Soooo, I hear all these politicians screaming Socialized this and Socialized that, yet those same politicians are applauding the latest supreme court ruling to let corporations spend as much as they want on their purchased politician. And, make no mistake about it, campaign financing is all about buying your politician. So if you want your guy to get elected, you get a bunch of your friends together and spend what little you can afford to put up posters and hand out fliers. Now lets add a major corporation like Toyota or Microsoft who want the their guy to win because he has made promises to look favorably on their requests if they donate 1 Million or 1 Billion to his campaign. "One Billion" dollars is beginning to be a realistic amount, Scary! Ok, lets say their guy got 100 million dollars from the major corporation. You, on the other hand, were able to raise 100,000 dollars for your guy. Who wins? That is the scenario that will play out in every state and national election from here forward. Scared yet? I am! The two biggest areas of politics that need reform and regulation are, campaign financing and lobbying. There should be a cap on campaign financing so that each candidate has to abide by the same rules and money spent to get their campaign message to the people. Lobbying is nothing but bribery as it stands now. Once the corporations get their guy in office by spending insane amounts of money, they can legally pay him to remain loyal to them by lobbying for whatever it is they want. His conscience is good because it's all legal, and you and your friends have to abide by it even though you know it is morally and ethically corrupt.
Welcome to the new USA, a Corporate State, the best government money can buy!
ironridger says
ReplyDeleteFor a first time blogger you pretty much hit it out of the park with your opening salvo. I read a lot of blogs and this was right up there with the so called pro's. Keep up the good work and look forward to more. Who knows you might change the mind of a wingnut or two.