Tuesday 12 August 2014

Can we have Wolf-Pac.com in the UK. Great idea. Missing the first bit.


Fantastic news for democracy in the US. But for an issue that has a 96% public approval rating, why is change coming so slowly from their 'representatives'?

Wolf-Pac.com is the website for a political movement to pass a 28th Amendment in the US and undo the damage caused by Citizens United. Citizens United is the movement where 7 unelected 'Supreme Justices' gave corporations  freedom of speech, and decided that 'Money is Speech' as a result corporations could put as much money as they like into politics.


This would not be such a problem if consumer rights were extended to voters. In the absence of clear product labelling with politicians, the ability to list ones nicest points on TVs across the country and, rather than work a 9-5, go door to door or in a motorhome being nice but promising nothing.

Highlighting this problem has always been the premise of TYT network.

But watching electoral twitter feeds of late I really do despair. I see supporters of the wolf-pac.com campaign and volunteer tweeter for the show asking people to blindly vote blue.

The show makes it quite clear that there are plenty of corrupt politicians wearing a blue tie too. The people who manage to become blue candidates had to be selected from within an exclusive group.

91% of voters who are made aware of it support an end to Citizens United. So those who truly intend to represent do not really have a leg to stand on.

We can not expect a majority of honest politicians until is it passed all the while that there is no fair standardised policy comparison.

We can not make the right changes without an honest majority.

There is therefore no more important policy your candidate to support if they wish to represent.

This is no a new discussion. Obama and Cameron spoke of cleaning up crony politics in each of their elections, and if anything both made it worse.

So please #TNTTweeters #TYNTweeters. Don't rush around asking people to #VoteBlue or #VoteSMART until you have done your own due diligence. Make sure that your candidate committed to the 28th Amendment before you vote and ask them to do the same.

You might like to consider something like SMART-voter.org to hold them to it.







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