Tag: Citizens United
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.?
HR5 BIPARTISANSHIP
HR5 has been discussed by the R&D Duopoly. The topic is parental involvement in education of children.
CAPITALISTIC USE OF THE FEMININE
A remembrance of Pat Schroeder on CBS Nightly report yesterday mentioned that she was appointed to a Commission but needed to share the seat with a male associate due to her status as 1/2 a person in that time and place. Some women remember those days. We may return to them. Meanwhile too often it feels like the women who endured those places and times are expected to “just get over it”. And so a road to a return to that time is paved.
OLIGARCHY OR MERITOCRACY?
Either work well in capitalism.
They say time is money. It’s also your life.
PROGRESS OR DYSTOPIA?
The reminder of the old film called Soylent Green arose while hearing a commercial intended to sell fruit and vegetable related nutrition vitamins using the phrase (paraphrase) –get nutrients of fruits and vegetables without expensive trips to the grocery store.
FREE SPEECH POLICING
While money is called Free Speech, Free Speech is held as suspicious behavior by Establishment.
ADS AS EDUCATION
C-Span hosted Fairplay guest Josh Golin. Mr. Golin expressed interest in supporting online use by children that is free of advertising (paraphrase).
WHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM BECOMES ENTITLEMENTS
In one’s imagination, the Ohio train derailment tragedy is the physical manifestation of the impact on Americans by the end-days of capitalism. The American Dream became entitlements following the Establishment rigging of government for their own enrichment.
WHAT WE MUSTN’T TALK ABOUT
Is dictatorship when open reporting and citizen communication is stifled? Money isn’t Speech but can stifle Free Speech. Why aren’t more people talking about Citizens United?
MYOPIC OLIGARCHY
Oligarchy can be defined by myopia.
The mindset was on display on C-Span this morning.https://www.c-span.org/video/?525774-4/washington-journal-michael-gordon-discusses-chinese-military-capabilities-threats-posed-us –FEBRUARY 12, 2023 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 02/12/2023
WE ARE RATIONAL CREATURES
Rationalization helps.
When it happens in communist countries, capitalist countries call it propaganda. –
DO DEMOCRACY AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO
Each of the Russian-Ukrainian military action and the Supreme Court confirmation hearing raises important questions about US policy. As we “spread democracy around the world”, how is democracy playing out in the USA?
This is what justice could look like