I’m a firm believer that any negative can be turned into a positive with a little Yankee ingenuity added to the mix. Take the latest Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to flood as much money as they want into the campaigns of the candidates of their choosing as a perfect example.
While on the surface, this seems like a terrible thing to happen because it defines the end of competitive campaigning.
No one group or organization will be able to raise as much money as a corporate greed machine, so it pretty much makes it inevitable that most, if not all campaign ads will be corporate funded.
This will make it easy to know which candidates the corporations are for and which they’re against, provided grassroots organizations like MoveOn.org don’t try to compete.
A simple ad, constantly run all over the country stating that only corporations are running political ads for candidates now, and unless you want to support the corporate agenda, any candidate being endorsed by these ads will not be working for the people.
Likewise, any negative political advertising can be dealt with in the same fashion. If the corporations are against a candidate, then there’s a good chance he or she will do the most good for the people.
This lets the corporations spend all the money on political ads, and frees up organizations like MoveOn.org to educate people on what corporate endorsed candidates mean for the country.
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