The economic impact feels to local community members like colonization, but the oligarchs wage this scenario by moving away.  Exploitation of local natural resources (environment) and human resources (people) by capitalists can leave local communities in ruin.

https://portside.org/2023-07-30/why-capitalism-leaving-us-search-profit?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email  —-

Those claims, categorized under the headings of “neoliberalism” and “globalization” served neatly to hide or obscure one key fact: higher profits mainly for the richest few was the chief goal and the result of capitalists abandoning the U.S.Neoliberalism was a new version of an old economic theory that justified capitalists’ “free choices” as the necessary means to achieve optimal efficiency for entire economies. According to the neoliberal view, governments should minimize any regulation or other interference in capitalists’ profit-driven decisions. Neoliberalism celebrated “globalization,” its preferred name for capitalists’ choosing to specifically move production overseas. That “free choice” was said to enable “more efficient” production of goods and services because capitalists could tap globally sourced resources. The point and punchline flowing from exaltations of neoliberalism, capitalists’ free choices, and globalization were that all citizens benefited when capitalism moved on. Excepting a few dissenters (including some unions), politicians, mass media, and academicians largely joined the intense cheerleading for capitalism’s neoliberal globalization.

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One is wary of the same politicians who promoted NAFTA and TPP, are now running campaigns highlighting “bringing manufacturing back to the USA”.  Must voters continue to be so gullible?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwT6qMLjeg   —

Socialism or Capitalism? Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate

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This is similar to politicians who warn women to vote a certain way to avoid reproductive oppression, when the same politicians failed to codify reproductive rights when they had he power to do so.  And by the way, what about ERA?  Too many religious institutional apologists seem to require a second-ranked status for women.

To remember the Creator made each of us simplifies the inclination to personalize judgement.  —  https://wildhunt.org/2023/07/opinion-walking-with-the-gods.html  – In a society where free speech and protected sexual orientation flourished as a bedrock, the sudden removal of one in favor of the other is a call to action.

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Culture wars seems to be the strategy du jour for politicians to gain ascendancy by means of emotional division of the electorate into opposite camps of thought on topics that may be worthy of conversation, but less so than dire circumstances such as global warming.  

https://popularresistance.org/climate-education-suffers-from-partisan-culture-wars/  – Climate change education has been caught in the crossfire of the culture wars. While some U.S. states are boosting climate literacy, others are effectively miseducating children by depriving them of the skills they’ll need to face the biggest challenge of their generation.

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Degrowth can be called living within our means.  —  https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=08236df150  —

In speech on extreme heat, Biden makes no mention of what’s driving it: Fossil fuels

Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human DevelopmenDegrowth and Socialism: Notes on Some Critical JuncturesOn Technology andDegrowing China—By Collapse, Redistribution, or Planning?

Planning Degrowth: The Necessity, History, and ChallengeCapitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic SocialisPlanning an Ecologically Sustainable and Democratic Economy: Challenges and TaskPlanning and the Ecosocialist Mode of Cooperation

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6pE4lPf2Ow   —

Congress Considers Min Wage Increase

–end of leeecamp info–    One’s trip to the grocery store today included the price increase of a can of spinach from $1.09 about 3 weeks ago to $1.32.  Biden says “no inflation here”.

But political speak about inflation is campaign strategy while inflation to individuals is about cash available to feed families.

Tomato…Tomoto……Language can be a quirky thing….****

As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate——–

 This is a reminder of how much we don’t know.  This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought.  We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate.  Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United.  But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy.  Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw          —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate.  Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary.  This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People.  Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”