My LTE published in our local newspaper today.
Increasingly “our” legislation is written by and for the largest corporations; the same industries that now own all our media; the same industries that buy legislators and finance the bottom feeders (the liars, psychopaths and sanctimonious snake oil salesmen). Such pervasive corruption siphons the wealth from our people and our land. (Think NAFTA, TPP, and profits hidden in foreign banks).
Ordinarily we might survive this corporate coup…but we are now entering an era of ever increasing heat and chaotic weather due to an upsurge of greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, etc.) that won’t let the heat escape our atmosphere. Aquifers that take thousands of years to fill are already drying up and mountain tops around the world have decreasing snow-packs and glaciers.
We need honest, smart politicians as never before...to help build food, water and clean energy resiliency… particularly at the local level. Greed driven politicians don’t build …they tear down government and pocket the profit…while gleefully extolling “free markets”.
Now, if there were only candidates who refuse to take those bribes, and were smart and experienced, and who recognized what a hot pickle our world is in. Amazingly there is one currently running for president; his name is Bernie Sanders.