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This is nonsensical. This PAC influence being putatively for buying advertising, to you know influence individual voters to their point of view? They can’t lit

This is nonsensical. This PAC influence being putatively for buying advertising, to you know influence individual voters to their point of view? They can’t literally buy votes. So votes only matter if they’re not influenced by PACs? Perhaps it’s more that if a voter agrees with a capitalist PAC then it’s no longer a valid individual vote? It smacks of anti-democratic value that the masses are too dumb to vote correctly.

bildung 1mo ago
Of course they don't literally buy votes, but statistically they very much do. Stuff like not having votes only on sundays, votes taking hours, publicity just meaning outspending the opponent etc. are all things most other democracies don't have. I literally had a political science course in university were these were taught as cases of voter suppression (i.e. If you are a member of the working /middle /upper class, how likely is it that you can easily be off work for a full day on a tuesday, compared to a sunday?).
- FeloniousHam 1mo ago
  > Of course they don't literally buy votes, but statistically they very much do. Counterpoint: Haley Stevens Brad Daigle Jon Tester Sherrod Brown Tom Steyer Hillary Clinton Michael Bloomberg (the list is long) You need "some amount of money" to compete in elections, but the "money correlates to votes" is canard.