Your contribution is capped at $3,500. Theirs has no ceiling. Since Citizens United, super PACs, bundlers and dark money nonprofits have turned the primary into the price tag and the general into the show, while a deadlocked FEC enforces nothing. The seat is sold before your name ever reaches the ballot.
The Seat Has A Price
Your contribution limit is three thousand five hundred dollars.
Their contribution limit does not exist.
One door for you. No walls for them.
Welcome to the republic.
Citizens United gave the corporations constitutional speech
Five justices decided money was the mechanism of the reach
Unlimited expenditure – independent – that is the fiction that they wrote
The PAC cannot coordinate – but it runs the ad and funds the vote
Before that ruling corporations had a wall they could not cross
After twenty-ten the wall came down and the citizens absorbed the loss
Your contribution is the theater of participation
Their investment is the architecture of the nation
They pick the candidate before the ballot ever hits the screen
They fund the opposition to control what every outcome means
The primary is the price tag and the general is the show
And the seat was sold and settled by the money months ago
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – AND YOUR VOTE IS NOT THE CURRENCY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – MANUFACTURED URGENCY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – AND THE DONOR HOLDS THE KEY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – IT WAS NEVER FREE!
The bundler stacks the maximum from every willing hand
Delivered to the campaign as a coordinated demand
The donor class networking is the qualifying round
The candidate without a bundler never leaves the ground
A 501(c)(4) is the shadow – donors never named
Dark money flowing through the nonprofits completely unclaimed
Running for a seat requires millions just to stay alive
The working man cannot compete – only funded men survive
The FEC is deadlocked three to three – enforcement is a ghost
The agency designed to regulate protects the ones who spend the most
They pick the candidate before the ballot ever hits the screen
They fund the opposition to control what every outcome means
The primary is the price tag and the general is the show
And the seat was sold and settled by the money months ago
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – AND YOUR VOTE IS NOT THE CURRENCY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – MANUFACTURED URGENCY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – AND THE DONOR HOLDS THE KEY!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE – IT WAS NEVER FREE!
Zuckerberg dropped four hundred million through the nonprofits’ door
Grant funded staff in swing state offices administering the floor
Public election infrastructure subsidized by private cash
The oversight was missing and the money moved too fast
Arabella Advisors built a labyrinth of pop-up shells
Two point four billion dark – anonymous – and no one ever tells
Consent decrees rewrote election law without a legislative vote
The judiciary signed the changes that the citizens never wrote
FEC deadlocked three to three they cannot enforce the law!
501(c)(4) dark money donors hidden from us all!
PAC to PAC transfers laundering the origin of the cash!
The candidate who raised the most almost always wins the clash!
Five billion dollars lobbying on Capitol Hill a year!
Consent decrees rewriting law no legislator here!
Five thousand former officials turned K Street lobbyist!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE AND THE PEOPLE WERE LEFT BEHIND IN THIS!
The average American can donate
three thousand five hundred dollars.
The average billionaire routes fifty million through a PAC
that runs the campaign in everything but name.
The PAC is legally independent.
The candidate is legally unaware.
Every person in Washington knows
this is the largest legal fiction in American politics.
Your vote is counted. Your voice is capped.
And the seat was purchased
before you ever saw a name on the ballot.
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE!
THE MONEY WRITES THE LAW!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE!
WHAT THE FOUNDERS NEVER SAW!
EVERY BILL – PURCHASED!
EVERY VOTE – FOR SALE!
EVERY SEAT – A TRANSACTION!
EVERY LAW – COMMISSIONED!
THE SEAT HAS A PRICE AND THE PEOPLE
MUST NOT LET THE PURCHASE CONTINUE!