Commentary for June 14th

Electing           WORT                    A. Beck                    6/14/2012

Just in case it wasn’t obvious before, the election we have just witnessed in Wisconsin should tell us all what many of us have

known for a long time: The ability of immensely rich people to buy

very persuasive advertisements without revealing who is paying is

equivalent to putting all supposedly democratic elections up for sale to the highest bidder.  In this election, Scott walker travelled

the whole of the United States in the interest of soliciting funds

from rich people with special political interests, amounting to class

war on working people, a tactic that would have been more

obvious if it had been clear who was paying to spread untraceable messages in the interests of special economic groups. The

difference from the groups that were favored by the majority of the Supreme Court, while not provable, could call up a serious lack of belief in the fairness and creditability of a Court that seem so

unilateral as to undermine credibility in the integrity of said Court. 

The selling of election rules, whether for cash or for intangible and secret  interests, must be seen as a violation of the American social

compact. If the doctrine that money is speech and has the privilege

of private conversation, even when broadcast in loud, but

unacknowledged authorship, is a visible bending of  the spirit of the rule of law, and this election makes that clear.