This is, perhaps, a naive question. But,why is former president Barack Obama giving speeches to wealthy donors in the first place? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/barack-obama-2020-dems.html …
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"Wealthy Democratic donors, you may not be the real America, but you're MY America.. Anything that might threaten your interests is a threat to me as well, because these dinners, which you pay so dearly to attend, well l I just love being at them."
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I find this fantasy, where Barack Obama just loves donor dinners that much, more plausible than the probable, dreary reality, which is: Barack Obama thinks he's helping us by telling wealthy donors Dems shouldn't try anything to reduce inequality or help poor folks.
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And even that- that Obama thinks he's helping- is an extremely kind way of seeing this. A person who liked Obama less than I do might think he's still desperate to have and exert political power, for its own sake, and is flattering donors as a means to that end.
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I'm old enough to remember when Obama's transformative method of fundraising small amounts from ordinary people was going to usher in a systemic change in who politicians were accountable to.
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Oh, okay- perhaps I misunderstood. How would you interpret it?
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