I think the reason I brought up the fact that the current tea party is
largely funded by fat cats was a way of slamming it for its grass roots
pretensions. I'm guessing at the beginning it was more of a grass roots
thing, there were organizations that people joined and they went out
a-protesting or something, anyway you used to see them on tv making a
spectacle of themselves. You know those hats, I have slammed them, but
actually they are kind of cool, and a puffy shirt isn't all that bad,
but those Capri pants, I have to say, even though our founding fathers
proudly strutted around in them, not very manly in my humble opinion.
And it seems like they did use to protest the fat cats back in those
days, and even though it was pretty clear that they would never ever
vote for a democrat, they pretended to be outside the party system. And
it seems like there were actual tea party organizations back in the
day. I don't think they went in for carrying cards, not their style,
but I think they used to endorse candidates. You don't see that
anymore.
Anymore it is a top down sort of thing, the candidate declares himself a
tea party kind of guy and then the fat cats back him and buy ads and
then voters of that ilk vote for him.
There are Democrat fat cats. Remember when George Soros was the devil?
Whatever happened with that? You never hear about him anymore. I
don't have the wiki research at my fingertips but I'll gladly wager that
the reps have far more and far richer fat cats than the dems.
But is having fat cats pour unlimited money into campaigns wrong? I
think it is. I think it violates the one man one vote principle because
in the shouting match of debate some of us have just one of those cones
and others have big amps like a rock band.
But is that effective? I think I agree with you here, i don't think it
makes much difference in like a presidential campaign where both sides
are spending bazillions and the ads come in blizzards so you can't
hardly tell which side is which. Look a poor Jeb! (the explanation for
the ! is that it makes him more exciting, but one wag has pointed out
that calling it brocolli! does not make it bbq ribs) he started out with
way more money then the rest of the clowns, and as the crown prince
clown will gladly tell you, he is at three percent.
But I think it makes a lot of difference in the down ballot races,
certainly it is not that hard to buy a close state rep seat, and then
you can control the state house and come reapportionment time gerrymand
it to beat the band and gain some federal representatives. And that
money just sloshes around and helps the candidate in various ways. And
these fat cats are always fighting to get legislation passed that will
allow them to give more, and if they were dumb would they be rich?
You know I saw that when I was mapping out my route, that little hat
that the state of Michigan seems to be wearing (is there a name for
that?) and there is sort of a line of lakes and rivers from Petosky to
Mullet Lake, but I wasn't sure if it went clear through.
I guess all I have to do now is find a collapsible canoe I can get into
the elevator and buy a case of Dinty Moore. If I don't eat it all I
will be glad to share when I get there. But no yellow beer. Any local
craft beer pale ale will be fine, or maybe you could stock some Pilsner
Urquell, the beer of the homeland.
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