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No, we're not.
It's one issue: unregulated capitalism.
And I know there are technically regulations, but they're written by lobbyists and not even read by politicians anymore.
What's worse is the deregulation of campaign finance law. In a similar fashion it would be illegal for me to donate $3,000 to Kamala directly.
But Elon Musk gave $275,000,000 to trump and that's cool because it was thru a PAC.
Similarly I could have donated the max to Kamala, and then used the "victory fund" to use the max donation to each of the 50 state parties, but instead of going to them, it would first go to the DNC and that's a literal black hole of accounting because it's a private organization.
We don't know how 2020 or 2024 went, but in 2016 this was the result of the victory fund:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
With Jaimie Harrison resigning, I hope someone with the integrity to open the books up gets DNC chair.
A shit ton of people didn't vote because they believe both parties are corrupt. The best way to get their votes is to root out the corruption we already know has been there since 2015.