| | [[File:The-weeping-frenchman.png|right|300px|thumb|''The Weeping Frenchman''. MSNBC's [[Chris Matthews]] compared Sanders' early victories to the Fall of France to the [[Nazi]]s in 1940.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtYKP6JvQc</ref>]] | | [[File:The-weeping-frenchman.png|right|300px|thumb|''The Weeping Frenchman''. MSNBC's [[Chris Matthews]] compared Sanders' early victories to the Fall of France to the [[Nazi]]s in 1940.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtYKP6JvQc</ref>]] |
| | To run for president in the November 2020 general election will cost in excess of an estimated $1 billion in the next year and a half, or roughly an average of about $2 million per day over the next 500 days. The bulk of that money is raised and spent in the remaining months as November 2020 approaches. However, a candidate's ability to fundraise now, before primary voting begins in February 2020, is the ultimate test of viability. A successful fundraising track record attracts more and bigger donors. The candidate's attitude, ideas, issues, smiley face and hairstyle are all geared toward impressing money donors. With no billionaires on the Democratic side spending their own money (with the exception of Tom Steyer), all these candidates are carrying water for their money masters' special interests.<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/04/oligarchs-are-feeling-right-home-democratic-party</ref> By contrast, the likely Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is beholden to no one but the American people. | | To run for president in the November 2020 general election will cost in excess of an estimated $1 billion in the next year and a half, or roughly an average of about $2 million per day over the next 500 days. The bulk of that money is raised and spent in the remaining months as November 2020 approaches. However, a candidate's ability to fundraise now, before primary voting begins in February 2020, is the ultimate test of viability. A successful fundraising track record attracts more and bigger donors. The candidate's attitude, ideas, issues, smiley face and hairstyle are all geared toward impressing money donors. With no billionaires on the Democratic side spending their own money (with the exception of Tom Steyer), all these candidates are carrying water for their money masters' special interests.<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/04/oligarchs-are-feeling-right-home-democratic-party</ref> By contrast, the likely Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is beholden to no one but the American people. |