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Ahead of Chair Vote, Progressives Say DNC 'Failing Disastrously' to Learn From Loss to Trump
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You seem to think corporate dems actually care that they lost. They would rather enjoy their donor money and lose elections than legislate policy supermajorities of Americans both republican and dems support.
Blue no matter who is a failed strategy and it’s why we have what we have today. Stop ass kissing dem leadership. We owe them nothing. They owe us policy proposals and to fight for our cause, not the other way around.
Political donations are heavily regulated and are used only for political campaigns. You're not even allowed to promote your business in a campaign advertisement.
Do you live in the states?
You can literally pay yourself and your family members with campaign money.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/06/campaigns-paying-family-members/
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/14/politics/fec-candidates-pay-rule
That allows them to give themselves a salary equal to half of a congressman's salary (50% * $174,000 = $87,000) while they campaign for office, in the assumption it would be hard to work a full time job at the same time.
You’re just going off on tangents, over half of congress are millionaires.
More than half of Congress' networth is held by its top 12 members. Being able to earn no more than half of a congressional salary while campaigning allows poorer people to run for Congress when they otherwise could not afford to leave their job.