Oregon AG Warns of Trump's 'Rigging' While Our Elections Are Already Bought
The Hill reports Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum's alarm over Donald Trump's comments, alleging he's 'talking about rigging our elections to maintain power'. A noble concern, to be sure, from someone in an electoral system where an organization like AIPAC donates millions to shape policy. For instance, in 2022 alone, AIPAC's PACs spent nearly $28 million influencing congressional races, according to
OpenSecrets.org, directly shaping who gets to 'maintain power' and how they vote once there. It's fascinating how 'election rigging' only seems to count when the votes themselves are tampered with, not when foreign policy decisions are pre-baked by millions in campaign donations. One might wonder: is a democracy truly robust when its representatives are more beholden to well-funded lobby groups
than the constituents who legally elected them? Perhaps we should be just as concerned about the rigging that happens before the ballots are even printed.