It will not surprise me at all if a future historian will set the date of January 21, 2010, as the beginning of the demise of Democracy, as we know it, in the United States. Because on that day five appointed officials usurped the power of the Presidency and the Congress, and decided to diminish our right to elect people that will represent our interests.
John McCain, the Republican Senator from Arizona, called it “The worst decision by the Supreme Court in the 21st century. Uninformed, arrogant, naïve.” And that was before the five Republican-appointed judges confirmed today (6/25) the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amount of money on election campaigns.
The Supreme Court’s five-to-four decision in the “Citizens United” case opened the doors to a power grab by Corporations and the super-rich, enabling them to pour vast amounts of money to influence elections by allowing them to buy limitless air-time and use it to deceive the public about candidates and issues.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, operated on the premise that if you repeat a lie often enough, many gullible people will believe that it is the truth. If you want to know if it works in this country, observe the great number of people who receive their “news” from the propaganda channel that calls itself, oxymoronically, Fox News.
The five men that enabled the intrusion of the super PACs, and the one- hundred million dollars donations into our electoral system, were nominated by Republican Presidents, as were the four men and one woman that imposed on us George W. Bush as President.
Was it just an accident of historic proportions, or is it a preview of things to come in a future Republican administration?
John McCain, the Republican Senator from Arizona, called it “The worst decision by the Supreme Court in the 21st century. Uninformed, arrogant, naïve.” And that was before the five Republican-appointed judges confirmed today (6/25) the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amount of money on election campaigns.
The Supreme Court’s five-to-four decision in the “Citizens United” case opened the doors to a power grab by Corporations and the super-rich, enabling them to pour vast amounts of money to influence elections by allowing them to buy limitless air-time and use it to deceive the public about candidates and issues.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, operated on the premise that if you repeat a lie often enough, many gullible people will believe that it is the truth. If you want to know if it works in this country, observe the great number of people who receive their “news” from the propaganda channel that calls itself, oxymoronically, Fox News.
The five men that enabled the intrusion of the super PACs, and the one- hundred million dollars donations into our electoral system, were nominated by Republican Presidents, as were the four men and one woman that imposed on us George W. Bush as President.
Was it just an accident of historic proportions, or is it a preview of things to come in a future Republican administration?
6/29/2012
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