Where Your Contribution to the Republican Candidate Really Goes 3 3 2021 

The machine that produces candidates for political office, used by the Republicans, is becoming an industry that makes a large amount of profit.  The companies provide, for instance, promotional videos that pump up a candidate.  The bourgeois press plays it on television, or online, and the business who has created the video gets a cut of the campaign contributions it generates.

The amounts of campaign contributions that get siphoned off to capitalists as profit can be as high as 70%.

“The company that produced the video, Arsenal Media Group, would take a cut. And a firm hired to promote the video, Olympic Media, would keep up to 70 percent of the money it generated, some of which was not disclosed in Klacik’s initial campaign finance filings.

Washington Post 3 2 2021

Klacik is a woman who ran for office as a Republican in Baltimore.  Although she did not win, the businesses who produced her propaganda made off like bandits.

“High-margin fundraising fees — sometimes in excess of 90 percent of a donor’s first contribution — have sucked resources out of conservative politics ever since the movement organized in the 1970s around the costly medium of direct mail. Social media, email and text-message fundraising brought those same steep margins online.

“By the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.

Washington Post ibid.

It just goes to show that any and all transactions with exchange value, money, shed surplus value for capitalists.  Even when they take part in universal suffrage, the ruling classes are running a business, with profit.

It is interesting  to think that the donation to the Republican bourgeoisie for a candidate for office would be mostly used to enrich capitalists.  If a person gave $100 to a Republican, that $90 would be a profit for a marketing company promoting the candidate.  

I guess they have deep pockets?  Apparently it does not bother a wealthy donor that much of the money they donated went to making a profit for Olympic Media.  

A big part of this is the private ownership of the media, where you can pay money to have your propaganda on the air, on television for instance. You can literally be on television news, in the advertisement when the news is on, if you pay enough money.  

This is the root of the problem.  Now we see the propaganda apparatus of the Republicans is for profit.  It is an industry, a slick product to promote a candidate on FOX News.

It doesn’t even matter if the candidate wins, just that they can pay.  Of course, if more people view it, and donate money to the campaign, that’s more money in coffers of the business who provided the propaganda.  

It may be effective, and the publicity pays off.  But it is sort of like paying a lawyer; if you pay enough money you can find someone who will stand up for just about anything you are saying.  This resembles the machine Republicans have built, a multi-million dollar business whose product is promotional videos that are played on FOX television.  And the more money that gets contributed, the more money the companies who created the propaganda get as profit.  

It’s sort of like the best democracy money can buy.  The more money you pay the more publicity you get.  And  it doesn’t even matter whether or not the candidate wins, just that they get contributions.  Every time a person gives money to Republicans, the cash register cha clinks and the business like Olympic Media, for instance, makes a profit. It doesn’t matter if it is misleading, or even lies, as long as the donations keep coming in.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 3 2021