Tag: Citizens United
WHICH TEAM ARE YOU ON?
Isn’t it the duty of our lawmakers to criticize US involvement in the wars of foreign nation, and our own, especially when genocide seems to be the goal of said war?–
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
C-Span opened their phones for so many excellent views that to choose just a few would be impossible. One is heartened that so many Americans have awakened to the corruption in our government as we have meandered down the path of “running government like a business”. This on a continuum is organized crime.
SIEGE
This morning C-Span hosted a discussion about the Israeli/Hamas fiasco. An ocean liner seems to have turned as so many callers spoke of the distinction between Hamas and Palestinian communities, and the context preceding the weekend attack which included the destruction of Palestinian homes and crops by Israel.
OPPORTUNITY
It;s been quite a while since autoworkers were laid off, factories in the US closed, jobs shipped overseas, and the beginning of incredible profits by the auto industry and fabulous payout to CEO’s. Workers remaining took drastic pay cuts, lost benefits, and were denied a defined benefit retirement plan.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
A change is in the wind in MSM as it catches the tail end of awakening to governance in the USA that seems intent on destroying democracy.
DON’T CONFUSE THE CURTAIN WITH THE WIZARD
We spend too much time worrying about the curtain rather than the wizard.
CORPORATE DICTATOR
Corporate-privilege laws aren’t a gift from God. They are indicative of governing corruption.
CURTAIN OF INDOCTRINATION
A Free Press is illusive in the USA in 2023. Collaboration between business interests and government currently control a preponderance of what passes as news; and censorship seems used to silence diverse views.
NEWS BLACK-OUT
This summer we seem to have reached a tipping point about effects of global warming on humanity and nature that would permit denial as an obviously inane view. And so Establishment has assumed a policy of mitigation as to the impact, rather than dealing with the underlying anomalies of lifestyle that contributed to the global warming. This seems to be a policy that indulges big-money campaign donors who profit by the harmful policies that contribute to global warming, and is based on dependence of lawmakers on the largess of Citizens United, to their personal well being. This leaves out attention to the needs of We The People.
TRACES OF FREEDOM
Some in hierarchical Establishment recognize a need to indoctrinate the public that pagan lifestyle is undesirable. The concept of individual autonomy doesn’t comport comfortably with hierarchy.
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
Ratchet private ownership one click and you may have feudalism.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
As a child of the ’60’s, one has little to no confidence in militarized law enforcement. While most of us “studied” The Teapot Dome Affair in school, the depth and breadth of that scandal probably was glossed over so as to wall the essence away from student understanding.
SUBTLE ART OF AUTHORITY
Snide insincerity may be a hallmark of politicians in general, and the Democratic Party aren’t to be outdone in that capacity. It is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown as the symbol of the topic of abortion, from the Democratic Party that failed to codify Roe v. Wade when they had ample opportunity to do so. Instead, the Democratic Party, like the Republican Party, prefer to block action demanded by We The People, in order to have campaign promises to pull out of their bag of tricks at election time.
IDEALS
C-Span airs at about 6:50AM a different entry into Student Cam 2023 (www.studentcam.org). The ideas are relevant and the idealism is admirable. Is it too cynical to mention that when students take on predatory educational-loan pay back, idealism may be replaced with cold reality. One hopes not.
GUNS AND CITIZENS UNITED
Is Citizens United the uniting factor in the decline suspected in the USA, of meaningful values? In other words, is corruption becoming apparent.?