It’s gross that it takes that much (and much more) to have a shot at winning a presidential race.
But the way a lot of people (including myself) see it, if we can donate to stop trump from taking office, we’re stopping things like wars, famines, the hastening of climate change, etc.
So in a way, we’re trying to help the world, by not letting the most powerful military in human history, fall into the hands of a megalomaniac narcissist wannabe dictator.
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).
It’s gross that it takes that much (and much more) to have a shot at winning a presidential race.
But the way a lot of people (including myself) see it, if we can donate to stop trump from taking office, we’re stopping things like wars, famines, the hastening of climate change, etc.
So in a way, we’re trying to help the world, by not letting the most powerful military in human history, fall into the hands of a megalomaniac narcissist wannabe dictator.
…again.
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).