Metastasize

I know it doesn't apply to everyone - or every entity - individually, but collectively, the Professional Democrats are a hell of a lot more corrupt than they were 20 years. People like this are not going to save us!

A Democratic Senate candidate running in Maine on a platform of getting money out of politics has spent his career entangled with controversial PACs created by the notorious email fundraising firm Mothership Strategies. The firm pioneered the hair-on-fire fundraising tactics that often send more money to political consultants than to political candidates.

Mothership was recently the subject of yet another viral investigation that revealed that of the $678 million the company’s core political action committees raised since 2018, just $11 million went to candidates; $159 million made its way to Mothership Strategies. Meanwhile, the firm’s spammy approach to email and text messaging—mock overdue bills, sky-is-falling rhetoric, and so on—has left the grassroots commons desiccated, draining email fundraising of its potency and driving many campaigns toward SMS (which is in the process of being destroyed itself).

Corruption seeps into everyone and everything eventually. That's just how things are done, don't rock the boat, hey you'd better show you're one of us by joining in. No one is going to get ahead by threatening to expose the system.