P_P to politics English • 1 month ago'That's Oligarchy,' Says Sanders as Billionaires Pump Cash Into Trump Campaign | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1435arrow-down14
arrow-up1431arrow-down1external-link'That's Oligarchy,' Says Sanders as Billionaires Pump Cash Into Trump Campaign | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.orgP_P to politics English • 1 month agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-13•1 month agoNo mention of the double number of billionaires backing Harris, or sanders’ own history of taking billionaire funding?
minus-square@iceonfire1link10•edit-21 month agoYeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing. At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics. Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoSanders used to, then he endorsed Biden and now Harris, and has voted like any other corporate dem in the meantime. And we’re pretty far backwards from where we were during women’s suffrage, we had socialists in office then.
minus-square@Viking_Hippielink7•1 month ago sanders’ own history of taking billionaire funding [Citation Needed]
No mention of the double number of billionaires backing Harris, or sanders’ own history of taking billionaire funding?
Yeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.
At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics.
Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.
Sanders used to, then he endorsed Biden and now Harris, and has voted like any other corporate dem in the meantime. And we’re pretty far backwards from where we were during women’s suffrage, we had socialists in office then.
[Citation Needed]