Google+ cost $585 million. Lord knows, how they hyped it up, tried to shove it down our throats, and actually went for forced integration. Well, guess what? They failed and Google has now de facto admitted that failure.
New Coke? Millions spent in marketing research and rollout. Guess what? Failure.
Doesn't matter how much you spend to get the public to use your product. If the people don't want it, they won't buy it.
Likewise with elections and the billions that will be spent to hoodwink the people and sell them something they don't want. But if we the people don't want it, we won't buy it, no matter how much and how hard they try to sell it. While a lot of the electorate may not follow the ins and outs of politics, it is up to people like us here on this blog to talk to everyone we know about the importance of this election. No matter who we support, we can all agree that many current policies (under whichever Presidency they first got their start) and Republican obstructionism have decimated the middle class. It's time to change the whole game.
I support Bernie Sanders, and while he may be a long shot, his ideas for how to improve this nation, move towards true equality and rebuild the middle class are spot on. It is up to us to explain to our friends and neighbors why they don't want or need what the big bucks in politics is selling. (For what it's worth, although I am not a big HRC fan, I still think she is a zillion times better than any Republican, and I believe we can push her, however incrementally, consistently to the leftward side of the spectrum. I will of course vote for her in the general, if she's the nominee).
In this massively unequal society, we the people still hold the one unit of currency that ultimately really matters in politics: the vote.
If we don't want to buy what they are selling, we shouldn't and we won't!
Let's make sure as many voters as possible are registered. Make sure you know the rules for voting in your state's primaries, so you can help others.
Even if Senator Sanders doesn't win the nomination, he can help get the real issues and solutions out there, front and center.
Money may be a lot, but it isn't everything. The people still hold the most valuable thing in this entire democracy: the vote. Let's make sure all the eligible voters are registered and vote! In the primaries and in the general. No matter who is the nominee--and I sure do hope it's Sanders--we must prevail in the general election, no matter how much the Koch brothers spend to defeat our democracy. Let's make Koch just like the New Coke.