Shieeet. On one hand 10 mil seems super cheap to flood and saturate twitter and the reddit politics board. On the other hand, considering how (non) effective it was, maybe not...
lol "overstate"All I am saying is that the narrative of corporate control of politicians is way too simple an analysis. Obviously we have to reduce the influence but overstating it actually hurts your cause by making you look less objective.
99% of the Senate are on the dole.
They'd have long ago cut social security and medicare, if the idea weren't about as popular as pedophilia with Dem and Rep voters alike.
It's fine if you support separating kids from their families, continuing to accelerate the fallout of global warming, continuing to support decreasing effective median wages, etc etc. Continuing to support a ruling class that only benefits the top 10% - and even then only really about 15 people in the country to any notable degree. Some of us think the status quo is monstrous, some of us think it's awesome and cool.A good example is ad hominem attacks on anyone who doesn't share an exact opinion. Eventually both sides just accuse the other of being biased without going into the finer details of the issue.
However you can't Lisa Simpson your way into convincing anyone that things are goin' great with a tricky rube goldberg argument. It's nowhere near as complicated as you're desperately trying to portray. The current system has goals. Goals that it's accomplishing near 100%. The only problem in the world, in their view, is that we're running out of defenseless countries to invade. (Thus why the pressure for the Iran war and on South America is ramping up.) Goals are the core matter of material politics. Power is the means by which goals are accomplished. What goals to have, and how to acquire power are the entirety of politics.
Literally the only other problem in the world for them (and I guess you, since you say you're on their team) is that Bernard Sanders might improve the democratic party slightly. The last thing in the world you guys want is a democratic party good enough to win elections.
(The people who gasp and go "how uncouth!" when stuff like Pelosi rips a sheet of paper in half on TV have to be the saddest folk on the planet. Do they not know joy at all? Do they have blood pumping through their veins, or are they some kind of lifeless undead? You're supposed to groan and go "how laaaame..." at the kayfabe...)