It’s 1984 Corporate Style

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporate America, Unions, and any lobbyist are free to spend as much money as they want on any political candidate.  Money is no object now in any campaign.  The effort to limit this type of influence has been crushed by the Supreme Court.  Makes you wonder just how much money went their way to rule in this manner. Congress and the White House have announced that they will try to reformulate new campaign spending limits, but I view that has the fox guarding the chicken coop.  We as a nation of lethargic uninterested voters seem not to care that we’ve lost control of our own country.  Less than 50% of registered voters turn out to vote in any election, except perhaps in the last Presidential race.   You remember that one, the one that was to change everything.  Seems it still is the same old same old.  Corporate and Union interests get this fact, as do our politicians.  It seems that we’ve given up on our American experiment.  Large vested interests have taken control over governance, similar to the totalitarian story found in 1984.  And our government workers, those we pay, and are suppose to look out for our interests, are now firmly in the pockets of their corporate and union benefactors.  What will it take for a country built on the sweat and blood of our forefathers to wake up and retake their country back?  Thomas Jefferson once argued that for a country to stay true to the will of the people, that there should be a generational revolution once every twenty years in America.  He felt that the moneyed interests and the established politicians would not be receptive to the real interests of the people.  He knew what we would face, for every society has experienced those phenomena.  Revolution is not a practical formula for a people to go through every twenty years.  The institutions that were created by our forefathers provide us with the ability to change things.  We need to become better citizens, more informed citizens, and activist citizens.  Only then will government fear its people.  Government should fear the people.  People should not fear their government and those who have the means to control it.