How Elections Are Bought
We all want to grow richer, of course,
so we can buy more stuff to feed,
our rising expectations by force,
of our ever-growing greed.
For we were designed for survival,
to fight our way mindless ahead,
idea that more and bigger is better,
to our slowly swelling head.
But there are limits to growth,
that are easily proved and read,
the old checks and balances,
are quickly among the dead.
But a reckoning is coming,
we must downsize like yore,
or we will join the minions,
of those gone extinct before.
And growth will start over,
like it always has before.
Just of a different kind.
Image by Gerd Altmann of Pixabay
We have to find a way to get money out of politics.
Ted Cruz is beholden to only two smalltime West Texas
billionaires no one is ever heard of, but have all
West Texas Republicans in school boards, the state
legislature, and some others like Cruz totally in
their control. Ferris Wilks in oil and Tim Dunn,
landholder into oil and fracking want to eliminate
public schools and replace them with only Christian
schools, as well as other extreme right wing policy.
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