Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "If Dems Lose, Who Cares About Not Taking Corporate PAC Money?" video.

  1. I think the idea is, what good is it to attempt some noble ideal of not taking corporate donations if it results in losing power overall? I believe it's a pyrrhic victory. You win the ideological battle but lose the political war. Right now, there really aren't good solutions. We largely have the conservative base duking it out with the liberal base with the moderates and undecided voters being used in a tug-of-war. The left rightly wants to remove corporate influence in elections, and the right wants power at any means so happily takes corporate money. There are many running on the left trying to put their money where their mouths are so they don't end up in a, "do as I say, not as I do," situation and lose left-wing voters, but end up losing everyone else. First rule of politics, your ideology doesn't matter if you can't get into office to implement it. We aren't going to find a perfectly uncorrupted politician and get him or her into office. It's how much corruption can you tolerate. We need people with the right ideas and the strength to fight, so we should be willing to take the marginally corrupt, but electable over the pure candidates that don't stand a snow-ball's chance in Hell of getting in. Basically, how much rot can you stand? No one is clean in the game of politics, and even if by some miracle we get one who is in, he or she won't stay that way long.
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