Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.

The ratio was more than 4 to 1. But the state’s most powerful Democrats – including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass – have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires who’ve raised upward of $340m to defeat the initiative.

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    19 hours ago

    I don’t think you read this article before creating wacky conspiracy theories about it.

    We already know that establishment democrats are fiscally captured.

    So then why is it Russian disinformation to write an article highlighting exactly how? Even if you don’t think this is a problem, the article clearly outlines that it is. The fact you just dismiss it as Russian disinformation kinda proves to me this information is important for Americans to read. American billionaires have infinitely more influence on American elections, both Dem and Republican, than Russia ever will.

    This isn’t news. So why now? Obviously, the midterms.

    It IS news. It’s news because people like the author of this article (which you obviously didn’t even read before commenting) are reporting on it, as someone who is anti fascist and anti billionaire I am a person who benefits from this type of reporting. You are too.

    Who fed the story to the journalist? Don’t know.

    You don’t know because you didn’t read the article you just spouted crazy conspiracy nonsense about Russia. You are claiming the American Institute for Public Accuracy is compromised directly by Russia.

    If you actually read what you are commenting about, you’d see he sources literally everything he’s speculating from public info that is linked within the article. He also speaks with establishment directly.

    Your “thinking deeper” is going off the deep end into stupid qanon type rhetoric. Again, baseless conspiracy slop nonsense.