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You'd think midterms would be a great time to get your name out there and run high profile candidates to win House districts led by charlatans...

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would be shocked if you tracked campaign contributions to the Green party and to Jill Stein in particular, and didn't find that most of it came from some Republican PAC.

A lot of Russian money, too.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe. I'm not that suspicious, and I think even Jill would balk at that if she knew.

I don't believe she's intentionally trying to be a spoiler, or is immoral. I do think she must be fantastically naïve if she thinks she's doing anything other than helping Trump.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

She dined with Russian oligarchs at an RT party, so I don't think she'd really balk at it.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean the woman who supposedly paid her own way to go to a celebration of a Russian propaganda news station gala, to promote "peace" where she got to meet Putin and afterwards bragged/complained about how she only gets air time over there?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OK. Wow, I didn't know. I don't really track her.

That's unfortunate; I guess there aren't really any strong moral leaders, after all.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Generally speaking, there's very few- if any- moral people that can stay successful in politics. Bernie. maybe AOC. But I wouldn't be shocked to find they have a few skeletons, too.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Everyone has skeletons. Expecting people to be saints is unreasonable. I just think there are particular sins we don't need in our leaders.

Drug use? Fine; whatever. Sexual picadillos? As long as it isn't little kids, I don't care. Cheating on their spouse? I don't care. That's between them and their spouse. I really don't give a shit that Trump was using prostitutes; I do care that the hypocrite Christians are looking the other way on that one. But IMO, none of this is a major influence on their ability to do their jobs.

But: taking money from foreign interests is bad. I wish we could illegalize all organized "funding". Money in politics is a huge problem that we haven't solved.