Same, back to the mid 90s at least. I provided Internet services to several, actual grass roots groups: regular people who had desire to make noise about a prob

Same, back to the mid 90s at least. I provided Internet services to several, actual grass roots groups: regular people who had desire to make noise about a problem they perceived. Politicians would keep saying "tell your backers we can help for only $50k" and things like that; when there were no "backers" there was just a few people spending their own money and time to try doing "activist" actions.