Moyers: Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?

[Iwillnevergiveup]

Bill Moyers lays it out in even stronger terms than Stephen King.




http://www.nationofchange.org/money-politics-where-outrage-1346505495
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"We are nearing the culmination of a cunning and fanatical drive to dismantle the political institutions, the legal and statutory canons, and the intellectual and cultural frameworks that were slowly and painstakingly built over decades to protect every citizen from the excesses of private power."

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[kenny blankenship]

1. Where? I just saw it down at the bank

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depositing grocery bags of grimy cash.

They are all bought and spoken for. The honest can be counted on one hand, and even they can't be counted on in the clutch because they are surrounded and bullied. The dishonest outnumber them a hundred to one; and the deceitful and bought ones can be counted on, unfortunately. They deliver for their masters with unfailing reliability. You can join the bidding if you want, but you'll certainly lose. It's an illusion, a confidence scheme, designed to keep you suckered in and serving a criminal system, and to finagle from you a figleaf of legitimacy that the system doesn't deserve. It even wants you to foot the bill. You'll lose your money, your cause and your way.

[Igel]

2. Hard to be outraged.

Federal financing good, except when you can do better. Then it's to be regarded as meaningless.

Outspending your opponent is a grand and glorious thing. But then if your opponent winds up with more money unspent it's a crime against humanity.

Having groups do fundraising, buy ads, run GOTV drives for you is a great thing. Esp. nice since you can't be held accountable for what they say, so they can say things you really wish you could. But when it happens for the other guy, well, it really needs to be banned.

Having some organized groups be constitutionally entitled to free speech without regulation is good. But not all. Only those groups who support me should be entitled to free speech. The rest should be censored.


We no longer have confirmation bias filters. We have confirmation bias bunkers, shielded against all but a direct strike by a 100 megaton H bomb delivered at the tail end of a 500 kg bunkerbuster. Or at least most do. On this point, I'm laying on the beach working on my tan.