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A few more thoughts about big money in politics
Yesterday I did a little reading and learned that money can’t really buy elections. But when it’s evaluated and facts are set out, it becomes complicated. Not because money can buy elections (it can’t), but because so much money is … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Government, Joe Biden and his people, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism, TV commercials, voting rights
Tagged Citizens United, cryptocurrency, dark money, dark money PACs, Marjorie Taylor Greene, megayachts, Prevagen, Sheldon Whitehouse, the DISCLOSE Act
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Movements are afoot
For a while now I’ve been picking up on movements that have advanced from inchoate mutterings to full voice plans and plots. I’m liking this a lot. Aside from the already written vital legislation which got stopped, i.e., postponed, by … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, climate change, Corruption, Government, Politics, Pro choice, SCOTUS, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, The god problem
Tagged anti-abortion, Catholic Church, Clarence Thomas, congressional stock trading, dark money, DISCLOSE Act, Elizabeth Warren, John F Kowal, Ro Khanna, SCOTUS, SCOTUS term limits, Sheldon Whitehouse, The People's Constitution, Wilfred U Codrington III, windfall profit tax
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