
{"id":22939,"date":"2012-01-26T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22939"},"modified":"2012-01-25T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:41:19","slug":"letter-lack-of-funding-limits-hurts-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/01\/26\/letter-lack-of-funding-limits-hurts-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Lack of funding limits hurts elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the limit when it comes to money for elections!<br \/>\nAnd the Supreme Court money has been thrown around in great gobs to enhance videos where everyone is allowed to cheat and tell you to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vote for me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but the response usually goes to the candidate that has been able to pull down the biggest bag of bucks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Dollar Sign Democracy!<br \/>\nSome years ago a famous Spanish writer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ortega y Gasset, discussing Cicero and the crumbling of Rome \u00e2\u20ac\u201c seems also to have put his finger on what is happening in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.<br \/>\nHe wrote that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then we may feel that we are witnessing the decay and dissolution of our whole system.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nAlthough Ortega y Gasset was talking to the Spaniards against the intrusion of Franco, he seems as well to be asking us the same question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are we not staggering under the impact of this same experience?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nYes 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. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you will know the reason why!<\/p>\n<p>Bill Sommers<br \/>\n<em>Pittsboro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the TV these days gives one the feeling that something is falling apart via the tugs of an ignorant political war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23100,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22939\/revisions\/23100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}