True Colors

[McCamy Taylor]

In 2012, if we have truth in news reporting there will be no U.S. maps divided into “red” and “blue” zones. There will be no “purple” toss up states. There will be only one shade that colors the election map---green, the color of money.

Citizens United Vs. The Rest of Us hammered the nails into the coffin which now contains U.S. democracy. However, our political system had already been bludgeoned, stabbed, strangled, poisoned and electrocuted---we just did not know it yet.

Even before Citizens United vs. The Democracy of the United States a president who ran on a platform of “no mandates to buy health insurance” rewarded the health insurance industry with mandates to buy health insurance. Even before Citizens United vs. Freedom the U.S. Congress buried The Employee Free Choice Act and bills that would have stripped insurers of their anti-trust protection. The stimulus was pared down to make it palatable to business interests which worked hard to raise unemployment levels to the double digits because wages fall when American workers are hungry, cold and desperate.

Even before Citizens United vs. Everyone Who Is Not Rich , the Department of Justice decided to no-bill war crimes committed by the previous administration. At the same time it decided to ignore crimes committed by Karl Rove (and others) in the Ohio Elections of 2004 and in the prosecution of Don Siegelman. Now that Karl Rove controls an unlimited amount of campaign cash which can be used to unseat any politician, he is clearly above the law. But the decision not to touch a hair on his balding head was made before the birth of the Super Pacs.

Congress claims that it does not have the votes to keep itself from giving more tax cuts to the rich at the same time that the poor and unemployed are seeing the safety net jerked out from under them. Congress is full of shit. Individual Congressmen are scared of all that money. If we force the rich to pay more taxes, they will give all their money to the other party!

Sad to break the news to you, guys, but no matter what you do, Karl Rove is going to give all that oil and foreign money to the other party. Because no matter how badly you treat the American people in your frenzy to court the uber-rich, the other party will treat them even worse.

You know what scares the corporate fascists more than anything? More than the Employee Free Choice Act or pay parity for women or even the minimum wage? Federally financed elections with limited campaign spending. Now that big money controls all three branches of the U.S. government, that is something that we will never see happen. Now the Tea Party dream of having representational voting based upon your personal wealth has become a reality. Now, a Saudi oil prince has a bigger say in our elections than a million American workers.

Democracy in America: RIP

[TexasObserver]

1. I'm more cynical about our future than I've ever been.

If we can win elections big, as in 2008, and still have the country run by the same people doing the same things, do elections really matter any more?

When the GOP run Supreme Court is nothing but a bunch of right wing hacks whose primary job is to rule on political matters, is the justice system destroyed?

The country is being run by evil forces who answer to none of us, and our "leaders" are little more than errand boys and girls.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Maybe not. Probably. Certainly.

[glitch]

4. Yep.

Awesome graphic. Never forget the Coup of 12-12-2000. :applause:

[Swamp Rat]

5. Too many have already forgotten the Coup of 12-12-2000, and this makes LiteByte Bandit VERY angry!

:hi:

[glitch]

6. Remember remember the TWELFTH OF DECEMBER

Thanks for the smile at any rate! :hi:

[glitch]

3. Add to funded elections mandated free media and transparent election counts. IOW

Democracy, their greatest and most loathsome fear.

[bluesmail]

7. 12-12-2000 It wasn't just the coup of this country. It was the coup of the entire planet.

Democracy has been dead at least, at the very least, since Nov. 22, 1963. I watched the news that day. That was the change point in my life.

[saras]

8. Wrong calvin, wrong hobbes...

Stop whining. It's called economic democracy. If God had wanted you to vote, he would have given you a trillion dollars. :sarcasm:

What scares me is how many of the uber-rich, having enough money to buy anything they want, find that the only thing that genuinely gives them pleasure about all that money is using it to make others suffer. You know, the ones who want the entire world to resemble a giant version of Jackass.

[bongbong]

9. The billionaires' favorite book

"Lord Of The Flies"

Some of the rich might truly want, deep down in their twisted personalities, a return to those glorious days of gladiatorial contests in arenas.

[Overseas]

10. Sad K&R. //nt

[LawnLover]

11. Same old, same old

I've been hearing riffs on this same story for as long as I can remember. And I've been around a long time.