Let us all give thanks to the United States (less than) Supreme Court for
allowing the Kock brothers of Kansas to pour millions (if not billions) of
dollars into advertising aimed at repealing Obamacare and getting their slate
of nitwits elected to office so their dark arts rummaging about in government
can continue uninterrupted. (They want to destroy the EPS. Fresh water and clean air anybody?)
Citizen's United allowed our democracy to be bought and sold at will.
And the Kock brothers' will is to get their way, no matter how much it cost
them. They are buying America. And I am not talking about the land.
I am talking about the ideal— the vision— the dream.
The United States of Kockdom is what we are going to get. And we have
it all to blame on the five stooges who sit on the right hand side of the not
so supreme court.
A single vote cast in an election free and clear of the fear and loathing
that these demigods produce will cost them millions. And if enough of us go to
the polls we can take an election back from the money mongers, as we did in the
last election. (It is said that the lost cost the Kock brothers over 50 million
dollars. They deserve it.)
I think the Kock brothers deserve a voice.
But so too does a young woman in Peoria or a man in San Diego. Equal voices, not weighted to cash reserves
and bank accounts. One vice. One vote
per person.
I think a person should be allowed to give to political causes. Let’s say a thousand dollars per year. Tops.
No more. That would end this buying of government by the extremely rich. It
would give back to America and equal playing field. Influence would not be
measured in dollar signs but in yard signs and in neighborhood canvassing and
leatherwork along the highways and by ways of this land. Get the vote out if
you want your candidates and your ideas to carry the day. But don’t spend trillions on lies and inuendo to force corrupt
politics into the system.
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and George Washington would be aghast at the
sight of American politics as it is being practiced under citizen United. It is
not what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted a constitution that
was bled over with lives of people who believed in one man one vote. Freedom of
speech was designed to give everyone a chance to be heard, not the mega wealthy
only.
It is time America stood up to the Kock brothers and their ilk. Vote.
Got to the polls and vote your own conscious. In that way you will have taken millions from
billionaires who wish nothing more than to rob you blind.
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