Election 2012
Good News – 3 weeks till the election adds stop.
Bad News – We have to watch election adds for 3 more weeks !
Yes when the election is over the adds will stop and the next thing we will hear from a narrow victory will be the poor losers asking for the recounting of ballots. I can only hope we do not start counting chads again.
I still think the Supreme Court did the right thing in 2000 even though some on the court may have voted for the wrong reasons. The more the ballots were handled, the less accurate the count was going to be. They had no choice but to run with early certified counts. It could have divided the nation even worse than it is/was.
I hope this would be a learning lesson but I know nobody will truly learn from it till it is well forgotten by the folks that voted in that election and it happens again in some other form.
Yes, I can hear claims of election fraud from 3 weeks away !
I can also hear folks questioning computer voting and voter harassment, early voting and registration fraud.
The really ugly:
Thanks to the lobbyist, our laws have a meaning opposite of their intent and so confusing to the public because they use 20 times the number of words needed. It is not a wonder folks have a hard time believing in the government.
Thanks to our merged-up super media, the public is reduced to hearing a few sound bits that explain nothing. Opinion speaks louder than facts and sells more advertising.
Public education is reduced to bringing up the next generation to make worse mistakes than this one has because nobody is there to teach the mistakes of how the rules of a law came to be and why they need to remain. It is more popular to deregulate in the name of JOBS when you need one when actually it is in the name of ignorance of history.
The biggest failure of the current generation shall be written in the historical record as the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 while the super merged-up media had your attention on Monica Lewinsky, the banking rules that had protected the public since the great depression were removed. Senator Phil Graham of Texas stood there in front of the CSPAN camera and told us that these were outdated and long overdue for removal. Not more than a line of reading of the subject was found in the major media late in broadcast if at all. In less than 8 years, we found out what those rules were really for and how much they were needed.
Anyone learn anything ? We paid the price… AGAIN…
While we barely recovered from it, there is still no transparency for the government to know how solid our banks are. Yet banks are risking our future again !
There is nothing in a trend line to say any of this will change. No political candidate will speak or act against the hand that either feeds their campaign or could feed their opponents instead.
Campaign money is bigger than the candidates themselves. Too bad the big money donors can remain anonymous. We might actually understand the motives for the adds and why they might be untruthful. How will you know when it is a FOREIGN nation or company is financing those attack adds?
When a Political Action Committees (PAC) can generate 100’s of millions of dollars, you do have to wonder just how much the few folks putting up the money will gain from the expected results.
These folks are not driven by social ideals and don’t really care what color your skin is or your religion, they are driven by profits and profit margins and they do not care who or where they come from as long as they get bigger.
Have we learned anything yet ?
If not, Try reading “American History”
Don’t know where to start? Try the Sherman Act in Wikipedia and you will not even have to get off your chair right now. Follow your interest from there onward. Or try one of these: The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , The Three Piths Compromise , Social Security Act of 1935, Separation Of Powers under The US Constitution
We, one or collectively, never make a bad decision. We make a decision based on inadequate or misleading information that leads to bad results.
Get the historic facts to better act today and maintain your future !