Because they are greedy lizard people filling their pockets and loving it. Im sure not all democrats want to stop the flow of billions of free dollars, Good on the ones that do though.
Politicians are mobsters wearing nicer suits. From my favorite guy or gal to yours. Unless you liked Bernie which i actually (kind of) did, but the machine chewed him up and spit him out unfortunately. Those leaked DNC emails that all but sealed his political fate were pretty creepy.
More political transparency is always good, i dont care if it gets every republican or democrat alive arrested for life. Start over with less rats in the pool.
Nonsense regarding Bernie. He was no saint.
Progressive Democrat organization Justice Democrats received $260,000 in donations from dark money funded groups and Super PACs in Q2, FEC…
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Bernie's PAC is every bit as interested in winning by accepting legal donations as every other politician or political group. That's the point of every political campaign. Winning. Winning elections is the only way to make policy proposals a reality. Bernie and every politician must and should campaign according to the rules written at the time of the election. If you don't like the rules, get them changed. A few of Bernie's followers have done what you said and refused legal campaign donations based upon principle. Most of them lost. What's worse is, they lost to Republicans who have zero morality in this area. Quite a bit of their money even comes from Russia. They don't care.
Unlike in sports, elections matter. The 2020 election was a close thing. The guy we took out of the WH conspired to overthrow our democracy after he lost. He organized and attempted a bloody coup. Our democracy was saved by those 11,000 or so votes in Georgia and the few thousand or so votes in other contested states that tipped the election to Biden.
Also, you paint a broad brush without naming the "lizard people" and "mobsers (sic) in nice suits". Who are you talking about? The people who represent me, Merkley, Wyden and DeFazio have squeaky clean reputations and represent the policies in DC that I support. The Republican running for office in my district, Alek Scarlotos supports the opposite, such as supporting a nationwide ban on abortion.
Let the headlines scream:
"Politicians are winning elections by doing things reasonable people want."
How awful of them that they accept dark money so that they can beat the people I don't want to represent me.