It’s probably too late but according to The Nation Magazine (Nov. 1), our Democracy has been bought out in the most expensive mid-term election in history. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, secret money has been flooding the 2010 campaigns and the multinational corporations are buying the type of government they prefer — the one that has no intentions of hampering their means of profits by setting regulations or stopping them from shuttering American factories while exploiting the world’s poorest workers.

Even the few regulations Obama attained are too much for the corporatism. Regulations such as, taking away from banks their right to dole out school loans to the poor at exorbitant interest rates, using regulations where it is impossible to further worker’s rights, plus environmental improvements and, of course, any comprehensive health care.

Corporations, Republicans and loud-mouthed ham actors of the Tea Party say they hate the Obama health care plan, what they really hate is the “good stuff” as pointed out by Patti Kimbal (Sept. 27). They also hate having to kick in a few dollars.

Republicans want us to believe they are worried about future generations having to shoulder the cost of revitalizing the economy, yet they care nothing about this generation of kids. Not even when it comes to early education, shelter, medical care and food. They never miss the chance to slash funding for the poor.

I honestly thought that the corporatism (and the Republicans who back them) made a bad mistake in doing away with most of the middle class. After all, they were the buffer zone between the rich and the poor that made the American dream seem a reality. I also believed that forcing the middle class to join ranks with the poor (as well as the picked-on Mexicans and Latinos filling up our empty jails — for profit) would be a force to be reckoned with.

I was wrong. Arianna Huffington already wrote her book on those in power turning America into a Third World nation. Americans must realize how much contempt those in power have for us. Quoted in The Nation is the wonderful Bill Moyers, who wrote, “More is at stake than House and Senate seats. Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes and we may be running out of luck. If the dagger of corporate money pierces the heart of democracy this year, we may not have the strength to pull it out afterward. The 2010 election is a watershed for America. It is money versus democracy. We dare not let the money win.”

Mary Milliron

Hollandale