Category: Multi-Issued
US IN THE MIRROR
And by US, one means us, not USA.
What won’t money buy in the USA of material stuff, power, and influence. Not much. The same doesn’t apply to human rights or environmental rights, in which the opposite seems to be the FACT.
TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS A LIE
C-Span is valuable for the individual-citizen call-in ability to voice opinions. Again this morning, a caller expressed his concern that political Parties offer only 1 opinion, when 2 opinions are available. Really? Only 2? and so goes disability of imagination, indoctrination, and/or total brainwashing. How are so many Americans so convinced that only 2 opinions are available? Join the real world, people. Expand your ideas, open your ears, and walk into the sunshine and breathe the clean air. (Deciding not to say “crawl out from under the rock”)…..
FASCISM OUT OF THE CLOSET
A problem on the topic of fascism is that, until authoritarian exploitation of human resources (people) or natural resources (environment) becomes noticeable, the money is nice. A governance based on :”the economy” can be a euphemism for dictatorship. It is easy to overlook corruption when money is being generated, and this includes our nation of shareholders. Add to this the highly questionable policy of Citizens United by which lawmakers are purchased by big-money interests, and supposedly monitoring sources such as the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to maintain balance in “the economy”, has over a decade kept too low, interests. Keeping interest rates abnormally low has forced family savings accounts into the stock market that can be considered speculative. Low interest rates may also promote inflation.
COALESCENCE OF NATURE AND PEOPLE
Bureaucracy requires winners and losers in order to stay in control of the public. The majority of local-community members want to live their personal lives according to their own wishes, in peace and dignity. Wars are perpetrated for the promotion of hierarchy and generally for the interests and profits of the wealthy. The obscenely wealthy generally didn’t gain their positions according to principles of restraint and self-awareness. Anyone must acknowledge the work that goes into becoming wealthy as defined by oligarchy, but at that level a line often has been crossed. Use of said wealth to pass laws favorable to what has come to be called “the economy” exacerbates the corruption.
IS ECONOMY EUPHEMISM FOR DICTATORSHIP?
If people were living in a dictatorship, could control best be wielded over said people by using euphemism rather than direct challenge of control due to dictatorship? For example, if hierarchy stated boldly that the system of government precisely was in place to protect and promote interests of said hierarchy, said people could become restless. But if an idea was imposed in place of the concept of a system in place to protect and promote hierarchy, was used in place of direct language, people could become compliant. What if the euphemism used was “the economy”? Is this notion worthy of discussion?
CENTRALIZED HAUTEUR
C-Span would be of service to offer ideas about a peace budget. We don’t have one at this time. We do however have a very expensive Pentagon budget that seems a prerequisite to maintain business as usual.
LIVING SATIRE
To be clear, this is sometimes called satire. It is a way to express truth rather than FACTS—
RECOGNIZE CENSORSHIP
What does it say when the topic of censorship raises the question as to whether a particular situation applies to school curriculum or to parents. Shouldn’t interests be similar; and if interests are not similar, should this be a matter of concern?
DEFINE EDUCATE
Should parents be involved in education? Should government decide the curriculum? How much input is a teacher permitted? We probably haven’t spent enough time demanding and thinking of the definitions used to characterize society. These vague areas are spaces into which dictatorship seep.
JANE MUST EXPLAIN
C-Span offered a glimpse from the view of Jane Harmon (D-CA) about her idea of American governance and policy.
WHEN PYRAMID ECONOMY CRUMBLES
Because the USA seems more intent on “spreading democracy around the world” than promoting democracy in the USA, many local-community members are practicing democracy in their own interest.
AMERICAN COMEDY
The first discussion on C-Span today asked about the Pentagon-budget request from Biden. The first caller set the tone of comedy as this person who identified as calling from the UK where he must enjoy his nation’s 1-payer government-run health care system urge Americans to dump more money into the Pentagon due to the dangers around the world. The dry humor from this caller masks the irony and insult of the call.
SUPREMACY OVER AGELESS WISDOM
This must be a national security risk far beyond any risk from a foreign nation, and it is current, intense, ubiquitous, and nasty—-
CAPITALISM AND CARTELS
So many words are spoken at the public everyday using words that detour away from actual meaning. Words are used to terrorize, inform, or confuse and media is often the vehicle of transmission. When money and power enter into the formula, delusion is possible. An example is the phrase most of us have heard over decades that “we are a 2-Party system”. In FACT our system doesn’t require political Parties, and elections surely shouldn’t be run by political Parties. Yet, this idea is accepted as Constitutional.