Can Authenticity Ever Beat Big Money – We’ll Know Soon!

Billionaires Vs. the Curious Case of the Osborn/Fischer Senate Race

Sometimes I can’t help but feel the sheer darkness of the comedy of our upside-down world in the US when it comes to billionaires and elections right now. It feels like watching a video of old tattered early 1900s-style political cartoons and photos with corporations hovering as overlords over members of Congress.

A that time, the executives of those companies were often called “Robber-Barons”, because of their unethical, sometimes illegal and always ruthless behavior.

• Included in the list of so-called robber barons are Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller.

• Robber barons were accused of being monopolists who earned profits by intentionally restricting the production of goods and then raising prices.

The folks we called robber barons in the early 1900s during industrialization, are now known as unscrupulous billionai…