I guess I am perhaps just cranky and a little tired--I've been working overtime on school assignments and all, so maybe that's part of it. But after following the whole Occupy movement so intensely, trying to explain to people who don't get it about why people are protesting and all this....in my mind, there are a few things it comes down to. But one major point that comes to me is the influence of money in politics. The rest of my mini-rant below the squiggly...
Anyway, we've all seen the graphs showing how much it costs to run for office and how much it has risen, and I understand that at the moment it is part of the game. Hopefully this will change. But while I like and support Alan Grayson as an elected official and the things he says and the way he represents the left, I have to say that while I have been popping onto the Big Orange this weekend each time I have seen his face staring at me asking me to join the "money bomb" for an election a year away, I have just felt...more and more gross about politics.
This diary is just a little vent. I guess if anything, in a weird way, the enormous wrap-around ads encourage me to keep working to get money out of politics, but the ads still leave me with a weird feeling. Anyone else feel the same way? Talk me down?
I'm really not a troll. I just needed to release about it a bit. I hope you don't mind.
I still support you, Alan. I really hope that you make it back into Congress to represent all of us. But, still. Just saying...
Much love from Dublin,
nickinnewyork