“According to FEC filings, the Synapse Group has worked for Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, as well as GOP candidates for Congress. Synapse has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for field and canvassing work by America PAC, the outside spending group started by allies of Musk that has spent millions of dollars this election cycle to boost Trump and oppose Democrats.”

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      So if an American gives $200 to the Democrats wt:thon couldn’t give $100 to a Green Party candidate and $100 to a Libertarian Party candidate?

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        No. Nobody should be donating to political parties because it inevitably leads to the rich having too much influence, and wasting billions of dollars on a pointless advertisement arms race to nowhere.

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          So how do parties get their money? From the government based on past votes?

          If 80 million Biden voters each contributed $125 to his campaign, that’d be $10 billion. What corporation would match that?