MY FUNERAL: FORETOLD
My last journey will start out at my front door
I’ll be helped downstairs, and, they’ll stand me erect
to navigate the right angled turn in the stairs
for they’re narrow and my stretcher will be wide.
Perhaps words will be spoken,
which will drop one by one and follow me into the great silence;
perhaps the musical patter of rain falling on pavement
will muffle the boisterous cries of children,
on the long last journey,
while sad light lays on their gay colored coats.
And, garbage cans solemn and still line the street;
by perpendicular mountainous geometric buildings,
past lamps of every size and shape,
floor lamps, end-table lamps, hall lamps, reading lamps,
small lamps, tiffany lamps, porch lamps street lamps;
soft lights, one way lights, three way lights,
vanity lights, energy efficient lights, chandelier lights,
translucent lights, all of them extinguished,
as silvered light glistens from rain soaked leaves;
and I pass through the door there,
I’ve come so far, down terraced steps,
by friendly faded furniture, past tightly shut wood shutters,
antiques, a great gallery of art prints,
and sculptures frozen in their grief bidding goodbye
through the valley of expressionless house fronts.
I proceed, on my way
among the herd of aggressive cars
crowding eagerly to experience all that they may
of the great expanse of wonders that spread out everywhere.
Through these I proceed, I was a poet.
I’m a winter filtered sunbeam finding a home
in a raindrop prism,
dazzling briefly, before being extinguished in the dark gray day,
with expired lights
that lay scattered across the variegated green valley floor
looking like stars that had died and fallen from the sky,
loosing their light they’d died down at dawn,
and shone radiant in the firmament no more.
I am, according to convention, to be placed in an expensive ambulance
and taken to a remote place, where birth and death occur.
The children will stop for a moment and follow the departing vehicle with their eyes
down the narrow suburban street they’ll stream
into
a wider larger river –
They’re naturally curious about death,
removed from life, isolated, we’ve institutionalized it, too,
like so much else in life. The windows watch me go,
the front porch sees me off,
in this home I dared to be happy.
After their reflections depart, the neighbors will go
off on their mutual separate ways, to school, to work, to play,
to make love, to shop, to sleep,
and for those who are lucky to dream;
but, I digress,
I depart observing that it’s not good,
the dark day sinks into an oblivious night:
and the sick day died.
AUTUMN ARRIVAL
Its interesting to observe that most
of the beauty seen while traveling
is derived from a heightened state
of awareness adopted while we wander:
witness the exterior of the Reims Cathedral
covered with fenestrations and igneous features,
while crowds of sculptures, beneath cloud blanketed skies,
flood the heart; light and shadows flicker like flames,
animating the figures who seem to restively stir;
and, greet us across the great gaping
discontinuous centuries, approached
along a golden spiral of perspective,
anticipated after these many pregnant years.
HOME TO ME
The night is sullen, as storm clouds vent their anger.
Is everything all right, as you travel through the night?
The sky tent the darkness with its anguished cries.
Sleep refuses to know me, it’s lost its way out there in the deluge.
My anxious glance keeps abandoning the book and scurries to the door,
where it passes in short forays out into the sad, glistening, dark.
There is nothing before me.
Where can you be? The inky indigo river reflects
broken images of golden street lights
flicker like fractured flames.
What empty black hi-way do you wander?
What distant row of indifferent huddling buildings do you hurry past?
Through what gloom sepulchered labyrinth do you wander
traversing your long weary way home to me?
I KEEP ON
Dear Mom, what poor relation, ‘ol spinster of an aunt,
or, what disfigured grotesque, intellectually bankrupt
neighbor didn’t get their invite to my name day celebration
that they’ve gone and sent me this hag of a white goddess instead?
She’s as good an old fright as any three witches
his erudite bloody ghost stories ill fated stars orbiting.
Mom, who was so willing to let her fine young sons
march off to greed driven war,
heroically knowing how fetching she looked in black;
besides, past a certain size children are decidedly less cute,
as indiscreetly revealing when a woman has reached a certain age
that’s before the ravages of age reveal the past fact no longer sustains the present
dubious intentions.
The hurricane didn’t blow itself out
that night, when we were left bereft of the Irish rainbow bubbles
who were lost in a
where angry
and the three sisters, with one shared eye,
served us desert and decided our fate;
and, a vision of loveliness, like fireflies dancing in twilight’s gloom,
where
without the strength and courage to stand up and defend his own dreams.
My mother sent me to dance lessons and music lessons,
and taught me to be an anachronism disdaining mediocrity,
and to be strong and endure the hours of ennui practicing.
My ear tuned in, to the neighborhood kids playing outside - free;
and, I learned, self taught, from the great school of the streets,
where I received a Phd. and earned honors, but not from the instructors she paid.
I woke one day and fell into a dream
floating through the dawn’s blue temple corridors,
where I persist with my beautiful noble dream.
In a colorful flotilla of balloons I float above a million flowers
keeping on keeping on beneath my predestined star
sailing over my country ‘tis of thee towards the last sunset, where the silent somber
Sphinx waits.
Past Celius son of Triptolemus, as the current crop of Siren’s called;
by scarlet rivers and golden fields I persisted,
steadfast as a god, in pursuit of my dream.
Day and night, while the chorus of birds sings your praise
they stand and wait, beside the archaic stone steps that I love,
faces blank, even as the green fuse ignites and Spring explodes into vibrant color
and obdurate shadows obliterate the Sun,
sinking fast, as the shadows grow bold,
in this kingdom of Night, where your desolation bore me, too;
and I dauntless, through the
I stay resolute to the end,
no faltering frown will ever betray my Trust,
with the company of good friends, I keep on....
I WHO HAVE NOTHING, GIVE YOU MY HEART
Love of you makes me melancholy,
this ancient eternally young Earth;
the evening sheds its sunset splendors
and embraces dark fragrant wisteria, lily of the valley, and lilacs
the serene silent isolation as the torrent slows through rose gardens
that marks the beginning of its disintegration, even before reaching its estuary.
But, over the vast distances to your boundless shores,
I hear the sweet sound of your lovely voice;
fearfully calling fragile from the road wrapped in darkness,
and, I know the profound intimate sadness that comes from wisdom,
and wanders among the ephemeral dieing light and is gone.
RAIN SEASON
In rain drenched roads lined with smooth stones
may the moments be rare when evil vixens’ conflagrations
reduce to ruins incarnadine lives.
The instant lightening erupts and ignites
incinerating the heart, as fire entombs
the pyre pulse of the trembling hare;
the last despairing hesitation
of love’s vertiginous birth, yielding a fate true as Death;
which deceitfully reassure, while singed seeds
germinate cruel exultation.
From black subterranean pools,
where the brutal mirror reflects foul denials
and imprisons humanity,
shy lights illuminate the sheltered night’s solace;
tar trap quagmires, adumbrate my fertile velvet darkness,
the silent straining isolation,
and thunderheads that swell above unguent tides,
where roots of rage reside, diurnally exposed, partially buried in their filth.
Lucent flowering foliage,
immobilized butterflies beneath
high flying clouds of fire flies.
Black glistening vistas
of dark glinting leaves, line tarmac streams,
in this season of antimony and rain baptized shores.
‘Till the chronicles of fortitude and perseverance ends,
at the gold christened sunset that floods blood red;
and, where mysterious surging winds sonorously sing,
to pathetic shell hardened hearts.
NEXT STOP
The skyscrapers stale exhalations plunge plumes of steam in the morning air;
you’ve returned to the deep flowing
effects the city with insipid bipeds, who walk with its slow steady flow.
Yes, the mid-sized city retains a provincial feel, with picturesque trees
that steep the streets in dark pools of shade.
one simply shrugs off the shackles of oppressive opinions
from blind staring people who stupidly stare uncomprehending.
Sunk in an anesthetized twilight, the shuttering eye records events
that leave a body stripped naked of skin one massive exposed nerve.
A continent apart from where the great gracious bell first broke
beneath the fell stroke of despicable opulent oppression, some centuries later
suggests: the best causes still require eternal vigilance to retain what their caution won
and was our bequest, least we prove the fallibility of mankind
under the strong affliction of ignorance lead by corrupt factional folly.
Pigeons parade through the festive decorated waterfront at
to observe if shadows produce public malfeasance,
while the city of bridges strive to repair the ravages of age and neglected,
and commerce continues although choked by congestion,
where efforts are made to improve its art beneath green backed hills.
Curious conglomerate architectural types combine concrete canyons with brick buildings
and the passing beauty’s brown tresses are reminiscent
of the Mediterranean beauty of yester year, as she plies her trade
in front of transparent store fronts,
like another fallen angel vestige of faction’s fallen prospects steeped in deceit.
A person is reduced to a pen’s pointed phrase squirming on the page,
to pulleys intersecting non-Euclidean sets, and mysteries of deep symbols
sliding down slippery slopes, to the tools of beautiful phrases commas, colons and
semi-colons
before easing into a complete stop. The atrophying language of an illiterate age
handicapped by TV; and, never bothered with the written word and its deliberate
reflection
in pursuit of Truth, or any of the subverting virtues.
The blind pen scaffolds its phrase building a parallel universe,
where its life blood of ink is capable of producing
for those willing to throw down their gauntlet to the cruel and indifferent public
and scale the high hills where it resides,
in an effort unrelated to fame or fortune for the exclusive benefit of a wise few.
Rather, than a callused hand who holds the wet words
inside smirking at what it can’t understand, before casting the parchment aside
to be absorbed by the cold drizzle of another gray day.
The port parallels the river in juxtaposition to the arterial tracks and tarmac paths.
The flowing streams form network webs etched over the earth.
A scattering smattering of short jackets replaces the long solemn raincoats,
as more than molars get a drilling these days
with services provided ranging to factional prostitution,
but in the end who pays the bill, and at what exorbitant price
for today’s root canals and worn crowns that accompanies the decay
that depicts symptoms of coming decrepitude and worse,
the sadistic torments brought on by inflamed gums, more honest than the spilled blood.
More suction, please.....! Speechless, sitting in terror,
inspired by the intense sounding hum of the dentist’s drill.
And, the pleasant smiling harpies lead you to your fate,
each looking hard as Death, behind false fair faced facades.
Along the river a Mexican holiday marks the coming of Spring for city cliff dwellers
and a never ending stream of disguised commercial events –
business is dying, while the improved prospects reported in the propaganda
never seem to trickle down to the people in the streets –
while right wing pimps and their prostituted and perverted children
work the human herds convinced that the malevolence directed at the young
somehow makes sense, but in the end either conditions one to be oppressed
or to be cruel, sadistic and corrupt motivated by deceit driven hate.
Alternating showers and sunshine play chaos along the verge
as the breeze whispers its secrets to the fountain
that’s still to cold to reflect glinting sunshine, rainbows and children’s laughter;
and, the towering hotels and restaurants and professional buildings,
whose doors open on interrelated parallel universes,
and whose skins look leprous as blotched wet cement,
while tall trees stand wondering at the goings on down here.
A thousand pieces of sky reflect back from blind windows
above the doors that slam shut, unless unctuous shop assistants offer their assistance
in ritualized social conventions akin to iguana head bowing
as strange as they are empty and meaningless.
The prefabricated lives one encounters in clothes that are actually uniforms
complete with accompanying ranks, that determine social status,
and have nothing to do with what and who you actually are
out side of a shallow superficial social matrix,
there are a couple of models that one actually starts to prefer.
The stars are eclipsed by the light pollution,
so one can’t determine if their fate is determined by them;
and, the moon looks down like a lost street light,
peering furtively around the corner of a building.
And, in the streets people are staring straight ahead,
while furtively watching each other looking for the errant stumble
and unguarded human moment, for life is torn in half.
And, even ample cash can’t repair the shards of shattered beautiful dreams.
The concrete cliffs resound with the angry sounds of bellowing traffic.
At intersections great fields of gray asphalt lay prostrate, where the web strands
all go in alternating one way directions, and scar your fox hole skulls.
In front of a municipal building, or bank, stand the ubiquitous sculptures
that are larger than life, and so real their surreal, as symbolic embodiment of the
neo-fascist times.
These insidious objects are the antithesis of sublime,
in fact as contrived and wretched as the last worn out rhyme.
And, whoever likes that sordid sort of thing is welcome to it.
Patrol cars are parked, others ride bicycles, motorcycles
and a rare few still sit on top of horses, or walk the beat,
as currents of humanity course around them
sinister is the way they’re all conditioned to their presence
not as public employees, but as invokers of some unseen sinister power.
A radio drones on telling people some lie that they’ve been conditioned to believe,
like how their supposed to unnaturally relate to power.
Unfortunately the Republican Revolution that converted government into a conduit
for wealth to pass from the public’s pockets to the private accounts of a fortunate few,
abuses power; & predictably doesn’t work, and now no knows what their supposed to do.
But, a very few.
Only, power is ignorant, too; and, refuses to see
the writing on the wall, like so much semi-literate graffiti.
There are cities one won’t see, others one won’t see again,
this is home and I’ve returned here to stay.
The sun broken into a million pieces reflects from windows,
where the doors are still shut fast.
sometimes in the morning they, like the buildings,
disappear into a thick blanket of fog.
And, while we may not see where we are going,
its here that our lips first pressed together,
and I wrote my first fledgling poems.
There are tired squares and weary parks
jostling multitudes stream down chute streets on dense packed busses
and people speaking homogenous oppression from a
It is here that I’ve come, where I’ve raised my family;
and, if its God’s will, I’ll make my stand, ‘till the day I depart,
to where ever it is we go from here.
THE MAGIC BOX
The sense of smell contains a key,
where strong fragrances unlock faded memories
for then even the vitriolic transparencies are porous, in spite of being stopped;
and occasionally, some spring cleaning encounters a Pandora’s box.
The old hinge groans and grumbles, or lies vanquished,
in some forgotten exiled corner, where lacerating sharp edged stress
of old dormant odors recumbently slumbers in the brain,
a magic box returns resurrected intact to the domain of light, again,
and, across the dusty expanse of time the long sleeping aromas creep
emerging from soft shadows the trembling fragile figures seem asleep
a crowded throng of pleasant thoughts, a chrysalis
of ghosts of happier times, ensconced hidden in shadowy embraces they reside.
Their wings first feeble fledgling fluttering begins to stir
burnished gold, roseate tinged and tinted azure.
A memory that brings a friendly smile flutters here
the furtive vitreous humor darts warily about prodded by fear.
Stabbed by a cattle prod the icy soul inches toward the frozen dark pit,
where from the silent majority many figures emerge from an icy veiling mist
arising from the vast void the slumbering ghost
the old recondite joy of a passion once loved and long lost.
So too, when stolen, by the deliberate vanity driven foul deceit of tyrannical oppression,
from mankind’s memories transformed into the bogus heinous bogey man of the bad
impression,
an empty pouch decorated with the familiar five pointed jagged leaf left carefully placed
in a safe keep,
dilapidated and deserted the dust settled on my modest belief,
I’ll be your sepulcher beloved, pretended pestilence!
The witness of your beauty and happiness,
sweet felicitous clouds mixed by angels kind hands
gift from God on high, boon of my life and death, my heart has inhaled, and remained
true to you!
The views and ideas discussed and developed in these essays are the express opinions of their author.
RUMOR MILL
I
Radical Right Faction Republican primary election strategy
The radical right faction dominated Republican Party political strategy for the primary elections was to deliberately deceive the public by presenting a false view of plurality in the party, brought about by what were to appear to be bitterly contested party
contests for high profile offices like governor and senator. This can be substantiated by two facts of political life. First, check the voting record for the Republican Party on important votes for issues that mattered to the radical right faction interests and, from the national level in Washington D. C. to the state levels of government, you’ll find an unvarying homogeneity by the Republicans in their voting records; if the radical right faction Republican Party were a diverse national political party, instead of a displaced political party owned and dominated by one faction, which had bought and paid for it as the saying goes, and, their voting record would be one of consistent diversity among the Republican Party members, which would reflect and substantiate its false claim of diversity. Second, where does the funding for Republican Party candidates currently come from, in our state there is at least one PAC under the control of a prominent Republican Party elected official, whose publicly stated that the over one million dollar PAC was for the express purpose of financing and controlling every candidate who runs for office on the Republican Party ticket in the state, and further, that no person running for office would hold an opinion that the people financing the PAC would disagree with, which obviously precludes party diversity and plurality. In terms of a bottom line reality, is it reasonable to expect an active well funded faction to support a candidate who is not under their complete control? The consequence is that regardless of primary machinations designed to fool an honest trusting public, there is not a potential independent Republican candidate who has a snow balls chance in hell of being elected, in a primary as the Republican Party candidate, when one considers the current overwhelming commitment by the radical right faction to unfair funding advantages. This means that no one, except people considered acceptable to the radical right faction, or people who are malleable politicians under their control, will ever successfully run for office as Republicans! The fact that again and again, all over the country, the nation was exposed to these bogus shows, numerically disproportionate to bitter primary contests in previous election years, under radical right faction dominance of the Republican Party in the post puppet-president actor Reagan years, is demonstrative that the radical right faction clearly is committed to a course of overwhelming the American political process with money, this superiority in campaign contributions, when combined with ownership and dominance of the media who then function as an adjunct propaganda presence to the radical right faction’s flagrant abuse of political power, is destroying Democracy in America. Public, caveat emptor – buyer beware! The ramifications seem to be that the radical right faction has learned nothing from their failed Republican Revolution, and it is reasonable to expect a continuation of the same deceitful based behavior that has lead to the exploitation of the USA and a whole host of disastrous results that in part includes the Largest National Debt in the history of the World, the World’s Largest Trade Deficits, plummeting standards of living, free rides to the insurance industry by privatizing the Medicare System that lead to ten million more Americans loosing any form of health care during the Republican Party’s last administration and left Americans stuck with the most expensive health care to operate and the one rated to be the most unfair in the World; and, a free ride was provided to the investment banking industry, by trying to privatize Social Security, even though six short years ago we witnessed a stock market crash that resulted in the collective loss of 75% of the total stock market’s value, and a privatized Social Security that will result in a much less stable stock market than the one currently supported by a public backed Social Security System, whose rate of return is the same as Wall Streets over the last 100 years that records have been kept, so there is no financial benefit to the individual investor for privatizing Social Security and increasing private investor risks, while destabilizing the World’s monetary markets, too, which would also reintroduce the specter of destitution among our nation’s Senior Citizen population, and recurring Depressions with durations greater than ten years and deeper than anything yet experienced; and, the radical right Republican’s unanimous advocacy of another unfair, poorly designed, tax cut for millionaires, when the country staggers under the burden of unprecedented levels of debt due to the incompetent stupidity and avarice of the radical right faction dominated Republican Party, which accrued a national debt greater than the preceding 200 years of government activity combined, and caused repeated waves of cost push inflation with nothing effective being done; and, their support of job flight policies, which favors outsourcing American prosperity; and, the radical right faction Republican Party stance that publicly advocates a local response to a national epidemic bird flu crises, which will cause millions of unnecessary deaths while costing Americans millions of extra dollars; and, the three phony foreign wars, which cost us $ 300 Billion. The universal desolation that the nation experiences from the radical right faction Republican’s exploitative policies, which have ravaged this land that had the highest standard of living on the face of the earth prior to the radical right Republican Revolution, and which now confronts Third World standards of living for 80% of its work force is a shameful national scandal. The same form of deceit that resulted in a fraudulent administration that didn’t win the first Presidential election, and extensive evidence suggests lost the subsequent second Presidential election, too, resulted in a Republican administration whose lying, to the public about Iraq’s being involved with terrorism and producing nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, started a $300 billion dollar war of aggression that has made the USA viewed as the biggest threat to World peace; and, it is said to be very profitable for the president’s family’s investments, in the industrial military and oil sectors of the economy. But, to end this digression about the radical right faction Republican Party and it’s record of incompetence and greed driven failure. The radical right faction Republican Party efforts at duplicity during the most recent primary gives the American public evidence that it has learned nothing and hasn’t repudiated it’s duplicitous political ploys, what it merely is dong is trying to move on past the present Bush cabal to further levels of factional incompetent deceit and avaricious corruption, because tragically that seems to be all that it knows how to do.
II
The effects of contemporary faction on social, political and economic factors.
-Bird
Much
has been said lately, even in the media, about the dire prospects and inept
response of the radical right faction displaced Republican Party dominated
The
radical right faction Republican puppet-president
In
the course of these essays its repeatedly been pointed out that under the
radical right faction Republican Revolution the function of government is to
generate large amounts of money for the few ruling elite of the radical right
faction, while smaller sums are corruptly dispersed to their supporters who are
the subordinate tyrants. All government
administrators, elected officials, and the government’s hired administrative
personnel make decisions based on the advice given from individuals who are
consulted and who in turn make their decisions based on the best available
information in order to meet their government’s basic objectives. This is how all governments work, whether a
dictatorship, or oligopoly, or democracy.
We can not help but wonder when decisions are repeatedly made that
exploit the public good, and repeatedly sacrifice it for private gain; about
the individuals who are ambitious, and who wish to advance their careers and
advise courses of action that generate the greatest return, but at the cost of
such ruinous devastation; or, follow what computer models dictate in situations
that they don’t adequately understand, if at all, but whose results are ruinous
for the nation. In the case of Iraq,
computer models indicated a certain level of profits could be made in the
industrial military sector, further it provided an opportunity to advance the
radical right faction Republican Revolution making large amounts of money by
dismantling essential government services and forming privatized programs in
stead, where government functions as a conduit from the public’s collective
pockets to the private accounts of a avaricious corrupt few factional
leaders. The over all economy will form
a symmetrical structure, which is a large cumulative-circular-causatory-spiral,
in a negative direction; it will become a static pattern, which will impair the
performance of the nation’s economy.
This injurious pattern, when combined with the negative impact of
factional government spending, overwhelms the previous prevalent business cycle
and the self-correcting characteristics found in its negative phase. We can’t help wonder, however, if citizens
don’t look fondly back at the previous government, nor trace their problems to
the consequences developing from the rise of the radical right faction
Republican Revolution and its first puppet-president actor
In an endeavor to prevent this contract from being broken, on the part of the puppet-president Bush and the set of factional interests who conspired under Rowe to elect the chief executive (in accordance to the rules stipulated, and by the administrative officers and personal advisors to the puppet-president), the bi-caramel legislature, and judiciary, which are the three estates delineated by the US Constitution to conduct public business, of which the president is the one delegated to perform the daily administrative functions among the other duties of it’s office. However, it’s the function of the other two branches of government to preserve their private autonomy, and those two estates, consequently, are under no dependence, except for those specified and delineated in the Constitution. The principle known as the Separation of Powers will initially serve to retain their independence, even during the worst administrations; because, also, the Legislature has the power of the purse and it can control the government budget, like the radical right faction Republican’s irresponsibly tried to do, just over a decade ago, voting unanimously to hold government hostage, by refusing to sign the necessary money allocations to fund government programs unless the then Democratic President Clinton privatized the Social Security System, which he resolutely refused to do ‘till the radical right Republicans eventually bowed to public pressure and backed down, and demonstrating once more how, within pragmatic political limits, the legislature can control the government’s operational budget, which is prepared by the President’s administration; and, it must ratify any and all wars, with the President allowed the power to initiate belligerencies only for a brief time, which it has done three consecutive times during the current puppet-president’s last term in office with the Republicans voting unanimously in favor on all three occasions; and, it is supposed, through a process involving committees and sub-committees exercised under the auspices of parliamentary procedures to assiduously deliberate and carefully conduct the public’s business. And, the Judiciary’s chief function conferred by decree of the US Constitution and affirmed by legal precedence during the Marshal Supreme Court, is known as Judicial Review, which determines whether the business of government is conducted in accordance with the strict guidelines established by the US Constitution; and, it is a prudent process confirmed by legal precedence and sanctified by time, ‘till the injudicious behavior of the radical right faction Republican Revolution, which deliberately has sought to politicize the Federal Judiciary, with the head of the Senate Judiciary committee publicly stating that no member of the Federal Courts would be approved who didn’t subscribe to the radical right faction dominated Republican Party ideological beliefs. And, it is believed by many that the radical right faction will inappropriately continue to try to dominate government after they are voted out of office, by means of an intemperate and erroneous application of Judicial Review, and thus govern through the Federal Court System. However, the Federal Court System will work so long as the structural integrity remains intact, and the people’s business conducted by an honest Legislature and reviewed appropriately by a non-politicized honorable judiciary.
In
an endeavor to prevent this contract from being broken between the people and
its government, with the radical right faction Republican Party ignoring the
aggregate political principles of the nation, so that the election of the
Senators and members of the House of Representatives will be free, and its been
one of the Legislature’s primary responsibilities for the last 200 plus years
to carefully guard over this essential freedom, and to keep it safe by removing
all non-appropriate influences by the Executive branch, and prevent all
corrupting influences from the nation’s free elections. The founding fathers have wisely established
the Constitution’s bi-caramel approach to properly conduct government’s
legislative functions with their procedures that utilize parliamentary
protocol, and the combination of formal procedures and the plastic informal
methods employed between the executive and legislative branches to provide the
means to effectively and hopefully honestly conduct the public’s business,
which is designed to protect the public’s fundamental freedoms from the ill
effects of bad plans based on ignorance and incompetence, and the evil designs
of short sighted avaricious and corrupt individuals whose degrading effects
drain government and ravage the nations resources for their pernicious private
benefit. The recent attempt to increase
the biggest National Debt in the history of the World - while spending $300
billion on a phony foreign war, for increased industrial-military profits and
to steal Iraq oil revenues, without sufficient funds to pay for the war of
aggression, and simultaneously try to give unfair incompetent tax cuts to
millionaires, to provide a pretense for stealing American’s retirement money
from the Social Security System – from an enormous amount of eight Trillion (
$8,000,000,000,000) dollars over the next five years to a staggering $ 10
Trillion ( $ 10,000,000,000,000 ) dollars is the kind of fiscal stupidity that
justly should be called absurd and it impairs governments ability to function,
damages the economy, and is designed to enslave the US government to those
members who own the lions share of the National debt. It clearly serves to increase the radical
right faction Republican Revolution, which is a proven failure at all levels of
government, and demonstrates in conjunction with the irresponsible greed driven
plan to sit idly by doing nothing and thus sentencing some millions of
Americans to their untimely horrible deaths, factional malfeasance that’s
devastatingly injurious. This exercise
in fiscal absurdity amounts to voluntarily reducing revenue to a government
that hasn’t enough, so American millionaires won’t pay their fair share for
government that now almost exclusively benefits them, while viciously
exploiting others. It will artificially
elevate interests rates, and it will impair economic improvements that would’ve
created badly needed jobs and produced revenues essential for a broad based
prosperity in stead of a short term tax cut that mainly benefits people whose
annual income exceeds a quarter of a million dollars, but the real
beneficiaries are those lucky few whose annual income exceeds a million a year,
a small number who won’t increase consumer demand, or positively effect the
marginal venture capital available, and thus the economy, which is why its not
only unfair its poorly designed, too. It
not only injures the economy in the ways we’ve previously mentioned, but it
will drive up interest rates, which will further damage the consumer demand
that is based on credit that large portions of the American economy is
dependant on, and it shortens the business communities’ economic planning that
will impair job development, profits and the future returns that will further
negatively impact the already hurt returns on future venture capital, and
exacerbates the constriction of wealth problem, all of which will lend to
extending and expanding the depression that the majority of Americans are
experiencing, rather than the good economic news that’s based on exploitive
profits that ravages the nation and damages our future prospects. The only positive function that it performs
is to clearly demonstrate why the radical right faction Republican Revolution
is a bust, and it doesn’t work for the vast majority of American citizens
confronted with prospects that include job flight, plummeting standards of
living, and cost push inflationary prices.
In a word it ignores the Separation of Powers by overwhelming government
elections with lies from an adjunct media and a monetary advantage that
prevents “free” elections during an age of packaged candidates that buys the
Republican politicians who get elected to a small majority in both Houses of Congress,
and thus compels government to serve the power of money, rather than the
interests of people; and, while this important transformation occurs a central
fact is lost on the manipulated herd, it’s still the stored value of the
people’s labor whose power money represents: a fact essential to remember! The information I obtained is from the
propaganda machine, but it was on page A11 at the very bottom of a full page of
text written at the end of the article, which is known in the trade as burying
the news. In elections we must re-assert
the will of the people, so that the US Constitution can again be free to
perform its essential functions, all that can be done must be done within the
legal provisions that our forefathers wisely provided, to secure the interests
of the people, by maintaining the integrity of their elected representatives
and understand that during this period of failure each election provides “we
the people” with a chance to amend the damage and correct the wrongs, by
altering the choice from the Republican Party’s radical right faction ploys
that injure and destroy all money interests other than their own, and they
bribe people with greed, corruption and perverted appetites, like in ancient
Rome where bread and blood (free bread, gladiator fights and circus shows) were
provided to distract the public and entertain the plebian foundation for their
Empire, which was once a freedom based Republic. It is essential we expel a bad radical right
faction Republican puppet-president, as a bumper sticker wisely states a
village in
The three branches of government can never rest on a one point base, as it has pretended to do, excluding Democratic President Clinton’s two terms in office, for the last 20 years, without falling from grace. The Republican voting record clearly disgracefully demonstrates that the Republican Party is no longer a (see first essay) pluralistic national party, but rather it represents nothing but wanton right wing factional interests and their shameful subordinate tyrants. There is no proper control on the degraded government, because the radical right factional money has disgraced and overwhelmed the theory behind the US Constitution, which has degenerated into this deplorable intolerable state, which has exclusively exercised exploitive policies that pursued their selfish interests at everyone else’s expense, in foreign affairs Iraq and Afghanistan has already cost America $ 300 Billion, and, in domestic policy a combination of incompetent spending and irresponsible tax cuts will continue increasing our National Debt by an additional two Trillion dollars during a time when an anticipated bird flu epidemic will create a health care crises, which when finally finished their greed is projected to murder millions of men, women and children and cost untold Billions more in unnecessary costs, all resulting in an almost universal disapprobation and abhorrence. It is possible for some good to arise from this almost universal destruction, if the American public learns a lesson on the evil effects of faction and its tyrannical and iniquitous manifestations, if we heed and re-learn the wisdom and virtue of previous ages, and are afforded the happy opportunity to apply these lessons to our current circumstances, and the radical right faction somehow reverse their current ruinous direction and acquiesce to the resurgence of Democracy and the free environment necessary for it to prosper, and do not try and prevent it, which will lead to discontinuous disruptions disastrous in their effects. But, in all other respects we need to recognize the basic need to re-create the pre-requisite characteristics that produced the US Constitution and made the American government a logical organic extension from that environment. The people need to reassert their individualism and identify with larger social units and public institutions. The political parties need to be diverse and inclusive with equal access to the media and they need to represent real people meeting the needs of the communities and regions, rather than be a packaged product produced for mass consumption; and, our government must represent a composite of concerns each competing and contributing for available resources in positive and constructive ways that benefit all parties. They must decide what they’re about, and, whether they represent reasonable and just people, and what characteristics are important beyond mere prosperity, which should form the basis for future growth and development; and, the Liberty to optimize happiness and the efficient utilization of available resources in creative ways beneficial to all, in building pluralistic communities with active members who are virtuous, just, strong, independent, temperate, tolerant and prudent, which are essential to stability and progress; even between antagonistic groups that respect everyone’s Civil Rights, which are fundamental to all and must be bravely defended, earned, and protected, ‘till we’ve deserved once more our Democracy. Or, will we become like the radical right faction and it’s subordinate tyrants, who are deceitful, cruel, hypocritical and malevolent sycophants engaging in sadistic and perverse acts, mistaking an animalistic cunning for wisdom, as they have in becoming evil and wicked, while deplorably basing all their worth on wealth; or, deceitfully steal control of an ineffectual system erroneously trying to lie and rationalize the primitive abuse of power in a sad degenerative state, which injures others as they destroy themselves? The nation needs to know what does subordination inexorably do to a land, and how only by means of more Liberty can the ills that periodically occur to a state be cured to the benefit of all. And, we need to redeem our government, by a timely resurrection of the core values of Democracy, so that we may leave a pragmatic legacy based on a resurgence of wisdom and virtue in our present age; so that we may, having earned our heritage, pass it on unimpaired, safe and secure, to our posterity, to find out if they in turn will prove themselves worthy of this – their most precious gift; or, will they be like us, and temporarily drop the ball only to learn from the mistakes made and demonstrate the fortitude, the wisdom, and the courage to start again.
It’s by this pluralistic state where all classes of mankind merge their interests into one integrated Democratic system based on Civil Rights, Equality and Liberty, which provides personal safety and private property security; because, Liberty when combined with our species’ natural log rhythm distribution pattern, (that provides our species with the greatest chance to survive unforeseeable events like the bird flu epidemic) unites to promote a safe, stable society that optimizes progress and prosperity for everyone. The overwhelming majority will establish a moderate middle class, who will live safe and free, productive and prosperous lives that will form a stable ballast for society and a large market for business’ goods and services, too. The few individuals who reside at the second standard deviation from the societal mean, will be free to live in the creative sub-culture environments that will facilitate and promote the creative contributions from society’s most innovative members, which will optimally produce society’s progress and prosperity at sustainable levels, which in turn maximizes society’s Happiness for all classes of society. Happiness under the safe and prudent supervision of the US Constitution overseeing our government, which is the oldest and largest Democracy preserved inviolate and intact, brought back from the brink of extinction, after suffering from sadistic torments and cruel violations by radical right faction’s corrupt and vice ridden subordinate tyrants, to its original basic principles, and improved to account for the potential negative impact of the electronic media and huge constrictions of wealth, and, narrowly avert the radical right faction Republican Revolution generated death throws of Democracy. Its by this efficient scenario that the nation will overcome a weak and wicked radical right faction Republican puppet-president whose been aided and abetted by debauched sycophants in the radical right faction Republican purchased Legislatures, where the real damage has been done with exorbitantly over inflated National Debt, and devastatingly injurious World’s Largest Trade deficits demonstrative of incompetent exploitive policies afflicting the US public, while the radical right factional interests prospered on the nation’s remains, and the exorbitant devastating effects of a $ 300 Billion phony war effort ratified by a Republican majority in both houses of the Legislature that reduced it into the dubious role of a rubber stamp; while, the myth of a pluralistic Republican Party was eliminated, by their members voting in mass on each of the preceding measures. A corrupt Congress has had the negative effect on the country’s people literally converting virtue into vice with an endless stream of malfeasance involving virtually all the Republican Party Leadership positions, and most of their replacements, like a recent instance involving the head of the Republican administrative staff and 20 members of Congress to only mention one scandal, where extremist elements among the population exceed all bounds of temperate propriety with cruel and sadistic operations that are always immoral and often criminal, which reflects the Republican dominated Congress who seem to transgress every time they’re tempted, and, why shouldn’t they when exploitive policies of the radical right faction controlled Republican Party ravage the nation. A just confidence in a safe and staid Congress utilizing established methods of redress to grievances to correct wrongs had prior to the radical right faction Republican Revolution resulted in a free and prosperous people who didn’t need oppressive measures to hold society under artificial restraint by a carefully orchestrated campaign of devious heinous events designed to distract the people and erode our precious Civil Rights. The cries of our people and the legalized terror inflicted by self-important radical right bigots who would yolk society to their egotistical opinions have degenerated themselves and society to the point where we are beggaring and enslaving the nation with their corrupt oppression, in futile misguided efforts to compensate for a lack of ability in a country reeling under plummeting standards of living; and, the people are obliged to subordinate their honest opinions, to the caprice of a minority who on occasion lead a manipulated majority. In a word, our nation must re-establish a government that functions in accord with the US Constitution and it can’t accomplish this without re-creating the social environment that produced them, which is not a very likely prospect considering the most recent absurd responses in incompetent and irresponsible tax measures and even more ridiculous and irresponsible refusal to prudently respond to the lethal health care crises, by manufacturing the bird flu vaccine and dispersing it at the cost effective national level. The radical right faction imperils the nation with societal ills and miseries that are avoidable, which only a timely return to Democratic principles of government, by the people for the people, consistently advocated by the Democratic Party, which protects Civil Rights and Liberties, too, can avert; rather, than the radical right faction dominated Republican Party, which injures and destroys and is committed to exploiting the public whenever possible, subjecting the people to a rising tide of minor nuisances and a few as large as they are destructive. It has now degenerated to a critical point, where even with an adjunct media aiding factional abuse of power by the Republican controlled government, the people oppose the radical right Republican government in unprecedented numbers; because, of its unprecedented egregiously weak and wicked pursuit of incompetent policies and programs that damage the nation, under an extremist stewardship that’s universally corrupt.
By universally recognized government structures and practices America can avert and amend the destruction managed by extreme radical right faction Republican elements, aided by the fifth column cohorts in the Democratic Party (15 Democrats voted for the Republican tax cut measure that represented welfare for millionaires, no Republican voted against it) and no Republicans have gone on record and voiced opposition to not providing bird flu vaccine for the nation by the Federal government, and, the same record of unthinking uniform support for a $ 300 Billion phony war, again, such blind uniformity of support on three widely diverse issues defies any credibility for a claim of Republican diversity. Such an absolutist government manned by brainless sycophants are governments of arbitrary will, and thus, of all injurious extreme governments they are the most exploitative and the most absurd. They function in direct opposition to the goals of good Democratic government, for they are committed to optimally profiting from all government activities, which directs them inevitably to the most injuriously exploitive alternatives; because, it provides the greatest rate of returns for the radical right faction’s ruling elite, who view government as a means of making large amounts of wealth, rather than meeting the needs of its citizens; and, so it’s rule is conducted by subjecting the weakest and poorest to the will of the strongest, in a duplicitous government, where the few dominate a manipulated majority. And, in habituating to any absurd form of simplistic government, they establish and provide precedents for the very things that they set out to avoid; and, in an effort to avoid the occasional personal abuse, they‘ve chosen to be continually controlled by an abusive absolutist system: these factional driven governments inherently must degenerate into tyranny, because of the internal dynamics involved: the nature of popular based tyranny is intrinsically extreme and the people that cooperate, either they’re conditioned to be malevolent and vice ridden, or they degenerate into self-important hypocritical bigots callus to the extreme forms of abusive iniquities that they routinely deceitfully employ, for they are enslaved and no longer are free citizens, as the negative effects of power accumulate to those who are the arbitrary afflicters and the recipients; which result in two symbiotic classes of victims, the first becoming grotesque and deformed, and the second superficial sycophants living as shallow distorted shadows, an extension of someone else’s life and who is subject to being abused whenever and for whatever pretence are convenient to fulfill the perverse appetites of the subordinate tyrants. Absolutist Democracy, may seem an artificial construct to uninvolved average citizens who’ve not been conditioned to sadistic norms of radical right factional behavior, but it does reflect nature, as the history of our species demonstrates; and, it does reflect reason, as a degenerative process that has no popular opinions and moral safeguards exercised by a moderating majority that benefit other forms of tyranny demonstrate, like dictator and oligopolies; and so, unchecked passions that overwhelm reason serves the interests of tyrants, who operate behind the scenes, by distracting the active elements of society, who becoming corrupt and iniquitous themselves, can’t criticize the ruling factional elite that surreptitiously function out of the eye of the public, exercising power for their exclusive benefit that always includes compelling society to reflect their vanity driven opinions; and, reason reveals that the extreme and misanthropic features of man that necessitated civilization in the first place, and then required government to protect people’s natural rights and freedoms, and the subsequent Constitutions to protect people from the abuse of power by government, all conspire to necessitate eternal vigilance against the nefarious domestic factions, who are always present and opportunistically waiting in the wings to assert themselves, or push their puppet-flunkies center stage, and who always have the best possible emotional laden excuses. And, so Democracy finds itself in a paradoxical dilemma, because while it’s a necessary evil for people to trust power to some collective body that conducts their business, it’s a source of constant peril for their Civil Rights and Liberties. In any form of government, power can only be exercised negatively, except to protect people’s Civil Rights and Liberties; and, it can only safely be employed broken into small discrete increments, and, under the prudent and careful supervision of ever vigilant disinterested competitive groups who operate the system and conduct government’s daily business in strict accord within the concrete guidelines of a master plan – in short a Constitution. The problem with parties is that they must constantly stand perched as if on the ridgeline of the roof of a house, with a slippery slope on either side, on one side one finds faction and on the other one finds a chaotic state incapable of uniting to conduct public business.
From several observations, all of the same stamp, a consensus has been reasonably drawn that the US is currently experiencing a displaced Democratic government, where all branches of government are controlled by the same set of special right wing factional interests; and, they all reflect the same perspective that produces the same disastrously injurious results, and the damage and destruction done by one branch is negatively compounded by the other two, producing negative results without any moderating restraint. Thus much is evident, and the process is augmented by an adjunct media, which manipulates the majority and helps to generate a rule by deceit supported by a society that is systematically misinformed on every major issue. The question natural to this circumstance is what is to be done to fix each and re-establish a harmonious whole, with balanced contributions from each component appropriate to its legitimate independent functions; this is a perplexing problem that taxes the wisest statesmen, and we are dealing with mere politicians whose mediocre caliber and questionable competence are inherently impaired by the factional system that produces them based on corrupt utility, sycophancy and modest levels of ability that will guarantee continued factional control and prevents independent action contrary to the exploitive policies destructive to society, but beneficial to the factional puppet-masters who purchase their services and who controls their political careers. The political participants under dominance of the radical right faction in the Republican Party face another problem, they are ignorant and dependant on hi- tech services to politically survive, but they have no pre-requisite skill necessary for managing economies and society’s other myriad concerns; and, if the situation wasn’t bad enough, few of our present representative participants have genuine experience with Democratic government, most only know how to govern for the benefit of faction, which is an inferior injurious pattern of government. The only political party with genuine experience and proven ability is the Democratic Party, which is not only a minor party, but has at least 15 members who are fifth column elements, who nefariously support and supply council to the radical right faction. Bolingbroke extensively develops what is required to run a Democracy in his “Political Writings” but, his views are based on post Cromwell England that includes a viable constitution, similar to the one in the USA, but are decidedly out of date, and they do not cover contemporary facts and circumstances. Our system is currently dysfunctional, because of the adjunct media, hi-technology, and extreme concentrations of wealth which all unite to undermine our government. These three factors must be successfully addressed to reform our Democracy and make its daily performance a sustainable derivative function of the US Constitution, and again act as the foundation of our government.
It would be educational and illuminating to distill the great free societies of history Athens, Rome, Great Britain, France and the USA and all the major powers who established empires and exercised dominion over other tertiary states to determine what were their primary principles; and, then group together the areas of agreement, and compare and contrast the observations with the areas of discord; and, next, to try and establish any prevalent patterns which lead to their rise to relative ascendancy, and any factors which contributed to their eventual weakening and final collapse into obscurity. Such a study has been already attempted by Paul Kennedy in his memorable “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers”, and Will and Ariel Durant’s monumental “The Story of Civilization” contains a more generalized illuminating survey of from whence we’ve come, and Tuchmann’s wide array of specific studies, as do their antecedent modern historians Gibbons, Voltaire, Hume, MacCauley, McKay, and Carlyle, and their ancient counterparts Herodotus, Thucidides, Livy, Tacitus, Sallus, Seutonius, and Josephus to only hi-light an illustrious few. These studies should be re-current for two reasons; first, to gain additional insight, and, second, to contemporize a constantly relevant concern. This would function to silence the critics of history, by making it not only relevant to contemporary society, but it would provide imperatively useful material with substantive instructive value by determining what stage of development our nation was at and what interventional strategies would best meet our needs. But, work on this order is too extensive for the modest scope of our inquiries. The author could accomplish this analysis as a subsidiary part to a more generalized study after the fashion of Ibn Khaldun, or Reishauer and Fairbanks in their work on Oriental Civilization that covers China, Korea, and Japan; or, they could concentrate in great detail on this specific topic, like Power’s A Problem From Hell, only the study should be applied to the proposition that the US Constitution is an adequate tool to protect the Civil Rights and Liberties of all our citizens including unpopular scapegoat minorities; and, if it can contain the current great concentrations of wealth, which is accompanied with an array of destructive features inherent with power and particularly with factional onslaughts of the current type; and, how can the organized factional attacks be either diverted or controlled, when facilitated by an adjunct media, overwhelming wealth, and auxiliary populist movements exterior to traditional legitimate government activities that include immoral and criminal operations manned by subordinate tyrants that on occasion tries to displace the independent performance of the law enforcement community; and, if the factional attacks can be prevented from interfering with the autonomous functioning of government, in accordance with the US Constitution, and if the Constitution is able to protect itself.
Initially,
the
Through
Westward expansion and the transformation of the USA from an agricultural
nation based on the vision of Jefferson to an urban industrial society extended
from the ideas established by Marshall and which culminated in the USA once
being the greatest consumer market in the world, our nation’s Civil Rights and
Liberties were never placed in extreme danger ‘till the rise of the radical
right faction Republican Revolution with their incompetent puppet-president
actor Ronald Reagan. We fought a death struggle
the Civil War between two competing economic systems, one based on factories
and wage slaves and the other on overt slave labor, yet our US Constitution
brought us through reconciling several crises without violence, ‘till the
debacle of the Civil War; and, then the issues were extraneous to the
Constitution, because the old expedients advocating Equality, Egalitarian
Safeguards, Liberty, Separation of Powers, Judicial Review, the Elasticity
Clause, and other enumerated in the Bill of Rights worked. When economic circumstances became too
extreme and wealth constricted to unhealthy degrees injurious to the nation’s
welfare, the people supported pragmatic political expedients like the