A black reader wrote me bitching about special subsidies and tax breaks for big corporations.
This was my reply:
Here is the entire story of hard, cold politics, from one who has been on the “giving” end of government money:
1) Big corporations have full-time lobbies and work politics and give money in the right places.
2) The average person just gets bored when we try to get them to defend their interests.
And until that changes, the guys who are in there after the money will get it, and the public will get screwed.
Politics ain’t charity, it’s a life and death battle.
It’s exactly like blacks. As long as they depend on Massah Kennedy and Massah Bill Clinton to take care of them, they will be ignored.
Politics is as real as you get. If you take bullshit and frantic denunciations of the Confederate flag, the real world will give you that instead of real money and real power every time.
The same rules holds when it comes to the public versus big business or big liberal lobbies.
As long as the biggest thing on your mind is whether a politician remembers your name or has a nice image, that is all you will get.
“Democracy is a system of government where people get what they deserve.”
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