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At this point in time I'm pretty sure you would win in a landslide if you ran on taxing billionaires. Is being greedy a requirement to be a politician in the US?
If you're not greedy, the billionaires won't fund your campaign. Then you lose.
That would only be true if most people couldn't think for themselves and it was possible to spend money to influence their opinion.
Exactly.
Huh. What got deleted by a mod if you agree?
Don't know. What got deleted?
Whatever you were replying to.
The thing I replied to says, "That would only be true if most people couldn’t think for themselves and it was possible to spend money to influence their opinion".
I wonder why a mod would delete that.
I can still see it. Weird.
Probably a bug.
Well, added context is billionaires won't fund your campaign causing your public relations to drop. Then you lose.
We shouldn't just scapegoat the rich for something that tens of millions of people vote for while tens of millions more don't vote at all.
Irrelevant context. As a great sage once said
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice
This is a binary system one OR the other will win. There is no other outcome. You either push to influence it in a better or worse direction you dont get to sit it out. The result WILL effect you.
It is relevant and important context because we solve this problem by convincing the millions of people, not the rich.
A wise famous playwrite once said:
"Putting the cart before the horse ".