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David Simon: Our Rigged Political System

- Jesse - Le Cafe Américain

Campaign finance reform is a red herring.

The problem is, was and will continue to be the astounding lack of voter reform.
Voters elect people just like themselves.
They vote for bread and circuses.
They vote against wealth accumulation unless it is their own.
They vote for unearned benefits paid for by onerous taxation of the most productive sector of society.

These same voters fail to grasp that the US came into existence to defend property.
The people who immigrated to the Continent did so for economic opportunity, NOT religious persecution.
Those who believe otherwise are fools and idiots. See second paragraph above.

But this nation welcomes non-productive voters to clamor for more entitlements stolen from the most productive sector.
Production demands capital investment; accumulated energy credits. Ergo wage earners are NOT the most productive sector.
The only sector less productive than wage earners are those collecting so-called safety net entitlements.

Then there are the talking heads like Bill Moyers and David Simon, who make several times the median wage, rabble-rousing the least productive sector.
And just what is the product these two produce? Propaganda wrapped up as entertainment.

In The Federalist #22, Alexander Hamilton warned us about elevating persons to high office from the masses through suffrages of their fellow citizens.
But we did it anyway.
Moyers and Simon clamor for the need to do it even more.
I fear they lack the critical thinking skills needed to recognize their path leads to the French model.
That doesn't seem to be working out so good.
Perhaps it is the natural progression of democracies to devolve into idiocracies.
We will just have to see how this one turns out.
Until then, big money still acts to somewhat counter-balance the self-centered, contagious dumb-ass in the voting booths across the nation.

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Beginning of the headline :David Simon, journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme, returns to talk with Bill Moyers about the triumph of capital over democracy. “If I could concentrate and focus on one thing … and start to walk the nightmare back, it would be campaign finance reform” Simon says. Simon warns that if we don’t fix our broken election system — by getting big money out of elections and ending gerrymandering — we will have reached “the end game for democracy.”... Read More

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