Friday, October 8, 2010

What's Wrong With Our Political Campaigns?

I don't know about you but I'm worried about our electoral process. I mean, I understand that here in America everyone has the right to free speech, even corporations, though I don't understand how they're people like you and me. But how come you get to have more free speech if you're a rich corporation, even if you might be a foreign corporation, or even a foreign government. And I particularly don't understand why you get to keep it a secret. Why, a hog farmer from Idaho, or a chicken rancher from Kansas can spend tons of money on attack ads against a candidate from Pennsylvania or Florida and doesn't even have to say who they are or where they're from or what business they're in. How come they can do that? Oh I know the Supreme Court said they could, but why? What was the reason the court gave for this nonsense? If they want to influence somebody, let them influence their neighbors and let them put their name on the line. How do we know if they're even legal citizens? Ya know, even if they're saying something you like to hear, that doesn't make it right. And how come the Supreme Court decided that the more money you have, the more right to free speech you should have? It seems to me that free speech isn't free after all. Free speech belongs to the folks with the most money. Is that right? Is that the way we should decide elections? Only multi-millionaires need apply? Next thing you know it'll be, only multi-billionaires need apply. Does anyone think that only very wealthy people have any brains? That's not to say that wealthy don't have brains. Of course they do. But so do regular folks. The problem is that it's getting so if you're not rich, the only chance you have to get elected is to sell your soul to the devil. And it looks like some of those rich folks already did.

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