{"id":8100,"date":"2020-12-12T05:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2020-12-12T05:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:14:43","slug":"the-2020-election-shows-how-organized-money-devoured-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=8100","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Election Shows How Organized Money Devoured American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/12\/2020-election-money-campaign-finance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7579267_110220-wpvi-shutterstock-trump-and-biden-campaign-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>This year\u2019s election cycle was the most expensive in history \u2014 and, thanks to oligarch-friendly campaign finance laws, we don\u2019t even know where much of it came from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/12\/2020-election-money-campaign-finance\">The 2020 Election Shows How Organized Money Devoured American Democracy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>US$14B.\u00a0 Twice what 2016&#8217;s election cost.\u00a0 Where&#8217;s the limit?<\/p>\n<p>Also, TO-DO: what&#8217;s our election cost?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s election cycle was the most expensive in history \u2014 and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,58,31,57,72],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul","tag-politics","tag-to-do","tag-usa","tag-usa-usa-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}