Reply #32: You wish to hear something that will really scare you? [View All]

[MadHound]

The same people/corporations who are ponying up the big bucks for the 'Pugs are also doing the same for the Dems! That way they can pull the strings of this so called democracy no matter who wins. It is called hedging your bets. Booga Booga!!

Folks, the only way out of this corporate controlled quagmire we're in is to have across the country public campaign financing. Twenty eight states have the ability to have ballot initiatives. The rest have to work through their statehouse. If we all work this issue through our respective state processes and make it into law then we can start to break free of these corporate clutches that we're in.

This is not something that will happen overnight. The last time that we had this kind of corporate influence in our government, the Gilded Age, it took the work of two of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt and Roosevelt, along with a Depression and forty years of struggle to finally break free of big business' grip. It could take an equally ardorous struggle today, but we have to start somewhere, and the time is now. Otherwise we will be condemned to corporate serfdom no matter which party is in power for decades on end. Do you wish to condemn future generations to the tender mercies of corporate control? Do you wish to condemn future generations to the horrors of corporate robber barons and new age sweatshops? The time to act is now, to put the outmoded dichotomy of Dem and 'Pug behind us and realize that they all are corrupted, they all have that invisible string that leads back to their corporate master. We must work and strive for public campaign financing so that the people we elect are only beholden to we the people.