Not Everyone Can Raise His Voice
“If people all over the world would do this….” Therein lies the rub. The people who are actually going to speak up are those lucky enough not to be caught up in any of the following:
• First and most obviously, living in a country where speech critical of the local autocrat is banned, or at least greatly throttled.
• Being under so much personal or economic pressure, e.g., working two or three low-paying jobs, to have insufficient bandwidth to get involved.
• Suffering under a mountain of lies and disinformation campaigns, perpetrated by the very forces of “injustice and lying and greed” Faulkner mentions.
• Living in fear of any of several different types of retaliation.
I often wonder how I would have conducted myself if all this insanity had happened when I ran my marketing services agency. How brave would I have been to go public with my outrage at the criminal behavior of the President of the United States when I was billing Penske Logistics a few million dollars for the series of campaigns we did for them?
Shown below: Penske’s political contributions. Shown here: Roger Penske receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump himself; I’m sure there’s no connection.
I’m guessing that many of my other high-profile clients like IBM, AT&T, Motorola, and the rest were captained by some heavy-duty right-wingers; not sure how I would have conducted myself.
Craig,
Cheer up, now you have a Democrat contender worth many billions and controlling a huge media empire seeing if “money can really buy you love”!
The billionaires are lining up behind Mike Bloomberg, is a way the couldn’t quite get behind another Democrat billionaire(there seem to be so many of them) Tom Steyer.
But Tom isn’t as fashionable as the New York media tycoon who if elected, would be the oldest and first Jewish US president. If Steyer, financially, was a battleship compared to other candidates’ fishing boats, Bloomberg is an aircraft carrier.
As MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald adoringly enthused “The media mogul and former mayor, who has already made the single largest political advertising purchase in history, is worth some fifty times as much as Steyer”
“If Steyer, financially, was a battleship compared to other candidates’ fishing boats, Bloomberg is an aircraft carrier”
Perhaps the words of the chairman of the DNC is right when he declared;
“I believe firmly that Mike Bloomberg can win. I think resources are going to matter. It was the billions poured in by billionaires to democrat coffers and Mike Bloomberg that flipped the house back to the Democrats.
His control or influence of huge swathes of media and his influence should make him the best candidate to beat Trump”.
It’ll be interesting to watch how the Democrat Party and the “Never Trumper’s’ , re-think their principles to accommodate Mike Bloomberg.
But, hey, what the hell, maybe money can really buy Bloomberg the love of the Democrats he so badly craves”