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Arthur_Frain

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7. The question is "how many votes can he buy in this way?"

Reply to EnergizedLib (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:16 PM

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I’m not overly optimistic about the general intellectual or moral capacity of our electorate.

Especially amongst the younger voters, there are way too many out there who will respond to a cash payout because at this point they don’t believe they’re going to get anything else.

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