Bloodbath

by Max Johnson

What a horrible night on Tuesday for America. The minority population that takes the time to vote rejected the Democrats. What an amazing move by Fox News and Corporate America. They had their boys in power in the late 1990s, and they repealed Glass Steagall, and created the risky housing financing schemes. Their Corporate Boys in DC stripped away regulations on many corporations and began reducing corporate taxes while also reducing taxes on the rich. This continued through most of the Bush administration until 2006 when it all began crashing around them. The Corporate party in Congress began being exposed for corruption led by Tom Delay and Casino Jack. The kicking out of the corporate party was complete in 2008 just as the world was plunged into deep financial chaos. The Democrats had two years to straighten out 15 to 20 years of propaganda against government. Very little changed and people are angry. A paranoid person would look at this as some grand conspiracy: Give the keys over to the other party temporarily and then come back with tons of private money to rebrand themselves as the party to save the day.

How do you compete against this? They have their own network that has mastered the art of turning spin into propaganda. They have a Supreme Court that will make new rules to maintain the power of corporations even to the point of declaring that Corporations have the same freedom as an individual. I thought that they were originalists? Where is that in the founding documents? And now they are awash in money from corporations to flood the airwaves with vicious tearing down of the Democrats. People are now routinely voting against their own interests in the hopes for a change. They have now voted to change to the party that bankrupted the country. They voted to bring back the party that turned a surplus into massive deficits under the guise of fiscal responsibility.

I can't believe that Richard Cordray lost. He seemed very committed to addressing the concerns of Ohioans especially with regard to the foreclosure crisis. We now have to hope that the Attorney General of New York can take up the cause for us, because we know that Dewine will never buck the people who put him in power. Cordray seemed like he had everything going his way including law enforcement endorsements, every major daily newspaper endorsed him, and he was regularly making news for bringing dollars back to the State in lawsuit settlements. The only thing he did not have was huge money. This is going to be bad for Ohio.