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In reply to the discussion: GOP Election Fraud in Wisconsin [View all]chknltl
(10,558 posts)This same odd question and observation sequence was repeated commonly by callers on Thom Hartmann and Ed Shultz radio programs today. First off, President Obama made his own political decision as to how best to support the Dems in Wi. I have not heard any regrets as to our presidents methods of support from the Wi. Democratic party so far. Do you suppose the right wing is fishing for a wedge issue here? That'd be my guess-especially when so many right wing 'concern trolls' are trying to get good use out of this right wing talking point too. It makes a great bit of anti-Obama propaganda, an erosion to his base...see how that works?
Next, your reference to 'all the money spent'... Not sure how you missed it but were you aware that we DEMS were outspent 8 to 1 in Wisconsin. Do you have ANY doubts my fellow DUer, that had we been able to fight this campaign on an equal financial basis that the outcome would be much different? So would you suggest with hindsight, that we should have spent less or invested money we simply did not have in that campaign. If you feel the money spent by we dems in that particular campaign could have been better used elsewhere...well this would make for an interesting OP here in the DU. ,one I urge you to post.
Look, this is my opinion and mine alone: Democracy in America, that thing countless thousands of our citizens fought and died for-fought and died to protect, is being wrested from WE THE PEOPLE by BIG MONEY, (corporate and likely foreign government money to be more precise). What went on in Wisconsin with BIG MONEY having more power over that election than the actual will of an informed electorate is the true story here. The real enemy is there, plain for all to see. Our very democracy was hit and hit damned hard in Wisconsin! WE THE PEOPLE need a spotlight on this in order to be the 'informed electorate' that our democracy requires if it is to survive!
This is not about the right or the left, democrats or republicans, this is about BIG MONEY destroying OUR democracy! Propagandists do not want us seeing that, they want us instead to fight with each other, a 'divided we FAIL' strategy. They do not want you to know about the 8 to 1 advantage the corporate finances had over the citizens of Wisconsin in this fight.
IMHO it dishonors the brave fight fought by our fellow Americans in the campaign in Wisconsin when we question the use of what little resources they had to work with considering the BIG MONEY MONSTER they valiantly went up against.
End of rant,
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