I have hope that he's a true class traitor, but this type of bait and switch has happened before. I won't hold my breath, but he seems promising
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Similar vibe. I'm not fully convinced that any billionaire is truly looking out for working class interests, but Steyer at least has a historical track record that we can point to and use as a benchmark for what to expect. There are no good billionaires, but in a world where more and more billionaires are running for office themselves or backing non-billionaire candidates all the time, he's probably the least bad of them.
We wouldn't have Marx if Engels hadn't worked against his class interests, so class traitors from the ruling class can happen. In this era of neoliberalism, I'm mostly expecting this person to be somewhat like Bernie
Consider FDR, who was extremely wealthy, but created the New Deal, the best thing to ever happen to working Americans.
He was wealthy but no billionaire
If he's serious he would be better served giving lots of money to someone running on this platform who isn't a billionaire. But I know he isn't serious because there are no moral billionaires. There's a very small chance this is self preservation but then you know he won't go as far as is needed, just as far as he has to to pacify people.
Because he wants to keep his head.
The other billionaires should take note.
Funny how they're quietly funding the other prominent Democrat
Not funny at all. If their votes are split then there's a chance zero Democrats will be on the ballot in November. What a shit system.
One thing people don't realize about actually fighting back in a class war...
Is that even the tiniest amount of pressure makes some of the oligarchs start to compromise. If it looks like the two most plausible options for a billionaire is being a millionaire 500 times over, or a mob killing them, suddenly having 500 million dollars sounds like a lot.
If they think the two options are having a billion or 500 million, anyone that would be happy with 500 million would already have only 500 million
Everyday they can just give away enough money to not be the focus, but they won't unless something worse could plausibly happen to them personally if they didn't.
Fuck em, make them feel the same day to day dread and fear everyone else has to deal with in the society they created
You see United Health? They need to learn the hard way.
More like equal class distrubution then class traitor
He's betraying the billionaire class, that kinda makes him a class traitor, as he is a billionaire
He isn't betraying anyone. This is moron sheep voting for the wolf.
This is different though. He promised he wouldn't eat me.
