people who are swayed by it to matter.

Maybe if the advertising worked on the princple, that negative advertising about, or even mention of another candidate or party was banned, so that candidates would be forced to campaign on there own positions and party lines, instead of the incessant muck raking and smearing that the circus has descended to today.

In many countries competitive advertising that mentions other brands etc, is banned.

I am talking about in the future when less people watch TV for example.

People are always gonna be getting video content from somewhere, and they're not gonna be paying for it enough to make it ad-free, so they're gonna see ads regardless of the medium.

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