Voters, ballots will be arriving this month. Because we have a privately financed political campaign system, our country is quickly heading for plutocracy, oligarchy, or moneyed aristocracy (depending on how one characterizes the few individuals who are buying our democracy) and perpetual war.
Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans shows they had a 13 percent increase in their wealth last year while the median family income keeps declining. These people have been severely corrupted by huge piles of money and they send armies of lobbyists to Washington to transfer wealth from you to them via tax law, deregulation, and corporate welfare. They launch relentless attacks on “government” (because government is your only defense against them). The only part of government they don’t bash is the military because the military protects their piles of money and property, keeps Mideast oil flowing for their oil company buddies, and also employs many of their defense contractor buddies.
Keep voting for so-called “conservatives” and this transfer of wealth to the wealthiest 400 and perpetual war will continue unabated.
Steve Rapalus
Battle Ground
