DRAIN
THE SWAMP
DRAIN
THE SWAMP
DRAIN
THE SWAMP
PUBLIC FINANCING OF
CAMPAIGNS
You said you were for it; now you
have no more elections ahead of you, do something about it. Propose legislation,
shout it from the bully pulpit, take hostages and clamp down till it thunders.
It’s the one and only way to free us from the stranglehold the corporations and
special interests have on government. We do NOT have a democracy- we are going
under because we are ruled by an oligarchy. You work with these people so I
know you know that 90% of Congress has gone over to the dark side- has taken
the big bucks and molded their perspective to suit their paymasters; you dance
with them that brung ya.
Every single issue that troubles
the U.S. has been impeded or warped or is neglected because of PRIVATE CAMPAIGN
CASH. I know you know this. The obscene
pentagon budget, the deficit, the oil wars, the drug war, crazy higher ed debt,
inept and disparate public schools, spotty or nonexistent public
transportation, no paid maternal leave or paid sick days, no affordable or
subsidized child care, crumbling infrastructure, a shameful minimum wage, shocking
infant mortality rates, inexcusable child poverty, shrinking longevity and
people dying needlessly for lack of medical care. Growing inequality, no
affordable housing, no public option, lobbyists writing regulations, private
prisons lobbying for harsher laws and more prisoners, the ballooning trade
imbalance, the arms manufacturer funded NRA scuttling all gun control,
Palestine, trade deals that enrich a few and impoverish most, manufacturing
unprotected and disappearing, climate change ignored, factory farms with unregulated
manure lagoons, fracking poisoning wells all over, tax breaks and givaways to
highly profitable industries, the alternative energy industry is developing elsewhere, private timber
companies clear-cutting public forests paying less than the cost of access
roads funded by the public, no instant runoff voting, no 3rd party
ballot access, speculators driving up food and energy costs, bankers stealing homes
through fraud, unpunished. Millions in foreclosure, etcetera, etcetera…
It’s too much for one person to
even begin to address because the foundation is rotten. Your impact on our
future can be maximized by one simple reform. Public financing of campaigns for
public office will enable good people, with good ideas- not beholden to big
money backers- to run for office and win. You want Citizens United to go away,
here’s how. Corporate Personhood problem- solved. We will get honest, sincere,
quality candidates when congress ceases to be a millionaire’s playground. Without
public financing, we are on a course of self destruction, paralysis,
unsustainable choices, and eventual collapse. The American ideal is slipping
away, but you can stop it. This one foundational reform can save us; without it
there is no hope.
