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Where the Money Is

Political advertising in my media-feed seems to be increasing in volume. I like everyone else am in a news silo, so YMMV. Much of the advertising has been anti-Biden; a lot of it is making the extraordinary claim that Biden will be taking performance-enhancing drugs going into the Presidential Debate scheduled tonight.

My early education both in civics and in science stressed that the more extraordinary the claim, the more evidence you need to back it up. We seem to be long past that in smears this campaign. 

I am in my silo and yet I am overwhelmed not by pro-Biden advertising but rather pro-Trump advertising, so there seems to be an awful lot of money being spent on silly accusations about Biden.

Nobody seems to discuss it much at least in the circles I travel in but the money is always in preserving the status quo for the rich and the powerful.  It is almost always a progressive stance to just go in the opposite direction of the prevailing advertising and media buys.

Insofar as there is a limit to how much good use you can put wealth to short of giving it away, insofar as many people are financially insecure re housing and health care, I am happy to see a redistribution of wealth to allow more folk to enjoy their lives. We have a long long way to go before taxation causes the very wealthy to lead diminished lifestyles. 

You have to pick an arbitrary line in the sand. Because of my age, for me it is the Reagan-Bush tax cuts. That was the point were we voluntarily turned the taxes-from-the-wealthy spigot mostly off and started telling ourselves that as a nation we couldn't afford to take care of the needy, to maintain our infrastructure, etc. The tax code was far from perfect before then but that was when deceitful folk led us to help the rich and hurt the poor shamelessly, all while calling themselves Christian as they rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Because that's where the money is, politicians, pundits, media empires, all thought it was a good thing.

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