Free Speech Becoming Too Expensive
First it was going to be term limits, everybody’s silver bullet for political corruption. Then it was lobbyist legislation. Next, the big buzz-word was campaign-finance legislation.
First it was going to be term limits, everybody’s silver bullet for political corruption. Then it was lobbyist legislation. Next, the big buzz-word was campaign-finance legislation.
No one has thus far enacted an anti-bribery law because the Congress is a co-conspirator. Congress itself equated free-speech with the ability to pay for free-speech and locked us in the “I can afford more free-speech than you" box, from which there seems no exit. All things considered, free speech is becoming too expensive for we ordinary people.
Changing demographics are creatively met head-on by gerrymandered congressional districts—so we still have Democrats and Republicans (to prove how free we are) but they are sequestered like cattle into pens that assure there will be no discourse. It’s merely a matter of which candidate t…