The vice president's August haul was very, very good.
    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Money at least means there are people out there telling other people to vote vote vote.

      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yep, I literally get paid (almost as well as my last job requiring a degree did, this just isn’t permanent) to canvas for progressive politics in a swing state.

        Honestly, I wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t getting paid, even though I firmly believe getting out the vote for progressives (or as close as we can manage at any rate) is important. There’s so much money being pumped into it, that I’m not willing to give my time for free. I’m not in the top 10%, so my time is actually valuable.

        But getting paid means I’ve had conversations with ~200 voters in the last week, the majority of whom are voting dem up and down the ticket, even if they used to be strong republicans. Maybe it won’t help overall, but we have a GOP-sponsored referendum almost nobody has heard of, for which our org is encouraging a no vote, so if nothing else this effort may help defeat that.

        (Hopefully this plug is ok, it’s not my organization, I just work with them. If not I’ll edit it out.) If anyone reading this is in the US, and interested in getting paid (well paid, and with insurance available from day 1) for canvassing work for a couple months, check out the outreach team’s website. They have open positions for various sponsored regional campaigns in lots of important areas across the US, and they hire quickly with minimal hoops to jump through. I worked with them for the 2020 election as well, and in both cases it was 2 days from interview to start date. https://www.theoutreachteam.net/

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      AIPAC has entered the chat

      money is the grease that slides those juicy votes out of the crevices of the american electorate, especially in the primaries and extra especially if you have a special interest laser dot on your forehead.

      having said that, yes… go vote.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      4·
      2 months ago

      I like the 2010 California election as an example.

      Overall, it was a Tea Party election… except in California, where wealthy Republican candidates spent big on the Senate and Gubernatorial races… and lost.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    321·
    2 months ago

    It literally doesn’t matter unless the lazy ass democratic voters get out of their complacent stupor and vote.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    It’s interesting the way this all gets framed. That effectively,limitless political boundary is cheerleaded. There is a subtext here that only those who can court billions with a B should or ever will be viable on a national stage.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      gotta normalize this garbage. in a generation or three no one will really remember a time when it was not this.

      oceania has always been at war with eurasia.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    231·
    2 months ago

    When money and finances determine who gets to be in political office and the same wealth heavily or completely dominates the government …

    … that isn’t a democracy

    That’s an oligarchy, a plutocracy, an aristocracy … it’s everything else but a democracy … but what do I know, I don’t have enough money to have a say any way

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      You’re right, of course. But in this fucked up moment in history, having the normal, articulated even professional candidate raise far more than the pro business pro billionaires candidate is a good news

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        So we all accept that there is no democracy and do our best to support the nicest plutocrat or oligarch?

        I guess what I’m saying is that at the very least, we should stop deluding ourselves in believing that this is a functioning democracy.

        It’s like recovery from addiction … the first step to dealing with the problem is admitting the problem.

  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
    151·
    2 months ago

    I’d be happier to hear if she’s getting a lot of small dollar donors. There’s been a lot of news about billionaires making donations and plainly demanding lower tax rates, firing Lina Khan, etc

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      15·
      2 months ago

      She has been getting lots of small dollar donors. Many of the earlier headline touted figured were actually only looking at small donors. Not only that but large numbers of first time donors

      From the article

      But the August haul comes on the heels of largely small donors (those giving less than $200) and first-time donors contributing to Harris’ July fundraising. In the first week of her campaign, roughly two-thirds of donations came from first-time donors