A nice illustration of how PACs are a legal form of grift comes this month from Brianna Wu's RebellionPAC, a "Clean PAC fighting for progressive, working class values across the country." Like everyone else, RebellionPAC cleaned up in Q3, bringing in over $150K in donations
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Share any progressive PAC you've given to in the thread and I can try to help you figure out how the money is being spent. My frustration stems from having to compete against these people to get small-dollar donations into the hands of actual candidates who need to win
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In my world about 2% of people can even find their physical checkbook
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The PAC rules are a bit more complicated and I think you can eventually level up to being allowed to give $5000 per election, so $10,000 per cycle
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So US politics has been converted to opposing outrage monitization machines. How lovely for democracy.
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I get three or four emails daily from something called "http://Stop-Republicans.com ." The folks behind it appear to be Democrats, but every damn email is a variation of "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Send us your money!"
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