Economic populism would be an improvement if it could actually exist. The prospects for that are very poor though since the party exists to serve the plutocracy that owns everything in sight. The problem is the Federal Reserve enabling of free trillions of dollars for the richest. That seems a kind of treason. Quantitative easing was the most recent culprit and the last Bush and Obama administrations let the rich have north of 200 trillion dollars. The number is so large I wonder, since I am not an economist, how it can be right.
The broadcast media is owned by the rich and many analysts and commentators are motivated more by profit for themselves than accurate scholarly work. There was nothing in the constitution in support of the government giving trillions of zero interest loans to the private sector and big business. The marginal reserve of 10% means that every dollar on deposit for a zero interest loan from the Fed allow 9 more dollars to appear out of thin air for loans to others that appear with real dollars repaid. That policy unbalances the political system so much that plutocracy develops and the democracy a sham.
Populism should equate to egalitarianism rather than sycophancy with billionaires’ special interests.
It’s been said that the Second World War was the final battle of the First World War. I tend to agree with the concept. The royals of Europe had a grand conflict that ended without unconditional surrender, Germany had a revolution that got rid of the aristocracy and put Hindenburg in power of the Weimar Republic, and the former royals were very displeased-especially with the Bolsheviks in Russia. Former royals of Germany needed a populist political figure to put them indirectly back into power -and they used Hitler to bring corporatism and themselves toward a new kind of Germany able to fight the reds on the left and the decadent royals and rival free enterprises on the right from other nations.
Hitler was a very unusual fellow with a speaking voice that had a vibration at normal speech levels with characteristics others have when shouting. He was sent by military high command to infiltrate and take over the Germany National Socialist Party which he directly accomplished- he was charismatic, and the rest is history. Crown Prince Ruprecht had a breakthrough on the front reaching in to France (some say as far as far as 200 miles). He was apparently a fairly competent military leader.
If the Wehrmacht hadn’t just run out of bodies to put into the battle Germany might finally have won the war, or nearly so until more U.S. reinforcements arrived. When the armistice occurred many veterans like Hitler felt they were cheated and could have won.
The west should have fought to unconditional surrender instead of armistice in W.W.I., or have not asked for reparations from the Weimar Republic that couldn’t pay very easily, although I am confident they could have over time being industrious people. The foreign debt was a motivator for Hitler to try other kinds of economics that were Keynesian and deficit financed. The way Hitler planned to pay the war debt was likely just with the profit of winning in war with what he must have viewed as having good prospects for victory and profit.
Republicans and Democrats have supported issuing of trillions and trillions of free dollars to the rich and that seems somewhat like treason. Those quantitative easing loans at 0% put electronic deposits in big banks, and with the marginal reserve rate of 10% generally those banks could loan out 9 dollars for each dollar in their account. That means 16 trillion given between 2008–2011 amounted to 134 trillion minus the 16 trillion that needed to be repaid to the Federal Reserve. Nothing was written in the constitution about a role of government to assure that the rich are given 134 trillion now and then and the poor, nothing. Republicans in the Senate are wailing and lamenting that 430 billion for Covid relief stimulus would bankrupt the country or need to be repaid by survivors of the future.
When the Federal Reserve was started the U.S.A. was still on the gold standard. The Federal Reserve was helpful in assuring liquidity and provided some protection for depositors. When the dollar became free floating during the Nixon administration the stage was set for future unscrupulous use of Federal Reserve loans.
President Reagan and Arthur Laffer seemed to understand that the need to run a balanced budget was as important as during former times. Many viewed Reagan stimulus deficit spending as a white-washed Keynesianism and apparently that view was wrong. It was difficult to entirely revise the classical view of economics to the free floating dollar paradigm.
During the 2008–9 financial crisis their was a paradigm shift in Federal Reserve application of creating liquidity such that enabling hundreds of trillions of dollars to appear out of virtually thin air for the rich has become normative- and that policy has hidden deleterious impacts on democracy, for it reinforces the concentration of wealth and economic segregation of citizens from political power. Georgia Republicans and Mitch McConnell need to trick Georgia voters into believe they are not at fault for withholding a $2000 stimulus check in order to keep control of the U.S. Senate in the January 6 special election. Republicans either do not comprehend the vast unearned political transfer of wealth to the rich or simply are sadistic and enjoy victimizing the poor.
Big business and banks should never be regarded as ‘too big to fail’. banking and making loans is fine when the money arises from the private sector and isn’t just the result of a federal prop. It would be far better for democracy in the United States if money from the Federal Reserve that goes to assure liquidity in the private sector primarily emerged from the people of the United States in a broad base such as social security accounts.
The Federal Reserve could make zero interest loans [periodically to all social security accounts and that money could be managed en mass/concatenated and available for loans to the private sector as big banks do presently. The money multiplier of 9 to 1 would go to Americans broadly as citizens rather than to special, globalist interest. If the private sector needs special free money from the public sector it should be the public sector as actual American citizens that profit from the action as well as private sector businesses directly borrowing cash at a reasonable yet low rate of interest.. This would have numerous salutary effects.
For one thing social security would remain solvent. The U.S. Government already borrows from social security and leaves i.o.u.’s. In the future it might be possible when retiree and disabled American accounts are flourishing to forgive federal indebtedness. Loans to the private sector would be more independent from domination by corporate networks controlled by 1% of the people, and special very low loan rates could be given to students and independent small businesses. There is nothin at all remotely American about the Federal Reserve helping the rich to have more free money in a few years than the poor would earn all together in a thousand lifetimes.
Neither party really has much good sense regarding ecological economics either. When the Federal Reserves enables trillions and trillions to be dumped to the present unsustainable economic infrastructure owners that makes changing the political economy improbable. Because the rich own the broadcast media Americans can be conditioned rather easily to accept being ‘managed’ by a plutocracy. I should mention that I personally am not an optimist about meaningful positive economic reform developing.
Heidegger was interested in the phenomenal, root meanings of words. Examining language in such a subjective way might bring some to classify him as an existentialist. In that way of classification it might be said that Plato and realism was in opposition to extremist left nominalism and Heidegger was an innocent bystander. If all language is about language and classification that people make up for pragmatic reasons then it might be fair to say that things-in-themselves differ from words about them.
What can be said about reality in itself- the mass that is the steady state of mass perceptible to humans that completely defines it? Nothing I.m.o. Even structures that are man-made are founded in mass and energy that are described incompletely with word structures. In that circumstance one finds Sartre’s existential parameters congruent with Bishop Berkeley’s Three Dialog s concerning idealism. One cannot really say that the shared energy field that everyone encounters isn’t a complete production of God, or a simulation real for-itself generated by a sentient field.
I was informed recently by a friend who is a professor of the philosophy of economic comedy about developments in the field of the dialectical progression of money to self-awareness through history. Evidently the Reagan administration realized for-itself that with a free-floating dollar the Federal Reserve could simply issue low or no interest loans to big banks and with the federal requirement that banks keep 10% marginal reserves on obligations such as cash deposits, the rich that own the banks could in effect electronically mint 9 times the loans to their friends and compatriot rich people. The custom of enabling the Federal Government to in effect give trillions of free dollars to the rich did not really get started in a large way until the financial crisis of 208-9 wherafter it has issued through the marginal reserve multiplication nine-fold of zero and low interest ‘quantitative easing’ dollars, about 200 trillion dollars. I should ask Dr. Mojoke, my professor friend about it, however I believe the world income annual is about 99 trillion dollars, so 200 trillion over a dozen years is a fair amount of easing.
In the process of unbalancing traditional economic relationships with quantitative easing the federal government accelerated the concentration of wealth since they were not issuing trillions of dollars of free money to the poor and middle class who in any event had now facilities for multiplying zero-interest federal loans nine-fold. A different approach to restoring economic slumps that was fair and balanced with equal measures of free money going to citizens equally was required and that would have overstretched the meager economic intellectual resources of classical economic theorists. It was with that realization by Dr. Mojoke seated in a lotus position under an apple tree had his great insight about not only the invention of new cash multiplying structures in federal social security accounts that would manage and loan money to qualified, stable borrowers with professional class investment fund managers, the doctor also foresaw the rise of Bic-coin as a self-aware monad evolving to realize itself through monetary policy over history.
Dr. Mojoke foresaw that electronic currency trading would evolve to self-aware monad of Bic-coin that would as self-aware units be non-counterfeitable and useful in-themselves as well as in electronic trading. Bic-coin in larger clusters would have an increased capacity for artificial intelligence and intelligent thought. A billion units of Bic-coin thinking together would be very clever and in fact able to optimize structural designs for human biological living such as waterless microwave sewage processing in deserts ( I asked the doctor how he found that example and he informed me that he saw the value of propane or electric powered Incinolet toilets used for off the grid structures). Cluster of Bic-coin would become standard units of exchange able for-themselves to organize assembly of planetary materials for print-on-demand lunar and Martian structures or form transport vehicles able to rise from dust and transport Americans along electronic in-line highway grids made of solar photon absorbing and storing materials with a high albedo.
Mojoke said that he didn’t mind the rich loaning out money they’ve worked for, that it was just the Federal Reserve dumping trillions of interest free electronic cash in quantitative easing that was a fowl kettle of fish. Apparently Mojoke believes that the U.S. Government and Federal Reserve should not serve a tiny minority of the public and render everyone else peons of globallists.
I suggested to Dr. Mojoke that the new Biten administration might invest in the development of Bic-coin and innovate better and more egalitarian methods for stimulating the U.S. economy diverging from the evolving history of offering up free trillions to a global plutocracy wishing they would trickle down to Americans and not just runt the government with so much compiled capital. The doctor said; “That’s a laugher”.
Fried
Chicken, Stimulus Checks and the Marginal Reserve with Quantitative
Easing...
(Quantitative
Easing gave trillions and trillions to the Uber Rich)
It seems that Republicans don’t understand how the political economy has changed since the 2008–9 financial crisis so they have a preponderance of people that still believe in anachronistic ideas concerning money supply and the rich. President Nixon took the U.S.A. off the gold standard and President Reagan first realized the potential of using easy money to promote economic growth without causing inflation- the rich get the easy money and buy everything on the planet with it or hold on to it as leverage over the government.
During
the 2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop
the bleeding on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and
continuing support with trillions and trillions of zero and very low
interest loans to wealthy financial institutions. Big banks are free
to issue in electronic loans nine dollars more or less (I am not a
banker-the marginal reserve requisite is 10% perhaps) for every
dollar they have on deposit so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion)
allowed big banks to produce from thin air 90 trillion dollars. The
total amount of free money to plutocrats enabled by the Federal
Reserve could be as much as 200 trillion dollars. Fortunately
Senators like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct
payments going to Americans in the present financial stimulus
observing that ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ (as if it were the
Tongass National Forest the administration would like to strip log
with clear cuts). Preventing ordinary Americans from getting fewer
than a half of one percent of what goes to the rich from the Federal
Reserve incentives vigilant Republicans; the poor or their proplits
cannot be allowed to increase.
When
money was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a
currency was tied to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many
dollars each would become worth less if the quantity of gold remained
the same. When President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard
the dollar had nothing besides its value to none in particular to
determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that isn’t too
unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic
exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.
Still,
the idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep
their Wall Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult
for many Americans including myself to understand very well. The
treasury prints out paper dollars and the Federal Reserve loans out
electronic dollars. Most financial transactions are done
electronically these days and there actually isn’t too much cash as
a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t
inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to
keep banks and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments
to Americans that earn fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t
Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a cup yet one wonders. The
answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street got from the
Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The original
loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just
the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they
could buy up Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation
occurred in the indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that
the DOW is now over 30,000.
Just
because the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it
doesn’t mean that Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries
although they might anyway. There is a difference between real goods,
physical corporations and such capital and dollars. A brick is still
a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long as Wall Street
average share prices rise more or less together there need not be too
much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and
corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an
average worker (just guessing).
The
tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred
not because Hitler had too many Reichmarks printed; it happened
because there wasn’t enough gold to back up the Reichmarks value
proportionately. The dollar though is on an economic relativity
foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism kickback loop it
is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A Guaranteed
minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something
Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator
of Darth Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money
doesn’t grow on trees.”
In
the free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not
be as important as the real material and intellectual properties that
can be counted as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the
flow of trade and commerce and tight money could be a problem itself.
It is possible that avarice in the owner class could prompt corporate
to raise retail prices to consumers if consumers have any money to
spend in order to have all of the money they possibly can. Political
economy managers need to be concerned with such matters as well as
for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental
parameters.
One
of the problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the
tendency to develop a particular economic model until it crashes from
over-use. The physical infrastructure of a civilization may grow to
be inappropriate and destroy the human spirit of workers and
designers in addition to building mass species extinction and
environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most invested
in the present economic system would be the last to know and most
resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic
continuum.
The
2008-9 financial crisis and decade of ensuing issue of free money to
the rich was the wrong way to keep the economy of the U.S.A.
Functioning. It was an opportunity to direct coalitions of the
willing businesses to participate in ecological economic reform and
sustainability. The daft policy of throwing zero interest federal
reserve loans to the rich rendered democracy somewhat defunct and put
plutocratic global corporatism into ascendance. Intelligence was
required in governing and idiot technocrats dumping cash to the rich
was what followed. NPR has often called the Covid 19 pandemic the
'pendemic'. Repression of free speech and democratic free expression
is quite normal during the rise of dictatorships and oligarchy's of
sundry sorts. Some of the broadcast media believe economic exogamy
is the be and end-all for existence; self reliance and independence
however are not necessarily economically endogamous and strong
nationalism can lead in new directions such as ecological economic
reform. Coupled with Darwinist inspired atheism and Nietzchian
philosophic inspiration an existential abandonment of moral norms and
nationalism seems necessary for a brave new world order wherein for
Americans the sole economic survivors are plutocratic supermen. The
hubris and deceit inherent in the view that enables irrationality to
overcome reason and fake populism to alternate with corrupt elites to
manage the 'herd' of citizens ought to give some a realization that
the death of democracy won't end well for ordinary people.
Plutocrats
of the modern era are far more sophisticated and subtle in defeating
in detail democracy, potential rival political economic trends and
independent innovations of individuals. So long as the populace is
stupid, drunk, doped, deceived or misled into unintelligent political
economy there are no political issues to trouble the rising minority
powers of plutocrats.
I wanted to wish readers a Merry Christmas 2020 and a Happy New Year for 2021, though my blog seems to be completely censored for the past few days with zero readers except for a subscriber. The days before I had between 50 and 100 each day.
Since the Obama administration when I criticized N.S.A. surveillance of Americans I lost 90% of the views. Formerly more than a 1000 each day was easy. I haven't got a penny of increase from blogging here the past decade or so when the $67 in the account froze and there it remains in spite of everything I have tried to fix it.
When I dropped the sentence "as if google has never trimmed bloggers" in a post that must have triggered the complete censorship status as present. Well, no problem, then the sound stopped on my Thinkpad so now the sound device manager reads "dummy output" or no device present. So my blogging for the next year will likely be minimal at least for a while with tech issues.
Recently I realized that the most rich were in effect given 64 trillion dollars via quantitative easing. Perhaps corporatism has gone so far as to merge into a kind of imperialism globally with any dissent deleted one way or another. Still, things could be worse, and there is the great hope and faith in the works of the Lord Jesus Christ.
During the
2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop the bleeding
on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and continuing support with
trillions and trillions of zero and very low interest loans to wealthy
financial institutions. Big banks are free to issue in electronic loans five
dollars more or less (I am not a banker) for every dollar they have on deposit
so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion) allowedbig banks to produce from thin air 80 trillion dollars. Fortunately Senators
like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct payments going to
Americans in the present financial stimulus observing that ‘money doesn’t grow
on trees’ (as if it were the Tongass National Forest the administration seeking to strip log with clear cuts and a spaghetti plate of roads).
When money
was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a currency was tied
to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many dollars each would become
worth less if the quantity of gold remained the same. When President Nixon took
the dollar off the gold standard the dollar had nothing besides its value to
none in particular to determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that
isn’t too unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic
exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.
Still, the
idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep their Wall
Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult for many Americans
including myself to understand very well. The treasury prints out paper dollars
and the Federal Reserve loans out electronic dollars. Most financial
transactions are done electronically these days and there actually isn’t too
much cash as a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t
inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to keep banks
and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments to Americans that earn
fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a
cup yet one wonders. The answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street
got from the Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The
original loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just
the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they could buy up
Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation occurred in the
indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that the DOW is now over
30,000.
Just because
the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it doesn’t mean that
Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries although they might anyway. There
is a difference between real goods, physical corporations and such capital and
dollars. A brick is still a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long
as Wall Street average share prices rise more or less together there need not
be too much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and
corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an average
worker (just guessing).
I.M.O. a guaranteed minimum income is requisite to assure that no citizen is excluded from substantial economic participation. Business sadists and networks can have hidden semi-overt and covert agendas and policies that render work impossible. With a totalized national economy under the power of network financial elites any citizen can be deleted from real income.
The
tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred not because
Hitler had too many reichmarks printed; it happened because there wasn’t enough
gold to back up the reichmarks value proportionately. The dollar though is on
an economic relativity foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism
kickback loop it is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A
Guaranteed minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something
Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator of Darth
Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money doesn’t grow on trees.”
In the
free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not be as
important as the real material and intellectual properties that can be counted
as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the flow of trade and
commerce and tight money could be a problem itself. It is possible that avarice
in the owner class could prompt corporate to raise retail prices to consumers
if consumers have any money to spend in order to have all of the money they
possibly can. Political economy managers need to be concerned with such matters
as well as for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental
parameters.
One of the
problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the tendency to develop a
particular economic model until it crashes from over-use. The physical
infrastructure of a civilization may grow to be inappropriate and destroy the
human spirit of workers and designers in addition to building mass species
extinction and environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most
invested in the present economic system would be the last to know and most
resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic continuum.
A government may rightly help citizens in time of emergency- that is good behavior. yet it should be impartial and stay with the principle of equal justice. When the government simply serves the rich that is bad conduct for a democracy. Providing perhaps 130 trillion dollars of free cash to the rich via the 5 to 1 electronic mint root based on quantitative easing deposits was wrong yet should not be held as a reason to further victimize the poor. The revolution of the rich in a decade long financial coup need be corrected somewhat presently.
Maybe one should ask what 'saving the world' means in a given context. If the wicked want to victimize others, and the saved have no interest in victimizing anyone then it is plain that the meek need go to heaven and the wicked someplace else such as eternal hell. The people in hell would victimize each other in hell and may hate those in heaven yearning to victimize them. Further, the 'world' someplace in the Universe far from the exact center may be depleted of life because of mass extinctions and global warming and is empty, while some capitalists in hell want to spend the world ransoming it to get themselves bailed out of hell. Maybe some communists believe saving the world would mean enslaving everyone or like the Khymer Rouge deleting intellectuals. and that it is necessary that everyone must get stoned.
I like Hegel quite a lot. The 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' if I recall correctly is a kind of summary of the 'Phenomenology of Mind'. Some might like the idea of the Spirit coming to evolve itself to realization in history, yet the notion of a two-part dialectical evolution seems rather quaint today with quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. I.M.O. God or Spirit is eternal rather than temporal. He issues the Higgs Field rather than becoming created himself within it.
Wave-particle duality hasn't much to do with Hegel I think. It is possible to regard Spirit as the Author of the Higgs Field of course. GWF Hegel is somewhat removed from that context however. The Higgs Field has two-dimensional energy that can be phenomenally entangled so it appears to slow down to sub-light speed and have mass. One might consider Hegel's paradigm with Plotinus and the Intelligence though (from the Enneads or 54 Tractates) in that neo-Platonist paradigm.
There are many interesting historical researches going on
today in addition to cosmology that provide much
information to consider for Christian philosophers and the thoughtful. I think
it is the case that some established church authorities have sought to freeze
various structures in place because the contemporary dogmatics support the
economic positions of the authorities and that can lead to schisms and reform
such as that Protestants established in the 1500s.
There is repression of Christians in China.It may be possible that Chinese authorities may be concerned with pre-trib eschatology as well as social and economic power. Pre-tribbers believe the world is approaching doom and they will be raptured out of it, while post-tribbers such as myself tend to believe the apocalypse of the New Testament occurred in the first century A.D. culminating in the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple and that this is an era to build up the Kingdom of God.
Secular authorities including communists always want to build up their own power about as far as they can. One need be inventive to liberate oneself and society generally from repressive ruling power when it is not useful for social progress. I believe a Priesthood of Believers reform is necessary to maximize evangelical and ecclesiastical benefit from the New Testament. During the pre-literate, feudal era a more commercial or pro-priestly class of superior Christians was perhaps necessary to let the peasants learn the gospel, yet that is quite ineffective and almost counterproductive today with mass literacy and mass communication. Commercial priests tend to resemble small business guys primarily interested in their own economic situation receiving tithes. I think a Priesthood of Believers church structure were all share small-group liturgical roles would benefit western Christians and be non-threatening to communist authorities too.
Chinese rulers are probably mindful of the Taiping Rebellion led by a Christian who believed he literally was Christ's brother. Ten million were killed in the Taiping Rebellion. Poor theological understanding can lead to conflict. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19977188
I took a philosophy course or two from a fellow who had a degree in anthropology too. His desk for years had a copy of Barret's book 'Irrational Man' on it. There are other contexts for rationality than the standard apparently at least in regard to social structure. If one reads Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason' one may discover that it is possible to view social behavior something like ant hive behavior. Then the question arises do the ants think about what they are doing as a species applying mass production where it ought to be limited and selected more carefully, really (e.g. mass species extinction, global warming, mobile wheelchair fossil fuel engine society)? https://www.secondsale.com/i/irrational-man-a-study-in-existential-philosophy/9780385031387?gclid=CjwKCAiArIH_BRB2EiwALfbH1DS3ExaMd9xuyqazDYXhEp3lXZK_VvgXvyn3MEZ_sP0W8ql6jGzEUhoCUKEQAvD_BwE
I have learned more about the history of the first
civilization over time in Summer (southern Mesopotamia). Abraham was from the
city of Ur. Summer was established circa 5400 b.c. so it was an old
civilization by the time he got the call from God to exodus about 2100 b.c.
That was a period when Summer-Akkad was in the final throes of its span and a
good time for Abraham to leave.
Abraham and family journeyed northwest Syria and over to Israel or Canaan. That region was between the two great early
civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Learning that some of the information
Abraham brought to Israel with him from Ur where he probably worked as a scribe
has similar paradigmatic concurrence with ancient Sumerian data such as the
flood during the end of the Wisconsin ice age should not be troubling to
Christians. Instead they should be thankful that Abraham brought the truth with
him.
Maybe the new vaccine will
defeat the new strain of the Covid 19 virus. One hopes so. The new British
version of Covid 19 (is it Covid 20) that is easier to catch has appeared with
a terrorists timing just after the start of vaccines against Covid 19. Like a
terrorist that bombs someplace saving a second device to use when first
responders arrive, the new version of Covid 19 has appeared after a year
developing a vaccine for the virus that has killed about 320 million Americans. If new lethal versions of the bat shit virus appear as commonly as common colds it may require so sort of new protocol to adapt human life and economic procedures.
The Trump administration set
a precedent for dealing with the virus that should not be followed by future
administrations. It fundamentally let the virus rage and citizens die while
waiting for a vaccine to develop. What was needed was an effort to let the
economy work and people stay alive together while vaccines were developed
though innovation. At the least some sort of infection preventing head gear
should have been invented and distributed.
A policy to just let people
die while waiting for a vaccine to develop isn’t something to emulate
politically. If a more lethal disease ever arrives the lack of capacity for the
nation to survive seems substantial. In an era with vast biological and
computational research that would support production of criminal synthesis of
designer weaponized viruses political players should have more realistic plans
for national defense to viral vectors of biological death.
Since the
discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and confirmation of the existence of the
Higgs field a lot of work has gone into producing popular explanations of what
the Higgs Field is and how it supports the existence of the mass. Metaphysics
could be said to be the physics that one doesn’t know. For me the Higgs Field
and the way it supports the apparent existence of mass was and remains mostly
metaphysics while for some physicists it is less so. There is a video a couple
minutes in length that summarizes how the Higgs Field works to produce the
appearance that mass exists.
Photons and
other particles of a class called bosons are massless. Photons are the force
carrying particles of the electro-magnetic field. There is a duality of
articles as waves. A particle might be said to be like the peak of a wave where
strength is greatest when observed. Sub-atomic particles acquire mass and
existence simply through bouncing around or being slowed down in the Higgs Field
from a massless speed of light condition to a slower than light condition with
mass created with the acquisition of a third dimension from relativistic
effects instead of thetwo-dimensional
condition of massless particle-waves.
Mass is an
apparent state of massless particleslocked into a steady state of slower-than light being observed by
sentient beings like humans embedded in the somewhat illusory or virtual mass
of the Higgs Field. I have wondered why gravity also travels at the speed of
light- it is the standard speed or normal condition of massless particles, and
the answer may be that gravity attracting mass is also an illusory or secondary
characteristic of mass existing as a secondary or contingent element within the
Higgs Field and that also raises the question of the curvature of space with
mass as in the general theory of relativity.
It is likely
that several very complex cosmology issues have very simple explanations when
they understood.One might ask what
came first; the Higgs Field or the Universe? Since the Universe is simply mass
that seems to exist in the Higgs Field and the Higgs Field encompasses all of
known space the Higgs Field seems primary with all of its contingent and
secondary apparent qualities of mass, space and time occurring within it.
What is the
Higgs Field in-itself? Field theories account for things like the
electro-magnetic field, what empowers the Higgs? The Higgs could exist like a
dendrite with information in it between two neurons of God; it really is metaphysics
to me. Creating a virtual Universe with
virtual space, virtual gravity, virtual mass and virtual time (itself within
relativistic criteria) within a Higgs Field possibly of two dimensional energy
seems greater than just adding water to a packet of instanverse. The Higgs
energy and energy for-itself are just about imponderable. One may discern the
effects yet not the energy-as-itself. That may be the prime mover as it were.
In human
history there is a story of Sargon being found as an infant floating in a reed
basket and taken to the Akkadian court where he was raised andbecame the greatest warrior and king of the
bronze age debatably.He unified the
Summerian-Akkadian civilization under the rule of the Akkadians for a change.
Moses arrived in a similar way and nearly ruled Egypt as a prince before
leading the Israelis from captivity in a similar fashion. The boy in a basket
story may be something like the stork method of accounting for arrival for
superior warrior-political leaders in ancient history- a simple yet effective
lead-in to the salient facts. The apparent characteristics of mass, gravity and
space-time observed from within may eventually have simple explanations when
another Einstein rolls down the river of time.
The U.S. Government doesn't 'hack' into telephonic communications anywhere without a good reason, and the American broadcast media never listens in to cell phone communications. Neither has Facebook or Google ever rigged or hacked emails or chatrooms nor have their employees ever rigged search results or skimmed earnings from bloggers. Unlike the Russian Government the U.S.A. only does defensive hacking for self-defense purposes; never anything offensive or splicing like in to trans-Atlantic broadband cables under the oceans or elsewhere. Apparently the U.S. DOD Cyber Warfare team may have planted malware in the Russia electrical grid yet if they did that was probably a charitable effort to increase its efficiency and was misunderstood by nandering naybobs of negativism.
Dick Durbin has expressed a broad Wall- Street sentiment to marginalize Russia even before the new, honest Biden administration takes office. The President elect has explained convincingly that his brilliant son Hunter is a victim of political opponents trying to get to him. There obviously was no chance that Ukrainian entrepreneurs were trying to get to him for influence and military supplies to war eastward on traditional Russian lands. The $400,000 of undeclared income from Burisma in Ukraine for expert advice from someone without any experience might have put President's Trump 2016 campaign designer Paul Manafort in jail perhaps, yet Manafort was guilty of packaging Mr. Trump properly to win, unlike 2020 when he was finally nabbed by the Mueller Investigation.
Plainly Republicans may seek their own Jerry Nadler to nail President Biden with high crimes and misdemeanors if they can win the House in 2022. In my opinion what is obvious- even more than a Pompeo win over President Biden in 2024, is the problem of Americans seeking antipathetic relations with Russia for short-term Wall Street proplits presenting great long-term externalities of lost opportunities to the United States. Seeking amicable relations requires intellect Democrats lack. With a strong Russian integration into western economies defense costs and threats to the United States will be far less than with Russia forced to ally itself more with China and various anti-American global alternative actors. China requires U.S. investors to surrender to Chinese owners 51% of the stock of any corporation doing business there. Russians may offer a better deal for U.S. investors. Its good to get in on the ground floor sometimes.
There are some that feel Capitalism unto enslavement of the masses for their own good is the only alternative to socialism and communist dystopia. Actually there is democracy and egalitarian free enterprise with intelligent ecological economic political economics as a middle ground that is more feasible for human survival on Earth- if that is a concern to some.
Someone wrote that U.S. politics has become dominated by emotion instead of reason and that plainly seems true i.m.o. Best one can hope for is a Pompeo vs Biden 2024 race and Biden loses, then in 2028 it will be Pompeo vs. Harris and the latter may win. I would like a candidate with a degree in Ecological Economics with a semblance of classical political pragmatism regarding a democracy, yet that is as unlikely to happen as a million dollar per citizen stimulus check. I ran across a good quote in a book I read recently; "The truth is treason in an empire of lies".
Is the ocean one thing or a word describing countless (though finite in number) molecules of H2O? The question of monism and pluralism is fundamental concerning everything that exists, and of events and processes, therefore it was a common concern of pre-Socratic philosophers not simply because they might have shared the issue once it was thought of by a single individual. Parmenides and Heraclitus approached the problem of monism and pluralism from different yet not antipathetic points of view. In that regard they share a concern that hasn't been terminated as worthy of inquiry from fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, Multiverse theory and perception. Compound objects composed of numerous parts in solid objects and sub-atomic particles entangled in three dimensions with the Higgs field reflect the one and the issue as do organic beings.
One might wonder what logic is and how it exists in relation to epistemology. It is also possible to ask if logic is static or if it is subject to relativity (as reshaped by spatial deformation vis Einstein's General Theory for example). If logic is recognition of relationships among objects or ideas as objects then it could be that logic is a kind of pattern recognition with which one may process information and make extrapolations from a given position concerning a series as in math theory or mathematical metaphysics.- If one is looking for a consistence in logic, that would be a necessary consistence of relations and patterns, shapes and occurrences that would comprise a system of logic. It is therefor challenging to say that logic is inflexible or must be regarding certain relations that must transcend particular logical systems and need be present in every logic system.-Because the issue becomes a little obtuse I shall leave it here for the present with the observation or agreement with a point made above concerning the utility of valid logic within a given system of logic rather than considering a Universal logic, though the Universe itself materially as particles embedded in a Higgs Field apparently seems to have a logical structure for everything in it at the quantum level.
One may have classical logic-Aristotelian logic and move through history to Leibnitz's mathematical logic, Frege and modern symbolic logic and onward to deontic , modal and other new logic systems. Maybe the proliferation of systems of logic supports the concept of logic as a formal system for representing abstract relations of fact and fiction useful for inductive as well as deductive reasoning.
When the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Barrack Obama people were surprised since he hadn't done anything yet besides being black and elected. It turned out during his terms of office that he would have better deserved a Nobel War Prize that even his speech acknowledged. Donald Trump actually deserves a Peace Prize for his excellence at bringing four Arab nations to sign off with diplomatic relations with Israel. What is inexplicable is how someone able to bring off a diplomatic coup that wasn't accomplished since Egypt did in return for the Sinai acts like a spoilt punky billionaire following his re-election defeat. To this time he is still in denial claiming he was cheated.
President-elect Biden is a threat to turn back salutary Middle East developments and that should be a concern for national politics. He may also return to stepped up hostility with Russia in order to make Hunter Biden's Ukrainian pay-masters happy and persuaded that their real estate interests are swelling. president Trump should be awarded a Nobel for his Middle East work next year even if the Biden administration is more to Sweden's liking politically.
The Republican Party may have a problem former President trying to be in the spotlight for a few years more as a kind of never-goes-away Clintonesque figure. He is the best chance the Biden administration has for winning re-election in 2024. If Sect. Pompeo or some other fellow with capability is the party nominee Republicans might actually retake the White House.
Special interests have taken over the U.S.A. and
government of the nation. A special interest in regard to the founding
parameters of the United States could be regarded as an interest or organization limited to just some of the citizens
all of the time. Today virtually any corporation, church denomination, civic
and social organization, fort profit and non-profit business could rightly be
considered to be a special interest in regard to federal legislation. The
federal stimulus conundrum that cannot get passed because of partisan wrangling
about special interests rather than those of all U.S. citizens this year drew
my attention.
Free federal dollars flow to special interest citizens and aliens rather than to all citizens equally- that helps establish corporatism and its socialist junior partner.
Today is Sunday so I will write something
concerning church structure as an upgradable special interest (that doesn’t
require federal bail-outs). When the U.S.A. was founded there were no
corporations in the nation and far fewer special interests seeking to benefit
from preferred federal legislation transferring money to them. The Hudson Bay
Company and East India Company were the two entities that most closely
resembled corporations in North America and India respectively. The Catholic
Church in the U.S.A. might be thought of as the largest corporate structure in the
U.S.A. of that era. Church structures might be thought of as having ossified in
forms created during or before the reformation era circa 1500-1600 with church
pastors of Protestant churches shepherding ecclesiastic formations adapted to
village life of illiterate peasants. In the United States presently there
actually are few places like that. Another reform to place Christians on a
level ground sharing liturgical tasks in small groups within a Priesthood of
Believers would be more appropriate. A national work-credit and job bank with
attendance and participation records, referrals and sharing could keep all
Christians active, evangelical and free of certain emergency medical and
financial troubles.
Special
interest legislation and/or end-times theology along with anachronistic
clerical forms can take Christians fairly from meaningful participation in
Democracy and accurate Biblical hermeneutics. A wrong understanding of the
constitution of the U.S.A. and founding democratic principles can lead
politicians to seek legislation that benefits corporations and busy-ness as a
special interest prioritized above that of common citizens of the United
States. Legislators wrangle over how to benefit people that own corporations
and other busy-ness activity instead of all of the people of the United States
during the pandemic. Real shareholders own corporations hence the U.S.
Government has no legitimate right to transfer wealth to them instead of every
citizen of the United States equally if it chooses to give away money normally
or during an emergency for relief. Competition in a free enterprise environment
isn’t supposed to end when it becomes tough for the established whereat the
government will bail out the prosperous and/or filthy rich. Corporations are
special interests that politically incompetent legislators have learned to
worship. Actually citizen busyness and free enterprise could develop in
innumerable other forms; it wasn’t necessary to evolve Wall Street monopoly of
busyness and over government.
In Washington D.C. politicians and pundits
generally have forgotten that the people of the nation who own the nation
politically in a manner of speaking are everyone rather than special interests
named corporations. To send federal money as grants or loans to special
collectives of people; to favor select persons as special interests of congress
above that of the people of the United States is to support and ossify a
particular non-democratic approach to governance that does in effect changes
democracy into corporatism, oligarchy or plutonomy. Some socialist like the
corporate approach because it does annihilate the principle of individual
sovereignty and free enterprise in favor of corporate enterprise and other
forms of mass collective business that readily morphs into socialism through a
number of means. There is a false dialectic emitted from each side that has
corporatism vs. socialism rather than corporatism and socialism as collective
entities versus democracy, individualism and national sovereignty with secure
borders. Corporatists and socialists are globalists that run roughshod over national
boundaries.
In the
Internet era corporate hegemony allows self-tightening consolidation of wealth
and power to plutocrat-led corporations. Every written communication can be
scanned by insiders and a percent or all financial value harvested/skimmed from
the work of everyone utilizing the ubiquitous corporate internet sites. With
the U.S. Government ordinarily transferring wealth to large banks with zero or
very low interest loans that lets those banks owned by Plutocrats
electronically mint five times the amount loaned to loan out or invest
themselves ordinary citizen free enterprise become as laughably non-competitive
as laborers are to international dope traffickers who can afford to buy the
business they labor for. The sole advantage of under-the-table illegal alien
labor is that they can at least find work outside direct corporate employment
yet. Corporate networks can ban any individual inconvenient from their optimal
profit narratives they choose to.
Corporations
as special interests and their CEO’s attract a common kind of individual
worker-tool seeking money and power. Like herbivores attracted by thirst to a
water-hole along their own route, corporate leadership share the same goals and
exploit similar methods to subjugate and harvest profit from every empirical
facticity within their power- hence they expand their power and wealth with
insatiable drive. That has a very dampening effect upon individual citizen free
enterprise and liberty to express dissenting personal opinions on-line without
reprisal.
The U.S. Senate is letting
the 2nd Covid emergency relief bill die for partisan reasons. The
Senate leaders seek partisan advantages and cannot agree to let that go and
simply pass a plain cash stimulus check to Americans to use presently.
Senator McConnell wants to
give blanket immunity too corporations from Covid 19 lawsuits. Instead of concern
for cash-strapped citizens that need cash today he cares about corporations and
corporate profits next year.
Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi care more
for funding their vast left-wing state governments and funding deficits than for
ordinary citizens of the U.S.A. even in their own states. The best simple
compromise is to pass immediate $2400 cash relief stimulus checks for all
Americans let Senate and House leaders clash over their special interests with
mace, swords and shields of rhetoric after Christmas. A third Wilder-Fury fight
or a Joshua-Fury or Wilder-Fury battle have been put off; what should not be
put off is immediate cash relief for the poor and middle class that need pay
rent, pay for classes or fund tooth extractions. I recently heard an elder
gentleman trying to get a loan to pay for an elder brother’s covid 19
hospitalization; apparently he lacked free Bethesda hospitalization.
What should matter now are
the people of the United States. It’s their federal government; special
interests can wait. New York can freeze rent payments for police and firemen.
California can ditto that. State employees then can work for half-pay.
Corporations can suck an egg on immunity from criminal action during the Covid
19 crisis...
Basically there are two kinds
of people in the world; those that want power over others and those that don’t.
Politicians tend to want power and reform is an issue that puts them in the
spotlight for a term or two without actually needing to get anything meaningfully
done. Police reform to protect the public from police as well as criminalsis growingin popularity since the tradition of urban riots by blacks whose lives
matter have discovered the police seem to serve the non-blackpopulation moreso than themselves. Defunding police has been
held to be an effective way to halt police interference with black sin cities,
some of who are alleged to perpetrate crimes.
I believe there are numerous ways to regard and interpret history. Historical analysis that is accurate and useful as well as comprehensive is requisite for determining how to correctly address an issue and act upon it to bring it toward a desirable state of affairs. There is a fundamentally correct comprehensive analysis and several proprietary and fragmented and possible true perspectives that are insufficiently comprehensive for basic application to correct an issue. Police it should be noted
worked with some harshness in some cities before the era of large scale black
neo-integration in schools and so forth. In somewhat segregated areas crimes
did apparently exist that stimulated the non-black public desire for effective
police. Police corruption in those circumstances tended to revolve around
insider economic crimes when they occurred.
It does seem that there is a
conflation of race identity politics and economic concerns with police acting
for-themselves inappropriately. Police force is regarded by some apparently as
a de facto segregation mechanism and by others as a defense line of protection
from young savage hordes. Obviously police have a civil function that has
awkwardly discovered itself in the midst of historically evolving racial
demographics and economics politics on the front line as it were. What can be
done to allow traditional civil police functions to continue in cities where
contentious political restiveness makes them appear as a political antagonist?
Traditionally analysts have
espoused racial integration of police as a remedy to racial enmity.
Realistically though with the breakdown in trust in police and politics and
rise of communication I would guess that technology and privatization
augmenting police law enforcement as well as integration of internet broadband
communication and public participation is likely to develop slowly. That is,
drones, robots and public participatory oversight of police work will grow to
enhancement and follow police tracking of criminal and suspected criminal
activity.
I am not saying that
contracts to the Interrogation and Death Corporation robotic division will
clear the streets with Robocop; simply that Sally’s On-Line Security service
will field insect drones to buzz around police cars and hives and follow
criminals about dark city streets and into dens of iniquity when the lawful
need arises. Something like that will comprise police reform as public
participation in police work and evidence gathering in non-traditional
technological ways arises.
Some will be concerned about corporate
takeover of law enforcement and the nation, and that is well taken. If the
Department of Dense has a Four-star General who can upgrade to Dictator for a
Year should need arise as did Roman Empire Consuls during time of war, who is
able to return fire for fire and Sarin-dippitze foe nerve agent communicators,
that would be keeping in line with the trend toward national corporatist
governance aided and abetted by communist collectivist leadership and 1%
plutocrats in the U.S.A. and ironically, in China. Godless atheist leadership
in crowded demographics leads to certain forms of social interaction that are
more or less problematic when people are unintellectual worker sex-tools and drones
bereft of nuclear families developmentally speaking. Scientists at some point
tend to find the one degree of elimination of surplus undesirable population
for scientific reasons so the world may be saved. Less than a cuddly scenario
of course, so Democrats may seek some other Draconian and repressive way to
bring utopia to the world during the Anthropocene mass extinction phenomenon.
Hell wasn’t built in a day, so effectively stupid governance takes many
generations of politicians and broadcast slut-media-sewers to fructify hell on
Earth before survivors can flee to Mars and elsewhere.
There are innumerable
political viewpoints in the U.S.A. today without comprehensiveness that are
often in contradiction or conflict with others. Maybe 3% of political
world-views are valid and would be effective if promoted, and the rest are
simply varying degrees of incorrectness. Luckily for Americans political
grading is done on the curve so even failing ideas and work can rise to the top
as major party content platforms as they have with bi-partisan success. Police
reform ineffectiveness is just one of many planks of contemporary political
platforms with a good rate of disfunction.
Two models and goals for
police structure seem to exist in the present context of reformed structure and
traditional structure. ‘The Art of War’, I believe it was if I recall the book
I read decades ago, mentions interior and exterior lines for attackers and
defenders. ‘The Art of Reasoning’ informs us about classical and symbolic
logic. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ might have suggested, if the modern political
environment and broadcast media had existed in his day, of the logical value of
fast transition of exterior and exterior lines reversing roles of attackers and
defenders, The reformed model of the Democrat Party and non-white ideal would
end the perceived defense of white people as a majority party by police
departments. Policing could be flip-flopped to change their role from one
defending white controllers on interior lines to one of attacking dwindling
whites from exterior lines of black and minority based community policing.
A new reformed law enforcement agency would be
community-based while the existing police departments would be defunded and
eliminated largely. A similar paradigm for reform existed in pre-war nazifying
Germany when under Hitler’s leadership the brown shirts of the national
socialist party took over society. Local police department constables at some
stage needed to stand aside to let the new political and social facticty of
change take charge. Brown shirts or storm troopers could enforce the political
will and decide in a fresh paradigm who the real public enemies are. The
broadcast media would easily inform the public of what worked and what did not.
The broadcast media has great offensive and defensive political power and
returns periodically or partially to its role of enforcing political will to
power.
Eliminating police
departments in the United States so a more Democrat Party led law enforcement
structure can take control would not exactly duplicate Hitler’s model although
there are obvious similarities. Community based police models could include
mafiosa enforcement agents and mass public disarmament to render political
opponents easier to subjugate. As in the former Soviet Union criminal activity
by non-state actors would be very low. The public internal security forces
strengthen to such an extreme that dissent becomes unfeasible.
If two models for police
structure exist in the United States today- traditional and Nazi, they would
require a segregated civil structure if each were to exist simultaneously with
traditionalists in white communities and tribal mafiosa-goon Democrat thugs
under bosses innon-white communities.
Unfortunately, or luckily as one may regard it, the economy of the United
States is not designed to be racially segregated. It is somewhat amusing to
consider the impracticalities of segregating products and services along racial
lines in America with Wal-mart using different personnel to deliver black soap
to black neighborhoods and white soap to white neighborhood etc. Amazon could
use drones to deliver to all areas of course since machines are racial only in
a nuts and bolts sort of way, and it might be possible to stop taxing products
purchased from the internet so local manufacture of high-tech products in rural
Alaska for example won’t face unfair competition from products made in China or
white neighborhood colleges like M.I.T. Basketball and football would require
separate leagues and audiences only of appropriate race with television
commercials directed to appropriate viewers. Federal oversight of Wall- Street
would require special black and white law enforcement with community police
mafia on one side and traditional law enforcement structure on the other with
each working only to secure corporate behavior of the apposite race. It seems
rather expensive and corrupt actually.
President Lincoln didn't include Maryland and other border states in his Emancipation proclamation. It took a third Maryland constitution years later to free the slaves. That interesting fact is useful here because it is part of the problem of displaced former slaves after the war thrown into homelessness en mass usually without a legal right to inhabit their former plantations. As a northerner during school before college long ago learning technical details of mass black homelessness after the civil war didn't occur. There were few blacks in the Pacific Northwest until the Second World War. School kids learned generalities of U.S. history and state history (Washington state for my experience). I took a world civilization course too. Three history course at a high school level is pretty shallow actually.
William Grose was the first black businessman in Seattle. Yet it wasn't until the federal government needed military support personnel in the war with Japan that many blacks moved to the Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grose_(black_Seattle_pioneer)
The two small cities I grew up in had no blacks not because of segregation-simply because none had moved in large numbers that far from the south, and race riots didn't exist even until after the Vietnam War by which time there was a substantial black population in large cities. Researching the black city migrations and rioting development as a topic would need to wait until opportunity arose for graduate research.
Since I am dead reckoning history here I will say that I am interested in the mass relocation of former slaves after the war. It is well known that many went on an exodus to northern cities creating the problem persisting to this time of mostly black urban ghettos and/or aka challenged neighborhoods and educational facilities, and in some a legacy of neo-apartheid with legally segregated housing such as in Baltimore that persisted for some time.
In my opinion the entire phenomenon could have been nipped in the bud immediately after the war if the vast plantations that formerly sheltered black slaves were cut up into chunks of a few acres and redistributed to the former slaves who certainly had a fair claim to own the land rather than their former masters- or at least equally. It is one of the sad missed opportunities of history that many slaves after the war were legally landless people. Homelessness can be very challenging to get out of.
Apparently some plantation owners did give some land to the former slaves. Some of that was sharecropping that wasn't too far removed from slavery. Yet much land did remain with the families of plantation slavers; and that stimulated movements such as the clan seeking to perpetuate race-based economic advantages across the south with logical inertia.
If all of the former slaves were given 5 acres of real estate to own at the in 1866 it is possible that development and race relations of the United States would have been quite different.
With so much money going to Republicans and Republican businesses
during the McConnell era domination of the U.S. Senate voters put down the
Trump re-election since many of their pockets were empty. Repeating that
mistake will likely result in the Republican loss of the Senate to Democrats in
the Georgia run-off election in January.
Senator McConnell could more convincingly play the Christmas scrooge
putting a lump of Kentucky coal into voter's stockings if he didn't give preponderantly
Republican owned small business free grant money by the hundreds of billions.
There is nothing constitutionally agreeable about giving free money to
preferred special interests instead of to all citizens individually and equally
more or less.
In a sense Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Maine Senator Susan Collins are already neo-crats that vote blue on most feminine issues and numerous other Democrat agenda items that reach the Senate. Senator Murkowski does support the pirate team plunder of ANWR of course while Senator Collins may demure. The loss of the two Georgia Senate seats in the runoff election will seal the deal of U.S. Senate control by the Democrat party for the better part of a decade. Early voting starts December 14th. https://georgia.gov/vote-2020-runoff-elections
The actual election day is 5 January 2021.
The U.S. Government for several decades has turned toward giving
hundreds of billions and sometimes trillions of dollars to corporations and
small businesses asymmetrically regarding equal allocation of government
giveaways to all citizens. In a way it could be said that sucks. Voters may not need to wait until January to determine discern if Senators are pips or pugs.
