think both takes are missing something. we had the money *to run a big campaign* but we didn't have the money to replicate the state and media apparatus which is controlled by capital. the working class does outnumber capitalists, but doesn't have an organized political machine https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1248282701234233344

there isn't really a binary here between money and numbers. the numbers of people who vote for capitalists are generated by control over the ideological apparatuses- educational, religious, and here most importantly the media. which comes part from money and part from raw power

anyway i think it is correct to continue to locate hope in the reality that the vast majority have an economic interest in socialism while being sober about the fact that capitalists' grip over the minds of most workers is still extremely strong

and to realize that one of their key tactics has always been to give workers a small stake in their success in order to create the illusion of an identity of interests - a political economy of homeownership and 401ks and coddled professionals who see class war as a threat