Thom, a brilliant piece, especially in respect to the history of election rigging. I don’t think the answer for us, though, is to take to the streets fighting the Republican Party’s corruption. The Democrats are not currently engaged in election rigging, but they are equally as corrupt in serving not their constituents, but as agents fo…
Thom, a brilliant piece, especially in respect to the history of election rigging. I don’t think the answer for us, though, is to take to the streets fighting the Republican Party’s corruption. The Democrats are not currently engaged in election rigging, but they are equally as corrupt in serving not their constituents, but as agents for corporate/billionaire interests. Democracy is long gone. (You written about all this, too.) This is the root problem, so I have a modest suggestion to address it: a citizens’ tax revolt, refusing to pay federal taxes until restoring democracy is underway. That will be signaled by cutting the defense budget sufficiently to finance a generous program of guaranteed universal health care. After that we’ll continue paying taxes, but threaten to withhold them once more until Citizens United is overturned and corporate campaign financing prohibited by law.
Thom, a brilliant piece, especially in respect to the history of election rigging. I don’t think the answer for us, though, is to take to the streets fighting the Republican Party’s corruption. The Democrats are not currently engaged in election rigging, but they are equally as corrupt in serving not their constituents, but as agents for corporate/billionaire interests. Democracy is long gone. (You written about all this, too.) This is the root problem, so I have a modest suggestion to address it: a citizens’ tax revolt, refusing to pay federal taxes until restoring democracy is underway. That will be signaled by cutting the defense budget sufficiently to finance a generous program of guaranteed universal health care. After that we’ll continue paying taxes, but threaten to withhold them once more until Citizens United is overturned and corporate campaign financing prohibited by law.