Mr. D. Goes to Washington: Money, Money, Money, Money... MONET!
While I'm an advocate for the mixed economy and government partnering up with private industry. I realize that can't possibly happen until we can trust government to be "good" again. And that is never going to happen so long as money is the dominant force in our politics. My friends I've sent this to find it depressing. I hope it makes you want to do something about the problem.
Thanks again everyone! So grateful for your support. I know I say it every month, but it's true — I couldn't do this without you! So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! B
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A good first step would be to limit money donations to constituents of the office in question. Why should people in another state have "free speech rights" about who we elect as our Senator, for example. Talk is one thing, money is another. So, you should only be able to donate if the office in question has you as a constituent. This should be determined by primary residence only, so corporations would have their corporate headquarters to indicate their "home" state, county, congressional district, etc. To do otherwise (as we do now) violates the "one man, one vote" principle of the Constitution.
That’s a good idea/point. Why haven’t I heard/thought of this before? Well done!!!
Oh and Happy Birthday Sir! Hope its fun ;)
It was great!!! Thank you.
Actually I don't think its depressing at all!..well our current political system, yes, is depressing. BUT, this reminds us (factually! TY) of who and what is making it so. The asides keep it light and amusing (I love the snark). Even the credit "Poorly written by" is the tongue in cheek I think makes the truth palatable. So keep at it and when its posted to YouTube I'll definitely be sharing and encouraging others to share as well.
Damn straight! Get the effing mammon out of politics. Ours is NOT a democracy, but an oligarchy. Saddest of all is that those very oligarchs convince citizens with well-financed disinformation that it'll all "trickle-down" to them. A prime example for the other video this month about embracing delusion rather than facing reality.
Unfortunately I think we've already slipped well past a simple Oligarchy deep into the oubliette of actual Fascism. see; https://airplayn.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/how-fascism-won-wwii-long-after-the-final-shot-was-fired/.