This is a desperate attempt to prevent a trump presidency - anything goes, even supporting a corporate democrat. Which sucks.

The way I see it a day might come when I have to explain to my kids what I did to try to make a better future for them. I could tell them I worked hard to put a roof over their head. I could tell them I changed my lifestyle to try to reduce my carbon footprint. If Trump wins I expect they'll want to know what I did about that. I don't have time to volunteer, but if $100 can help pay for an ad in a swing state and win Harris half a vote, that's better than nothing. Then I can tell my kids I tried to protect their access to abortion, tried to slow down climate change, tried to depoliticize the Supreme Court, tried to strengthen our alliance with Europe, and tried to keep hate and bigotry from having a voice in our government.

It’s kind of like in the Airplane preflight safety demonstration. You always have to put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. It doesn’t really help if you pass out in the process of helping your child put their mask on.

Combine that with the serious unaddressed campaign finance issues with American politics and that’s how you find yourself in this predicament.

But doesn’t giving 500k to someone who’s already rich, receives millions and, let’s be honest, still works for the interests of the rich feel a little off to anyone?

Agreed. I am conflicted. I think that donating will help someone win, but it seems so trivial compared to other causes that need it more.

I find that I’m constantly fighting off a feeling of utter hopelessness whenever I think about the current state of American politics. Harris’ comment yesterday, responding to all the protestors’ chants of “You can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide,” saying in an abusive motherly tone “Keep saying that if you want Donald Trump elected” really hit hard. It just reminded me in a very raw way that Democrats are in no way on the side of humanity.

I don’t have a good response to what you said. Do I want Trump to be dictator? Of course not. Millions if not billions of lives will be ruined by that. Do I want Democrats to maintain the status quo and pretend a genocide isn’t being funded by my income? Not a fucking chance. Do I want a revolution of the working class? I don’t really know; would it save lives today, would it make lives today better, would it make lives in the near future better?

Fuck me; I want off this ride.

I’m still very new to leftism, so I may be wrong. But nothing feels leftist about any of this. I know not everyone is a leftist on the Fediverse, but I felt like most of us here had anti-corporate and anti-billionaire views.

it looks like you're unaware that lemmy.world doesn't tolerate leftist views very well to the extent that they wholesale de-federate from leftist instances and that nearly all of the rest of the lemmyverse embraces leftist views.

however people from the rest of the lemmyverse can post on lemmy.world because that's how the fediverse was designed to work; so maybe that would explain why you've seeing anti-corporate and anti-billionaire views on lemmy.world?