Comments for Voting As Political Narcotic at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:40:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2741-voting-as-political-narcotic.html#comment-3581 Kingpin No 1: The chief kingpin to all of our strife is campaign financing. Of the many threats to our civilization the present method of supporting candidates for office, is the worst. It is commonly recognized to be bad, but what seems to be missed is that what has become the pathway to what we now have; a "tyrannical plutocracy", has spelled the end to what little democracy remains. For those who don't know what a plutocracy is, it is the rich and powerful in absolute control of the non-rich. We now have what has been described as "Yawn America". It is inevitable that with the majority poorly educated, our vaunted freedoms get abused by the greedy. Momentarily, we are lulled by dead-end falsely secure jobs, inundeluting media, essentially propagandistic and trivial news, and scare stories about terrorists. (who, if we really think about it, are a threat only against businesses). Ideally, campaign financing should be free to qualified candidates. This removes the devilish bribery now prevalent which puts the rich in control. Fatalistically, it probably can't happen, but with citizens really owning the electronic conduits, they need to insist that the licensees arrange cost-free means for the candidates to vie with each other to become true representatives for the public. Unfortunately, we all prefer and aspire to becoming rich. This becomes the carrot that forestalls efforts for reform and when we miss the brass ring, we then lie subject to an unequal society squeezing the un-rich with ever rising living costs leading to an ungracious old age. - don baird Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:56:48 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2741-voting-as-political-narcotic.html#comment-3579 Choosing to boycott the democratic process to save it isn't only hypocritical and extraordinarily damaging - it's stupid. Instead, your point should be to push Americans to learn about the topics you mentioned. The internet is an extraordinary tool for debate and dialogue - canditates themselves are using the Web to mobilize new power bases (http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=536&doc_id=137090) - Elisa Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:24:07 +0100