What’s wrong with Billionaires spending unlimited amounts to influence elections?

Do we seriously need to answer this question?

The fact that some think its ok is shocking, and scary.

Remember the images from decades ago — of back-room ‘power-brokers’, rich white guys, smoking cigars, making the decisions, controlling the media, manipulating the political process.  No women, minorities, no unions, few work-place safety rules, few environmental regulations, put business first.

How some long for the good old days…

We as a nation rejected back-room politics, not because every idea was bad but because hijacking a fair process was corrupt.  Yet here we are again – now with a new twist.  The manipulation today is so effective that the Billionaires are no longer afraid to come out of the closet and show themselves and announce their willingness to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to further their agendas. They’ve convinced us that those who are against their freedom to exercise their rights are socialists, are against the First Amendment, are un-American.

Wealthy Americans are absolutely entitled to voice their opinions, as are all Americans.  But when their wealth permits them to so overpower and dictate the conversation and when they’ve apparently lost the awareness that unbridled domination of ideas is bad for America, we’re in trouble.

Worst of all, their money is largely not used to build support for their ideas or vision.  They are not trying to show us a better plan, a better strategy for success.  Instead, they are largely focused on vilifying and destroying those they disagree with.  They are spending their money trying to scare the American people.

Remember – they’re not the candidates.  Their Americans who supposedly have a vision that they believe is best for America – yet they don’t spend their money trying to convince the voters of this wonderful vision; they instead work to destroy the other choices.

That’s what’s wrong.

When parents are splitting up and divorcing, the saying goes that you have to love your kids more than you hate each other.  Translation – for the sake of the kids, don’t destroy each other, because you end up deeply harming the kids.

Well, the political elite in this country hate the prevailing majority view, and their really scaring the kids.

President Obama and Governor Romney both have many ideas about the way government should work for the people – about the role of government – about where we may need more government and where we need less.  Thankfully, their views are quite different.  And we as Americans desire to hear from and understand what each side wants and sees for America, what they believe in, and how they see the country operating if they should be elected in November.

Citizens United handed Billionaires the ability to manipulate our elections.  They should now show the intelligence and love of America to not do it just because they can.