If Halloween
celebrates
the in-between
and the inappropriate,
we hope
that it
is in
good taste,
like candy.
As Halloween
is quite
the scene
and grows
increasingly
extensive,
so too
is Election
Day,
the subsequent
Tuesday,
extraordinarily
expensive.
And if this
midterm
makes you
squirm
with
the thought
of how much
was bought
only
to be
determined
a trick
or treat
depending
on who
wins
each seat,
this wrong
must be
righted.
Defeat
Citizens
United!
I know.
I know.
Practically
everyone
must go.
But this
is the
sugar
from all
that candy
that puts
us in
political
insulin
dependency.
The ascendency
of big money
unrestricted
has left us
quite afflicted
since 2010.
Money talks
when
it’s called
free speech,
supposedly
against
government
overreach,
but it would
grant
the Orwellian
“Corporate
Personhood”
allowing
unlimited
campaign
spending
as somehow
defending
freedom.
This is not
freedom
from,
but freedom
to
manipulate,
overtake,
and
perhaps
forsake
a system
conceived
for actual
people.
Heads,
I win;
tails,
you lose.
Trump
has always
played
that game
and will
undoubtedly
frame
Tuesday’s
outcome
as some
trick
or treat.
Regardless
of his
infantile
style,
I hope
you’ll go
the extra
mile,
and vote,
if you have
not already
done so.
And then
I beg you
to do
what you
can
before
the next
election,
to support
efforts
to undo
Citizens
United
and return
personhood
to individual
people.
Wouldn’t that
be a neat trick!
All I ask
is that we
unmask
this obscenity
as an enemy
to democracy.
Citizens
United
is an insult
that suits
the cult
of Trump.
Dump
em all
and then
keep going,
knowing
that
doing
democracy
is being
the change
you want
to see.
And let
Trick or Treat
be
for Halloween.
