Tag: politics
MATURE LEADERSHIP
PR for political parties Democratic and Republican seem to groom their clients to maintain a sorority/fraternity persona, that harms most people attempting real life. It’s also not a good look for a leader. Maturity and interest seem better.
THIS IS CAPITALISM
Apparently Marjorie Taylor Greene has been denied access to something or other. Whatever her problem, she is barred from a private enterprise outlet. Private enterprise has the right to run their business according to their personal policies. This is the reason employers can mandate, for example, dress codes and masks. Some private corporations even mandate a woman’s health-care coverage access to birth control.
SACRED POLITICS
The guest of Russell Brand seems to make the connection between the sacred which must be eternal, and attempts by political ideology that attempts to own the same.
LOCAL POLITICS
The earned attention on Federal politics comes at the cost of attention taken away from local politics. Many actions of local politicians are so scattered and under reported and seldom seriously challenged as to support a quasi fiefdom. The work of local politicians should be to promote the interests of a majority of residents within their district. Many examples abound, for example in the Southern Tier of NYS, of promotion of big-money interests at the expense of local residents. Draining money from local communities and toward interests outside of our region is poor governance.
IS CENSORSHIP IN POLITICS TYRANNY?
A recent Democratic Party campaign strategy used misogyny to the extent to condemn a woman who called for law enforcement when she was accosted by a man on a wooded jogging trail. That women are specifically schooled about “how to act” when she is alone in public as a part of routine parental care, and that there is no place a woman can feel safe, and that her attackers are seldom women, is a topic that has been ignored. Those women are condemned who take upon themselves their own protection, that includes calling law enforcement when in peril, is an added insult from a patriarchal political system. The reality of women’s lives includes protecting themselves in a violent culture. To suggest women should carry guns for their own protection is an added absurdity. Women must feel safe even on nighttime streets and/or wooded areas. Further harm is inflicted by political patriarchy that from time to time raise the question of misogyny in foreign nations where the excuse for US imperialism is to protect women’s rights, when said rights are politically and in reality abused in the USA And so goes patriarchy.
POLITICS AND LOBBIES
C-Span hosted a discussion with Grover Norquist, the anti-corporate-tax lobbyist. His sales presentation for capitalism is quite ’80’s. It’s like the public hasn’t lived the reality and has experience to compare alongside his fantasy.
COST TO BUY A POLITICIAN
The price for corporate profiteering is too often danger for the public. My District 22 Representative Hanna, replaced by Tenney, replaced by Brindisi, replaced by Tenney had advocated in our Upstate NY region of winter snow and ice storms, filled with school buses, family drivers, teen drivers, and first responders, attempted legislation to raise the speed limit on commercial vehicles from 55 to 65 in order to increase profit for business. Said commercial vehicles would include the bomb trucks which description drew warnings from local law enforcement to the public-safety advocate so describing, that he could be seen as a domestic terrorist. One would think raising the speed limit from 55 to 65 for bomb trucks would more appropriately draw that label.
WHY NOT DYNASTIC GOVERNANCE?
I’m thinking the chaos Americans are living through in 2021 is one reason to reconsider rule by dynasty family. Cronyism may be the step before such government that seems opposite to principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic. Self-interest is the motivation. As Bernie Sanders said when asked the reason for his unchanging policies, he spoke to the unchanging character of problems in the USA ignored by government. This is a reason to consider once again that political parties hold little to no sway in the US Constitution, while the voter does have standing under our US Constitution.