A little study of the monetary history tells us how we got here, it is no mystery. We have a 300 year old monetary system that extracts and concentrates wealth from the people and the planet who create it. What I don't understand is why anyone bothers to talk about the two major parities that have been bought by those who own the system to ensure public policy is directed to maximisong corporate profits and power. Polarization is not a failure of communication; it’s a business model. Media platforms, political actors, and algorithms profit from outrage. Mainstream media rewards it, institutions depend on it, and our nervous systems default to it under stress. Yet that comfort is costly to health and well-being.. While we debate whether to trust institutions or defend autonomy, children grow sicker, ecosystems unravel, and corporate power tightens its grip. Debates over polarized issues keep us from having a post-partisan discussion of the systemic issue affecting us all. The problem is systemic and requires a systemic solution.
As usual, I agree with everything about how the D elite dumped the New Deal, abandoned the majority working class, and supports econopathy. Like you, I lived through the neolib usurpation and like you, I've been angry for decades at the sheer injustice.
However, I disagree on Ukraine and Russia. Russia was assured by western governments (the Atlanticists, also for the WTO to make the world safe for corporate capitalism) that if Russia let the former Warsaw pact allies go, NATO wouldn't move into those territories. NATO did. Germany and France have both admitted their allegedly sincere negotiations were a stall to get the Ukrainians armed. The U.S. overthrew a democratically elected Ukrainian president because he wanted to keep long standing economic ties to Russia and installed the current one. Whose admin. is known to be the most corrupt in Europe.
Ukraine banned the Russian language, spoken by the majority in the eastern provinces, then moved against the ethnic Russians--that's the reason the Russians attacked. (I'm NOT saying they're guiltless!) Russians also worry about the neo-Nazis in the Ukraine govt. and especially in its military. Acknowledgement of this by some western scholars and investigative reporters; most of whom are as invisible as those of us who see the econ system for what it is. Anyway, it's not really neo; N part of Ukraine allied with the Nazi Germans. I saw a program on this history PBS 2014 now "unavailable." The R party is infested with neocons, same for Ds as of the Biden admin where Cheney trained neocons ran his Dept. of State. Neocons believe the fantasy of a unipolar world--de facto U. S. empire backed up via endless wars. They're anti-Russian for the same reasons they are anti any other pole would-be. You know I'm a meticulous researcher and check sources; if needed, I can back up these statements.
Okay, enough. Back to our focus on economic justice. Except for a reminder that we're of no importance to the neolib/neocon cabal. Makes them a huge problem we do have to address.
Painfully true. And that's exactly where the insider Dems will go again if we let that happen. How we got here is because of where we've been and they want to go back there.
One very big issue with the working class unmentioned.
Low wage immigration.
I don't say low skilled because most work these days requires some skill. When I watch recent arrivals working the trades they all know how to use the basic tools well. They have years of experience doing similar work. Most have very little formal education, but they are not dumb.
During the Biden administration informally word went out, if you could cross our border, you could register, be given papers, a bus ticket to a destination, and maybe a date years in the future for a hearing. All legal. You could work. Millions came.
The price of labor which had been climbing stopped, and in many places here declined. Biden's team might not have ended inflation but they brought it down to manageable levels. Low wage labor is a huge part of our economy. A third of workers make less than $20 an hour. It has been so long since an increase in minimum wage as to be worthless. There is no floor lower than you can fall.
When millions of people are brought in who are more than willing to work for low wages, the income of all low wage workers is very likely to go down.
Currently Trump has implemented very mean looking deportations. Park Slope populists are enraged by both the mistreatment of nice people and the loss of servants. Even those who don't directly employ cleaning crews and nannies, enjoy lower restaurant prices as all the back end is illegal labor as is delivery.
Any party wishing to win needs to address the importation of millions and the low wages of the bottom half of Americans.
How in the world could you want the Republicans to lose in the mid-terms... Democrats are nothing but Radical Liberals who are the most corrupt people on the planet. Look at the millions of dollars they steal from our taxes, and repurpose through supposed charities etc. that ends up in their personal pockets. I speak from my wallet, the economy, affordability and financial stability is so much more stable under Trump. If you don't love Trump's policies then I don't understand what is wrong with you! Do I love it all, no but we are so much better off under Trump. Democrats scare the hell out of me, just look at the open borders, all the illegal actions flying illegals to various cities and then spending billions of our tax dollars putting them in hotels and kicking Veterans out of those same hotels. If you believe we should have open borders, then why don't you move to Venezuela and get a taste of Socialism. You and most Democrats are clueless!
Well, it would be hard to call me a Democrat given what I’ve been writing about. I’m making the case that both parties are dominated by billionaires and the interests of the super-rich. I’m arguing for a new party that supports the interests of working people. I hope you’ll take a look at my new book when it comes out in a few months.
A little study of the monetary history tells us how we got here, it is no mystery. We have a 300 year old monetary system that extracts and concentrates wealth from the people and the planet who create it. What I don't understand is why anyone bothers to talk about the two major parities that have been bought by those who own the system to ensure public policy is directed to maximisong corporate profits and power. Polarization is not a failure of communication; it’s a business model. Media platforms, political actors, and algorithms profit from outrage. Mainstream media rewards it, institutions depend on it, and our nervous systems default to it under stress. Yet that comfort is costly to health and well-being.. While we debate whether to trust institutions or defend autonomy, children grow sicker, ecosystems unravel, and corporate power tightens its grip. Debates over polarized issues keep us from having a post-partisan discussion of the systemic issue affecting us all. The problem is systemic and requires a systemic solution.
As usual, I agree with everything about how the D elite dumped the New Deal, abandoned the majority working class, and supports econopathy. Like you, I lived through the neolib usurpation and like you, I've been angry for decades at the sheer injustice.
However, I disagree on Ukraine and Russia. Russia was assured by western governments (the Atlanticists, also for the WTO to make the world safe for corporate capitalism) that if Russia let the former Warsaw pact allies go, NATO wouldn't move into those territories. NATO did. Germany and France have both admitted their allegedly sincere negotiations were a stall to get the Ukrainians armed. The U.S. overthrew a democratically elected Ukrainian president because he wanted to keep long standing economic ties to Russia and installed the current one. Whose admin. is known to be the most corrupt in Europe.
Ukraine banned the Russian language, spoken by the majority in the eastern provinces, then moved against the ethnic Russians--that's the reason the Russians attacked. (I'm NOT saying they're guiltless!) Russians also worry about the neo-Nazis in the Ukraine govt. and especially in its military. Acknowledgement of this by some western scholars and investigative reporters; most of whom are as invisible as those of us who see the econ system for what it is. Anyway, it's not really neo; N part of Ukraine allied with the Nazi Germans. I saw a program on this history PBS 2014 now "unavailable." The R party is infested with neocons, same for Ds as of the Biden admin where Cheney trained neocons ran his Dept. of State. Neocons believe the fantasy of a unipolar world--de facto U. S. empire backed up via endless wars. They're anti-Russian for the same reasons they are anti any other pole would-be. You know I'm a meticulous researcher and check sources; if needed, I can back up these statements.
Okay, enough. Back to our focus on economic justice. Except for a reminder that we're of no importance to the neolib/neocon cabal. Makes them a huge problem we do have to address.
Painfully true. And that's exactly where the insider Dems will go again if we let that happen. How we got here is because of where we've been and they want to go back there.
One very big issue with the working class unmentioned.
Low wage immigration.
I don't say low skilled because most work these days requires some skill. When I watch recent arrivals working the trades they all know how to use the basic tools well. They have years of experience doing similar work. Most have very little formal education, but they are not dumb.
During the Biden administration informally word went out, if you could cross our border, you could register, be given papers, a bus ticket to a destination, and maybe a date years in the future for a hearing. All legal. You could work. Millions came.
The price of labor which had been climbing stopped, and in many places here declined. Biden's team might not have ended inflation but they brought it down to manageable levels. Low wage labor is a huge part of our economy. A third of workers make less than $20 an hour. It has been so long since an increase in minimum wage as to be worthless. There is no floor lower than you can fall.
When millions of people are brought in who are more than willing to work for low wages, the income of all low wage workers is very likely to go down.
Currently Trump has implemented very mean looking deportations. Park Slope populists are enraged by both the mistreatment of nice people and the loss of servants. Even those who don't directly employ cleaning crews and nannies, enjoy lower restaurant prices as all the back end is illegal labor as is delivery.
Any party wishing to win needs to address the importation of millions and the low wages of the bottom half of Americans.
How in the world could you want the Republicans to lose in the mid-terms... Democrats are nothing but Radical Liberals who are the most corrupt people on the planet. Look at the millions of dollars they steal from our taxes, and repurpose through supposed charities etc. that ends up in their personal pockets. I speak from my wallet, the economy, affordability and financial stability is so much more stable under Trump. If you don't love Trump's policies then I don't understand what is wrong with you! Do I love it all, no but we are so much better off under Trump. Democrats scare the hell out of me, just look at the open borders, all the illegal actions flying illegals to various cities and then spending billions of our tax dollars putting them in hotels and kicking Veterans out of those same hotels. If you believe we should have open borders, then why don't you move to Venezuela and get a taste of Socialism. You and most Democrats are clueless!
Well, it would be hard to call me a Democrat given what I’ve been writing about. I’m making the case that both parties are dominated by billionaires and the interests of the super-rich. I’m arguing for a new party that supports the interests of working people. I hope you’ll take a look at my new book when it comes out in a few months.