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Have you paid any attention to the news lately? The number 1 and number 2 candidates of the republican and democrat parties are small money candidates that are
by yardie 11y ago
Have you paid any attention to the news lately? The number 1 and number 2 candidates of the republican and democrat parties are small money candidates that are embarrassing the shit out of both national parties. The GOP golden boy, Jeb Bush, has had to bow out. Even with a $100mm war chest voters still weren't buying it.
The only thing CU has done is put into law what everyone kind of already knew.
- ethbro 11y agoTrump is a populist running on his party base's concerns after they've been whipped up for the past decade about how evil everyone else is. And reaping the long-term consequences of the Southern Strategy of the 1950s/60s Republican party. Also, he's #121 on the Forbes 400 richest Americans. Sanders is funding from small donors, but he's #2 in a two person Democratic primary race. I'm not seeing an explanation here that consoles me about money not having an oversized impact on American democracy. And "what everyone kind of knew" (but was illegal) is far different from 'explicitly condoned by the Supreme Court.'