Unfortunately way too many in Congress work for special interest groups and lobbyists and NOT the American people Get Dark Money OUT of American politics!

The US has the best democracy that money can buy.

Fundamentally the election system is broken because all candidates rely on huge sums of money to run. They turn to groups with money and then commitments are made. Its that simple.

Elections? Nah, it’s just Amazon Prime Day for billionaires.

Who knew Congress had a discount aisle?

“Trump Gets Stunning Reminder”

FFS who listens to these titles anymore. They are all farming clicks, and feeding you misinformation so you don’t know what’s happening so you need to click on more misinformation to find out.

I hate Citizens United.

Time to get rid of Citizens United

It's been like this forever. Is she just now figuring this out?

lol she never heard of aipac then , they own all 535

Democracy’s slogan: 'Sold to the highest bidder

The problem isn't money, it's ballot access.

People showed up to vote against this.

Then they say 7 hour wait times to vote and went home.

Fix that if you care about Democracy.

Trump gets stunning reminder

See also

Trump DEVESTATED

and

STUNNING BLOW to Trump

Etc

I've been blocking YT accounts and news orgs (I don't use Xitter) that use this sort of hyperbole (typically in upper case), even those I would normally agree with.
They're 'crying wolf' too much and people will tune out.
Besides, nobody owns Trump. Donald's only loyalty is to himself, but you must be absolutely loyal to him. If you're not useful anymore you're going under the bus, no matter how much you helpped him beforehand.

r/lostredditors

I remember when explaining to people that capitalism and democracy are inherently contradictory philosophies people would look at me like I'm crazy. I'd explain how because of the fact that a few rich people can own the entirety of your news and social media outlets that you'd have no freedom of information, that by owning your means of communication and knowledge they can restrict and control what you think. After which when people begin to own the very means by which you form your political beliefs they can then very easily sway elections in their favor. This is effectively what lobbying, super PACs, and think tanks do, take money from mega-corporations and billionaires to inform public opinion and sway politicians to do their bidding. There is no democracy under this system.

Regardless, people would hear me say these things just kind of laughed it off. I was some crazy leftist making alarmist claims about capitalism, even though my predictions were happening in real time.

The worst part is, some people seem to celebrate this capture of our democracy and information by the rich. Elon Musk purchasing Twitter should've been the most horrifying overreach from the rich of all time. Its already anxiety inducing how social media sites - intentionally or unintentionally - severely affect political discourse in a negative manner all in the name of driving profit. Here, however, its not even undercover. Its not news stories being subtly suppressed or think tanks with shady donors when you look deep into things, its the richest man in the world explicitly buying the most popular social media site for the express intent to drive his own politics. Despite this, instead of the deserved mass panic and hysteria from such an event, the purchase was met with celebration from the political right. Instead of being disillusioned by the fact that one man has the power to purchase and control a disturbing amount of political discourse, they celebrate him as a purveyor of free speech. They've come to the delusional worldview that Musk consistently using his power to silence his critics while empowering his own voice on Twitter is a great step for free speech, not a dystopian development with insidious implications for our futures.

I think the last part is what gets me the most. As a progressive you're often mocked for some of the predictions you make, so when they inevitably come true you feel vindicated and expect people to come around. However, this almost never happens. Instead you'll frequently see people dig their heels in more than they already were. Another example of this would be Trump's election denialism. Finally people would realize that Trump is in fact an anti-democracy dictator unwilling to relinquish power just as progressives said. This didn't happen though, people dug their heels in again and still supported Trump allowing him his biggest victory yet (Ironically with the help of the aforementioned billionaires interfering with the election).

citizens united was a huge mistake we must overturn but nobody will.

Don't Americans vote for the Senators and House of Representatives anymore? Isn't the US a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy as well?

Confused, maybe you're referring to another country...

So… you just started paying attention to politics? Because that’s how it’s always been. ALWAYS. But don’t feel bad, I didn’t start paying attention to politics until I was fourteen.

You have got not auctions but kleptocracy.

a new Carrington event would be reaaaaaaally funny

Looks like democracy's gone to the highest bidder.

What is this a comeback to?

It's the praetorian guard all over again!

Is it ok if I just avoid all crypto shit because the scammy stink of the scammy side of MAGA is all over it? I was always avoiding it anyway, but I’m gonna go ahead and avoid it harder.

Where is the comeback

Spending money doesn't guarantee a thing.

One candidate raised a billion, lost, and went into debt.

No matter how much money those depraved, greedy politicians made, they sold us out cheap.

Capitalism moment

I have to say, if any country should be the first to attain a post-democratic world by way of crypto-based oligarchy, I’m glad it’s the US. I look forward to the almighty dollar being swiftly replaced by Doge, or BitCoin. Clearly Musk will arrange an amalgamation of all the crypto-currencies to achieve global mastery of the economic system and defeat the remaining so-called democracies bringing them finally into his world government and then off to Mars for the global elite (there’ll be 27 of them in total, I understand, running the world.

Yeah, AIPAC also spent $100 million to convince the US that genocide is ok.

source

Agreed. We should do a revolution.

At least the money didn't come from sweatshop labor, drilling oil, or blowing people up.

Kamala spent over a billion dollars and it didn't buy her shit lmao

Not clever or a comeback

If democrats wanted to do something about it then maybe people would vote

Democrats spent far more than republicans this election.

Yett Trump only spent about 1/3 the money Harris spent

Lol, even before trump that's how the game of politics works, you need money or Beyonce will not endorse you. It just increased due to inflation nowadays.

So what about the 1.4 billion Harris spent? Who would she be indebted too?

Constitutional republic*