Sen. Lindsey “I love America more than you do” Graham, recipient of tens of thousands of dollars from Sheldon Adelson, the casino-owner billionaire to whose bailiwick in Las Vegas various Republican money-supplicants recently traveled to kiss his ring and beg for money, just introduced a bill on the Senate floor written entirely by Adelson’s lawyers, to rein in his competition. To those letter-writers in support of the Supreme Court ruling which opens campaign finance to unrestricted contributions: doesn’t that bother you at all? If money is speech, is it really OK that those with tons of it don’t have to shout to be heard? Can you imagine Sen. “Oh how I weep for democracy” Graham doing the same for you? Can you see any way in which giving unchecked checkbook to a handful of extremely wealthy people of any political party threatens our democracy? Do you really think your five hundred bucks buys you the influence of five million? Just wondering. Because, unlike you, it really bothers me.
Funny, isn’t it, that such important legal matters predictably split along party lines in the Supreme Court, and that average supporters of the party of big money and big business seem to be perfectly fine with the idea of buying politicians like so many bars of soap. We’re living in an undisguised oligarchy, while half the country sits back and cheers it on, thinking it’s in their interest for reasons I’ll never understand.
Sid Schwab
Everett
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