July 2011
Local Poetry
Politics As Usual?
by Bob Markey
Bob Markey is a poet and Whatcom Watch delivery person.
A definition of the term
“politics as usual” was
recently redefined in a
session of what supposedly
was the one branch of government
that rises above politics.
Our Supreme Court gave the status
of flesh-and-blood
to corporate
entities, who’s
masters are now
allowed to use
those corporation’s assets to
purchase their own chosen lackeys
to govern us!
“Illions” were spent, (mil, bil, tril),
inconceivable numbers to
ninety percent of us, living
citizens who vote!
Is this what our founders in their
wisdom envisioned?
What’s next, allowing one vote for
every dollar of personal
inherited wealth? Or would that
be unfair to
our self-made gazillionaires who
try harder?
