I’m super excited that you’re doing this! It’s something I’ve wanted to exist for a long time, and I considered doing it myself a few years ago. It definitely seems like the legal issues are the biggest hurdle. Perhaps I’m being naively optimistic, but I was at least somewhat hopeful that you could get the political parties to not hate you, by phrasing it as “we’re taking away money from the other party”.
I’m happy to chat about implementation details, unfortunately I’m pretty busy and can’t actually commit enough time to help with, you know, actual implementation. Also unfortunately, it seems I have a similar background to you, and so wouldn’t really complement your knowledge very well.
If I were to donate to politics (which I could see happening), I would very likely use this service if it existed.
Thanks! But yeah, I don’t think we could get political parties to like us. Because ultimately parties do prefer that they and the opposing party have a billion dollars than they they both have no money, if only because the employment of party operatives depends on it.
I’m super excited that you’re doing this! It’s something I’ve wanted to exist for a long time, and I considered doing it myself a few years ago. It definitely seems like the legal issues are the biggest hurdle. Perhaps I’m being naively optimistic, but I was at least somewhat hopeful that you could get the political parties to not hate you, by phrasing it as “we’re taking away money from the other party”.
I’m happy to chat about implementation details, unfortunately I’m pretty busy and can’t actually commit enough time to help with, you know, actual implementation. Also unfortunately, it seems I have a similar background to you, and so wouldn’t really complement your knowledge very well.
If I were to donate to politics (which I could see happening), I would very likely use this service if it existed.
Thanks! But yeah, I don’t think we could get political parties to like us. Because ultimately parties do prefer that they and the opposing party have a billion dollars than they they both have no money, if only because the employment of party operatives depends on it.