• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I’d be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.