Kill Moloch. The Urgency of Campaign Finance Reform: A Meditation on Election Day 2010

[Blue_In_AK]

This thought-provoking piece by Elstun Laueson posted at The Mudflats certainly connects all the dots. It's long, but well worth reading. This is the kind of information that needs to be disseminated far and wide.

http://www.themudflats.net/2010/11/06/voices-from-the-flats-kill-moloch/

The Urgency of Campaign Finance Reform:
A Meditation on Election Day, 2010
by Elstun Lauesen

Let me begin with a little Ginsberg:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

Yeah. Word up.

Here’s what I see. I see the best candidates of my generation destroyed by other people’s madness; people who are well fed and well-dressed, driving through the paved exurbs and hillsides looking for an angry fix; ditto-headed Christers burning for the ancient heavenly connection to explain the random crap in their lives and, in the process, getting manipulated by the political machinery of the Right.

Nationally, the moneychangers, potentates and idol-worshippers that control the political Right purchased the control of the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2nd.

Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010)

The black-robed Justices of the Roberts Court are dominated by an ideology that is structurally anti-human: Capitalism. And the Citizens United case gave voice and standing to corporations in time for this election cycle. The Roberts court had a special sitting to consider Citizens United in September 2009. Most court observers agree that the decision was intended to affect the 2010 election cycle.<1>

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[handmade34]

1. the day after the elections

Gov. Ed Rendell was on some talk show saying we have to act and start now pushing money the way of the Democrats... OMG. Then and there I understood the desperation we all should feel for Campaign Finance Reform. We have all become lunatics for accepting the buying of an office

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Absolutely.

The amount of corporate and tea party money that was spent on Alaska's senate race this year was insane. Our candidate Scott McAdams accepted no corporate PAC money, but he was vastly outspent by those who did. And he lost. It's tragic that people can be so easily manipulated into voting against their own interests.