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Why dont we hear progressives & media complaining about Hillary's 2-1fundraising?

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As of Sept 1, the Washington post had Hillary with $795m to Trump's $403m. I can clearly remember when Bush 2 was ahead in fundraising, by a much lower percentage than Hillary enjoys now, and I remember the outrage in leftist circles about how undemocratic and unfair it was. The media raised the same 'concerns' as well. So, uhm.....where is all that outrage over the even larger and more unfair advantage that Hillary has?

I hear progressives complaining about rich people pouring money into political campaigns, but apparently they aren't too bothered when rich people pour huge sums into Democratic coffers.

Where was the outrage when Obama raised more corporate donation money than Romney? Where was the outrage when Obama received more $$ from BP in 2008, and then granted them a "categorical exclusion" from safety inspections before the gulf oil spill? Common sense dictates that there probably wouldn't have been a spill if BP wouldn't have been excluded from inspections on the very oil rig that exploded and it's safety equipment failed to work!

Seems that political and ideological advancement 'trumps' a fair democratic system, as well as the environment......
 
The left is very disciplined.

Most are not from the factories and board rooms, their leaders are based in academia where everything has a simple answer. It's very easy for a professor to convince himself he is right and all knowing when his students tell him so.

The left can't lose. It's lot in life is that they are high expectation, low achievers, yet don't have personal goals of middle class ideas of houses (you rent), vacations (you are too low wage), promotions (you've never been a leader), raises (you've never been good at anything but showing up on time, usually sober).

So I can see their points. Multinationalism, has made things cheaper at Walmart, but your paycheck is shrinking, your hours have been cut, and your CEO just walked away from a huge scandal with a $100 million dollar bonus "for a job well done".
 
Democrats or progressives? Progressives are always railing against money in politics. Even now.
 
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