The conventions
are over. The minds of the majority of
voters have been locked into decision now.
Those party faithful and those ideology driven have been herded into the
feeder pens to fatten up on spin and BS; in hopes that their decision will
somehow affect the undecided voters with whom they share breathing space.
The next two
months will be an unbroken series of advertisements, infomercials, and general
bullshit put onto the public airways by the two major parties and the
countless, uncontrolled super PACs.
One of the
ads currently running, one that is true and that generates a huge amount of
animosity every time I see it. Is the anti-Koch brothers ad that details what
the Kochs will spend and what they will receive if they succeed in buying the
election. Their super PAC is funded by
oil. Every time we fill up and complain
about the cost, we are re-funding their Super PAC. We’re told that the gasoline prices are going
up because of hurricanes, platform and refinery shutdowns, etc.
Gas prices
are going up because of these weather events.
But they are also going up because the Kochs are not buying an election
with their personal resources. They’re paying
for all the ads and other commercial lies with the money they squeeze from the
end consumers.
That’s right;
the ultra-rich, ultra-greedy, oligarchic Kochs are buying an election and
paying for it with the money they squeeze from the middle class and working
poor.
They will pay
people to lie about Obama from now until the election is over. Sadly, in too many instances, the lies will
be believed by a target population that is too poorly educated to think for
their selves.
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