WHO'S PAYING FOR THE PARTY?
People are right to be concerned for the well-being of America, but I think we've got it all wrong. Liberty is under attack, not from the Progressive left but from the Financial right, and the Political right is (unwittingly perhaps), providing the foot-soldiers. The SuperPAC end-around in our current Campaign Finance law sanctions complete donor anonymity. and anonymity is a gentle word for secrecy. Disclosures will not be forthcoming.
I am deeply troubled by the recent disclosures of foreign entities (through the US Chamber of Commerce!) helping to bankroll a strategy of stage-managed public disorder clothed in the garb of free expression. I'm not talking about WTO protesters, here, I'm talking about the Tea Party Town Hall shout-downs. If we're not going to talk about the issues, what good is an educated electorate? As to the Tea Party Rally in Washington, the johnny-come-lately buy-in of the movement by GOP candidates in close races meant that by the time we all got there it was not even slightly grass-roots, as contrived as Dollywood. and as carefully choreographed as Swan Lake.
I am even more troubled by the eagerness of American political Parties to take part in the charade, playing the puppet. I am still saddened that it worked, that the electorate didn't see through it. Never under-estimate the gullibility of a mob, I guess. Especially a well-dressed one.
I am even more troubled by the eagerness of American political Parties to take part in the charade, playing the puppet. I am still saddened that it worked, that the electorate didn't see through it. Never under-estimate the gullibility of a mob, I guess. Especially a well-dressed one.
I get frustrated when we disagree, but I dearly love that we can. I just wish we would do so without subterfuge and trickery, it is unworthy of a free people. Don't we trust the democratic process enough to let it work on the level? If your donors' profits, not national interest, is your North Star, what course will you set? Who and what might you find expendable? We're about to find out, aren't we, Mr. Speaker?
Until corporate money is separated from the political process by a reform of our campaign finance laws, we have little hope of EVER escaping the ravages of their creation, Government by the Corporation, for the Corporation and of the Corporation. If government hears only the voice of corporate interest, who will look out for the interests of people?
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