Yang Thinks ‘Democracy Dollars’ Will Undermine Mythical ‘Gun Lobby’

By Tom Knighton

In politics, people love to pretend they’re David battling ideological Goliaths. As a result, they often inflate the power an individual or group so that they appear to be almost impossible to defeat. In a way, this is smart. It hedges things so if they fail, it’s not incompetence or that the plan was really unpopular, it’s because the Goliath was just too powerful. If they win, they make it like they’ve accomplished something fantastic, even if the majority of the public backed the effort.

It’s all just a way to spin things.

However, Democratic candidate for president Andrew Yang has bought into the idea that the “gun lobby” is just too powerful and is convinced that his plan will defang the beast.

Yang proposed using his “democracy dollars” plan to counter the influence of the gun lobby in Washington.

The plan is to give each American voter $100 in publicly funded vouchers — earmarked for campaign donations only. He said that putting money in the hands of voters would shift the perspective of lawmakers on gun safety legislation who rely on campaign donations from industry lobbyists.

“That’s how we override the stranglehold the gun lobby has over our lives,” he said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms