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Running for office costs a lot of money. That's why candidates collect millions of dollars in contributions, as do thepolitical action committees(PACs) established in their name. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, candidates in the 2020 presidential cycle drew almost $4 billion indo...
While some voters prefer to directly donate to their preferred candidates, others make use of political action committees (PACs) which were first founded in the 1940s. These groups register with the Federal Election Commission if they raise more than $1,000 in a calendar year to influence the...
My guess is that most people do not want to face the truth. For the implications of it and what it means are ugly. I write about it here… The elections in the United States today are all just political theater. The politics in the United States today are all just theater. The mainst...
Victoria Spratz:Trump was much tougher on foreign policy and his toughness brought a lot of deterrence. I think President Biden, he’s not a bad person, but he’s very political. He has very political people around him. So everything is driven by politics. Government takes some backbone ...
But to Yarvin, what I actually do is more like a weird combination of intelligence-gathering and propagandizing. Which is why no one I was talking to at NatCon really thought it would be possible for me to write a fair piece about them. Most Popular Politics Stacey Williams and ...
a judiciary where they’re going to be in power for the rest of their life. It’s giving these institutions that sort of magical power—the public now has to wait until someone dies for things to change. Or we’re giving power away to the organized movements or PACs that have money. ...
(Bernie Sanders aside) politicians running for the presidency now need patrons -- modern-day Medicis who can fund the super PACs that are increasingly the heart and soul of a process leading to the first$10 billionelection. Those billionaire funders are, of course, America's warlords. In his...
Furthermore, because Clinton has been in politics for so long, and Trump has been such an unconventional nominee, the public knows a lot about their policy positions (or lack of same). This means there’s probably a lot less discovering to do during the campaign. Trump remains a bit of ...
influence the outcome of elections. In effect, Citizens United granted corporations and unions the same political speech rights as individuals under theFirst Amendment. The ruling led to the creation of campaign contributionsuper PACs, which are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money....