I've favored public financing of campaigns, full transparency, and shortened campaign seasons.
I've always wondered about this.
Are there constitutional obstacles or why else is this not happening? (Party and campaign financing in Germany is different for various reasons, one certainly the experiences of the Nazi period.
The main reason is the money advantage that the Republican Party enjoys. Any time serious consideration of public campaign financing is raised, the Republicans disingenuously label it "welfare for politicians" and continue to rake in dark money from billionaires. The US electorate would seemingly prefer this over the idea that tax dollars might support more modest campaigns. The Democrats have big donors as well – the party embraced neo-liberal economics as a way to attract wealthy donors and counter the big money advantage of the Republicans. The Supreme Court also declared that financial contributions were a form of "free speech", making it difficult to limit spending.
Your intro was... "You may find this in your version of what we call news:"
That doesn't make any sense at all. Obviously, it was you who found it in your version of the news.
Lash wrote:
News for me is a preponderance of several sources that have attracted the respect of many leftists. I notice all of your news sources are in compliance with the state narrative—meaning you know nothing about what it actually happening. The recent quote I saw randomly and brought about Kamala’s trouble with the big D donors is represented in news articles, blogs, video, and tweet. If you were even partially well versed with actual news, you’d have already seen it elsewhere, instead of imagining it some right wing conspiracy & marching off on some bizarre quest for that tweet. It’s everywhere.
And the content (derogation of Harris with no evidentiary support whatsoever) is precisely the same content you push here constantly. I've never seen that poster before. I don't follow he/she/it. But you do. Or you follow others associated with the account which is clearly pro-Trump and anti-Dem. No surprise there given the many, many posts you toss in to this site from the New York Post or Tucker Carlson etc etc.
Lash wrote:
Yeah. Your goddamn right I’m going to reference a mix of lefties and some more conservatives when I feel what they say is relevant. You act like some constipated Kommandant, spitting and sputtering because you can’t control every word written on this message board.
Democrats and their squad have been so incredibly propagandized over the past two decades that none of you can bear one voice in your environment that deviates from your narrative. It shows up in the mass exodus to Bluesky (but Ds are also mass reporting each other for falling outside even outside their prescribed parameters) It’s amazing to me that you are still following the divisive, antidemocratic strategies to demonize half the country by calling them ‘Putin puppets’ and ‘antisemites’—like Netanyahu, you’ve made both terms a joke. MSNBC suggests family cut off their family that voted ‘the wrong way’—(yet who started WWIII?) So, per Democrats and Zionists, the UN is antisemitic, journalists are antisemitic, doctors, nurses, hospitals are antisemitic, the ICC is antisemitic, Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic, Jill Stein a Jew is antisemitic, Jewish Voice for Peace is antisemitic, South Africa is antisemitic, Amsterdam is antisemitic, Spain is antisemitic,…. IT’S A GLOBAL JOKE!
The t-shirt aptly reads, “If you haven’t been called an antisemite, you aren’t doing enough for Palestine.”
The WorkersStrikeBack is attempting to consolidate several left-leaning and so inclined right-leaning groups and parties into one massive Worker’s party to fill the space left by the Dick Cheney Democrat Party in four years, if the country is still here after Biden’s attempt to get WWIII going. Toward that end, I’ve been reaching out to voters from almost all political backgrounds, including Republicans. On the whole, they’re so much more sensible than shitlibs—but yes, more than enough ‘Christian Zionists’ who require education.
I’m quite satisfied with my company and how I spend my time.
If you were even partially well versed with actual news, you’d have already seen it elsewhere, instead of imagining it some right wing conspiracy & marching off on some bizarre quest for that tweet.
Why didn't you post from an actual news source then, instead of quoting some deluded Trump apparatchik? It's like your immediate reaction to the Paul Pelosi incident – and the murder of Seth Rich – instead of waiting for the facts to emerge you pounce on the most questionable interpretations because you aren't actually interested in news. Your mind is already made up.
They had dark money – not to mention all the affiliated Super PACS, MAGA-allied groups like Moms for Liberty, conservative foundations, and people like Adelson, the Uihleins, Tim Mellon, and Elon Musk. No Lash, the GOP isn't above criticism.
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Wed 27 Nov, 2024 03:59 pm
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
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If you were even partially well versed with actual news, you’d have already seen it elsewhere, instead of imagining it some right wing conspiracy & marching off on some bizarre quest for that tweet.
Why didn't you post from an actual news source then[…]
Because I decide what I post.
When did it slide into such authoritarianism around here?
