It’s so, so simple. Look, stop giving money to politicians. When they look at you, with that longing, pained look in their eyes because they need to finance another commercial…pull your wallet away. Put your wallet right back in your pocket.<\/p>\n
And when it comes time to vote, vote for the candidate that raised the least money. <\/p>\n
Look, we all tried to fix the system by voting with our wallets. It served a purpose: It put someone in office that isn’t continuing the crazy march into the utter bankrupting of our country. It’s staunched the bleeding…a little. But it hasn’t really had the fast acting effect we were starving for. <\/p>\n
Then the Supreme Court came along and, under the guise of preserving the first amendment, decided that property should have the same rights as people. This effectively made it so that those people who own corporations not only can give individually to their favorite candidate, they can open up and dump loads of cash into their favorite candidate’s arms. Even if that corporation produces toxic chemicals and needs a cheap place to dump them, you know, like that empty chunk of land a few miles upwind from your home. Your piddly 2 grand isn’t going to change that candidate’s mind away from several million.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court has ultimate power over the law; even if Congress were to try to do something about it, their precedent would render any attempt short of a Constitutional amendment useless, and there are just too many politicians completely bought off to get 75% needed for an Amendment.<\/p>\n
While you may love Barack Obama as a person, his administration has had to turn to the corporations first, then the people of this country, when it comes to major issues. They can’t afford to drive the corporations to dump their cash into the coffers of those greedy politicians who’d do whatever their corporate owners tell them to do. <\/p>\n
The only answer, the only one, is to stop voting with your wallet. Don’t give anyone any money, then as a rule, only vote for the candidate that has the smallest war chest. If you can’t figure it out, it’s the candidate on the ballot whose ads you HAVEN’T seen. The candidate that is taking the stance AGAINST the majority of the ads you HAVE seen. It’s very simple, you don’t have to think that hard about it. Just vote for the guy with the least money. The one doing the most door to door stuff in person is probably the most trustworthy person to vote for. The one who isn’t pushing nonstop ads into the media. And don’t give any money to them. None. Ta da! You’re done voting. It’s that easy. <\/p>\n
Look. Again, we tried voting with our wallets. The problem is, the corporate wallet is bigger than ours no matter how you slice it. It’s like a drop in the bucket. We put a whole lot of drops into that bucket, but the problem was, the corporations saw that, and made the bucket much, much bigger. They dumped even more, then threatened to dump even more into the bucket on the other side. This money game of chicken has got to stop, and I say we let these corporations dump tons of dollars into losing politicians. Let their stockholders get frustrated and drop their stock and fire these CEOs who think it’s more important to own politicians than it is to make a decent product.<\/p>\n
The only way that would work is if you tell every single person you know to vote for the candidate with the least, and stop pulling out your wallet for these people. The more they get from you, the more the corporations will give them to keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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