Once again, for the record.

What myth?? The one where we have a Congress that votes on things called bills, and the higher vote determines whether or not it becomes a law? That myth?? The one where Sanders will need people in Congress and other legislative bodies to get his revolution going? That one??

While Clooney is probably the most recognizable name and easiest thing to talk about (as it is the headline), I wonder why everyone else is ignoring the millions more from fossil fuel and drug companies. Is it because we just expect it so we accept it? She’s getting a ton of money and support, but not exactly from…

So if Hillary wins she’ll owe favours to Wall Street, big oil and big pharma. If Bernie wins, he’ll owe favours to...the working poor.

Yeah, especially now that the mathematical probability of his winning is extraordinarily low but he keeps citing trumped up stats about how the polls claim he’s in better shape than Clinton so they’ll keep digging into their pocketbooks for him.

I think it’s obscene that you think so little of the opinions of the working poor.

I skew a bit more toward Clinton, in all honesty, but this idea really bums me out. I think that a candidate like Sanders would have the best shot going up against someone like Trump, but we are a nations largely programmed, at this point, to think “it will never happen. Have to go with someone who will make smaller…

Couldn't agree more. I have never been able to figure out why our system is set up the way it is. I do suspect it serves as a way of not giving the actual populace complete control over who ends up in office, which is bullshit.

I would venture to guess if it was Mitt Romney taking George Clooneys money you would be singing a different tune.

Sure they do. That’s why the Hillary Victory Fund already spent (not donated) $14 million of the $26 million raised on her campaign.

No, I’m sorry, but this fundraiser is fucking egregious. Like, it used to be the case that politicians would go out of their way to avoid bringing up fundraisers where plates cost a couple thousand dollars. We long accepted this kind of shit as, like, the cost of doing business, but certainly not a tasteful activity…

A record 32 state parties signed on to the fund, allowing the committee to solicit donations 130 times greater than what a supporter can give to Clinton’s campaign for the primary.

That pic is amusing considering it has his hands on Ohio, which he lost. The cartoonist shouldn’t have counted Bernie’s chickens before they hatched.

He’s not going to change the world at all because you and everyone like you want the status quo. You’ll bitch and whine on here all day about progressive issues, but then when someone comes along who agrees with you and wants to change things, you go “that’s stupid and unrealistic”.

For the same reason it was called the Obama Victory Fund in 2008 and 2012.

I ACTUALLY READ THIS PIECE! It’s good. It taps into the process very well, and it specifically mentions the identity politicking we saw in 2008 against Obama—the same kind we’re seeing now.

Why is it called the Hillary Victory Fund, then? And why does she control it, instead of an impartial person or the DNC itself?

I dunno what happened to Jezebel since I got re-grayed, but it seems that right-wing apologetics have taken over and a $350,000-per-chair fundraiser—even unholy by Republican standards—is now just “how the sausage gets made”.

Were there principled liberal days? I feel like us liberals gave up decades ago, and made the way for centrism that consistently cows to the demands of the increasingly-maddening right wing.

Sanders notes that donations to his campaign average around $27 per person. And when he holds events, tickets cost “$15 or $50.” As a “self-described democratic socialist” relying on small donations rather than super-PACs is a fundamental part of his campaign ideology.