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The lib part of my brain had an idea. What if you could set up campaign donation funds that only get relesed to the candidate for certain policy promises ( i mean they can just break them). Im imagining crowdfunding some sort of "stop the genocide" campaign fund that grows as people donate and is only donated once the candidate vocally supports x policies, or say 'condemn the genocide using the word 'genocide'. If candidate doesnt do the thing everyones money gets refunded.
Isn't that basically just a PAC with a refund option if it doesn't pay a candidate? Could be good if you could get enough participation.
Yeah probably 🤷 idk how shit works im just a faceless internet voice.
under current conditions, whatever person or committee has the power to make the call on compliance (did politician fulfill promise?) would probably get bought off
having strong flashbacks to the cynical bad faith "fact-checkers" at WaPo during the 2020 primary
I mean yeah the current conditions are easily fucked. Would probably only be useful for like one thing before it coopted into uselessness