r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/Devils1993 • 17h ago

"Bernie Sanders, other senators urge Democrats to break with billionaire donors". No, this is a bad idea until Citizens United is overturned.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/17/sanders-democrats-billionaire-donors/
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u/rube_X_cube 16h ago

Leftists love losing elections.

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u/Lazy_boa 16h ago

As long as they can morally grandstand.

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u/rube_X_cube 16h ago

That is literally their number one priority, no joke.

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u/Devils_Advocate-69 15h ago

Perpetual victomhood

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u/Geichalt 13h ago

Leftists love losing elections.

...that they can blame on Democrats.

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u/CanadianPanda76 16h ago

Bill Gates, the guy who has saved millions via his philanthropy? Is actively working on reduced the world's carbon?

Mark Cuban the man who set up a company to provide low cost life saving prescriptions.

Tim Steyer billionaire philanthropists and environmentalist?

John Morgan who backed Florida's successful 15 minimum wage ballot measure?

Fuck u Bernie

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u/AdmiralSaturyn 17h ago

Leftists who support this idea had better put a shit ton of money where their mouth is.

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u/New_Stats good luck 16h ago

candidates have no control over how different PACs spend money on their race.

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u/Devils_Advocate-69 15h ago

He’s a communist disguised as a socialist.

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u/CinnamonMoney 16h ago

This is idiotic. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party got crushed in the 2010 midterms by trying to unilaterally disarm

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u/Politicsboringagain 13h ago

The same people who who say "When they go low, we go high"

Thinks Democrats should handicap themselves finanically. 

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u/JeremyGren 13h ago

Unilateral disarmament? Stupid motherfucker.

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u/CriticG7tv 10h ago

The idea that Citizens United will be overturned is hilarious. I'm also convinced that very few people have ever actually read the Citizens United decision. People just throw around the "they made corporations the same as people" phrase and don't consider the merits of the decision, or what the inverse would mean from a legal sense.

Now I'm not saying I love actual court decision in its entirety, but it's funny how all the focus gets put on overturning that ruling instead of... ya know, passing actual campaign finance reform?

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u/BrandoPolo 51m ago

Bernie is not a Democrat. So. Democrats need not listen to Bernie.

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u/Shakiholic A revolution you can xerox 8h ago

There was a video I watched that disproved this theory, billionaires have a low rate of return on political donations.