Pro tip for voters: if a candidate on your ballot accepts $60 million in Super PAC dark money, don't fucking vote for them. They aren't working for you
While I won't argue against the ignorance of the 50th percentile, I'd encourage you to consider that for many it may not be willful.
By design, more and more people are forced to focus on their immediate needs. As more Americans than ever before live paycheck to paycheck with hardly a thousand dollars in savings, how can they justify spending time learning when they need to be at their second job so their kids don't go homeless?
If you write people off as stupid then the problem is intractable. You can't cure stupid. But you can inform the ignorant.
I was talking about figuring out that billionaires are the actual enemy, everywhere..... it makes it pretty easy to figure out who's really on your side once you understand how capitalism actually works.
It doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter where. If there's a billionaire, there's a crime against the common man being committed. Period.
You have one candidate who says they refuse to take corporate money because they're here to serve the people and another candidate who says how is such a shame how the political system works and it should be changed but in the meantime that's the system and they'll take the corporate money while telling you to not get your hopes up about changing how the system works.
And somehow this is a close race...
Clearly there are a lot of dots for a significant portion of Americans to connect.
News like this makes me hopeful that one day, my area will be able to vote out its republican congressman. It doesn't look like it will be this time, but hopefully soon.
22 Comments
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 67 pts · 18d
Way too fuckin' close, if you ask me.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 18d
She out spent him 9 to 1, it's pretty good given that
jimmy90@lemmy.world · -43 pts · 18d
exactly also don't vote for the DSA as even in a deep blue states they can barely win because they're vacuous populists
duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 18d
Yeah, we'll just keep voting for the same thing we've been voting for 20 years now. Maybe this time it'll be different.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 18d
Tell that to New York.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 18d
Yeah, vote for the people working for the oligarchs instead. They're much better!
/s
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 18d
Is Haley Stevens a republican in democrat’s clothing?
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 18d
She's a bigot so yeah probably.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 18d
Can everyday Americans please hurry up and connect the dots finally?
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 18d
Everyday Americans are amongst the stupidest people I've ever met. Don't hold your breath.
fafferlicious@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 18d
While I won't argue against the ignorance of the 50th percentile, I'd encourage you to consider that for many it may not be willful.
By design, more and more people are forced to focus on their immediate needs. As more Americans than ever before live paycheck to paycheck with hardly a thousand dollars in savings, how can they justify spending time learning when they need to be at their second job so their kids don't go homeless?
If you write people off as stupid then the problem is intractable. You can't cure stupid. But you can inform the ignorant.
tomkatt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Who exactly do you think is voting for people like El-Sayed? Venezuelans perhaps?
What kind of take even is this?
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 18d
My point could have been clearer.
I was talking about figuring out that billionaires are the actual enemy, everywhere..... it makes it pretty easy to figure out who's really on your side once you understand how capitalism actually works.
It doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter where. If there's a billionaire, there's a crime against the common man being committed. Period.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d
But what if I am one some day, Mr smarty human?
Goodeye8@piefed.social · 2 pts · 18d
You have one candidate who says they refuse to take corporate money because they're here to serve the people and another candidate who says how is such a shame how the political system works and it should be changed but in the meantime that's the system and they'll take the corporate money while telling you to not get your hopes up about changing how the system works.
And somehow this is a close race...
Clearly there are a lot of dots for a significant portion of Americans to connect.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 12 pts · 18d
Pro tip: if she had hypothetically won the primary you should still vote for her/him because the Republican candidate is still worse.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 18d
News like this makes me hopeful that one day, my area will be able to vote out its republican congressman. It doesn't look like it will be this time, but hopefully soon.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 18d
What does that mean? How would that even work? They just said "I quit" without doing any paperwork?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
You don’t “accept” Super PAC money.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 18d
Explain, please.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
Not OP, but I read it as "accepting" that kind of money equals getting bought with it and by the people who put the money in the PAC.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
I think OP means you can't stop a PAC from smearing your opponent, and you can't stop them from promoting your exact platform.
It's all a big slushy mess, on purpose, intentionally making this question extremely nuanced
https://admin.endcitizensunited.org/corporate-pac-faqs/