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In reply to the discussion: Even Robert Reich is Disappointing Me [View all]angrychair
(12,545 posts)Comes when it comes to billionaires.
The issue with billionaires isn't that they will not, occasionally, do the right thing.
The problem with billionaires is they suck all the oxygen out of a room. No one else's opinion matters when a billionaire enters the metaphorical room.
A normal candidate, even in a race like this, may amass several million dollars to run their campaign but billionaires have unlimited funds.
Steyer, in this example, has outspent his nearest opponent by 24 to 1. He has spent over $200 million dollars trying to win the governor's race.
How, as a normal person, fund raising, are they to compete with that?
While some may genuinely come to the conclusion they like him as a candidate but how do we know it was actually because they are the better candidate or was it because of their money, their voice was the only one that people heard?