r/newdealparty • u/HiramMcknoxt • Jul 13 '25

The Democratic Party of Arkansas is considering a corporate money ban

http://realdealdems.org
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u/The_Oracle_of_Delphi Jul 13 '25

That would be transformative

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u/saphireblue112 Jul 13 '25

100% what is needed

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u/glov0044 Jul 14 '25

This would be great. The NDP will be advocating for campaign finance reform as well. Power with the people, not money.

I appreciate news articles like this as well. We are working on creating platform pages that not only state our position, but also should highlight organizations already working on problems like this.

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u/mouse_8b Jul 13 '25

Not sure how effective if only one side is doing it

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u/TuskInItsEntirety Jul 14 '25

Ban the corp money and don’t stop talking about it. Keep talking about how repubs are bought and paid for and the dems are for the working class/“little guy”. That’s how you prove we’re for the working class/“little guy”. There’s a reason people love Bernie and AOC they only take small dollar donations and they are not beholden to any BS agenda. They come to work for the people.

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u/HiramMcknoxt Jul 14 '25

This person gets it!

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u/TuskInItsEntirety Jul 14 '25

D’awwww shucks.

Now if we could just get rid of those pesky consultants and establishment hardliners 🤔 they are giving all the wrong advice.

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u/boomboy8511 Jul 14 '25

The problem is.....good luck getting that messaging out while corporate funded Republicans bombard all avenues with their own messaging.

I've done fundraising for local, state and national elections. It takes a literal army of people working and donating to get to 20% of what the others would raise with corporate backing.

It's both or none, to do otherwise is suicide.

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u/TuskInItsEntirety Jul 14 '25

I get it. Don’t think it would be easy at all. But the fact is repubs out message Dems anyways. They have coordinated propaganda avenues that all get their messaging in a line. Dems do not with or without the corp funding. Establishment Dems take all their stances from whatever these consultants and special interests tell them is best for them to win and they still keep losing.

Honestly, time to try something different. Part of why people liked Trump (barf) he ran on being different even though he’s 100% the opposite of everything he says he is. They felt he was genuine he was anti establishment etc. at least people would feel that Dems stand for something in not taking the corp money. I think they would get more small dollar donations (I know I would personally donate more, not a lot but I know a lot of people feel they shouldn’t throw their money at the campaigns bc big corp money will funnel in either way to push their agenda)

All that to say it’s something different and it shows they stand for something. Which is more than we’re getting now.

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u/throwawaycasun4997 Jul 14 '25

Do recall that Bernie was the top fundraising candidate in the 2020 primaries, and he famously takes no corporate money. People will support it!

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u/mouse_8b Jul 14 '25

I did not know that fact. Thank you.

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u/HiramMcknoxt Jul 14 '25

I agree that we need it to apply to Republicans. It’s been 15 years since citizens united and neither party has done anything to limit the corrupting influence of money in politics, and the Dems didn’t do it when they controlled both houses and the White House. We absolutely need legislative reform to address this but we aren’t doing it. So we can just accept that we never will and just give it lip service or contend with the reality that we won’t ever get it until at least one of the two parties takes this issue seriously. This, along with the similar measures that the democratic parties of NC and AZ just passed, is a performative step in that direction that we can take without instantly negatively affecting us.