Scott you can’t fucking run for President in this country unless you ARE wealthy to start. Money is speech, so mo’ money mo’ speech.
Bernie is worth about 2 million according to the top Google Search. Warren and her spouse are worth about 12. Obama is worth about 40.
According to Google, Bloomberg is worth 64.2 billion.
That means one Bloomberg is worth 32,100 Bernies.
Chris Rock said it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWeFtgEAEk
Rich is not wealth. Rich people are still a problem. They are still people that have more than any person really deserves. But the wealthy are 5 orders of magnitude more problematic. If all the wealthy people were reduced to being merely rich, things would be fucking terrific, and you wouldn’t even give a shit that some people were rich. A rich person is powerful enough to live a life of luxury. A wealthy person can pull the levers of society without democratic input.
Obama’s presidential campaign cost about $400 million according to the Internet. That means the merely rich can’t even come close to affording to run, but the wealthy can pay out of pocket like it’s no big deal. A campaign by a rich candidate puts out a tremendous tremendous effort to raise money. Tons and tons of people chipping in money. And the wealthy candidate just has that money in their pocket, and can afford to burn it without even caring.
Also, you can definitely run without being wealthy. Can you run without being rich? Yes and no. It depends on where you consider the start of their run. If you start someone back at their entrance into politics in local government and follow them up to the senate, they didn’t start rich. They got rich because if you’re a senator, you’re going to end up rich by the time they run for president. Someone who got into politics and then became rich is significantly different than a rich or wealthy person who bought their way in from the outside.
And yes, under the current rules, mo’ money is mo’ speech. So speak with that money to help the candidate you want to win unless they don’t need it.
Mayor Pete has a net worth of, IIRC, about $500,000 including assets. If I remember right, he’s the least cashed up candidate to have won any contest in a pretty fair while.
Hey man, sounds to me like you’re getting value for money with your votes. With one vote in the primary and one in the general, that’s potentially 16,050 Bernies per vote. /s
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Donated 50 dollars to Warren today. Due to people online pissing me off. Keep being silly and you’ll keep causing me to donate to Warren.
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Now you are thinking like a true “Bernard Brother”
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This is the “just for this I’m cooking an extra steak tonight you dumb vegan” of politics.
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Hmmm… not exactly. I mean it would be more like a Vegan getting up in your face and commenting negativity on every post you make talking about being a vegetarian because you haven’t committed enough so you eat a bunch of eggs and cheese. :-p .
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“Boston media” as if the rest of the State isn’t basically a more conservative New Hampshire…
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https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1232697179740999684?s=19
This doesn’t show that Warren is the ideological center for Democratic voters, just that lots of voters who support other candidates would also support her if they had to make another choice. I feel like so many candidates still being in the race is going to be the cause of her loosing the pleged delegate count. But, if the convention is crazy pants maybe she will be turned to as the best compromise. Not saying I can predict the future, just sticking my finger in the breeze.
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Also, Lol at Tulsi being just way out in the corner there.
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I’m not surprised as a lot of people at Tulsi events are focused on foreign policy and she has positioned herself as a foreign policy centric candidate.
Asked who I favour as the new Labour leader I started thinking about Elizabeth Warren and realised that I’d totally failed to pay attention to any of the Labour party candidates.
Can we not? Why are white boys so fucking extra?
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Weird how a candidate with disproportionately white supporters did poorly in a state that isn’t disproportionately white.
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I don’t even get what you’re trying to say here. She lost in a state therefore people should stop supporting her?
Last game of hockey I watched my team, the Rangers, lost to the Bruins 3-1. Therefore I should stop being a Rangers fan. Right? That’s what you’re saying?
Every time someone compares the election to a game or sport I die a little inside.
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The stakes are higher therefore abandon the person I support at the first sign of trouble… Loud and clear.
Also not worth hearing more.