Anatomy of a Screw [View All]

[SoCalDem]

Ever wonder why we cannot seem to get real health care bills passed? or affordable gasoline? or reliable and affordable energy to heat/cool our homes? or affordable college for our kids? or a real living wage that goes up as costs escalate? or guaranteed pension plans for all Americans? or basic, easy and fair elections? or any number of common sense things that MOST Americans think we should have?

The answer is simple. Corporations and the upper-crusties in the top 5% don't want us to have those things, so they pay lobbyists loads of cash to bribe the people we HIRE to conduct OUR business..

Why are they so easily bribed?

They are easy to "rent" because they like their cushy jobs with all the goodies and the opportunities for cashing in even bigger after they finally retire, when they too become lobbyists and start bribing their former colleagues..

Why do they do it? Why do they need all that cash?

They need the cash because they have to buy expensive advertising to con us into voting for them instead of their opponents.

The airwaves that cost them (and us indirectly) so dearly are GIVEN for FREE to the Television corporations.

We are literally GIVING away the means to our own destruction, and in exchange we are lulled into a stupor by the inane "programs" they offer us.


All of the things that make life worth living are being withdrawn from us and the ones we never had, but always wished we had, are being pushed further away from us because we cannot get our HIRED help to really represent us.

The huge profits that the corporate giants are raking in are way more than "necessary", and are eroding what's left of our republic/democracy..whatever we want to call this monstrosity we we have become.

Public financing, with very stringent rules could begin to reverse the trend, but the inmates now have all the keys to the asylum, and we are locked outside, looking in.

With public financing, "ordinary" people might actually have a chance to run for office, and would be on an even plane with the wealthy candidates. The way it is now, only really rich or every well-connected people can even think of running for office.

The way things are now, even if we vote them OUT, they don't ever really go away.(see Lieberman) The crazy elections we have had , make it almost impossible to ever get all sides to agree that the people holding office, really won...
Somehow, we must get the keys back from the inmates, and toss the bad ones out, and get new employees who will do what WE want for a change..

Public financing of elections is step one..

Making corporate media GIVE some of our airwaves to politicians every few years so they can "get their message out" is step two..

With all the changes in TV, there is no reason that they could not have their own channel, with plenty of time to tell us what they think. The soundbyte, talking-point mantras could be a thing of the past, and who knows?..we might actually be able to find out who these people are BEFORE they take office.

I can dream :)