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LETTER: Lack of funding limits hurts elections

Posted on January 26, 2012January 25, 2012 by Staff

Watching the TV these days gives one the feeling that something is falling apart via the tugs of an ignorant political war, with money floating about like popcorn, and darkened by the thought that maybe one of these non-entities could be president of our United States! All this was promoted by a majority of our blinky-eyed U.S. Supreme Court black robes who, following the initial recommendation of an early Woody Allen movie, Take the Money and Run, decided that the sky’s the limit when it comes to money for elections!
And the Supreme Court money has been thrown around in great gobs to enhance videos where everyone is allowed to cheat and tell you to “vote for me,” but the response usually goes to the candidate that has been able to pull down the biggest bag of bucks – The Dollar Sign Democracy!
Some years ago a famous Spanish writer – Ortega y Gasset, discussing Cicero and the crumbling of Rome – seems also to have put his finger on what is happening in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
He wrote that “when all this has crumbled, when the State lies in ruins, when laws, norms, ideas have gone down with it, when parties find no common ground on which to meet – then we may feel that we are witnessing the decay and dissolution of our whole system.”
Although Ortega y Gasset was talking to the Spaniards against the intrusion of Franco, he seems as well to be asking us the same question: “Are we not staggering under the impact of this same experience?”
Yes we are! It is even worse! We have a great, black president, and when you hear his name bounced among the money holders in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, etc. – you will know the reason why!

Bill Sommers
Pittsboro

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