Posted on 04/18/2016 6:34:40 PM PDT by writer33
Why does the political left hate money so much? Judging by the rhetoric we hear, you would think that money was some dark and shameful substance, a necessary evil not to be used more than absolutely necessary, rather than what it truly is, a measure of the services provided to one’s fellow man. If anything, politics is, and always has been, more about self-interest than just about any other profession.
For example, both Bernie Sanders and George Clooney recently described the amount of money going into this election cycle as obscene. This in spite of the fact that Sanders has been aggressively fundraising for close to a year, and Clooney just hosted a $350,000 per couple event in support of Hillary Clinton. They’re willing to use money to get what they want, but they nevertheless feel the need to denounce it in public. Why?
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Given that what doesn’t end up in the candidate’s ‘foundation,’ goes to fund leftist media, I’m not too crazy about the billions spent in these interminable election seasons, either. Campaign politics shouldn’t be a year-round effort supplemented by White House war rooms.
Money doesn’t cause corruption. Corrupt people cause corruption.
Money in politics equals speech. Because speech is a sender-receiver problem and it takes money to effectively formulate and transmit a message to millions of people.
What is a bit disturbing is not knowing exactly where the money came from to push a given position or candidate.
It’s a tough problem. I’m mostly in favor of loose controls.
The good news is that the formulation and transmission technology is getting cheaper and more effective and more accessible with each election.
>> Money doesn’t cause corruption. Corrupt people cause corruption.
You hit THAT nail square on the head.
Agreed. Money in politics equals speech.
The system of PACs has to go. Make donations to campaigns direct and public knowledge.
Transparency is key to avoid the direct purchase of a candidate, and the PACs give them plausible deniability for wrongdoing.
This current system is corrupt as hell.
Libtards don’t hate all money.....it’s the money in conservative and Christian hands that they despise. That’s why the Obola admin is trying its darndest to pump our money into their pockets.
“Why does the political left hate money so much?”
They don’t. They just hate money that’s not being used to help their cause. Like everything else, if it supports the left they are for it. If the same thing is used to support their political opponents they are against it and they don’t see this as contradictory or hypocritical at all.
Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation to pose to himself and to others as a cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.Socialistic tendencies can be understood quite well from Theodore Roosevelt’s perspective as stated above. Once realize that socialists criticize everything - every thing and every body except themselves - and understand that journalists as a class are nothing but critics, and the whole mess we see every day comes into focus. Journalists are inherently inclined toward socialism.It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride of slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not exactly what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
Why do socialists criticize (other people’s) money in politics? They criticize everything. They are cynics. Nothing more.
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