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The phrase “empty suit” has gone of style.  One wonders at the reason.

Washington Journal: Eric Cortellessa Discusses His Interview with Former President Trump–

MAY 3, 2024 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 05/03/2024

Washington Journal

Eric Cortellessa on His Interview with Former President Trump

Time magazine national political reporter Eric Cortellessa talked about his interview with former President Donald Trump about his vision for a potential second term in office.

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At about 8:42AM a caller touched upon Conservative diminishing for local American community families and specifically Social Security that he implied would MAGA.  The presumption is that The Founders didn’t foresee support for American local families, (as though  they did approve of American funding for foreign wars).

What is the basis for funding for American local-community families, one may ask.  Perhaps the build-up of a feudal economic system and oligarchical hierarchical Establishment, perhaps?  Consider—-

Thomas Jefferson Feared an Aristocracy of Corporations–

But Jefferson did not stop there.

He was, as well, a relentless critic of the monopolizing of economic power by banks, corporations and those who put their faith in what the third president referred to as “the selfish spirit of commerce (that) knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson might not have wanted a lot of government, but he wanted enough government to assert the sovereignty of citizens over corporations. To his view, nothing was more important to the health of the republic.

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How did the USA  transform into an oligarchical dictatorship?–https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2018/11/WINKLER-4.pdf—

Corporations have been fighting for equal rights since America’s earliest days. Although Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission1 first drew broad public attention to the rights of corporations under the Constitution, businesses have quietly amassed a remarkable track record of success in the Supreme Court over the course of the past two centuries. Today, corporations have nearly every right a corporation might want under the Constitution: free speech, freedom of religion, Fourth Amendment privacy rights, due process, equal protection, property rights – rights corporations use to challenge laws regulating the economy and the marketplace. Yet the constitutional law textbooks typically used in law school classes do not include sections on the rights of corporations. Law students learn about civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, even states’ rights, but not corporate rights. Corporations did not win rights the same way that women and minorities did. The latter groups made public appeals for equal rights, backing up litigation efforts with public protests, advocacy campaigns, and media efforts designed to move popular opinion. For women and minorities, scholars stress that judicial victories were only possible when accompanied by changes in the hearts and minds of the public. Corporations, however, did not engage in public advocacy; they never marched with signs demanding, “Corporations are People Too!” But corporations have waged a sustained campaign of lawsuits over generations designed to spur the Supreme Court to recognize ever broader rights for corporations. The audience those corporations found in the nation’s highest court has, by and large, been receptive and accommodating.

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Antidote to the turpitude—https://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/80-Geo.-Wash.-L.-Rev.-602.pdf—

The BP experience highlights deep structural problems in the American system of corporate criminal liability. 

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Many people think feeble legislators feel as though they have sold out We The People (Citizens United) and supported international oligarchs.  Some of We The People notice corruption within the Supreme Court—–https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/politics/supreme-court-epa-neil-gorsuch-chevron/index.html–

She fought with environmentalists, was held in contempt by Congress and eventually resigned under pressure from the Ronald Reagan White House that had championed her. Her memoir was, appropriately, entitled: “Are You Tough Enough?”

Her son Neil Gorsuch, a Supreme Court justice since 2017, has shown his own brand of defiance and anti-regulatory fervor.—end of cnn info—-

Some of We The People recognize regulations as a response to bit-money interest (Chamber of Commerce) work to continue the original quasi=slave economy that worked so well for oligarchs.

C-Span hosted a caller at about 9:08AM who mentioned we are watching a vanity political campaign; and we are watching a Reality Show. One notices the same.

Consider another view from St. Augustine—- City of God (Image Classics)– Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of in terms of the struggle between good and evilL the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian’s place in the temporal order.

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Few people are aware or would admit that the extent by which early Christians drew from Latin and Greek philosophers for their concepts.  St. Augustine, apparently in his own words, speak of the contribution from pagans.  He seems afraid of these “others”; as modern-day people have been indoctrinated into delusion.  To white-wash early thinkers with a derogatory label of pagan, seems the work of religious hierarchical patriarchy.  Can we try transparency and courage?

Blazing Conservative Christians seem to promote their style of patriarchal hierarchy. And “democratic capitalism” is an oxymoron.  It’s typical nonsense.

But let’s consider the Liberals in the Democratic Party.  They cashed in on votes as they fished their “Democratic Base” by obscene and unjustified insinuation against White Women in 2020.  Now, realizing the value of White Women in elections, have relabeled White Women as Suburban Women.  Where went the White Woman label?  Call it what it is or stop using women.