The “Virtue” of Voting Early, Often & in Every State

I maintain three email addresses—one for personal communications, for professional messages, and one for political and sales communiques, which is just what most political email is. Frequently, they ask you to sign petitions—Internet Neutrality, Social Security, last year innumerable Obama Care topics, this morning, one to keep the Central American kids flooding over the border.

These are national issues that everybody can & should have an opinion on. However, there is another sort. I.e. in 2012, there was a recall election in Wisconsin. I got several emails asking me to take actions to facilitate Scott Walker's demise. I wrote back incensed saying would not consider barging into the politics of another state. Wisconsinites should not have to live with what I want—it's their state!

How naïve is that?! I was astonished to discover subsequently in Forbes on line (http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/06/07/koch-brothers-scott-walker-didnt-get-a-dime-from-us/) that 14 billionaires contributed to influence the outcome of that vote. They wouldn't, if they were not sure they would get something out of it. So, no big surprise our democracy doesn't work. 

The critical eye is convinced that capitalism is the culprit here—the virtue of selfishness results in monetary success that is so highly prized it effectively entitles a billionaire to influence elections, and effectively force citizens of another state to live under a governor they want to recall, with fracking, or whatever. . .