NORTH CAROLINA ENIGMA

Many felt this march was a sure sign that “we the people” can change State government with popular vote. This may have been correct at one time but that time has past; the objective of this blog post is to tell you that is no longer true in America.

We all know that North Carolina State government is terrible; it is as bad as it has ever been and arguable the worst in the Nation. Corporations have totally corrupted the States legislature and all governors’ office under the guise of being conservatives. All regulatory commission, state agencies, and government department has been compromise by a small group of men—the only women among them is a “smoking hot” federal representative in western North Carolina. They even have become so brazen that they have formed a corporation to substitute for the Department of Commerce in the State. In addition, they have control of the media. For example, a careful analysis of news reports over the days before and after the massive rally hardly mentions it; unbelievable but true. The largest rally ever—tens of thousands of people in the streets—and it doesn’t hardly makes the news, even in the city where it a happened. Everyone knows that #Larry Stogner, ABC Channel 11, for example, has a radical right wing conservative bias so is not expect to be forthright, but that does not explain the universal news blackout.

Should this be an alarm for liberals? Of course, it should! I was shocked to see recent poll results in the race for the U.S. Senate. There is incumbent #Kay Hagan and her potential challenger #Tom Tillis, who happens to be a leading political puppet of #Art Pope; of course, #Art Pope holds the purse strings of the corporate moneybag that initially corrupted our government. Once that was done locally, it called the attention of National corporate money interests to our weaknesses. The Koch brothers have moved into the state to take advantage. Their money and the dirty politics of #Karl Rove focused on the #Kay Hagan race. Let me give you the results of three of the largest polls: 45 to 41; 47 to 40; and 43 to 42; each poll has corporate backed conservative Tillis in the lead. The Americans for Prosperity ads fill our TV screens; sadly, not one single statement in the ad contents are not true; in the state of North Carolina there is not law against lying on public media.

My first response to the poll results was to say if they can control the media, they can control polling, which means we should not believe these numbers. Thinking that way is dreaming. I think we can learn from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio, all great states that have lost their governments to the corporate money machine. Wisconsin is a prime example of what will happen in North Carolina; we do not have to guess. The poll result tells us already what will happen. They had huge protests by—tens of thousands —in the street that like North Carolina, may not have made local news but it made National news. They even had a recall election, which failed even thought Governor Scott Walker was guilty of massive suppression of workers rights—for some reason the workers voted against their own interest. I heard one Wisconsin interviewee say he voted against recall because he thought recall election was somehow illegal—talk about thought diversion. Sum up the recall election this way; the ratio of outside money to inside money spent in support of the embattled governor was 7 to 1; when you read this, read  “outside money” to mean Koch brother money.

 I struggle to understand how people can vote against their own interests when it is so obvious what is happening. Karl Rove and others have discovered some way of diverting voters’ thoughts from corporate criminal corruption of state governments, suppression of human and civil rights, and blatantly stealing of public assets and then convincing people to vote in support of more of the same. It seems like people can march in the streets in protest and then go directly to the voting booth and vote for what the protested against.  Don’t let tens of thousand of protestors in the streets fool you; there is a rough road ahead for North Carolina. I for one will vote for #Kay Hagen even if she “supports everything I stand for”. I hope the irony in that statement is not lost on you.      

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