Mudslinging: The Perfect Storm

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This is a story about how negative political ads shape election campaigns. Negative ads help divide and conquer the real issues in a political campaign. In a two party political system governments divide people by partisanship of near religious proportions. Banking interest who stand to gain the most money no matter which party is in control do not care who wins. They care who spends the most of the federal tax dollars. They support how much money they can make by who is in power. Most of the time the real money is with the Republicans as business friendly and tax loopholes for the rich. Democrats do spend a lot of money and can be convinced to rush into a war without proper proof or bail out banks by overwhelming them with fear tactics. But overall Republicans could care less about citizens and plenty about making money with corporations. Negative political ads marginalize the real issues while corporations give political power to the candidate who becomes rendered most obliged to the highest bidder of corporate donations.

Taking the big corporate donations out of the political campaigns becomes an impossible task indeed an issue paramount on members of a free democratic society. Unfortunately, taking this smoking gun away from corporations becomes harder than taking a credit card away from a frenzied consumer on the way to bankruptcy court.
Mudslinging has clouded the issues since the days of preceding the two party political system. What follows is a mud-storm of epic proportions developing each campaign into the perfect storm. The storm barely has anything to do with the issues yet this climate keeps voters totally in the dark. In America, our government has suffered what amounts to a hostile corporate take over of policy, spending, and borrowing amounts sending all citizens into bankruptcy.

Corporate political donations act like a buy order on the trading exchanges. For a relatively small amount of money in ratio to the corporate net worth a corporation or lobby group bets on a political candidates ability to get elected and represent their needs in Congress. Thus a Congress moves not in the interests of "We the People" as appropriated in the Constitution. The "on call" buy order placed back during the election campaign empowers the corporate take-over of that Congress. We the people of this great country allowed this to happen in the Reagan era before which balanced time was appropriated to each candidate. Any advertisement over the airwaves by one candidate was obligated by the FCC to run equal air time for opposition candidates.

Now candidates who have the most backing can outspend those with weaker funding. Under these guidelines political candidates are obliged to the biggest spenders who supported them with the most mudslinging and airtime thereby winning their elections. Before Reaganomics, campaigns were limited by the time that their weaker opponents could purchase and government aired on public broadcasting channels. Political campaigns and news media covering them limited mudslinging in the past to the final days prior to election day. Now Mudslinging starts for three solid months before elections bought and paid for in corporate favor-pleading-millions in donations.

This is why for thirty years our government has destroyed our labor unions, destroyed protections that keep factory jobs being shipped abroad, and ripped away personal defense like Constitutional guarantees.

Getting our Congress, President, and Judicial systems back on track laid out by the Constitution will be an uphill battle to the death. Each true patriot must educate their children, family and close friends about this important issue. They must shout it out to those that will listen until their last days. Information and examining history are important factors in maintaining a democracy.