Too many things to say about this election, so I limit myself at one aspect – money in politics. Not the “irregularities” in Obama’s fundrising, but the fact that he refused to go for public funding. His summer-time claims that he risks to be vastly out-moneyed by the republicams (I saved Plouffe’s ridiculous message), were, even at that time ludicrous – and to the trough they run, this crew of decent, PBS, NPR folks! The One went for the big money since it was in his reach, and dumped any pretention of hope’n change, at least in the ways politics are financed (poor McCain, with his McCain-Feingold law! So naif, so archaic!)
Now it is too late, the demon is out of bottle and no one can stop the republicans or other party to set up similar fund-rising systems – and the day when the liberals will run around yelling “murder, murder bloody murder!” is no far away, and they are fully responsible for the monster they mid-wifed.
Yet this bad situation created by the “hope’n change” savior has an even uglier consequence – this anonymous, unaccountable system (will there ever be a serious attempt to make this system accountable? I doubt it – it’s a true Eldorado for both parties and anyone who harbors political ambitions), in which anyone in the world can invest in American politics & policies will open the door for further pressures to change the constitution and allow for foreigners compete for the job of US president – you know the reasoning: the constitution is archaic, we need new talent, why discriminate, by not doing this we encourage bigotry, we should be a model for the world, a multicultural society should be open-minded and inclusive, we will be liked more, etc. etc.
And with these two elements in place, America will become SIMPLY FOR SALE TO THE HIGHST BIDDER – and this situation is much closer than we would like to believe, courtesy to Obama and that embodiment of political rottenness that the Democrat party is.
