Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "BUSTED: Pete Buttigieg Will Return Lobbyist Donations" video.

  1. Purity tests hurt everyone. They hurt people who are "impure," they hurt people who aren't "pure enough," and, assuming such exist, they hurt the "pure." What good is it to win a single victory, then lose not only the war, but your entire society? Personally, I'd take the money, work my ass off to get into office, then work my ass of to repeal the kinds of financing of candidates that incentivizes this wholesale corruption. I might only serve one term as my donors would abandon me and pay for attack ads, but hopefully I'd inspire people to vote for more like me. This is a war of attrition, and we have to survive the little attacks to fight the big ones.
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  2.  @Xunxunism It's why I could never run for office. One, I like to change my mind on occasion, and it'd label me a "flip-flopper." Two, I could never lie well enough to attract the kind of money that would get me in office to end up stabbing the corporate donors in the back.
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