free-cat-fancy asked: If money and politics got into a cage match where two people entered and one came out, would money or politics come out? In what sense would they 'come out'?
money.
part of the problem is language. once money has entered a campaign account, is ceases to be as useful as the cash you and I would use to buy 7 layer burritos from Taco Bell. Campaign money can’t be used for useful things like burritos or paying your mortgage. politicians often try to do these things with it and it ends badly and they have to stop being politicians sometimes.
However, the other phrase my boss is fond of talking about is: “whatever you think they are talking about, they are talking about money.” I personally love this phrase as a universal truth.
people are politicians to influnece where money goes. we can cynically boil down every political conflict to “where I want money to go vs. where you want it to go.” and we wouldn’t be wrong (though we wouldn’t have the whole truth). This isn’t campaign money though. This money will always beat politics.
It would come out of the cage match as in: money is substantive and a measure of things that cannot be denied. politics is not as substantive as money, as it is a measure of feelings and desires and how we assume the world should often be. though politics can direct and shape money and its use, it cannot deny its presence or absence. Money always wins everything.
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thecallus said:
Way shorter to just say “Ron Paul” or “end the Fed.”
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