- Spam. Donate even once and the flood begins.
- Increasing
demands/requests. Donate even once and it’s almost like a catphishing campaign: increasingly urgent demands for increasingly larger donations. - If they lose, I’ve thrown away my money.
- If they win, but they’re in the minority, I might as well have thrown away my money, at least for important issues.
- If they win, it seems they inevitably transition from representing the people to representing only the people and companies that gave them exorbitant amounts of money.
It’s a cynical point of view, I get it.
I choose instead to support organizations like the EFF, ACLU, and others actually taking action, boots on the ground.