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In reply to the discussion: Aren't there ANY Dem. billionaires who care enough about our country to give $$$ to OUR side? [View all]FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The main sources of Dem donations seem to have been:
- labor unions (ostensibly to benefit their members, but Democrat politicians spent it on a lot of other causes that many union members don't actually care much about, like environmentalism, consumer protection, gender politics, civil rights, etc.),
- urban real estate moguls (in order to influence big city politics, ensure infrastructure spending to increase value of their holdings, get favaorable zoning and other permitting done, etc),
- rich Jews (in order to buy military protection for Israel).
There has been some collection of money and donations from environmentalist, consumer, gender politics, civil rights, etc. groups, but they have mostly engaged in activisim and other participatory forms of politics, rather than contributing heavily. At least not in the billionaire class.