• LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And? If you want people to vote for the candidate you support, you have to convince them to do it!

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      9 months ago

      Yeah which takes ads, which require donations, and that is why politicians basically have to sell out in order to get votes.

      EDIT: Everyone is right. The way the world works is that the Democratic candidate has to be a vaulted saint who single-handedly sheds decades old international alliances and ends all war and famine, is immune from money concerns, and disseminates his message via telepathy because traditional donations are beneath a being of his type…and he must be able to fully defeat a Republican demagogue who takes money from anyone, has the full support of Russia, and whose every utterance is covered in the press in addition to being a de-facto cult leader with a warchest of millions or even billions of dollars to be able to do traditional ad buys as well.

      Completely reasonable 🙄