I remember when Bernie was running and there were people saying that they were dirt poor and giving $100 to Bernie because they were desperate for M4A and were going to die without it.
I was concerned at the time that this was hedging the mother of all bets. I still think about those people.
Bernie deserves shit for funneling the Our Revolution pac's donations into the mainstream Democratic Party apparatus to support neoliberal downballot candidates after both primary campaigns. If more of his poorest donors understood where this money actually went, they wouldn't be giving out $100 of their hard-earned cash. It's the same sort of bait-and-switch fundraising grift Obama pulled in 2008 but the libs kept saying Bernie was an "outsider" (even though he's fucking married to the Democratic Party and votes the party line consistently), and young radicals fell for the kayfabe.
People donate to political campaigns because it makes them feel like they're doing good. It's only worthwhile to donate to a campaign in my mind if you understand how they're going to spend the money which was pretty well understood with the Bernie campaign and isn't well understood with other ones.
I remember when Bernie was running and there were people saying that they were dirt poor and giving $100 to Bernie because they were desperate for M4A and were going to die without it.
I was concerned at the time that this was hedging the mother of all bets. I still think about those people.
And Bernie getting criticized for fundraising from the poor
Bernie deserves shit for funneling the Our Revolution pac's donations into the mainstream Democratic Party apparatus to support neoliberal downballot candidates after both primary campaigns. If more of his poorest donors understood where this money actually went, they wouldn't be giving out $100 of their hard-earned cash. It's the same sort of bait-and-switch fundraising grift Obama pulled in 2008 but the libs kept saying Bernie was an "outsider" (even though he's fucking married to the Democratic Party and votes the party line consistently), and young radicals fell for the kayfabe.
People donate to political campaigns because it makes them feel like they're doing good. It's only worthwhile to donate to a campaign in my mind if you understand how they're going to spend the money which was pretty well understood with the Bernie campaign and isn't well understood with other ones.