Understanding this is a good thing, and being optimistic about defeating drumpf this year, can we all stop to appreciate how disgusting our political process is?
$81,000,000.00 in 24 hours. We routinely fail to help those that need it most, but we’ll raise massive amounts of money to (mostly) throw at media companies owned by people whose wealth already affords them the most privileged and luxurious of lives.
It takes that much because Citizens United opened the floodgates for unbounded political spending. It’d be a lot more sane if elections were exclusively publicly funded, but the Tribunal of Six would probably think that’s unconstitutional or something, even if the legislation made it through congress (which it probably wouldn’t).
Understanding this is a good thing, and being optimistic about defeating drumpf this year, can we all stop to appreciate how disgusting our political process is?
$81,000,000.00 in 24 hours. We routinely fail to help those that need it most, but we’ll raise massive amounts of money to (mostly) throw at media companies owned by people whose wealth already affords them the most privileged and luxurious of lives.
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It takes that much because Citizens United opened the floodgates for unbounded political spending. It’d be a lot more sane if elections were exclusively publicly funded, but the Tribunal of Six would probably think that’s unconstitutional or something, even if the legislation made it through congress (which it probably wouldn’t).
Yeah what the actual fuck, this country could have given that $81M to me instead.
I’ll take half of that!
I’ll take just like $500, thanks!
I’ll take 1/81th
I’ll have 81/1ths
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