Middle Class Politics
For the annotations of a You Tube channel I came across the following equations: Corporations – Government = Capitalism; Corporations + Government = Fascism; Corporations / Government = Democracy. The video was condemning corporatism and I suspected we were on the same page, given the last of the three equations. I still do, but I [...]
There is nothing in the Constitution that requires Supreme Court justices to be lawyers, but they all are. Many of them over the course of history were corporate lawyers; most came from backgrounds, inherited or acquired, of wealth and power. Thus it has been so since 1800 when the Supreme Court was first packed by [...]
Since I’m for neither party nor any fixed ideology, the results of the federal election if we discount the Supreme Court (more on that another time) was a desirable balanced split between different centralized factions. The Senate remained with the Democrats while the House went to the Republicans. Ah, but the President is a Democrat, [...]
Election day is near. The past week I’ve been leading up to this question of “Why Vote?” Neither party really preaches a platform of social reponsibility at the individual level. Both parties want a centralized, paternal system of government; they just want it for different ends and with different degrees of admitting that is what [...]
In my last post I stated that the states rights agrarian is a thing of the past in our party democracy. Parties can only succeed by concentrating wealth and power to compete against each other in order to promote their (ultimately self) interests. The function of concentration is best served by the structure of centralization. [...]
The 2010 election draws near. Our mailboxes are stuffed and our phones are ringing. Every candidate indulges us with promises while the “other candidate” will raise taxes beyond what we earn, raise unemployment to 110% and claim our first borns for indentured servitude (OK, I made some of that up). What really distinguishes the candidates [...]
Elections have become a menace to society. Everywhere there are ugly signs. Everyday there are annoying phone calls. Every candidate sends me junk stuffing my mailbox. Add in the sniping, fear-mongering content of if it all (and if you think it’s only the other party doing this, then shame, SHAME on you!), and you have [...]
As a follow-up to releasing our new music video I’ve been surfing You Tube. I originally searched under the category of “Corporate Greed” for videos that had a similar theme as ours. I eventually got led to “War Profiteering” videos. I learned something new. Let me emphasize what everyone knows, you can’t believe what every [...]
We interrupt the scheduled “programming” to address the latest headlines. Congress is debating whether to extend the portion of the Bush tax cuts that benefited the wealthiest segment of society. Warning: this opinion will not be about the tax cuts per se, but rather something that now enters my head every time the prospects of [...]
On the face of it, turning Tea Parties into a federation is a good thing from my perspective as a staunch advocate of federation. However, this movement towards “Federation” actually reinforces my earlier criticisms of the Tea Parties as special interest groups. It is really akin to putting lipstick on a pig. For those who [...]