Don't expect any of this to make the news, stated clearly, or show up at the water cooler in chit-chat, of course. This yawner-material is the new normal -- has been, since ignorance was declared the new genius, since banks have been too big to fail, since theft was made the new success, and since astroturf groups like Teabaggers sprang up to do the artificial grassroots business of billionaires.
Haven't you heard? Everything's been stood on its collective head, been stripped of common sense, been co-opted and crippled by corporations, the instant they were made people and their money made speech.
Should you be wondering what on earth has happened and what it is that you might have missed now, here's the gist of it: Senate Republicans have defeated the DISCLOSE Act.
Instead of fighting for the People and the public interest, Republicans have battled for the right of corporations and the rich to keep secret any purchase they might care to make of any public, American election, anywhere, at any time.
While you are letting this latest outrage sink in, the DISCLOSE Act is an acronym, standing for, "Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections."
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