What’s Next?

Towards the end of my last post I wrote a little about present-day political realities here. I’ve had time to reflect on the party primary issue and default back to wanting a third party (The Moderates) that’ll blow the (D) and (R) out-of-the-water in most cases. Of course we do have the issue of money (“political contributions”) that usually tries to influence, especially following electoral success. Many are upset about the US Supreme Court decision that corporations have the rights of individuals, thinking it will make for an unlevel playing field. Even some Republicans for Environmental Protection colleagues mentioned that Corps. give more- so, I went looking… according to opensecrets.org (see below) of the top donors 20 from 1989-2012 you’ll find that 5 are fairly split their in donations between the two major parties, 14 are listed as strongly or solidly (D) donors and 1 is (R). 12 are Unions. The sheer amount of money the past couple of decades has gone overwhelmingly to (D).

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A but hat is changing... http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/blio.php

Of course SuperPACs are going to have an impact on the political landscape. Here are some of their major donors at the state level (of course the #1 group donor is FreedomWorks for America that is pledged in defeat President Obama’s re-election bid).

http://www.followthemoney.org/press/ReportView.phtml?r=479

“Money makes the world go around…” but in “public service” (aka: government) it usually makes for a stench while you’re at-the-trough and it usually has short-term gains (as Julius Caesar discovered)…