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jason1637 said:

tsogud said:

Money plays an incredible role in politics, it shouldn't, but it does. People are becoming increasingly aware of where a candidates bread is buttered and understand the importance of it. Speaking of Yang, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe he has attended any big donor fundraisers and his campaign is more or less successful. I don't believe Gabbard has either and of course Sanders and Warren haven't as well.

Yeah you don't think she is and I don't think she really is dumb enough either but that's not something you want to leave on a whim of a select few. What if a piece of legislation proposed would be great for helping with the climate crisis but bad in some way or another for the special interests of the big donors? You can reasonably assume that if she chose the donors once she'll do it again, money talks.

All campaigns have fundraising events. For people like Yang it's just a get together events with his supporters but at the end of the day the point of these events are to raise money because it's very hard to win without money. I'm not sure about Gabbard, Sanders or Warren cause I don't follow them closely but I lightly recall Warren having some backlash a while ago from taking money from big donors.

Like you said money talks and it does suck that money and politics have become so close but I'm not gonna hate on someone for raising money as long as they're not taking money from a bad cause. As far i'm aware Harris isnt taking money from any anti climate change groups so she's good in my books in this situation. Her supporters know she'll push for laws that will help our environment and I don't think her going to this even would have moved the needle much while the money from the fundraising could help spread more awareness for her campaign.

Yeah, I basically agree with your position. I don't hate on anyone for raising money in this political climate. The issue I and many others had and was illustrated in the video, was that had she gone through with it she would literally be choosing to hear big donors over the people's concerns with the climate crisis. And that's literally what big money in politics does, it takes the voice away from the people and gives it to the ones with the biggest pockets. I believe it would've been a bad PR move in it's own right and would've not helped her campaign regardless of how many donations she got due to attending that fundraiser.