A Voice in the Wilderness

 

A Voice in the Wilderness 

The Media    

  Truth be told; it would be easier for Democrats to get their message across if the media (all media), talked about what is truly at stake during this 2024 Election Cycle instead of making it the conversation about Donald Trump all day every day. It's sad that the American people are not directed to or told by the media what Bills in the house are up for discussion or a vote; who is bringing legislation and who is not; what is policy and what is theartre because the media don't report that; they expect you to go to whitehouse.gov to get direct information or say that the "left" or Biden has a messaging problem when in fact they are supposed to be the messenger. You can't be the messenger when you do soft pushback on crazy political candidates because they are afarid that if they push too hard, they won't come back to another interview or are they afraid of MAGA.   

    News is no longer information as to what is going on and investigative reporting but has become agenda based information made to be biased propaganda for political ideology and the footstool of it's billionaoir corporate owners.   

The Republicans 

        The Two Party System in America after being two heads of the same coin for so long is now dead and the Republican Party is no longer a political party but a cult that is controlled by one driving force and that is White Nationalism with Donald Trump as it's master. Those who have left the party being a true Patriot is a Conservitive and they need to band together with Conservitive Democrats and creat the New Conservitive Party. 

    In what reality prior to Donald Trump would Chris Christie not be the frontrunner against Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy? In what what reality prior to Donald Trump that any American would beleive that the Department of Justice is being "Weaponized"? J. Edgar Hoover is rolling in his grave. 

The Democrats

    As I have stated before the two party system in America after being two heads of the same coin for so long is now dead and the Democratic Party is also at a crossroad whereas the old guard who consider themselves moderate, conservitive, and liberal needs to yield to Progressivism or join the conservitives who have left the republican party and build a viable third party being The Conservitive Party.

    Progressivism  as we go deeper into the 21st century, advocates policies that are generally considered social democratic and part of the American Left. Whereas the Republican Party or "MAGA", has expressed it's Progressivism with far-right-wing politics, such as Nationalism. White Supremacy and progressive conservatism.

The Candidates

     The candidates who consdier themseves Republicans but are really the acolytes of MAGA, lead by Donald Trump, have adopted and accepted the Roy Cohn philosophy in our American political election process. The more unscrupulous the candidates become, the more their popularity to the MAGA party grows. they are the quintessential hypocrites whereas policy is largely disinterested in specifics and relying less on preparation and more on belligerence and attacks on the media, perceived political enemies, an attempt at owning the left, while using social media and political surrogates that spin the tuth and realility into alternative facts that the uneducated beleives and the rich and educated capitalize on to hold on to power.

    The leading candidate, Trump, is the epitome of the Roy Cohn philosphy,  “Trump,” the late Wayne Barrett wrote in 1979, “is a user of other users”. So, for the first time in American history, what would have been a republican primary, has instead become an audition for  Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy to become the frontrunner's running mate. What these un-serious people fail to understand is that when he is done using them they become as disposable as tissue or Mike Pence. Meanwhile, America has a House of two Republicans; one (the old guard), that will do anything and everything to hold on to power thus throwing our democracy, it's vaules to the wind out of fear and greed and the other one are the quintessential MAGA Progressive hypocrites who never read the Consititution outside of the 1st and 2nd Amendment and are willing to burn our country to ash for their percived grievances whereas they look to Donald Trump to be their retribution in the returing of America to the live action version of Ozzie and Harret or Father knows Best.

    Meanwhile, the Democatic Party is a family of dysfunction so much so that they are more worried that a woman could become president via defult, than saving our democracy as they make the sane person currently occupying the Oval Office, too old as the reason to create third party candidates and a "No Lables"  farce that will ensure that Donald Trump will return to the White House. I cannot emphasize enough that the old guard who consider themselves moderates, conservitives, and moderate liberals needs to yield to Progressivism or join the conservitives who have left the republican party and build a viable third party being The Conservitive Party because the popular vote can be voided through the process of the electorial college.

A Solution 

    I am of the same mindset as Malcolm Nance, intelligence expert who says "Trump has gone from being an unwitting asset of Russia to a willing asset deliberately undermining NATO, the European Union, and even his own country".  Nance says "Donald Trump has betrayed his oath to uphold the Constitution and is the closest thing America's seen to another Benedict Arnold". This is evedent though the charges leveled against him totalling 91 felony counts, charged with an array of crimes: 1. trying to subvert democracy, 2. risking national security secrets and 3. falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to a porn actress in order to become president. It is eveident that Donald Trump as well as  Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are a clear and present danger to our democracy and the only solution is to ensure that these people are not allowed access to the White House. The clear solution is to vote for Joe Biden and spend the next four years rebuilding a three party system that pushes MAGA out of the American political intellect. 

~American Politics 2023-24 ~ Facts, History, Media and Opinion

 

~American Politics 2023-24 ~ 

Facts, History, Media and Opinion

First Let's Deal with Facts

     On December 17, 2023 while sparking new backlash from critics that his anti-immigrant sentiment echoes Adolf Hitler.

"They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done," Trump said Saturday in Durham, New Hampshire. "They're coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, over the world. They're pouring into our country."

    The former president, again, praised authoritarian leaders including Hungary's Viktor Orban, China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un -- and called President Joe Biden a "threat to democracy," reversing a frequent attack of Biden on him. Trump went on to quote Russia's president when calling the criminal cases pending against him "politically motivated." Prosecutors have rejected that accusation and defended their work. see (ABC NEWS report by Lalee Ibssa , Soo Rin Kim, Libby Cathey, and Gabriella Abdul-Hakim December 18, 2023, 4:54 am).

     When Senator Lendsy Graham was asked about the language that the current front runner on Meet the Press his response was "I could care less about what language people use as long as we get it right". 

 When Dealing with History let's Deal with History

    When we revisit history we could go back to the 1800 and early 1900s on the ideology of fascism and racism in America and around the world. However, lets just look at history from early March.-1933 as Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and ultimately Führer of Germany on August 2, 1934.  It was Hitler who wrote in his book "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning". Throughout the book, Jews are equated with "germs'' and presented as the "international poisoners" of society. According to Hitler's ideology, the only solution was their extermination. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.

    During the time of Hitler's rise to power, there was a sense of apathy and ignorance by those who ignored the words that were coming from a mad man. Hitler continued to face some opposition within the Nazi Party. Opponents of Hitler in the leadership had Hermann Esser expelled from the party, and they printed 3,000 copies of a pamphlet attacking Hitler as a traitor to the party. In the following days, Hitler spoke to several large audiences and defended himself and Esser, to thunderous applause. His strategy proved successful, and at a special party congress he was granted absolute power as party chairman, succeeding Drexler, by a vote of 533 to 1.

    In the United States in 1932, America was a nation living in fear. A global depression - the worst in history - had thrown millions out of work. Unemployment was approaching 25 percent. Factories were silent. During the 1930s, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in World War I contributed to pushing American public opinion and policy toward isolationism. Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics.

    In an article authored by Lily Rothman fr Time Magazine on October 4, 2028, she points out that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later — and not just because part of that story is the history of the “America First” idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later reborn as a slogan for now-former President Donald Trump.

The Media:

     What is the role of a news reporter? Reporters gather news and information through multiple sources, verify the source for reliability and the information for accuracy, create a report and submit it to an editor or producer. They obtain information from their contacts, through personal interviews, press conferences and from other news agencies. A reporter is a journalist who uses investigation and research to gather the details of a story or event, and deliver the facts to the public through a medium or platform. The topics reporters could research include local and global events and often involve field investigation. The role of a reporter is responsible for delivering updates and analysis on current events with the main goal to keep the public updated. They create stories and breaking news through different channels such as radio, television, online news sites, and printed newspapers and magazines.

The Opinion:

    My mother taught us many truths. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything, never be a follower, be a leader and if you fail to know where you come from, your history, you are doomed to repeat it, when you see injustice speak up against it no matter how unpopular it may be. 

    America is not standing up and we're falling for the biggest con since the rise of Hitler and Benito Mussolini because we are failing to remember where we come from, our history, we are doomed because we are repeating it, Our press, politicians and yes, the American voter are all guilty. 

    In knowing our American history, how can 58% fifty-eight percent of likely Republican caucus voters say they support the former president. That's not a con being perpetrated or a cult, that is standing for something, that is being exactly who their grandparents were in America in 1932 as a nation living in fear. Fear of becoming the new minority, fear of seeing America becoming what it was meant to be in the purest form of our Declaration of Independence, and principle, central claim that “all men are created equal” is becoming a reality for all of its citizens because inherently they believed that those words only applied to white men and not South Americans, Asians, Jewish and African descendants. This fear is a top-down philosophy starting with the 1% of the wealthiest white American men  and women in power carrying down to the 99% percent of poorest white American men and women who carry the same fear and grievance, especially men. You can call it White Nationalism but it translates to 58% fifty-eight percent of likely Republican caucus voters who support Donald Trump, not over looking that if you had Reagan Democrats and Reagan Independent voters it's a safe bet that you also have Democratic and Independent voters who support Doanld Trump and with an Electoral College, third party candidates it's not a given that Joe Biden will win the 2024 election.

    That opinion would explain the need for old white men's need to control women's healthcare decisions, what is taught in schools and what is not; on the redrawing of districts and all the tings that they believe would give them control. That opinion is a better understanding of why like Madison Avenue, the Constitution of the United States only applies when the issues involve money or the money that controls the narrative. As long as there is a buying power within a block of an issue being the law or a particular section of people can usurp the status quo or the law. This is the reason why both the Supreme Court and the American people are willing to ignore  Section 3 of the Civil War-era 14th Amendment saying “No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. So is America now a country that will uphold Democracy or have we become a Cult to Autocrats?

Let's Be Honest about the Republican Party

 Let’s be honest. The Republican Party as we know it is dead. It’s time for conservitives to stop saying they want their party back. It’s done, over and has been brought to its end by the same people who are the decendant’s of the Dixicrates, the Jim Crow era loaylist.

The United States Constitution is silent on the subject of political parties. The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan. In Federalist Papers No. 9 and No. 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively, wrote specifically about the dangers of domestic political factions. In addition, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was not a member of any political party at the time of his election or throughout his tenure as president. Furthermore, he hoped that political parties would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation, as outlined in his Farewell Address. The Founders “did not believe in parties as such, scorned those that they were conscious of as historical models, had a keen terror of party spirit and its evil consequences," but, Richard Hofstadter wrote, "almost as soon as their national government was in operation, [they] found it necessary to establish parties.”

The aftermath

First Party System: 1792–1824

• The network of followers of Alexander Hamilton, the Hamiltonian faction, took up the name "Federalist"; they favored a strong central government that would support the interests of commerce and industry and close ties to Britain.
• The followers of Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians and then the "Anti-Federalists", took up the name "Democratic-Republicans"; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

The Jeffersonians came to power in 1800 and the Federalists were too elitist to compete effectively. The Federalists survived in the Northeast, but their refusal to support the War of 1812 verged on secession and was a devastating blow when the war ended well. The Era of Good Feelings under President James Monroe (1816–1824) marked the end of the First Party System and a brief period in which partisanship was minimal. (Sounds like what we have now).

Second Party System: 1828–1854

By 1828, the Federalists had disappeared as an organization. Jackson's presidency split the Democratic-Republican Party — "Jacksonians" became the Democratic Party; those following the leadership of John Quincy Adams became the "National Republicans", (no connection to the later Republican Party that exists today). After the 1832 election, opponents of Jackson coalesced into the Whig Party. National Republicans, Anti-Masons and others joined the new party led by Henry Clay. The two party political system continued but with two different parties.

The early Democratic Party stood for individual rights and state rights, supported the primacy of the Presidency over the other branches of government, opposed banks (namely the Bank of the United States), high tariffs, as well as modernizing programs that they felt would build up industry at the expense of the farmers. It styled itself as the party of the "common man". Presidents Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk, were all Democrats who defeated Whig candidates, but by narrow margins.

The Whigs, on the other hand, advocated the supremacy of Congress over the executive branch as well as policies of modernization and economic protectionism. Central political battles of this era were the Bank War and the Spoils system of federal patronage.

Jackson introduced the practice of "hosting barbecues and cultivating a national network of affiliates" and with his campaigns began the tradition of not just voting for a Democrat but identifying as a Democrat. "Parties were becoming a fixture not just in America’s politics but also in its social life."

In the 1850s, the issue of slavery took center stage, with disagreement in particular over the question of whether slavery should be permitted in the country's new territories in the West. The Whig Party attempted to straddle the issue with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, where the status of slavery would be decided based on "popular sovereignty", (i.e. the citizens of each territory, rather than Congress, would determine whether slavery would be allowed). Whigs sank to their death after the overwhelming electoral defeat by Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election. Ex-Whigs joined the Know Nothings or the newly formed anti-slavery Republican Party. While the Know Nothing party was short-lived, Republicans would survive the intense politics leading up to the Civil War. The primary Republican policy was that slavery be excluded from all the territories. Just six years later, this new party captured the presidency when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860, the election that established the Democratic and Republican parties as the major parties of America.

Fast forward to five (5) party systems later and we have now entered the

Seventh Party System (2016–Present)

While not everyone will agrees that a seventh party system has begun and it’s the MAGA Party or The Donald Trump Party.

In the Republican Party, "Reagan Revolution" rhetoric and policy has been replaced by new themes. Not only has conservative blue collar workers migrated to what used to be the Republican Party, but a business class that had been part of the Republican Party since the post-Civil War Gilded Age began moving left as well as the post Civil War Christian Nationanlist, White Supremist and White Nationalist. "Today’s MAGA is most clearly now the party of local capitalism—the small-business gentry, the family firms", while "much of corporate America has swung culturally into liberalism’s camp. ... the party’s base regards corporate institutions—especially in Silicon Valley, but extending to more traditional capitalist powers—as cultural enemies". There is more emphasis on cultural/attitudinal conservatism (opposition not just to abortion but to gay marriage, transgender rights limited education and freedom of expression; support for free trade and liberal immigration was replaced by opposition to economic globalization and immigration from non-European countries to empower voting and the limitation of minorities abaility to vote or voter restreictions. Distrust of institutions (refusal to accept the results of 2020 presidential election) and loyalty for Donald Trump even after he had lost his second run for election in 2020, started an insurrection, has been indicted on criminal charges became common among Republicans during this time. President Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives twice. Both times when the charges were brought to the U.S. Senate, the Republican majority U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump.

Those who have truly left the Republican Party, need to come to terms with the fact that there is no more Republican Party and they need to create a new Conservitive or the “True Conservitive Party” because the Republican Pary that once exsisted; died with Ronald Regan.

The next strongest chance for a third party to take control of conservitism needs to prepare for the 2028 Election and those true conservitives that want to have a chance at winning needs to abandon this MAGA/Trump party and rebrand the new true Conservitive Party.

Me; I hope it all comes to an end. The two party system in beyond repair or hope and I hope that more parties come into existance so that a smarter democracy can survive.

American Hypocrisy

 

American Hypocrisy

In general, republicanism refers to the ideology embraced by members of a republic, which is a form of representational government in which leaders are elected for a specific period by the preponderance of the citizenry, and laws are passed by these leaders for the benefit of the entire republic, rather than select members of a ruling class, or aristocracy.


Now let's define Hypocrisy...The practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. In other words, “do as I say and not as I do”


America!!!! The Republican Party is a party of Hippocrates and the Democratic Party is a party of Complicity; it is system that will allow the security of one principal and one principal alone and that is to protect ‘ Manifest destiny”, a "divine destiny" for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement "to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man" in other words, “only white men can fix it”.


Do you ever wonder what happened to Jefferson Davis and the men who led a sedition against the United States Constitution and the American government? Hypocrisy and the rewriting of history. Jefferson Davis after his release from prison and a pardon, he became the president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee, at an annual salary of $12,000 (equivalent to $210,656), plus travel expenses, and resided at the Peabody Hotel. He recruited former Confederate officers as agents, and the board ratified his position in 1870. Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Davis’ vice president and co-conspirator, in 1873, Stephens was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 8th District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ambrose R. Wright. He was re-elected to the 8th District as an Independent Democrat in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and as a Democrat again in 1880. So much for the Supreme Court in the 1869 case Texas vs. White, ruling secession to be unconstitutional. Lets not forget the statues, the many many statues of Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, Stonewall Jacson, Davis, oh Stevens has one in that is casted in Georgia marble by Gutzon Borglum given in 1927 to the National Statuary Hall, at the U.S. Capitol; you know the place where the sedition against the United States Constitution and the American government took place on January 6, 2021.


The place where the sedition against the United States Constitution and the American government took place on January 6, 2021 is now under investigation and a commission has been established and hearings are taking place, mostly behind closed doors. So what do you really know and what is really being said about it,


Look at the idea of voting; even with the Electoral College which is outdated and has no useful purpose other than to keep the growing minority who used to be the majority in power. The Majority of Democrats who are predominantly old white men don’t want to do away with it no more than the republicans who are old and middle aged white men, why, because they are the fastest growing minority in the country who would have to give up its power to the new majority who are people of color and let's not kid ourselves, people of color consist of all people of color, Black/African American, Latino, Indian and Asians; it color. The dumbing down of separating Black people from brown people is ridiculous when they are in fact the same people and again it allows predominantly old white men to set the narrative of who is considered people of color. So why is it a push for voting rights in America since 1875, when all there was ever a need for was making voting simple; for every natural born American by enacting a 28th amendment to the US Constitution; Guaranteeing every citizen born in America the right to vote upon their 18th birthday. The reason it won’t be done is because then you can’t use redistricting, gerrymandering and all the gimmicks used to restrict people from voting.

 

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