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Authors, sign in!Today's Supreme Court decision allowing basically unlimited corporate (and union) contributions to political activity may not be the dire situation that it seems to be on its face.
When you look at the immediate impact then, yes, it's huge. Wealthy corporations, the very ones who are opposed to energy/health/environmental/social/political reforms, can sponsor political advertisements that don't directly support a candidate. While that's more than a little wink, wink, nudge, nudge to the essential fallacy of the distinction, it does nonetheless give corporations huge war chests with which to, well, wage war against those of us who dare to oppose their corporatist agendas.
On the other hand...
We, in the progressive movement, have a huge opportunity to do a little "Tea Partying" of our own. As Pam wrote on Wednesday, we've got to get out there and make our voices heard. It's time for a return to 1960s-style activism, even if it means taking to the streets like the minions of the Party of No (a.k.a., Tea Party) have managed to do over the past six months.
Let's let the dust settle a bit. Let Obama take on the wall street banks. Let the Republicans try to defeat health insurance reform. Let the Republicans try to derail everything the majority of Americans want, in spite of their rhetoric to the contrary. And, as Bob Hooper wrote today, "Let'em filibuster, run their mouths, and take the responsibility. "
There are a myriad ways that this can play out. I'm not saying let's wait for a Republican juggernaut, but I'm suggesting that the Party of No is still in serious jeopardy of overplaying its hand once again--just as they did during the Bush years.
Let's just see how to play it.
Published January 21, 2010 by Will Corsair |
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Comments (1)
You give me hope. Thank you.
Posted by Pamela Jean
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January 22, 2010 2:53 AM
Posted on January 22, 2010 02:53