„Leben wir wirklich in einer Demokratie?“ Fragt Sanders, nachdem Musk 10 Millionen US-Dollar für das Rennen um den US-Senat ausgegeben hat: „Es darf nicht zugelassen werden, dass Milliardäre Wahlen kaufen.“

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* After flirting last year with forming his own political party, far-right billionaire Elon Musk is funding Republican political candidates once again.

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Axios reported on Monday that Musk recently made a massive
$10 million donation to bolster Nate Morris, a MAGA candidate
who is vying to replace retiring US Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

* Axios described the massive donation, the largest Musk has ever given to a Senate candidate, as “the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big in the 2026 midterms, giving Republicans a formidable weapon in the expensive battle to keep their congressional majorities.”
* Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reacted with disgust to the news, and said that Musk’s enormous donation was indicative of a broken campaign finance system.
* “Are we really living in a democracy when the richest man on earth can spend as much as he wants to elect his candidates?” Sanders asked in a social media post.

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“The most important thing our nation can do is end Citizens United
and move to public funding of elections,” he added, referring to
the 2010 Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for unlimited
spending on elections by corporations. “Billionaires can’t be
allowed to buy elections.”

* Democratic Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, currently running to represent Maine’s second congressional district, also denounced Musk for throwing his weight around to buy politicians.
* “Billionaires buy our elections, rig the tax code, and undermine our democracy,” wrote Dunlap. “Working people deserve a government that works for them—not for billionaires like Elon Musk.”
* Musk is no stranger to spending big to help elect Republicans, having spent more than $250 million in 2024 to help secure President Donald Trump’s victory.

Bernie spitting out facts.

In case anyone was wondering, $10 million to Elon Musk is the equivalent of someone who has $100,000 donating $1.67 to a political campaign.

Elon Musk is literally buying election influence with his pocket change

I’m surprised Musk hasn’t been arrested for Ketamine possession.

Nope, we don’t live in a democracy in the USA and haven’t in decades.

Hopefully Musk is as successful as he was in the 2025 Wisconsin supreme court race he spent millions on: not at all successful.

No, you aren’t living in a democracy. Not if you can buy this kind of influence.

See? This is what the Republicans are doing behind the scenes, while everyone is distracted with hammering Trump.

Blame Citizen’s United. Corporations are people too and money is speech so the more you have the louder your voice.

Peter Thiel owns Vice President JD Vance

It’s honestly depressing how normalized this has become. When someone can drop millions like it’s nothing while regular people struggle, it shows how broken our system really is. The fact that this kind of spending gets labeled as free speech instead of what it actually is – buying political influence – tells you everything you need to know. They’re not even pretending anymore that it’s a fair playing field. This isn’t democracy, it’s just legalized corruption where money talks louder than votes.

Unfortunately, the US was never a true democracy, it’s always been an oligarchical republic, and every attempt to diffuse power from the oligarchs to the people has been met with class warfare.
It’s the worst it’s been in a long, long time right now, though.

People need to see it for what it truly is, not the purchasing of a senate race or advocation of a particular political view or another but the purchase of the very shackles that continue to enslave them and maintain the transfer of wealth from those without power to those that hold power.

Gerrymandering, electoral college and pac money all say its the illusion of democracy.