HERE IS BERNIE SANDERS with whom I agree on many things - but not everything - on the combined "money speech" in even primary races targeting a Republican with whom, like Bernie Sanders, I have little in common though we agree entirely on at least two key issues, the Epstein criminals being exposed and the disastrous Trump-Republican-fascist war on Iran.
If you want more particulars on where the FRICKIN' NINETEEN-MILLION DOLLARS - ON A PRIMARY! came from, here from the NYT.
Supporters of Mr. Trump, as well as pro-Israel groups that are unhappy with Mr. Massie over his opposition to the war with Iran, have spent heavily to defeat the congressman.
They and other advertisers have laid out nearly $19 million against Mr. Massie or in favor of Mr. Gallrein. Last summer, Mr. Trump’s aides even started a super PAC, MAGA KY, for the purpose of ousting Mr. Massie, drawing support from the Republican megadonor Paul Singer and a super PAC heavily funded by Miriam Adelson, another megadonor and supporter of Mr. Trump. Two pro-Israel groups, including one tied to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, spent over $9 million against him.
After the crimes of Nixon, his campaign, his campaign donors were revealed, the role of dirty money in American politics at levels that were shocking fifty five years ago BUT WHICH ARE ROUTINE TODAY, a bi-partisan group of House members and Senators passed sweeping CLEAN ELECTION campaign laws so that that kind of thing couldn't happen ever again.
Only the Supreme Court wiped out that CLEAN ELECTIONS LEGISLATION, BI-PARTISAN LEGISLATION PASSED TO MAKE OUR ELECTIONS SYSTEM HONEST, they did so by not only claiming it was a violation of "free speech" but inventing the absurd, dishonest AND ENTIRELY CORRUPT concept that billionaire and millionaire money equaled "speech" and so the Congress was barred by the sacred cow of Constitutional worship, the First Amendment. And in that they had the full support of the ACLU, the NYCU and other "civil liberties" entities such as Joel Gora (the lawyer who argued the case in favor of dirty money), Stewart Mott, Eugene McCarthy, as well as fascist Republicans such as James Buckley (brother of the fascist and white supremacist William F. Buckley) whose name names the case, Buckley v Valeo.
That is why the likes of AIPAC, Mariam Adelson, Paul Singer, - whose motives, support of the war that Netanyahu got Trump to wage are obvious - and so many others whose motives are opaque but likely as dangerous, are pouring billions into buying us dirty government - it's all because of the mid-1970s "civil liberties" lawyer-liars and the fat-headed members of the Supreme Court - including some of the more ill considered heroes of liberalism on the Court and off of it. I have no doubt that many an Epstein-Maxwell client may have put money on Massie's opponent hoping to keep their names hidden.
You won't get much of that from the media WHO ARE ENORMOUS FINANCIAL WINNERS FROM OUR DIRTY POLITICS THROUGH AD BUYS as well as beneficiaries of them being freed by "civil liberties" rulings to lie with impunity. I doubt you'll ever hear the best of them point this out, not Rachel Maddow, not Keith Olbermann, but that "FREE SPEECH" is the direct source of our dangerously anti-democratic politics. The old answer that such lies can be effectively countered with "more speech" is a quaint notion, the kind of notion that pretends that even massive demonstrations with hundreds of thousands, millions, even, can compete with the continual broadcast and online lie campaigns and the billionaire and millionaire money. IF THAT OLD LEFTISH, CIVIL LIBERTISH LIE OF "MORE SPEECH" WERE TRUE WE WOULDN'T HAVE LOST THE ELECTIONS THAT RESULTED IN CITIZENS UNITED and the many other cases that flowed from Buckley v Valeo that have systematically made our politics more and more corrupt, First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, McCutcheon v. FEC, Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett and other rulings by the most corrupt entity in American politics throughout history, the Supreme Court and their followers in lower courts.
This, by the way, also answers the question as to why I use the phrase "civil liberties" and, especially, "civil liberties lawyers" with utter and complete contempt. So many of them care nothing for real equality, for clean politics, for good governance, so many of them are total hypocrites, such as the older members of the ACLU and its affiliates, such big names as Joel Gora, Ephraim London, Alan Dershowitz, most of them were either OK with all of that corruption or they supported it the results as they basked in the media adoration of their "civil liberties" BS. As mentioned, they freed the media to lie and to collect all that dirty money in ad buys, so why would they tell the truth about it? Though I'm fully prepared to believe a few of them simply never thought the issue through to its final consequences in the real life of those who are destroyed, oppressed and ruined by what that money in politics buys for those who spend it.
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