Unprotected speech
Screaming; "Fire!" in a crowded theatre is not protected speech. See? Watching the yellow bile drip from Bush's lips is foreign correspondence. See? The chewed over mouthfuls spat at us by the newspapers of record and sort, come under the collective heading of news and information, sports, weather. Your right to know in an open market of ideas. See?
Voting is a sort of free speech when you think about it, too. One adult, one vote. Some people however, insist on corrupting that cherished personal choice, using vast rivers of money to outflank it. Millions of small contributors each diluting their own votes to the point until they're never heard from again until it's shakedown time as the cunning modern politician acts in and for the money, but rightly fears the wised-up chumps. It's still our game, they know.
So?
So we must choose between the right to contribute our money to influence the campaign system and our very right to vote. You cannot have both, it seems too me. What should have been obvious before, is mandated now.
Frugality being an asset in a public servant, we need to pay them well, but not in cash, or other amenities, put it on their paychecks and make sure they earn it. As for; "running for office" funds, these should be minimal and Secret Service eats the balance.Which brings us to the bringers of all this uneeded expense, let's call it marketeering in the public place, and industries of division and hate, wrapped in fear and laid out on the table like dinner. Such is the power matrix we have. Is the pain becoming too much?
Let me know.
12:46:56 PM 
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