It presents a slight problem when the ones they’re bringing in to deal with the shitty politicians are the people who paid them to be shitty in the first place.

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    A campaign donation is not a bribe. There is nothing wrong with spending money to help your party win in a system where that’s legal.

    Legal is not “right”, especially when I explicitly stated that both parties are deregulating campaign finance.

    Do you have any idea what the “victory fund” is? It’s bankrupting Dem state parties and the first election states received less than 1% of the funds they were supposed to.

    See it works by “bundling” the max to a candidate and the max to a bunch of state parties, then the lump sum is sent straight to the DNC/candidate in a joint access account. Prior to this grift someone had to actually send that money to the state party for them to use.

    But I mean…

    Even just knowing what a PAC (let alone a super PAC) is should show you that political.bribery has been legalized.

    Nothing wrong with an individual giving the ~3k candidate max, but Elong Musk just paid a quarter of a billion to get trump elected.

    I didn’t read any of your comment past that first sentence, because it is such a fundamental misunderstanding that explaining anything else would change drastically after you get that. Before anything else is covered you need to accept the current reality that the only two political options in America are actively working to legalize political bribery

    And it’s clearly effective, because it’s working on you…

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      You are just wrong. A campaign contribution/donation is not a bribe no matter the amount. A campaign contribution only becomes a bribe if there are illegal strings attached which on the dems side there is little to no evidence for.

      The campaign spending is clearly and openly spent on the promoting the candidate to voters. You are lying about campaign money being spent on donor fundraising and you have no evidence to suggest any of the donations came with strings attached. You think because one party acts like one way the other must be doing the same.

      I think you fundamentally misunderstand how the system works and you are thinking in the realm of conspiracy instead of just looking at how things are.