Purchasing Power and Pennant

MIKE BLOOMBERG has more money than God, and the Wall Street Journal reports that the former mayor of New York city subsidizes the good lord, much keeping the cosmos solvent, much as J.P. Morgan generously did for the United States during the great depression of 1907. Bloomberg has several times the amount of dough as Donald J. Trump, at least, and maybe several hundred times as much. We'll not know until the justice system at long last pries Trump's desperately concealed tax returns from beneath his orange toupee. Mayor Mike crouches like a tiger outside the estate gate, awaiting super Tuesday, taking billions out of the mouth of God to spend on commercials, with which he has already begun to inundate the plutocratic republic. So far, a quarter of a billion spent, with promises of upwards of two to five billion to come. Not bad, even for a sixty billionaire. The wailing, gnashing, alligator tearing, and shrieking among his Democratic rivals has already begun. He's trying to buy the nomination, cry they! He's the New York Yankees of politics, who were themselves once compared to U.S. Steel, and in some circles still are. Bloomberg and the Yankees have one thing in common, or rather two things in common, other than being located in New York; One, they are trying to buy a championship. Two, they are doing exactly what everyone else is trying to do; buy a championship. The Boston Red Sox spend only a few tens of millions of dollars less than the rich kid Bronx Bombers, and event eh poorest team in baseball, whichever that might be, spends millions, for the same purpose; to pay for a hoped for World Series title. Self described socialist Bernie Sanders has raised more green backs than any other candidate, for example. he spends it just as Bloomberg does; to purchase political power through advertisement, advertisement which, as has been known for a hundred years through sociological analysis, works like a charm. he who advertises first and most, politician or corporation, gets the girl, and rides into the sunset holding trophy aloft. We all moan about the fact that the American political system is for sale, but nobody does anything about it, a familiar refrain, applicable to so many of life's dilemmas, personal and political. We mealy mouth around with weak, purely symbolic campaign finance laws, then wreck it all with a Supreme Court decision grounded in lunacy; the infamous "Citizen's United" debacle. The solution, dear united citizen, rests in nine easy words, enacted into law: "The sale and purchase of political advertising is prohibited". But don't, as we say, hold your breath. Heaven and Bloomberg forbid that we should actually take corrective action which makes sense; after all, what would be the fun in that, and how would God ever pay his bills?