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Every US election is Christmas for months for the advertising industry. All those political dollars raised? 95% given to media channels to air political ads. Th
by bsenftner 2y ago
Every US election is Christmas for months for the advertising industry. All those political dollars raised? 95% given to media channels to air political ads. The US elections are nothing about the people, and everything about pouring as much money as they can shake from the citizens into the media machine. And we don't even want the ads, don't need them, it's all a giant farce.
- hypeatei 2y agoPublicly funded elections are good solution to this and get dark money out of politics. Bernie Sanders, for example, has talked about this before and has a page dedicated to how we can have more free and fair elections[0], notably: > Abolish super PACs and replace corporate funding with publicly funded elections that amplify small-doner donations. 0: https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-and-fair-elections https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-and-fair-elections
- maxerickson 2y agoA lot of media exists for political reasons. Making adjustments to campaign funding isn't going to do anything about that. It's likely more effective than campaign spending...