Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

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    1 day ago

    “But please donate to my campaign to STOP this. We will soon, I promise”

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      17 hours ago

      My god I am so sick of the emails.

      I used to get emails like “Contribute to X because I will fight for our schools to provide school lunches to everyone!” And I’d donate.

      Now, the emails are just “Donald wants to kill education. GIVE ME MONEY.”

      So you can use that money to buy another sign that says “Pweeze stop”?

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      yeah, they have gotten so much fucking money. I could have done more good just spending that same amount on potatoes, or paying people to dance.

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      The amount of “gib monies plz” messages I got infuriated me. Like you aren’t doing diddly squat why would I ?!?

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        I think our society is ducked up enough that economically it makes better sense to have a loyal audience of easy marks than a wide audience of fickle donors. Donald Trump figures this out years ago and has been cultivating/brainwashing that audience since.

        Idk how to counter it except that maybe if we gave people cheaper/free essential goods (housing, school lunches etc) they’d be less inclined to go insane and support scammers like trump or the modern democratic party.

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        We got a make them actually work for their money. If they want us to donate then they should do something they said they would do.