I am not very confident about the future of free elections now that the U.S. Supreme Court has decreed that money is equal to speech and can’t be restricted.
The only people with loud enough voices to be heard are the 1 percent with all the money. They can donate millions to a Super PAC far more secretly than the Sun Journal will publish this letter. My opinion in the newspaper has to have my name attached, but if I had the money to buy a senator, I could do it secretly.
On another topic . . . when the Fairness Doctrine lapsed and commentators were free to spout “popcorn truths” without fear of rebuttal, democracy slipped a little closer to the end of its rope.
A “popcorn truth” is a small kernel of truth which is then blown on with about a half hour of hot air and distortion until it pops into something that looks impressive but has no substance.
Any opinion Rush Limbaugh expresses comes to mind.
Donald Prince, Turner
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