Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Fat Cats to Fund Trump's Billion Dollar Campaign. Really?

To the politically aware it is so retro myopic to consider the Supreme Court’s favoring free speech with their Citizens United  decision as a dangerous tool for wealthy influence peddling. Actually it’s more like lighting a stick of dynamite and forgetting to throw it.  Social media on the other hand proves the power of expert swarms self organizing contributors to fund, volunteer and elect.  If anything 2015/16 has proven that fat cat money is ballot poison. Consider the hundreds of millions raised and wasted by Republican candidates for an internecine battle. At this point the money has been spent and now Donald Trump, the man who ran because he could without need for money, needs to raise a billion plus just to run a so so campaign against Hillary Clinton.  So, imagine you are a fat cat who contributed greatly early on.  Are you happy about what your money got? Are you confident about what additional money contributed now will get you?

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