The Enemy keeps on sliming their way through the War on Words

[mizducky]

Just heard a corporate mouthpiece criticize CA Prop 89 (the Clean Elections initiative) by tagging its supporters--unions, the League of Women Voters, and similar groups representing the rank and file citizen workers--with the politically-charged term "special interests

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[drumzspace]

I totally agree. I say this every year, but BOY, THIS ELECTION IS THE WORST. The ads, the virulent content, the phone calls, the junk mail...I'm sick of it all. However, I'm glad I'm not living in one of those battleground states for the Senate. If I lived in OH, FL, or TN I don't think I'd go out of the house for a month.

You and I don't agree on a whole lot, politically, but I can assure you that I'm on board for this one simply because money has completely ruined American politics. It needs to go. There's no way a progressive third (or fourth, or fifth) party can every get anywhere when all this money smothers anything not red & blue.

Ugh.

[lefin1]

I already voted. I voted Democrat, but I'm afraid of the micromanagement. I'm actually a Libertarian.