MOMMA GRIZZLY FACES A LIMITED MENU

We have a systemic problem, it's not a fair fight, and it never will be. 


Every two years our ballots send a fresh class of rookies to Congress, usually with new and limited mandates, who will instantly be asked to join the quiet battle against entrenched multinational financial interests who's sly mandate hasn't changed since the crafting of the second dollar. They take a longer view, and their veteran lobbyists take advantage one freshman learning-curve at a time. They've been grooming congressmen for generations.

We may have a Congress which is more doctrinally "pure" but much less inclined (let alone prepared intellectually) to govern. Tell me we're not sending up people unwilling and/or helpless to defend the national treasure effectively from the onslaught of organized and prepared profiteers and cutthroats whom they will find waiting for them in their new offices. Waiting with smiles, campaign assistance and the Party Whip on speed-dial.

When the approval (and future campaign contributions) of any small, but well-heeled minority is the only outcome that matters to a politician, what is best for us as a whole is not very likely to control his or her decisions. 


Even a momma grizzly's gotta eat. 

LOOK OUT HUCKLEBERRY, THERE'S A WOLF IN THAT SHEEP...

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 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?