Jason LefkowitzHow to explain modern American politics in one chart
KeithWM@jalefkowit I suspect this charts says more about the number of billionaires than about how much rich folk are donating.
@KeithWM The percentage is of the total volume of dollars contributed, not the number of contributors.
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires-buying-elections-theyve-come-to-collect/
Billionaires Buying Elections: They’ve Come to Collect - Americans For Tax Fairness
KEY FINDINGS Just 100 billionaire families poured a record-breaking $2.6 billion into federal elections in 2024, one of every six dollars spent altogether by all candidates, parties and committees. That’s two-and-a-half times the roughly $1 billion spent by individual billionaire donors in 2020. Billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens …
Nicole ParsonsThe wealthy are also laying fields of landmines to torpedo democracy for decades to come.
Dead billionaires can buy elections long after they pass away, thanks to their think tanks, tax havens, & trust funds.
Corporate personhood violates one person, one vote democracy.
Bradley passed away in 1965. His money is close to buying the overturn of the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchising women.
2010 is when a corrupt Supreme Court turned on democracy.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/climate/epa-human-life-value.html
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
The entire planet is at risk of ecocide just from a tiny number of billionaires buying Supreme Court Justices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
Preserve & increase beauty...@Npars01 @jalefkowit @KeithWM Gonna argue that it happened in 2000 when Sandra Day decided Shrub should be president so a democrat wouldn't pick her replacement.
But yeah...