Oscar Mayer heir Chuck Collins on how billionaires are fleecing everyone

[ancianita]

47. Fair enough. As you say,

We need people like him the same as we need investigative journalist, politicians, lawyers, door knockers, soup kitchen volunteers, philanthropists, protestors, letter writers, etc.

And yet he gets amplified. But not JB Pritzker -- who used his money at scale to actually run for office and have a bigger scale policy and spending impact for Illinois folks.
Same for Mike Bloomberg, not only a mayor of the Democratic City of New York City, but consistently one of the Big Donors for Democrats;
or Jim and Marilyn Simons,
or Reid Hoffman,
or Dustin Moskovitz (donors to Future Forward),
or Amy Goldman Fowler (Biden),
and yes, even George Soros and his Open Society Foundation.

So... while it's clear to me that Collins has done nothing that comes close to what these pro-Democratic billionaires have done for the party of the working class and unions, it's still important to keep in mind that 2/3 of all billionaires donate to the Republican Party.
So ... if his progressive ideas help the party, I should accept that we should take all the varied help we can get from the socioeconomic 1%.
Ideas like his take years to sink in, and almost never are the reason Democrats GOTV.
Maybe this is his year. I just seriously doubt it.

And I don't mind challenging people here for not appreciating truly active billionaires who either run for office, or contribute material good to the party, and to the People on the party's behalf.