Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I thought it was bad before the last election, with texts and emails begging me for money. After the election, I was tired and drained and cynical about money. What seemed to work were grass roots efforts, postcards, calls and writing in to counter lies. But now I'm more beseiged than ever over the Congressional seats and the staggering amount of money already raised by both sides. We could feed the hungry of the world and have plenty left over. Everything about our system of government right now seems to be money based, and our culture is a mirror of it. Throw enough money around and you can hide and seek whatever you want. The more money you have, the better chance you have to evade justice, while the poor are crushed in the system. Is Capitalism all we have left in America? Are all other values dissolved? Good people still fight for a compassionate society, but even they are constantly begging for money. Election money should be controlled, as it once was, and buying elections should not be the norm. But it is. I'm ashamed and despairing of what we've become. There seems little hope with our current Supreme Court willing to step in like Big Brother and attempt to control our lives but protect corporations. The greed for power and money runs the engine that makes us use up citizens for the benefit of the rich. The rest of us are left grieving for an America that no longer exists, if it ever did.