The so-called Blue Dog Democrats, a pseudo-conservative caucus within the Democratic Party, have been receiving millions of undocumented dollars mostly from Big Pharma. The Blue Dog org, The Center Forward Committee, saw its annual contributions jump from $5 million in 2019 to $18.8 million. The Committee lobbied Blue Dog Dems to assure big pharma drug prices not be challenged by congress.
The committee conducted questionable polls intended to give political capital to moderate Dems to vote against legislation that Big Pharma disapproved of.
This is not an endorsement of empowering government to set drug prices (a “cure” that will more than likely cause shortages that will lead to far more pain and suffering than what such an action might potentially relieve), but rather it exposes further the level of grift within the Democratic Party itself. These Blue Dogs are not conservatives, they are opportunist political business people trading influence for wealth. Whether or not that trading results in policies that you or I might approve (like preventing the state from adding to the problems it largely creates) is irrelevant to the more salient point, that our politicians are without integrity, without virtue, but with plenty of pragmatic business acumen that serves only to enrich themselves and their family members.
