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Particularly after Citizens United, money has squelched voter influence in favor of a few large donors. People don't seem to realize however imperfect the choices are, actively voting against this agenda instead of giving up and hoping it'll somehow work out will fail.



Kamala outspent Trump by about 3:1 in the last election. Money didn't buy it.


Elon buying twitter and changing the algorithm to support him probably isn't included in this calculation


Ironically, Elon tried to back out of the deal and the liberals forced him to buy it.

Take into account that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, NYT, NPR, etc., were all solidly in the Democrat camp, the Democrats didn't need to fund them.


Are you sure? We certainly didn't end up with Bernie on the Democrat ballot.

Just because team-R beat team-D doesn't mean both weren't being driven by huge amounts of special interest money from the wealthiest individuals.


I doubt Bernie is electable no matter how much he spends.




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