Thanksgiving Ramble
It’s been 58 years, today, since our president was gunned down in Dallas, Texas. If you don’t know the truth about why that happened then you have no context to properly understand what’s happening now in regards to the unravelling of our democracy.
That’s why it’s so ironic to see the misguided patriots supporting the anti-democratic movements. They've got it backwards. And the liberals, sworn to protect and defend our democracy, can’t fail the public fast enough, for personal gain. They will remain optimistic as they surrender our government to the globalized corporate monster. If you don’t see the self-serving sabotage by now you are either corrupt or confused.
The forum is open for counterpoint.
I work way too hard to be able to counterpoint the corporate narrative as often as I’d like. Funny how the system works that way. The left doesn’t have a voice because they don’t have time. It’s another example of the fraudulent nature of our democracy. Time allowing I will do a deeper dive on it all but for now, it’s the anniversary of the JFK assassination so I’m compelled to an official observance of my own.
It’s absolutely astounding to me, to see the Biden policy failures. I expected that most of his legislation would fail but not everything else. The president goes to the climate summit and pledges to do the right thing and then rolls over for the oil companies, who will spill and kill in the gulf and further pollute the ozone. It's bizarro. He warns about dangers to our democracy yet supports the filibuster that betrays majority rule. He’s selling weapons to those killing children and he’s still putting kids in cages, they say, just like his predecessor. But now they get half a million each, supposedly, because we violated their rights, as democrats. That’s sounds like a scam to me, hidden in a lie. Seems they’d be lining up to be locked up for that kind of money. But who knows what to believe? They’re probably writing checks to ghosts, or something like that.
This is a post truth society now, full of illogical motives and contradictory conventional wisdoms. It’s hard to believe the dumbness that prevails. Being educated about our own horrifying history is now demonized as being woke, by those who supposedly predict the coming of the great awakening, which will save their righteous denials from the truth.
The truth. Not their truth.
The corporate narrative is unbelievable on both sides of the hyper-partisan divide. The government is divided and can't define the truth. Trust in government is low and for good reason, which puts information distribution into the hands of contradictory motives. By conventional political wisdom, there's a left side and a right side. You can choose one or the other but both sides are usually wrong on the things that matter most, which proves them united in their quest, which is primarily private profit. Which causes a lot of problems for a lot of people.
I would contend our current political situation is the direct result of our president being assassinated back then, followed by the dereliction of justice. The cover-up continues to this day. The lack of justice then has grown into the lack of justice now. The continuity of the establishment since the assassination of JFK is self-evident. What is normal today could have been prevented if the conspiracy was prosecuted properly by our government, back then. They could have prevented back then, the corruption we have now.
From Nixon to Trump, the establishment agenda has been clear and consistent. And even now, under a Biden admin, they control the government for economic extraction. They profit from the infinite leverage derived by betraying the full faith and credit of taxpayers. The democrats are in league with the same plan or they would do the right thing. They would fix the problem, which is themselves. They are an inadequate opposition, philosophically, to the authoritarian threat we face, despite being demonized as being radically that.
What’s wrong is that Biden thinks being more like a republican is the right thing to do. That's backwards. It’s like trying to fix election fraud with voter suppression. It is totally illogical and inexcusable yet normal and acceptable nowadays. It is an intentional surrendor pretending to be an opposition strategy.
The republicans have moved to looney tune town. They are salivating like a cartoon wolf, waiting to return as unmasked authoritarians with license for maximum extraction. That leaves the democrats as the only sane party left for the establishment to support. So now the sane republicans can be democrats and those getting scammed are left without much representation at all, unless you include the optimistic but failing cheerleaders, being demonized for advocating welfare bandaids.
They love the free money. Everybody loves the free money. From left to right, nobody in the government will question the extraction scam as being abnormal or unethical or in need of correction. The emergency powers to create money as necessary is cool, by you, they say. That’s how it’s done. Here, have some money. The idea sells itself.
Aggressive counterfeiting causes inflation. The news pundits all ignore the money printing and blame inflation on anything but the scam.
The alternative that is never considered by our government, to reduce the inflation, would be to tax massive profits properly and pay down debt. But no, they’ll continue to tax the unborn because they don’t want to tax themselves, or you. It’s not that you, or they, need more money, it’s just that they need to protect and defend the scam, so investors get more money, from now on.
The disposable income from decades of corruption flows into crypto investments for laundering and comes out clean, as capital gains, for corporate lizards. The king lizard reigns supreme. He controls the fake money machine that makes it all possible. Joe Biden bowed to the king today, apparently, keeping him on to manage the never-ending financial crisis with his emergency powers. Despite our recent economic instability from his inflationary policies, the lizard king was chosen by the president because he relies on the continued stability of our economy.
It’s a kind of a bizarro-world here, where people just lie and that’s okay, to rationalize their logic, even if it's untrue. It’s normal now. Maybe it’s always been this way. I don’t know, probably. But saying things like "I want economic stability" as prices are shooting up faster than crypto-coins, because of your nominee, is just lunacy. The president’s comment is an admission that inflation is the intention. It’s steady as she goes, for the institutionalized economic extraction scam.
I just have to throw-in here also, that Biden said that he had to pull out of Afghanistan now, quickly, or face more conflict with the Taliban during the fighting season. The commander of the largest military in the world is not going to dictate to the Taliban the terms, any terms, all terms. Especially the terms of departure. Who’s in charge here?
It reminds me of when I read the news that American warships turned tail because of the hooligans on the docks in Haiti. So the coup against Aristide would stand. Just another footnote of intentional failure.
I’ll get back to JFK asap. I saw on the news today Qanon was in Dallas holding up signs. It happens every year but now it’s a Q-thing, they say, so it’s big news. It’s another reason to remind you that a bunch of crazy people believe outrageous conspiracy theories.
Don’t be crazy, says the crazy man.
I will say some of my best friends are Qanon supporters. I’ve known them for decades and they never once expressed any interest in the JFK assassination or conspiracies of any kind. None of them did and they still don’t now. They have always saluted the status quo in allegiance to the system despite the contradictions of logic inherent in the system. Which means that Q is a corporate conspiracy to demonize conspiracy, comercially, by associating professionally paid crazy people with conspiracy "theories".
Q is the corporate demonization of conspiracy. There’s no link between Q and any concern for the truth, wether it be JFK, democracy, or Trump. Or even the constitution for that matter. The only thing worse than misinterpreting the constitution is to go out and defend your misinterpretations with guns. Read it again. You are misinterpreting the intention of the constitution.
Rittenhouse, the kid who killed the protestors last summer, walked yesterday. He walked citing self-defense, despite being a minor with an assault weapon looking for a problem to solve. This is the normalization of violence against protestors. And it’s a perfect example of the corrupting influence of money in our justice system.
Make no mistake, the billionaires are on the offense against democracy. Supporting violence with money is a guarantee we’ll see more violence. Legal fees should be divided equally between the prosecution and defense, before trial, regardless of where it comes from, but that’s a topic for another time.
I’ll get back to all this, time allowing, for more editing. For now I’ll post an unedited rant I’ve been writing about inflation, voting, and the political spectrum, and of course, the filibuster. Proceed at your own risk. There's redundancy warnings ahead.
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Deconstructing conventional wisdom
The dems passed their build back better bill but it will be irrelevant unless the senate passes it as well. If Biden’s BBB social infrastructure bill passes the senate it will include more establishment welfare than it will include care for the taxpaying public.
The markets are at all time highs and investors are drowning in scammed profits. Printing money and excessive profit-taking from speculation are primary causes of inflation.
Without the taxpayer injections into the lizard economy, and cost of living increases, the corporate monopolies could not raise their prices.
The inflation scam would end.
When the lizard elite trickle that much funny money down to the masses, like they’ve been doing for years, prices are going to go up. It’s that simple. But, nobody seems to see it that way, because anybody who looks is likely profiting from the scam.
That’s how the “system” “works”.
The “Growth” of Wall Street dollars is made possible by devaluing Main Street dollars. That is inflation by design. That’s why prices are increasing. It’s intentional. Inflation would be corrected with taxes if the government was representative, but it's not.
The government favors investors and rewards them unfairly, compared to those that work for money.
To increase inequality by design, Investors are given excessive and disposable income, using taxpayer money. "New" money increases wealth for corporations and investors, by devaluing everybody else's money. Yet everybody is blaming the rapidly rising prices on our dysfunctional supply chains.
Which is absurd.
When the working poor get more money, they pay down their debts. That doesn’t cause inflation. When the lizard elite hoard money offshore, that doesn’t cause inflation, because it’s not really in the economy used by the public. But when corporate lizards are flooded with unethical and unearned Wall Street dollars, as has been happening now for decades, that causes inflation.
They just can’t seem to connect their over-leveraged corporate profit dots, apparently. Nobody seems to notice the practice of extraction through inflation is an intentional scam by policy design. The scam increases inequality instead of reducing it, that alone should be enough to understand it’s a scam.
Inflation is a scam.
Our dysfunctional supply chains are a convenient scapegoat for the scam. The supply sabotage is a diversion strategy, by those that profit from the scam.
To claim our supply chains are failing is also an admission that the global economy is also a scam, by design. We couldn’t have foreseen the pandemic, they say, even though they must know by now it’s never going away.
They will not abandon the scam.
The economic solution is domestic production. It’s a simple, even default, idea that you would have to be a scammer to deviate from it. Yet that’s what they did. The global scam is an economy designed by scammers.
Inflation is an extraction scam. It’s not because money is borrowed at low interest or because global corporations have monopolies that create too much profit. It’s because the system steals money from the future and launders it through the markets to reward investors today.
Investors monopolize economic growth.
Prices and “wealth" rise in tandem. The uninvested people are deprived of economic growth. If they don’t get a cost of living increase they become more poor comparatively, to the invested. That's inflation.
Main Street dollars are devalued by saturating the economy with Wall Street dollars. That makes the money from working worth less, because investors now have so much more of those dollars, borrowed from the future, by policy.
Giant monopolies can conspire to raise prices and get away with it, because enough consumers have more money. The establishment is compensated for the increased cost of living while Main Street gets the squeeze. That’s the scam.
Inflation is a tactic of economic warfare by the establishment, against the public.
The “system" increases inequality with public policy. That is the opposite result and intention of an honest democracy, which proves the system is “rigged” to benefit some at the expense of others. Which is exactly backwards of the way it is being reported.
There’s clearly a lot of confusion in the media-sphere and beyond when it comes to understanding what is really going on in our country. Despite the corporate fog of contradictory opinion at least one thing is becoming more clear to me.
Everybody is either corrupt or confused, or both.
Our post-truth paradigm requires partisan conflict. Each side can blame the other now, for how things are, and accuse each other of lying and trying to hide their bad intentions from the public. Their partisan divisions make political solutions impossible.
Party politics prevent political solutions.
The official narrative itself, as hosted by the corporate media, is a distraction from political solutions. Allow me to correct some of the nonsensical contradictions that are embedded into their story. It is a narrative most people supposedly accept, as presented by the corporate news, as seen between their commercials.
Corporate conventional wisdom is a fraud. The professional “left” rolls over for the right, consistently. Wether it’s those we elect or those who are paid to report what they do. The collusion against the political left by the professional left, for money, is undeniable.
Independent News
Time allowing I will put some youtube independent news pundits in my forum. There’s an industry of independent opinions finding market share as the faith in our mainstream truth slowly dies.
Independent news channels are now challenging the establishment news. There’s a diverse blend of pundits on the internet arguing about what is true and why it matters.
I will post some favorites soon and opine.
Professionals constrain our political spectrum. They have effectively abandoned the public majority. The professional constraint is a deceptive and exclusionary tactic that rejects democratic reforms, and rejects their mandated mission to promote the general welfare.
Who are all these people electing anti-democratic authoritarians? I suspect it’s election fraud because it’s the only thing that makes any sense. When so many people vote against their own well-being for so long the problem must be propaganda, or election fraud. What else could it be?
Left versus Right
Let’s breakdown the reality of the political spectrum. The right is always in power. The left is a reaction to the injustice of the right. The left has never led anything except protests against the right.
The left is a protest vote to the way things are. The way things are is always controlled by the “right’. If somehow “the left” was able to control and enforce the law, they would no longer be the left. They would become the right. The “right” is the status-quo.
Joe Biden is the status quo. He is the “right,” wether he likes it or not and despite what you might think. Your position on the spectrum is a mathematical fact based on your wealth. To argue Biden is a leftist is a propaganda tactic by the establishment to prevent the “left” from achieving more representation. The “left” threatens the economic supremacy and social privileges of the “right”, and their left-wing advocates, so the debate, like the spectrum, is constrained to exclude the “left”.
There is no “left” in the establishment. There might be left-wing advocates and sympathizers, but economically they are not the “left". They help negotiate acceptable expectations of the “left” and enjoy the privileges of the “right”. They sympathize for the lack of representation the establishment provides the left but are unable to create a coalition to help them, apparently.
The political spectrum needs to be recognized as an economic spectrum. The poorest are on the left and the richest are on the right. Your wealth defines your position on the spectrum for you, despite what you might think, say, or even do.
Representatives should be apportioned accordingly.
It’s easy to advocate for the left while enjoying the economic privileges of the “right”. Despite your partisan affiliations your money defines your position on the spectrum.
It’s very difficult to criticize the left from further left because the establishment has defined those opinions and expectations as being extremely radical, when they’re not.
Left wing expectations are a reaction to right wing injustice.
Top of the list of left-wing remedy would be called the great correction, where the grand scam is retired and our economy becomes legitimized for the future, with ethical balance.
The amount of our public debt justifies the expectations of the “left” yet they remain forsaken. The establishment constrains the political spectrum to prevent any discussion that could educate the public as to the potential of their political fulfillment.
Even now you can’t imagine it.
It’s all backwards.
Despite Biden actually being on the political “right” he is characterized on the news as leading the “left”. The lizard lemmings parrot that lie as a political strategy and eventually the erroneous analysis becomes conventional wisdom. If you repeat the lie enough, despite its implausibility, it eventually is accepted as true, they say, when it’s not. They can only say that because nobody can do anything about it anyway. So that’s a lie.
If President Joe is the “left-wing" socialist that the right-wing claim him to be, logic would dictate that those who are further to the “left” of him, are radically extreme leftists. Which is the same lie compounded to cartoonish absurdity. Aside from constraining the spectrum, the tactic is an attempt to validate an ideology of meritocracy that allows the right to rationalize their supremacy.
It seems to be working.
Of course we can afford to build bridges, and subsidize seniors who need dental care and glasses. As if that’s a radical idea. The “right" are awash in false profits and together with the democrats they deprive “the left” of their representation.
That’s not a democracy. That’s a betrayal. The democrats are not the left and the republicans are not the right. That logic is a distraction from political solutions and democratic reforms.
The so-called “right" represent the way things are, they are the status quo, regardless of what “party” has a majority. The “right” are always in control of public policy. The "left" becomes the “right” when they control public policy. So, the right is always in control of public policy and the left never is.
The government is the “right”.
The “right” knows they need to build bridges and fix roads. Investors will profit from the growth. The right will ignore subsidizing public health, advocated by the left. But the right will profit from “stimulus extraction”, so the bill passed. They want the public’s money and they will get it. They always do.
The left versus the right is a money fight.
The political spectrum is defined by wealth, not belief. Your ideology is irrelevant to your representation. Those on the right are protesting against equality. The right are afraid that “the left" will become comparatively more equal, economically, diminishing their privileges and threatening their supremacy. The democrats pay lip service to the left, while serving themselves, and the right.
The reason for democracy is to prevent violence between the left and the right by negotiating economic compromises into law, and enforcing them for ethical balance and the common good.
Voting Rights
Our dilapidated democracy is under attack like never before. Any hope for an honest democracy will be gone without an updated electoral system, which ain’t happening.
Increasing inequality and conflict is intentional.
The “right" will no longer need to negotiate with the left because they won’t have to. The right will dominate the left forevermore. The “right" will never lose because they prosper from the conflict.
To best understand the scam plaguing our society, first consider that our “rulers”, abandoned conventional savings accounts long ago. Interest rates for saving money are lower than inflation rates, so you will lose money saving it in a bank. The smart money must invest in the scam. And we like our money smart, so it goes to the scammers.
Market profiteering from public debt.
The result is your savings became their profits. Same with your investments now. The government is forced to reimburse the scam with public debt. And you proclaim that they are socialist because your lizard overlords do, despite all of you being the beneficiaries of the extraction scam, while calling the down-trodden, communists.
The lizards have burdened the public with debt and now demonize them as a socialist threat.
Democracy manages the distribution of wealth.
It’s good to see the struggle for our democracy is being reported a bit more seriously now. It’s a nonstop top-story on all of our favorite corporate news channels. The bad news is that it deserves to be. It needed to be top story decades ago, but wasn't. Our democracy has always been in trouble and by now, the resistance efforts are too little too late, if not outright insincere.
The monster unmasks slowly, ever so slowly, to not cause a fuss. But the fuss is coming. The resistance pundits mostly agree and do their best to shame the opposition, which are those who are killing our democratic potential and preventing a peaceful succession to a more representative government.
They are the monster. They are shameless. They oppose democracy. They must be stopped, by democracy.
The Big Lie
It is a mind bending spectacle of deception to watch the news parade the liars from previous administrations out to testify about how bad the “Big Lie” is now, for democracy. It’s crazy because this is a continuation of what they themselves used to do. It’s an attempt to whitewash their own history and complicity in the big anti-democratic agenda that has grown now into an institutional monster, merely managed by a fresh litter of the lizard elite.
Old republicans pretend that the new republicans are becoming crazy puppets of authoritarian intent. They try to make you think that they weren’t that before, but they were. The truth is that is exactly what they have always been. The republicans are a coalition of corrupted liars and confused patriots. They have practiced supremacy disguised as an ideology for as long as I can remember.
Every republican administration has had their big lies, and to be fair, so have the democrats. Together, as the government, they have always lied to the public. The new big lie is the same as the old lie. It’s just becoming more institutionalized now because it is undeniable and it’s getting harder to hide it. They know they can’t continue to hide the truth, so they will normalize the lie.
The truth is they don’t like democracy.
The big lie is an attempt to disassociate the old liars from the new ones so they don’t look like an institution of liars, but that’s what they are. That’s what our government is.
Defending the conflict based economy with lies is a prosperous profession. Serving the public has been legislated to motivate corruption. So that’s what happens. With little exception public servants become corrupt by design and betray our democracy and the constitution for personal profit.
We can fix that.
When government servants pay fines for crimes without punishing the people responsible for those crimes, it is the government sanctioning that criminal activity, punishing the public for the crime, instead of the criminals. If the crime is paid for with public money, the government becomes the criminal.
When an institution pays for the crimes of its unpunished members it is the institution itself that becomes the criminal, indicted or not. In reality the criminals conspire with the government to punish institutions instead of themselves, allowing them to break the law without consequence by deflecting the punishment they deserve on to their institutions.
The Big Lie
The truth is the big lie is a continuation of all the old lies. The big lie is the same old and ongoing lie, which is that those who occupy the government support our democracy, when they don’t. That is the root lie on a big tree full of big lies.
The big lie is that the government supports democracy. It favors the establishment over the public and it always has. The truth is the big lie is a conspiracy to justify, against all logic, voter suppression tactics, to favor themselves, the “right”.
The corporate narrative is illogical at best. It’s an ongoing lie. The financial- supremacists have declared election fraud now and the only way to fix it, they say, is with voter suppression. Their motive is beyond implausible.
They are all lying.
The big lie is a bunch of scripted and contrived nonsense. Both sides can proclaim fraud against the other now and refuse to concede lost elections. Rather than fix the problem with a modern electoral system that works, as previously described, the government will use the big lie as an excuse to entrench themselves further into their own corruption.
Supposedly the majority of eligible voters in our democracy are for them, and voter suppression. Not likely.
Ya can’t trust um.
As their story goes now, Somehow, an executive cabinet member in the justice department can decide if congress has the authority to subpoena a witness and compel them to testify, or not? That’s ridiculous.
Let’s ask a cabinet member chosen by the president to decide the extent of congressional authority. You must be kidding me. I have to conclude you are all either corrupt or confused because that is blatantly unconstitutional.
It’s a bit like the senate hiring a parliamentarian to validate their illegal rules. It’s a violation of law on both counts, and by any honest interpretation of the law, would be corrected.
Those important legal misinterpretations are indications that the government has become a servant of the monster. They govern against the public interest and the common good, to profit investors.
The Justice Dept. is Political
"Congress may as well pack up and go home." Adam Schiff
AG Garland heads the same organization that missed the January 6th attack. That was the premeditated attack against our democracy. Apparently the FBI was too busy auctioning off confiscated crypto and negotiating with the cyber-criminals to see it coming. I wouldn’t expect much cooperation from the justice department, nor should the insurrection commission.
No crimes here, move along people.
We’ll get back to the insurrection, but for now I’ll just mention we still have increasing divisions in our economy and our representation. The markets are at all time highs and the public is massively in debt,
The government has decided the public can’t afford to subsidize seniors. If you can’t afford dental insurance and eye-glasses that’s too bad. You must live with the resulting headaches because you lack representation.
At the same time the corrupt are all carving out their slush funds, which they will invest for unrealistic growth, ultimately paid for by the extraction scams waged against the non-invested working poor and those burdened with the ongoing headaches from poor vision and tooth decay.
Inflation
Inflation is extraction. Inflation allows the establishment to reconcile their excessive profits by devaluing the currency.
Imagine every dollar you spend, from now on, will have about a quarter of it stolen by a public policy that profits investors. Inflation takes money from those who work and transfers it to those who invest.
Investor profits cause inflation. That is the intentional result of the trickle down supply side scam. Profits are made and reconciled by devaluing everybody else's money. The lizard elite trickle down 'cost of living' increases to the overcompensated corporate lemming class which makes them immune to the scam, while everybody else suffers the consequences of earning and spending devalued dollars in a rigged economy.
And then they raise the prices.
Inflation is out of control, as expected. Prices are sky-rocketing for the public and their dollar is losing buying power. The price fixing is forcing everybody to raise their prices which is causing markets to hit all time highs while the government tries to justify their frugal fraud that deprives the public of what they need.
What a scam. The prices are rising for the public who now must pay more, with their devalued dollars, for goods and services, to corporations that are subsidized by public policy. It’s a double whammy for the working poor by our corporate government
Supply Chains
We’ve got supply chain problems, they say, and inflation is increasing fast, which causes prices to go higher for your devalued dollar. Which hurts the working poor much more disproportionately compared to investors. The lizard elite who became rich because of global finance profit the most.
These shortages demonstrate how ridiculous our policies are. As if there’s a blockage at the ports and we can’t find truckers. This type of pathetic dysfunction should be seen as intentional. If it’s not intentional it is negligent mismanagement and the result is the same. It is totally intolerable governance and in need of immediate correction.
If the trucking companies and the ports paid people appropriately, and I suspect they do, there would be no shortage of workers. That’s why I have to conclude the supply shortages are intentional and partisan hackery by collusion and mismanagement.
My shop has been waiting for moulded wood for over a month. First time ever any inventory has been delayed. Apparently we don’t have wood in the United States. We have to wait for it to be unloaded at the port, I hear. Are you kidding me?
It’s a horrible system. Global trade is the problem. Investing in globalism is worse. Official supply chain policy is exactly backwards, as usual, for the public. The global investor scam maximizes profits for some by exploiting others. The practice should be ended wherever possible, asap.
The supply chain problem is a corporate conspiracy against Joe Biden and the pseudo-liberal democrats, to sabotage the economy, as a political strategy, seems to me, to make it look like the so-called “left” is helplessly incompetent.
I’d say they are failing intentionally.
The economy was manipulated that way against Jimmy Carter as well, in a similar fashion back in the seventies. The oil companies bought enough political influence here to reverse President Carter’s campaign against foreign oil, and the rest is history. So the political tactic is not without precedence.
Inflation and dysfunction are political weapons.
The national demise has begun. It is being accepted and normalized by design. The public abandonment is becoming undeniable. The social problems from our public policies are getting worse, with no corrections in sight.
President Biden took some questions at a town hall and answered honestly and sincerely. Unfortunately, if one can parse reason and logic, it’s clear he inadvertently exposed his illogical analysis to remedy our anti-democratic predicament, the predicament he so adequately describes.
The president explains our democracy is in danger by those who should pay their fair share, while at the same time refusing to condemn those in his own party who are obstructing corrective legislation and Joe's campaign "beliefs". It reeks of intentional failure.
The democrats must purge their party of opposition, imo. Unfortunately, that would probably include the president. The partisan division is way to polarized to pretend that inter-party dissension can be tolerated. Voting against the public is clearly corrupted behavior that defines the opposition party for what they are. They are the opposition.
The Filibuster
Anybody against majority vote must be purged from the Democratic Party. Period. The filibuster advocates must be completely purged from the party if the party cares about credibility at all, moving forward. I’m skeptical they do, but that can change with some persuading.
I don’t want to keep beating the filibuster horse but it’s just that important. It can’t be forgotten that the For the People voting rights bill died in the senate because the VP didn’t break the tie. The bill was defeated by a tie vote where the tie-breaking vote was an abstention. Apparently The VP thought her vote didn’t matter because a sixty vote threshold is now required to proceed to debate. Because the super-vote threshold is illegal, if VP had voted for the bill, the president could have signed it into law and the high court would have been forced to rule on the question of majority vote, or majority vote would now be the law of the land. None of that happened. Think about it.
The filibuster could have been ended.
Biden could have called the majority vote a victory for the voting rights bill, if the VP had voted. The vote count on cloture to proceed could have been used to claim that the legislation had passed, forcing the filibuster into the high court to overrule the president.
It’s reported there must be a rule change to fix the filibuster but there was no rule change to break it. So that’s a lie. It’s just a sixty vote threshold now, to kill legislation with majority support to protect incumbents and “investors”. The legality of the filibuster was established by “tradition”, like slavery was, for economic reasons.
The media remains negligent.
If they wanted to, the VP or the majority leader could fire the parliamentarian and hire someone to interpret the rules honestly. The filibuster would no longer require a supermajority to proceed because the senate rule that prevents majority vote is out of order and would be corrected with an honest ruling.
Corrupt or Confused
Abolish the filibuster and be done with it. Stop pretending that the republicans will take advantage of it when they become the majority, because they always do, despite you and your bipartisan dreams of cooperation.
The idea that republicans will become a majority again is the question to be considered. How much electoral fraud does it take for a poor state to reelect the same old fascist wannabes? With credibility? Probably a lot. A lot of fraud.
Our intentionally inadequate electoral infrastructure is the reason we have politicians hellbent on ending our democracy in the first place. At the same time the media is reporting that questioning our elections is pro Trump, so by default those who question our elections support Trump. Which is absurd. Those who believe Trump's big lie don't care about democracy and shouldn’t be used as justification to deny the necessary democratic upgrades we need to save our democracy from the corrupt.
Democracy and corruption are incompatible. Corruption is an irrefutable betrayal of the public trust. If the government is going to vote against voting rights then they are an adversary to democracy and an obstruction to representative government and therefore, for all intents and purposes they are collectively corrupt, and in violation of their legally mandated purpose of protecting constitutional intent.
The lines are clearly defined, to me, and both parties are against the public. As if we can’t afford anything but more corruption. Despite investors with record profits and stock markets at their all time highs, somehow we can’t come up with the money to pay for dental and vision care for seniors. At the same time we fund the culture of excessive corporate profits derived from the mismanagement of 130 trillion dollars of now unreconcilable public debt.
I’m guessing those who could, stole the public’s money with corrupt extraction scams and is laundering it now through crypto market Ponzi schemes. Some people are becoming filthy rich and at the same time hard working taxpayers can’t afford daycare so they can go to work. The purpose of government is to correct that kind of thing, but they don’t. The path to political solutions for the public has been corrupted by the government. Let’s fix it.
Political Solutions: Apportionment.
Imagine if congressional apportionment was determined by income tax brackets. Representatives would be elected from a federal tax-bracket to represent those in that tax bracket, instead of districts. If those elected from the lower incomes ran for another term, as an incumbent, they would be running against the higher tax bracket because as reps, they make more money. The result would be that incumbency would be nearly impossible, because incumbents would all be in the same higher tax bracket, that is less populated, forcing incumbents to compete against each other for fewer available seats.
Tax bracket apportionment could motivate representatives to legislate a better economic balance for the public.
Representatives would be forced to run against each other because after being elected, they’re now all in the same tax bracket. They would run against each other which would make way for the new reps from the lower tax brackets, which would be more populated and therefore apportioned a greater percentage of available seats. Then just add enough reps as allowed in the constitution and declare them non-partisan and required to serve electronically from their home states.
Done, the rest will follow.
Tax bracket apportionment would revolutionize the house of representatives. So could so-called block-chain technology. All government deliberations should be permanently documented and searchable, for the record. We need to invest in a citizen’s network for reasons which should be self-evident to any honest and ethical democracy advocate. The future is digital. Democracy must be digital, now.
We need the citizen's network.