What if?

I wonder what Amerikkka might be like if we had strictly tax payer financed elections, if we had all our candidates, at every level, get their signatures, declare their candidacy and collect their tax payer financed campaign funds with no other way to raise money allowed?

What if each television and radio station had to offer a certain amount of free air time to each candidate, in order, you know, to pay society back for the privilege of making oceans of money from use of the public’s airwaves?

What if anyone caught violating campaign finance laws were subject to 35 years in prison and a 750,000 fine?

Under such rules candidates would have to sell their candidacy based on their IDEAS.

Lobbyist scum couldn't buy congressional seats for grossly criminal sociopaths like Tom Delay.

The oil industry could not invade and occupy the middle east.

Wall Street couldn't purchase a president.

Credit card companies couldn’t write bankruptcy laws.

Lobbyists from Clear Channel couldn't design FCC ownership rules for radio, just like lobbyists from other areas of telecom could not write the rules about television, telephone, broadband and wifi.


The pharmaceutical companies and "health” care conglomerates could not impede the development of a national health care system.

Boeing and Lockheed and General Electric could not demand and receive wars. Well, not quite so easily as they do now.

At every level it would STOP, or at least slow dramatically.

It is the fair thing to do, the moral thing to do.

These greedy, narrow minded, short sighted men, men like Lee Reymond who are willing to do anything at all to get their way, would be out, would be regular citizens, in most ways anyway. They’d still have plenty of influence to wield, but other voices would begin to infiltrate the big song. Hell, there'd be a song, not just this incessant buzzing and banging.
The needs and wants and thoughts of the average person could enter into the political discourse. Not that I think the average person knows their ass from a hole in the ground, but the average corporate chieftain does not either. And the lack of critical thinking so terrifyingly apparent in Amerikkka is also, to some extent, a result of policy that doesn’t want people to think, so doesn’t educate them to do so.

With many voices raised some consensus might be reached on something like the common good.

And everyone knows this about campaign finance.

Each office holding fat cat pretender on both sides, all the senators and congressmen and cabinet officials and presidential candidates who've ever run, all know that solely tax payer financed elections (sans diebold machines) would go a long way toward eliminating corruption from government and restoring some sanity and balance to policy decisions.

But 98% of them would never consider doing such a thing as cleaning corruption our of government.