<"Dark Money Word Cloud I":
The Reckoner>
It's just too big to stop...Ka-ching, Ka-ching...It's not the time...
Ka-ching, Ka-ching...
The political climate doesn't allow it...
Follow the money...Money is speech...Follow the money...
Ka-ching, ka-ching...
Corporations are people, too...
Ka-ching, ka-ching...
Just follow the money...
It doesn't buy my vote...
Ka-ching, ka-ching...
"I think the major factor for why Biden has gradually been falling in the polls is by the way that he campaigns and speaks and the contradictions in his claims versus his record.
"And those contradictions are very much played out in his current effort to rationalize taking huge money or accepting the huge money going into super PACs on behalf of his campaign."
<Norman Solomon,
Common Dreams Contributor>
."Joe Biden should get scorched
."Joe Biden should get scorched
on the next debate stage
for starting a super PAC
because he doesn't have grassroots support."
<Erick Fernandez, Journalist>
"While there may be disagreements between candidates in this race about whether or not it’s okay to have a super PAC, on this issue the country is already pretty united: People have had ENOUGH of the wealthy and powerful buying our candidates and elections."
<Fahiz Shakir,
<Fahiz Shakir,
Bernie Sanders' 2020 Campaign Manager>
Common Dreams:
"Sanders Campaign, Progressives
Rip Biden Super PAC"
<10/30/19>
<"Dark Money Word Cloud II":
The Reckoner>
I must make two honest confessions to you…
First, I must confess that over the past few years
I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion
that the Negro’s great stumbling block
in his stride toward freedom
is not the White Citizen's Councilor,
or the Ku Klux Klanner,
but the white moderate, who is more devoted
to “order” than to justice;
who prefers a negative peace
which is the absence of tension
to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;
who constantly says:
“I agree with you in the goal you seek,
but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”;
who paternalistically believes
he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom;
who lives by a mythical concept of time
and who constantly advises the Negro
to wait for a “more convenient season.”
Shallow understanding from people of good will
is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding
from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance
is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
First, I must confess that over the past few years
I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion
that the Negro’s great stumbling block
in his stride toward freedom
is not the White Citizen's Councilor,
or the Ku Klux Klanner,
but the white moderate, who is more devoted
to “order” than to justice;
who prefers a negative peace
which is the absence of tension
to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;
who constantly says:
“I agree with you in the goal you seek,
but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”;
who paternalistically believes
he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom;
who lives by a mythical concept of time
and who constantly advises the Negro
to wait for a “more convenient season.”
Shallow understanding from people of good will
is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding
from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance
is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
<Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”>
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”>
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