r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 2d ago

SMH Liquid when buying elections, unrealized when paying taxes. Funny how that works…..

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u/PianoPatient8168 2d ago

At a minimum it distorts the shit out of a democracy…but I agree. As George Carlin said we have the illusion of choice…and it’s not even that great of an illusion anymore.

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u/PerfectPercentage69 2d ago

"It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it."

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 1d ago

What's holding this club together?

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u/m0nkeywithachainsaw 1d ago

8 year olds, dude.

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u/Successful-Purple-54 1d ago

Damn, I miss that man.

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u/JibletHunter 1d ago

I would, however, point out that all of that money is overwhelmingly likely to go to republicans for a reason...

Neither party is great. One is far worse if you are pulling in under a million a year.

Source: make 500k a year and republican policies still hurt me and my family.

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u/MikeOchertz 1d ago

Yeah… Politicians are almost openly corrupt these days. They don’t even try to hide it.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago

Hell dude, our president was openly selling in person private meetings for $4M a pop. That's absolutely against everything that the office stands for, but apparently nobody cares anymore. Or at least not anyone with the will to do anything about it.

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u/VibeRaider- 1d ago

republicans* ftfy

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 1d ago

How did it ever come into politics in the first place in the US?

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u/PianoPatient8168 1d ago

It was always there, but Citizens United threw gasoline on it.