As hard as it is to believe, money is already being wasted on political advertising for national elections in November. Is there any more worthless way that dollars can be used? I’m hard pressed to find one.
Let’s step back for a minute and think about where money can be wisely/appropriately/effectively invested in productive endeavors, things that help our society progress and improves the lot of families and individuals. Rather than contributing to a political figure or campaign months and months before voting, those who fund these attack ads seven months and more before voting takes place, we could find causes that grow our economy, protect the environment, educate children, house the homeless.
I don’t have a handle on who puts the big money into campaigns so far in advance of elections. Suffice to say, it likely is individuals with big bucks, along with organizations/businesses that have huge sums of cash to pedal influence. They throw money into ways to influence you into thinking the way they do or how they want you to think.
This typically involves demonizing the opponent rather than educating the potential voter. Time and again, it’s been proven that negative and attack ads get viewers thinking bad thoughts about the individual being attacked.
How much is spent? I don’t know. Let me ask Ms. Google right now. The quick response is that the advertising dollars spent on U.S. elections and advocacy issues will grow to roughly $16 billion in 2024, up 31.2% compared to the last presidential election in 2020..
I can think of much better ways to spend/invest that money. How about we create jobs for people where they pick up all the trash blowing on our highways and city streets – plastic bottles and bags, cardboard boxes, tires, wrapping, fast food refuse. Before we end up getting buried in all the crap that ends up on the side of the road, lets have the big kahunas throw a couple of billion into that program.
We can have them throw another couple of billion into feeding the one in six kids in the United States who have to skip a daily meal. How about we build tiny affordable home dwellings with another two billion dollar investment to get some of the homeless off the streets?
Those three ideas combined would only come to a mere six billion dollars out of the pockets of the uber wealthy who are already dipping into their pockets to manipulate your thinking and getting you to see a candidate or campaign in the same light as them. There would still be $10 billion available in their 2024 till to handle all the other issues based on those earlier Google stats.
Maybe there could be some political advertising requirement put into place that for every dollar you contribute to a candidate, you must invest a dollar into something constructive for society. Probably too much to ask of the big guns. And they certainly aren’t going to do something like that out of the goodness of their heart.
Paid political advertising is a waste product. It needs to be reformed. I don’t have the answers. We can all ask questions.
Let’s step back for a minute and think about where money can be wisely/appropriately/effectively invested in productive endeavors, things that help our society progress and improves the lot of families and individuals. Rather than contributing to a political figure or campaign months and months before voting, those who fund these attack ads seven months and more before voting takes place, we could find causes that grow our economy, protect the environment, educate children, house the homeless.
I don’t have a handle on who puts the big money into campaigns so far in advance of elections. Suffice to say, it likely is individuals with big bucks, along with organizations/businesses that have huge sums of cash to pedal influence. They throw money into ways to influence you into thinking the way they do or how they want you to think.
This typically involves demonizing the opponent rather than educating the potential voter. Time and again, it’s been proven that negative and attack ads get viewers thinking bad thoughts about the individual being attacked.
How much is spent? I don’t know. Let me ask Ms. Google right now. The quick response is that the advertising dollars spent on U.S. elections and advocacy issues will grow to roughly $16 billion in 2024, up 31.2% compared to the last presidential election in 2020..
I can think of much better ways to spend/invest that money. How about we create jobs for people where they pick up all the trash blowing on our highways and city streets – plastic bottles and bags, cardboard boxes, tires, wrapping, fast food refuse. Before we end up getting buried in all the crap that ends up on the side of the road, lets have the big kahunas throw a couple of billion into that program.
We can have them throw another couple of billion into feeding the one in six kids in the United States who have to skip a daily meal. How about we build tiny affordable home dwellings with another two billion dollar investment to get some of the homeless off the streets?
Those three ideas combined would only come to a mere six billion dollars out of the pockets of the uber wealthy who are already dipping into their pockets to manipulate your thinking and getting you to see a candidate or campaign in the same light as them. There would still be $10 billion available in their 2024 till to handle all the other issues based on those earlier Google stats.
Maybe there could be some political advertising requirement put into place that for every dollar you contribute to a candidate, you must invest a dollar into something constructive for society. Probably too much to ask of the big guns. And they certainly aren’t going to do something like that out of the goodness of their heart.
Paid political advertising is a waste product. It needs to be reformed. I don’t have the answers. We can all ask questions.