Here's the thing with this. We all absolutely should refund our donations, however we also need to realize they don't need them anyway and we all need to understand what the purpose of them asking for donations is. It adds LEGITIMACY to their funding numbers, which comes in the form of laundering bribes rather than through private citizen donations.
Say for instance, they send out 70 million emails requesting funds, it doesn't look suspicious that 40 or even 50 million people donate. But these donations, moreso than coming from individuals, are large donations from lobbyists and corporations and are essentially bribes that are broken down to the individual maximum contribution and are manipulated to appear to come from millions of individuals. They don't need our money, they need us to give them the illusion of transparency and legitimacy.
Here's the thing with this. We all absolutely should refund our donations, however we also need to realize they don't need them anyway and we all need to understand what the purpose of them asking for donations is. It adds LEGITIMACY to their funding numbers, which comes in the form of laundering bribes rather than through private citizen donations.
Say for instance, they send out 70 million emails requesting funds, it doesn't look suspicious that 40 or even 50 million people donate. But these donations, moreso than coming from individuals, are large donations from lobbyists and corporations and are essentially bribes that are broken down to the individual maximum contribution and are manipulated to appear to come from millions of individuals. They don't need our money, they need us to give them the illusion of transparency and legitimacy.