Big money business donors bet on the GOP. Musk & others bought the election.
1000s of IDU donors spent >$425M into the general election this year. Nearly 2/3 of that -boosting Rs.
The election saw a flood of contributions from crypto/banking/labor.
Of the $140M spent by TRANSP interests this cycle, Musk: $133.2M.
The corp. PAC funded by employees for SpaceX: TRANSP’s 5th-largest PAC spender on the election, $317K to a mostly R slate of congress. candidates.
#USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/24/business-election-donations-republicans-00191072
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This unfairly targets the people doing the buying rather than the people selling their vote.
Instead of "Musk & other wealthy ppl bought the election" I prefer "The general population sold their vote to the highest bidder, basing their vote on who had the prettiest ad."
We need to stop blaming the rich, they can only manipulate us if we sell ourselves to begin with. They have no power but the power we give them.
More importantly blaming the rich isnt something we can solve without making things worse, where not letting the rich being able to buy us **is** something everyone can solve right now without requiring any changes.
Everyone always wants to blame someone else, its never them or their group that is the problem, and THAT is the problem.
