Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Major Democratic Super PAC has Plans to Launch Ad

The Democratic Super PAC Priorities USA Action will be launching the first paid ad since the Democratic party lost the presidential election.  The ads will be run on social media to inform voters about local political events in the area.  The ad will direct voters to the site of the Indivisible group.  From there they will be given information on upcoming events and what they should do while they're there.  The party hopes to "'provide even more scenes of grass-roots activism by everyday citizens'" and organize the unhappy citizens in the recent mass protests.  The Super PAC, Priorities USA, was responsible for raising $192 million dollars to support Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Read here for more information.

This is a method that Super PACs can, and do, use their money to influence politics and people's political views.

I do support the Super PAC using the money to inform citizens, however, I fell like it should not be necessary.  It is the media's job to provide news and information to citizens.  While I am not against this plan, I am not in support of it.  The money raised by the Super PAC is to "fight back against the Republicans" and that is not what politics should be focused around.  The Super PAC should instead be trying to benefit America as a whole, regardless of political parties.  The parties themselves should be more focused on helping America than just fighting the other party.

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