Maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but here's the deal--if putting your money where your mouth is, is a form of free speech, then some animals on this farm are obviously more equal than others, if laws that try to keep the rich from drowning out the voices of the not-so-much are seen as onerously violating the rights of the people who can afford to pay for this here microphone and mean to use it.
It kind of says, if you can't afford to pay for the good sound system, you might as well shut up.
There was some dancing around in that decision about whether campaign financing was about quid pro quo--look, I get it. The decision for letting our politicians be bought outright was centered on not making it for each trick they turn out, but letting them perform on a retainer basis. And that's sweet, but let's call it what it is. And let's not pretend that our transactional political system isn't about quid pro quo because the paymasters don't give direction when our little dears can figure out what they are supposed to do to please Daddy without all that much direction.
Now, there might be an antidote to the influence of money in the form of a critical, tough, independent media who can cut through the "talk" of money and see to it that "bullshit" hits the road. A lot of our mainstream media might not necessarily recognize that cutting through the bull is their job, though. That's kind of why I see blogging as important. Maybe this cosa nostra can strike a little bit back at the pezzanovantes that want to make peasants out of us. But otherwise, I encourage everybody to vote the fuck out of the GOP, because, let's be honest, they are the most boughten and paidest-for. I'm all for kicking the Koch-machine--how'bout you?
(Add--do I lie?)
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