Huffpost Denver The Blog   Michele Swenson Headshot  Tancredo
Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right
and to the Bottom  Posted: Updated:  In our broken political
system, candidates are propelled by 30-second sound bites funded
by large sums of money from undisclosed corporate and special
interests. Over 30 years there has been a concerted political
right effort to subvert U.S. democracy and redistribute wealth
to corporate and religious right allies. Democrats have been
complicit in their too frequent allegiance to the corporate
bottom line and willingness to short-circuit democratic process.
U.S. politics has devolved into a diversion from, instead of
engagement with, the issues - rather than a choice of the best
of the best, our candidate choices too often range to the least.
The only "choice" perceived by many is a vote for "the other" -
whoever is not in power.  In light of party leaders' assertions
of "raising up an army to take back the nation," it is an
understatement to say th