Whoever Has the Most Money WINS!
Lest we all forget that horrific Supreme Court Decision that was made on January 21st...
Warning: Be prepared to be on the losing side of every future political election in your city, your state, and our country until further notice. In 98% of all future elections, the incredibly humungous infusion of corporate monies which will be spent to support their agenda will make any candidates who are deemed “enemies” of Big Business, big-time losers. Starting with the upcoming November mid-terms, you will see every single candidate who is not in corporate pockets lose, and lose big-time. Save this post and see if I am wrong.
Those who today are ringing their hands in the health-care victory should enjoy this brief moment hoping that now we have a new and more compassionate America- but you are going to be sorely disappointed in the coming months.
Until that SCOTUS decision is changed, this is going to be a very ultra-conservative, divided and mean-spirited country. The real irony here, is that the biggest losers will be blue-collar workers, rednecks, Tea-partiers and lower-middle-class Americans- all those who have been exploited by corporations, war-mongers, and big-business lobbies for the past 50 years and who still angrily believe that “tree-hugging liberals” are their mortal enemy.
Those who today are ringing their hands in the health-care victory should enjoy this brief moment hoping that now we have a new and more compassionate America- but you are going to be sorely disappointed in the coming months.
Until that SCOTUS decision is changed, this is going to be a very ultra-conservative, divided and mean-spirited country. The real irony here, is that the biggest losers will be blue-collar workers, rednecks, Tea-partiers and lower-middle-class Americans- all those who have been exploited by corporations, war-mongers, and big-business lobbies for the past 50 years and who still angrily believe that “tree-hugging liberals” are their mortal enemy.
Comments
Amen to all, Charles. This is why your comments have such weight among those from people who enjoy celebrity status: you are thoughtful, honest and usually fucking 100% on target with your vision of how things will play out. The youngest readers should take a look at all the links, this is not a politician trying to sway your opinion, it is someone like you who happens to have a five decade head start and knows how to call a spade a spade. I listened to Howie Carr's response to Charles on this (there's a link below somewhere): it was "C'mon, Charles". No substance, the same old Reagan "there you go again" type of dismissal that got us all into the past twenty years of corporate greed and oil wars. The time for clear thinking sincerity like Charles' (and not blind acceptance of big business machinations) is now. The freedom the GOP claims was lost in the Health Care bill was not yours, it was big corporations' freedom to make your health care decisions, including denying coverage when it didn't make them the most possible money. Don't buy the lies, there is light at the end of the trust-busting tunnel Teddy Roosevelt started. The next step should be a push to legislate the Roberts court decision into the trash where it belongs.
Posted by: Steve S | March 22, 2010 4:17 AM
Corporate "personhood" is the core of the problem. The court ruled, maybe correctly, that all persons share the same rights under the equal protection clause of the constitution. What is less obvious is that corporate personhood is creation of Congress and can be easily undone by Congress. Barney Frank's committee would be the one to do it, and Barney was on Keith Olbermann's show the day of the court decision saying that he intended to do just that. The way out of this mess is to support Barney in that effort.
Posted by: Oldgoat50 | March 22, 2010 5:39 AM