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Apartheid weirdo says the quiet part out loud (lemmy.world)

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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yep, originally only wealthy white land owning men could vote or run for office.

In theory we have a democracy, but in practice money still decides elections and most of our politicians are wealthy high status white men.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of examples where money didn’t make it so, I mean Bloomberg tried to spend his way into being elected and didn’t work. Money is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient for a campaign.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's not enough on its own, but it's a necessary piece of the puzzle. Being the best candidate is also not enough without money

[–] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

At least they have to spend a fuck load to win now as opposed to just sitting on heaps of cash.