Dark money – close to $1 billion
Is this what we call democracy? I don’t think so. It sounds more like those words that we, the working class, fear the most – “aristocracy” and ”oligarchy”.
Ted Folkert
October 9, 2014
Quotes from Leah McGrath Goodman, Newsweek:
“….. the Center for Responsive Politics estimates that dark money expenditures could reach “upwards of $730 million, or, if the rate seen in the last midterm holds, edge close to $1 billion.” Quote from the Newsweek article by Leah McGrath Goodman, “As Dark Money Floods U.S. Elections, Regulators Turn a Blind Eye.”
“While the partisan battle rages over whether such anonymous and unlimited political spending should even be allowed, a more immediate concern is the unwillingness, or inability, of regulators to get involved and enforce the existing rules—for dark money and for campaign spending in general.”
“This year, the greatest amount of dark money, more than $50 million, has been spent on boosting Republicans and defeating Democrats. Outside of the realm of dark money, it’s the reverse: The majority of funds—more than $100 million—have been spent on defeating Republicans, with pro-Democrat TV ads dominating top Senate races in the first two weeks of September.”
End of quotations.
Continuing in our quest for a constitutional amendment to move us closer to democratic elections, this article makes some salient points in exposing the real danger done to the electoral process by the five angry men in black dresses. The problem is real and the outcome can render us defenseless against any progress in gaining strength as a democratic society.
If the Republicans gain control of both houses of congress nothing will happen in the next two years to move us forward legislatively. If they just maintain control of the House the same is likely true. Losing the Senate will exacerbate the problem and make even operating the government difficult to impossible.
Without Democratic control of both houses, any progress seems unlikely, as exemplified explicitly over the last four years. Our government has become the laughing stock of the industrialized world and the source of limitless material for all of the comedians in the Western world. We are the gift that just keeps on giving for the comedy industry. And we simultaneously consider ourselves the world leader, the financial center of the world, the epitome of democracy? What a stretch!
The evidence is overwhelming, the jury is in, the answer is apparent, the challenge is insurmountable without a constitutional amendment to create election laws that assure fair and just elections by registered voters undeterred by nefarious self- interest groups whose goal is to wrest complete control of government and continue the movement to aristocracy, a failing system and a path to a downward spiral in the economic future of the U.S.
Read the article: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/10/dark-money-floods-us-elections-regulators-turn-blind-eye-273951.html
Think about it!