• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The moderate wing feels entitled to those votes.

    And for whatever reason they keep doubling down on refusing to do voter outreach and listening to what Dem voters want. Current leadership will never back away from the strategy of:

    What are ya gonna do, vote R?

    Because it’s obviously not working. As long as we allow the DNC to prioritize rewarding donor bundlers with leadership positions, it’ll never change.

    The only metric is bringing money in, so whoever pays the most gets to determine the party platform.

    Which wouldn’t suck so much if the DNC was the furthest right option. When that’s how the furtherest left option acts, turnout will always be abysmal and even when we “win” we still lose and billionaires always win.

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          3 hours ago

          That doesn’t mean we can win without donors. Republicans had foreign bots and billionaires buying votes.

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                There isn’t a question in your previous comment.

                And apparently you haven’t heard the one.

                You don’t wrestle a pig in mud because it gets mud all over you and the pig likes it.

                It will only drive up donorship to the Republicans and foster more lenient bribery donation policy from the Democrats going forward.

                The Democrats need to actually submit themselves to overhauling campaign funding if they want to make any headway. But they want that money. They want it more than they want any of their alleged policy goals.

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                  Because of citizens united, money decides election wins. So how do we win without donors?

                  This was the question that you are avoiding.

                  To overhaul campaign funding they need to win. For that to happen they need donors.

                  Also, just because a saying exists doesn’t make it right.

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                    They didn’t avoid it

                    They outspent and lost this time.

                    Is a refutation of the premise. If, as you say, donation money decides elections then the democrats, having gotten and spent more, should have won.

                    So, did money decide this election win?