Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party, said that as DNC chair, he would ensure the party does not accept contributions from billionaires that Biden was referencing while not swearing off wealthy donors entirely.
“Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money,” Martin said. “But we’re not taking money from the bad billionaires.”
Lol “good and bad billionaires” rhetoric can fuck right off. What a clown.
Nordic Dem here. I’m not opposed. Until you’re in a position to actually change the rules of the game it would be dreadfully fucking stupid to limit your supply for the war effort hinged on an overgeneralization when there are billionaires who seek to change the system for the better.
Does anyone truly believe Dems can win without big money of their own in the face of players like Musk dumping $70 million into PA on a whim? Fuck no.
If you disagree then you better have a very fucking solid, tangible plan to take make media and advertising without $, post-citizens united no less.
Sanders ran on a zero corporate donations campaign and got out tons of advertising just fine. Idk why y’all like to pretend that didn’t happen so that we can justify having politicians that owe the elite favours. Like I can’t even fathom why you would try and look for reasons as to why that’s a good thing.
…and he lost.
He didn’t lose for lack of advertising. Biden outfunded trump and he lost. What’s your point exactly here within the context of what we’re talking about? You seem to think that funding inherently wins elections and you cannot have advertising unless billionaires help you. This is patently and demonstrably not true and is disingenuous to imply here.
It’s amazing to publicly admit that we live in an oligarchy and not a democracy.
And still fucking Democrats are sitting in their comfy enclaves with the “good” billionaires, wringing their hands over how they just can’t seem to find the right “messaging” to convince the sweaty plebes that they know what’s best for them.
All it would take to start winning elections is for them to get up off of their soft, pampered asses and get out there and actually listen to some ordinary people for a change, find out what they want, then fucking well set about actually delivering it for them.
And what are they gonna do about it?
Hire the same consultants they do every election to collect their six and seven figure payments to elect oligarch-approved candidates.
Only the bad billionaires? Are there any good billionaires?
Maybe the people who won a jackpot, then proceeded to binge spend and lose it all within a year.
Are there any good billionaires?
No. Dead people no longer have assets.
