{"id":13859,"date":"2018-01-19T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13859"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:04:30","slug":"rather-leave-than-fight-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/19\/rather-leave-than-fight-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather Leave Than Fight?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader remarks on the character of Senator Flake<\/a> and his cohort:<\/p>\n

The problem might be many or most members of the body he was addressing (including himself?) might not really give a damn about democracy, as long as they “have theirs.” When you’re wealthy and powerful, who needs democracy?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it’s possible, but, if so, we’re probably doomed. Nor have I seen any formal moves to extinguish democracy, only the gutter full of informal moves to suppress those who might vote “the wrong way”.<\/p>\n

I suspect it has more to do with funding, oddly enough. While many members are wealthy, the requirements of a successful run for Senate are overwhelming for a relatively small millionaire[1]<\/a><\/sup>. But the Mercers and the Kochs have enough billions to finance these second-raters several times over – and so they dance to their tune. Add in those conservatives horrified at the advances of the past years – I suspect Flake falls into that category – and we see the result today. The donors set a deadline for ACA replacement and changes to the tax structure, and off the bunnies went, eager to satisfy their masters.<\/p>\n

I wonder how they feel about public financing of elections. Leave the donors out in the cold. I suppose SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em> would frown on it, though.<\/p>\n

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\n1<\/sup>The days of Senator Proxmire<\/a><\/a> (D-WI), who served 1957 to 1989, and his fabled $250 budget for re-election are long gone. Hmmmm, don’t see a reference for that anywhere. I remember reading about it during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader remarks on the character of Senator Flake and his cohort: The problem might be many or most members of the body he was addressing (including himself?) might not really give a damn about democracy, as long as they “have theirs.” When you’re wealthy and powerful, who needs democracy? \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13861,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}