Why I Rarely Donate to Political Candidates

Money Flying Away

  • 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.

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