Democracy Alliance and big money politics
Posted in Democracy Alliance, Money on May 1st, 2008
The Center for Public Integrity has an interesting column out titled Stealth Campaigns.
While the article does a good job of making sure it includes reality… specifically that left wing factions of American politics are spending massive amounts of money, I disagree with a lot of its base argument.
For example:
Financed by many of the nation’s wealthiest investors and business leaders, as well as millions of small donors, these organizations are responsible for a flood of political attack advertising. Their work threatens to drown out the traditional voices of the Republican and Democratic parties and undercut the presidential candidates’ efforts to control their own messages.
For one, I believe the “message” is as diluted as possible in order to ignore the real issues and flood the public with non-essential BS. I also believe the two party system has corrupted American politics, and reform is badly needed.
There for, I’m personally not against the idea of American entrepreneurs spending money on reforming the political landscape. However, I am against the constant attacks from the left screaming that “the right is rich and we are not”, when the left is spending just as much, if not far more than the right.
In Stealth Campaigns, it is made clear that far left groups such as Democracy Alliance are pumping huge amounts of money in to American politics.
