advertising isn't coercive though - if you're mad money just = getting your positive message out there to convince people then you're not arguing for "less money in politics", you're arguing for more convincing politicians. It also doesn't currently look like this election is decided at all.
people still choose at the end of the day. No matter who they choose, I'll prefer to not have the representative of the neo nazi child molester kill the gays party win the general
because respectfully - Republican candidates in NYC are essentially third parties to represent what few actual hardline GOP people live there, and the general is basically the primary.
Yeah, people generally elect their government, but you also have to understand that Russia is specifically not a place that gets free and fair elections anymore. This is because one party and one side of the aisle took over there. Imagine if the GOP just ran the US with no elections or oversight
It's a power fantasy. Wish fulfillment. I want to point out here that I can maybe think of 2 or 3 leftist guntubers out of dozens who profess to fight for the rights of queer folks and people of color and are white cishet men who are vaguely alternative who make 6 figures at a desk job.
Like I wanna be clear that I am 99% dissolutioned with him, leftist gun movements in general and the SRA specifically because they're Fudd dens filled with comfortably middle class men trading tips on tuning Gucci ARs expecting to have to use them against neo-nazis in a coming war.
Like, I run in the same circles as him. I live in PA. He is polite and sensible, which is why he is running the community he's made, and not the vile tankies he's perfectly fine with allying himself with.