# Where are all the rich, elite celebrities when you need them?

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**Created:** [March 31, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-rich-elite-celebrities-when-you-need-them/1016382 "2025-03-31T03:20:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-rich-elite-celebrities-when-you-need-them/1016382/21 "2025-04-01T16:43:43Z")

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There is a difference between celebrity and power. All of the actors in Hollywood combined aren’t even a hundredth of the power of Elon Musk.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-rich-elite-celebrities-when-you-need-them/1016382/22 "2025-04-01T20:45:03Z")

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> [@Dr.Colossus](#):
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> “The GOP is terrified of their base, and the Democrats are terrified of the GOP’s base, but NO ONE is terrified of the Democrat’s base.”
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> I also saw another that said basically the GOP are lock-step with each other over only a few issues, whereas the left is a loose conglomeration of people who “don’t agree with that,” without any unifying issues–just “I don’t agree with the Right.”
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> I myself am ruthlessly progressive, but I’m loath to call myself a Dem–changed my status to Independent because I want RADICAL progression. I might even be a socialist.
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> There’s simply _no_ galvanizing force, entity, group, person–we’re all just floundering.

Yeah, I agree. The Democrats don’t stand for anything but “not the Republicans”, and they’ve _relied_ on that so long they don’t have any other real strategy. “Get celebrities to endorse us” is just absurdly pathetic as a backup plan.

I’ll also add that nobody _respects_ the Democrats. Not their base, not their opponents and by all appearances not even themselves. Nobody regards them a competent, courageous, strong willed, filled with conviction or, well, anything. Nobody _expects_ them to accomplish anything.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-rich-elite-celebrities-when-you-need-them/1016382/23 "2025-04-01T21:59:57Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Nobody regards them a competent, courageous, strong willed, filled with conviction or, well, anything. Nobody _expects_ them to accomplish anything.

I second everything you’re saying–but to take it even further: When people like Bernie come along proposing more radical change, it resonates with the left–but the Powers that Be don’t want THAT much change, hang on now–so it gets tamped down in favor of someone a little more status quo.

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