AUTUMN RHYTHMS
Autumn rhythms of pristine pride fly through the red morn,
geese cruise the broad expanse like dark stars.
Highways dream dreams filled with neophyte heads....
Be a man,
whose penetrating eyes calmly smile
while silently laughing under the serene wings of brown eyebrows
perfection of flight old as time –
and, from the inert rim of deep eye pools
he turns back to the things he has known,
borrowing paths through the trackless sea;
and, from the frozen shadows under the inert lashes,
more than one Odyssean reflection has he made
marooned on an island, as one who is wise
knows sorrow and has a scarred soul;
and, though knowing its utterly futile,
still, tries to vicariously spare youth:
it’s the shattered reflection
of he who would take it up
with the pilot of the ship.
NEWLY DEPARTED
And so, almost unnoticed dawn arrives in Autumn,
people soaked cold, and anxious hurry past;
and day, slightly grayer, breaks over their heads in a misty rain,
soaking the street with its cold penetration,
to swift fly Summer’s sunny delights.
All Winter gathers shivering in my heart –
hate, terror, and malice run through the streets,
like a pack of wolves weaving through the forest –
and, the blood red Sun sets over polar wastes
that infinitely stretches between two featureless points
in its inner cella and leaves my heart a block of ice.
I shudder hearing the huge roaring silence
no commentary could make a louder raucous sound.
My battered spirit, resolute, like Ajax the lesser struggling
from chilly sea’s timeless pounding surf,
on to a barren scar.
It seems to me, numbed by the continual beating,
as if poly-rhythmic rain were pounding shut a coffin.
But, for whom? When today, an open wound, lies before me.
Now Autumn slinks around the empty corner and down the desolate street
leaving behind a mysterious sound –
like someone newly departed.
MONAD
God loves each one of us
as we love God,
in a mutual cosmic attraction,
something overwhelming
that’s greater than our self.
And, our love emanates effortlessly
from every single atom in the cosmos,
and, the despair we feel from these desolate days,
the vast distances, where we dwell
deserted and isolated in the empty void,
feeling lost and alone, loved by no one.
What endless despondency,
alone in wells devoid of love,
when the universe is one immense whole
bound together
by the monad force of God’s love.
LOST
You’ve lost your name,
its somewhere in the dark scarred world
hidden among decaying houses.
You sorrowfully shake your head;
however, your love has already discovered a miracle once,
in the middle of all the walled-up-woe,
beneath the immense silence
of the reeling sky –
Listen,....she’s already calling –
HOW WEARY
How weary that there is no escape outside death,
from the prison of their barren and bleak safe little World
without the wonderful hiding places of the white rabbit boroughs in reality;
and, its dreadful to think, that nature is chained
to an almost mindless herd like homogeneity,
where dull discussions take place, at inverted binocular distances,
with bored clichés borrowed from false propaganda entertainment-media
straight from its ridiculous lifted expurgated texts.
How weary to shuffle off through eternity chained
to the caprice of brainless fears and hates,
of the goose stepping crowd crying “Achtung!”
As they futilely try to shout down reason
with the loudness of their irrational deafening din,
when my soul longs to spread its wings and soar
in the morning sun singing,
“HI, HO...”
AT LAST
When I was a small child
they placed me in a room
with others of my peers, and for years
we sat in rows raising our hands
whenever we had to go to the bathroom
(1 & 2 fingers extended)
and exhibited other bizarre behaviors.
So for many a passing hour
I sat and thought, while they bored us
to death, foreshadowing existence –
what life will be like, lived in Poe’s tomb;
and, thought golden adventures that made a 1,001 Nights
seem mundane, as in and out
of my captured place I’d flit
weaving alternative realities, taking flight
like Odysseus, Rusteem, and Aeneid and traveled
on the hi road to strange and wonderful adventures.
Blue marble palaces were built and visited
only to be razed and plundered,
or I’d enter the Minotaur’s labyrinth, where I felt
brave, noble, and resourceful as I always won.
What a hero I was, champion of the oppressed.
Like a knight, I was then
protecting the fair maiden Rosalind, who I’d free,
with eyes which would clearly express how I’d won her heart,
and, we’d retire to a sumptuous feast, where everything was easy –
I was witty, and charming, and irresistible.
But, it was her manna kiss on which I fed,
washed down with Heavenly wine.
And, we would Love till we were nearly dead!
Dawn came, a fair young maiden, scattering color with her sunshine
from the basket that she carried,
and, you were fresh and fair, and delicate from the soles of your feet to your talking head.
Where has she sought solace from today’s tyranny?
Is their no magic elixir to create a spell;
no smoke induced dream, where we would take flight?
What country carefully concealed folded in a mirror,
or, topologically, transferred and transformed, do tell(!)
where we will, after our work, at last live floating free.
A ROSE
Margy saw a rose – a rosebud,
it sparkled, dew washed, as we stood together;
fresh in the morning sun,
where rain had scrubbed the air bright and clear;
she quickly approached and stooped to closely peer,
and took her full measure of pleasure,
from the beautiful, radiant, red rose –
the fragrant rosebud of the garden!
DEVOTED
Love is present! Down it swoops from Heaven,
where from out of the empyrean emptiness it flies;
and, it flutters this way, born on gossamer wings,
round my poor beggars heart and snow covered head,
even though Spring has long since departed;
it apparently escapes, and a fugitive remains here, where it resides
so fair and fine, its only anxiety is you’ll tire, and become time’s fool;
and, pain will come, to substitute for the pleasure now here.
Our hearts’ are away, experiencing Autumn’s love, where they gently float;
they’re following the endgame’s noblest tradition, and, to the wonderful 1x1 that they’re
devoted.
NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPES
Your soul is like a Van Gogh nocturnal landscape, where
charming masks layer subjective realities,
and, music chases taillights along partially deserted streets, with an air
of sadness in their suddenly looming fantastic forms.
Even while playing, in primitive four/four time,
omniscient tunes of love, and life’s complacent boon is neglected,
they seem curiously to have forgotten the rhyme,
their song etches itself in the calm moonlight.
The lovely melancholy light, vague it
floats reflecting in the mists where songbirds perch in foliage dreaming;
and, among the silent standing statues, regrets
wander solitary and listen to the fountain’s melancholy silver sobs.
A SACRED SOJOURN
The processional of waves treads steadily towards shore,
while small spy ships ride futilely trying to sail unobtrusively,
as they bounce fragile and weak at one spot on its dark surface;
and, clouds, like stones without any end, scud across the wet, winter sky
toward a fast shrinking horizon,
where the terrible number of waves come some cresting wild flying white.
We watch while the boats turn and flee like birds in a fierce breeze.
They’ve taken my brother and sister from me,
and made them unfit dealers in deceit,
who’ve whored their very children for today’s equivalent of 30 pieces of gold;
they’ve come around trying to endear, like a contemporary Uriah Heep,
their feigned smiles blighting something sacred to me;
they’ve become partners with those who pervert faith and cause crimes,
and bound as slaves they’d shackle their children’s minds, too.
And, why do they persist in their severe persecutions of me?
Because, I insist in living like our forefathers did fearless and free!
Come my dear, who possesses my heart,
and dare to be Happy, while we wander
smiling through Heaven sized Redwoods crowded with shadows,
whose lofty tops are lost in somber mists;
my dearest friend, don’t fear their tyranny,
its based on base calumny and it impoverishes the soul and pocket,
as it exploits and oppresses, a self important worm hole mound pretending to be
a Himalayan mountain -
they diminish all that they touch, by causing them to crawl through their filth.
They pervert science, too, these priests of evil faiths,
whose blind vanity has made God their own special bigot,
and, in the early night they stand on the black river Styx,
whose waters they’ve fed with foul miscreant Death.
Now their ankles are rotting trees entrapped in the furiously churning waters,
ensnared as it sweeps shoreward from foul depths eroding the barren bank.
Their greatest pleasure is the sickly evil effort of making others more miserable
than themselves, and the power they abuse is stolen from the people they victimize;
but, they fail to see their own lives lying
like twisted wreckage on the shores of eternity.
Rest, my exhausted spouse, and neither fear nor hate them,
so that you miss the great beauty of this wonderful adventure.
Enjoy our solitary hike, where we intermittently encounter others
walking through the gathering gloom of the hundred house Redwood trees,
on red carpeted forest floors where fronds bow weighed down with diamonds,
drops where we seek the shelter of a dense copse, where the fine cold spray
and silence fill the sacred Redwood forests; where a few beams of filtered light
still penetrates the darkness, and an occasional small voice swells the still void.
There we’ll go taking some of our families with us as pleasant company,
in a great caravan of people who populate our memories;
and, the select few people we’ll bring – the great men and women of science and art
who are responsible for the progress of our species
ready and willing to rise alive from the pages of their books, whenever we desire their
good company,
which we carefully protect from the storm, knowing the value
of feeding the head and heart is as great or greater
than providing nourishment and healthy exercise for the body.
The storm that attacks and ravages your souls,
with its iniquitous dark deeds and darker graves.
is more cruel with its savage enslaved sycophants;
than the storm outside, whose wind and rain work their way to where we’re, huddled
and hunted, partially sheltered from its direct harsh blasts.
This too shall pass and those who survive will be stronger,
this dark hour forgotten – doomed
to be repetitively experienced, again and again.
We will sit high on the bluffs
watching as the storm is forgotten and tomorrow’s waves hurry towards the shore
that’s never the same for more than three minutes,
and the gulls fly out of tree tops and into the tide of sun in the unbroken blue sky;
and, the blue sea where tomorrow and tomorrow towers,
like a forest of yesterday’s Redwood trees,
over the rock garden and green Eden, you and I,
relax harmoniously nurturing ourselves,
growing equally in mind, body and spirit,
while we prepare for our next great adventure.
THE FEAR OF DESOLATE EYES
Solitude of silent green satin estuaries and
scar golden fields where blue lupine congregate,
abandoned by empty blue and blood red
bled over their dark reflective surfaces,
as colors fled Night:
your delicate trail of tears
form from the fear of desolate eyes.
EXPIATION
I’ve gone in quest of Justice
but all I’ve been able to find
is the luster of reflected light,
like the full-moon’s scarred beauty;
but, Justice, is vanished
its bought by the wealthiest bidder,
or, hidden in the silence of shame,
where its mourned from weeping fearful eyes.
And, you who’ve furtively and stupidly stolen it,
I put it to you straight, with the pain of watchful skies,
were you blinded by greed driven hate?
When on one evil fated instant, when sin began
that inexorably will grow, its wave
sweeping across the face of time.
Futilely, you’ll seek for expiation,
responsible for most of the wickedness of our Age –
till the flames of Hell,
no longer have any heat!
Or, do you now believe
that God no longer has any eyes, and no longer sees!?!
PRECIOUS FLAME
If you fear to try for what you really desire,
too soon, you’ll end up being something pathetic, like a person on display;
its better to be steadfast and strong and strive for success in your own way,
and be cruelly attacked by the degenerate herd devoid of brains and pity
the spineless object of their derision, instead of a man championing
the infinite beauty of his dreams, even if you’re spattered with their filth and mire.
People who quit striving for their fondest desire,
soon are reduced to despondently procrastinating, while they hope for more promising
prospects;
and, since dame fortune favors the assertive, bold people prosper,
and, those intimidated by others and distracted and satisfied by the world’s wealth
soon spend their time in silent cemeteries, dissatisfied
they wait and watch, while the funeral procession of dreary days expires.
Thus, one should always be a person whose motto is “carpis diem”
for Happiness, like true love, is never won by the faint hearts who timidly hesitate;
and, instead of repenting, for receiving brutal people’s disdain,
you’ll only be Happy by realizing your dreams.
The sharp contempt for the common soon follows the mundane
that serves the world’s callous herd, as a measure for gain;
and, drives from the discerning, life’s subtle treasures away, more certainly
than the profound wise few, who strive in vain
to preserve the God given right to the rare beauty of their dreams -
that infinitely precious flame.
LOST IN WONDER
Close to the lofty Redwoods whose towering tops
loom among misty white wraiths ethereal from the opalescent river
I ambivalently limp with great care through one of Nature’s spiritual cathedrals.
For centering I’ve only free-will and self-determination.
Evening arrives with deepening shadows, where golden leaves hover;
and, only in my persistent hopes can I happily depend,
where no boats, bridges, and fjords dare to transport,
when I walk along the deep draws fast flowing river.
Upstream the shore is red where my weary steps tread,
the silver satin water serenely sings, sonorous, melismatic syllables.
But, being lost in time, ten steps and twenty seconds from 2,000 years ago,
I’m flooded with anguish whose strangled cry folds into a dense silence.
I see the footprints of another couple who waits in ambush
and stare past their stupid hypocrisy into the solemn sacred grove
rejecting anger at their foul duplicity – daring to know, still I strive to be Happy
wandering hand in hand with the rare gift of love beside me.
We enjoy the wonderful rare beauty of the red temple at twilight,
and watch, while the sinister silent darkness
surreptitiously creeps through the sentinel trees,
wondering at the poor fools who are more lost than we.
STANDING WATER
and with every love forms a mask
behind which lurks sorrow
silently stalking into the adumbrate shadows
where you’ve prepared my feast of vinegar and wormwood.
Felicitous Margy live with me
sweet friend let’s wander together through time,
branch out and bear good fruit
that in the fullness of the years falls away.
Serenely I stare
at the wet, Winter wind
that sweeps cold and weeping across the land
leaving lives, like dead trees that stand waist deep in water, in its wake.
THE CARS
The cars, the cars, the cars – are angry!....
Angry!
They leave, their voices changing
growing more intense and insistent,
as they hurry away down the street, radio blaring...
Your motif, your shrill crescendo of grrr... raising straining an octave
and uh-huh and then grrrrr....
The cars, the cars, the cars have left lost among the West wind and Winter rains.
- The ideas expressed in the following essays and discourses are the express opinions of its author. –
RUMOR MILL
Introduction
After an unequivocal experience of the incompetence and failure of the present administration, which is a representative product of the radical right faction Republican Revolution, we are once more called upon to examine the functional realities of the present dysfunctional government and deliberate on how it deviates from the US Constitution as it was intended to function by our founding fathers and did successfully operate for approximately its first 150 years. The subject speaks its seriousness; comprehending in its consequence the disequilibrium of no less than our present state of government, the safety, prosperity, and overall well being of the society from which it directly extends in its three fundamental branches and an economic and political empire that reaches over the entire globe. It’s been previously noted that the US seems to represent, by its behavior, an example for all mankind; and thus, the result in America to the momentous issue concerning the fate of good models of Democratic government, whether society is capable of sustaining indefinitely good government based on reason and reflection, or, whether the majority will be manipulated by our adjunct media to be herded by issue of contemporary caprice and the abuse of power by unforeseen great concentrations of wealth, is currently being determined. For societies like people suffer from periodic plagues of social diseases, which attack our notions of Justice and Liberty that serve as the foundation for Democracy and provides throughout our history for it’s value to mankind. If these observations are true, the crises at which we are arrived may prudently be viewed as the end of an era in which a decision is made; and, the last election may mark the part that citizens once again play, in this perspective, and function to allay the dysfunction of our present Democratic government and hence deserve to be perceived as the alleviators to the general misfortune of humanity.
This view will add the pragmatic inducements of political efficiency and economic prosperity, to the moral incentives inherent in virtue and faith, with the benefits found in patriotism, to increase the concern which all people of good will must feel for these momentous events. What a blessing it will be if our conduct should prove our worth by a judicious judgment of America’s true interests, undeceived and unprejudiced by considerations not directly related to the public good. But, this happy state is to be more ardently desired than realistically expected. The post election plans presented to the public on the media, that mitigate the positive results favorably for the controlling right wing faction’s interests, which run contra variant to the general public and excludes their participation in realizing their potential positive gains by falsely claiming that the results reflected the public’s approbation of the very right wing political machinations that were being repudiated, in spite of overwhelming monetary advantages and the radical right faction domination of an adjunct media, in a misguided effort to further their false views and retain power, by discussing the events in a distorted presentation, but that was complimentary to the function of a propaganda machine, designed to advance the extreme passions and personal prejudices of their ruling elite that were detrimental to the advancement of Truth.
Among the most formidable obstacles which the new Democratic majority will have to contend may readily be observed by the obvious influence money interests exert in every state of the nation that are resistant to change which may result in subjecting their power to the risk of diminution and the corresponding impairment of their profitable corruption and thwart the perverse ambition of faction, who will try to further retain their aggrandizement, by displacing with a fifth column a portion of the Democratic Party, thus retaining their advantageous elevated position derived from dominating the political processes of the nation.
It’s not my intention to develop another discourse on the nature of faction and its subordinate tyrants. I’m well aware of the damage they’ve done due to avarice and ambition pushed to an extreme degree in and out of official government channels, which subjects them to serious censor. Candor necessitates that we admit that even such people started off relatively innocently and had complex reasons for their actions, some being upright and meritorious; however, they were blind sided by the corrosive negative nature of power, and perverted the new technologies so that they became over dependent on them, in ill advised efforts that ultimately proved personally degenerative and destructive to the very social characteristics necessary for Democracy to be beneficial for humanity. These are best magnanimously characterized as honest errors of minds lead astray by preconceived prejudices and needless apprehensions. But, it can not be ignored that tyranny does abuse power to yoke society to the caprice of its prejudices which always injures justice and impairs the progress that fuels prosperity, it is as true today as before the French Revolution when it was first noted that vice couldn’t travel so far except for the pleasant company that it kept with virtue. The complexity of contemporary issues and extended duration that erroneous policies have been pursued, and the deliberate efforts to cynically warp public opinion with campaigns of violent behavior while hypocritically claiming abhorrence and opposition all have culminated in wise and good people being on the wrong side of issues of the first importance to society. This circumstance, if honestly evaluated, would result in a lesson for tolerance and moderation to those who are convinced of being right. Further, it causes serious concern for the effectiveness of government under the influence of manufactured public opinion, which is a process inherently corrupt. For how can beneficial policies be pursued predicated on lies? And, a further reason for caution, in this respect might be concluded from reassessing that those who advocate policies that are not based on pure principles but deliberate deceit and providing campaigns of deliberate misinformation forcing society into the false position of developing policies on complex issues based on lies and a manipulated majority, are subjecting the nation to a corrupt process which must always result in less than optimum solutions. In the aftermath of the last election we witnessed the lamentable spectacle of the Democratic Party chairman comment to the media that polls indicated the public now viewed the Democratic Party as being better at protecting the USA than the radical right faction dominated Republican Party. But, it was failed to be noted that in the Post Cold War Era the NSC and CIA both have publicly stated that there wasn’t “any” (!) foreign threats to the USA in the entire world. And, unfortunately, only through ruinously spending more than the rest of the world combined for several years for weapons system purchased from the industrial-military has the USA been embroiled in five phony foreign wars, proving the correctness of Einstein’s observation that it’s not possible to simultaneously prepare for war and expect to experience Peace! All which has cost the USA hundreds of billions of dollars and the opportunity costs for better programs in public health care, education, jobs programs, public housing, energy programs, improved infrastructure, non-military research, and protecting the environment, the list is as long and extensive as our creative capacity and only limited by economic determinism. Ambition, avarice, bigotry, faction and many other negative factors not more beneficial than these are apt to operate to motivate those who support the right side as well as the wrong side of any public question. The fact is the same beneficial inducements of moderation serve all classes of society equally well and mitigate the ill-advised intolerant spirit that thrives in political parties, and is characteristic of its more enthusiastic advocates for in politics as in religion its equally absurd to attempt to compel proselytes by force – a lesson lost on today’s extremists who’re habituated to iniquitous conduct under a false belief in perverted technologies.
And yet, however well intended these sentiments are desirous of being, we already have sufficient indication that the effects and consequences will be the same, as in all former examples of great political discussion that stretch back to Sophocles. And, with tyranny of a manipulated majority there will be no moderating ballast to stabilize society from the angry torrent and malignant passions that are always lying in ready waiting to be unleashed. To judge from the radical right faction’s initial conduct, they are hoping to divert the public’s attention from the injurious impact of their failed policies, to targeted groups with staged events, while they corruptly continue to utilize government as an inferior substitute for sound business practices; as they persist in picking the public’s pocket, while their attention is diverted with a continual series of contrived crisis, with government functioning as a conduit, by privatizing its beneficial functions, from the public to a few extremely wealthy individual’s private accounts. This will be rationalized by an adjunct media, while the radical right faction abuses power to attain the dichotomous ends tyranny always endeavors to realize, to obtain greater wealth and compel society to reflect its capricious personal prejudices; and, with active elements corruptly displaced, diverted with their own long list of calumnious deeds that includes severely persecuting ever increasing numbers of people who includes dissidents and individuals subordinate tyrants dislike; and thus, society is conditioned to be oppressed, in order to facilitate it’s exploitation; and, the dominant radical right faction hope to evince an erroneous sense of propriety for their vice ridden actions and fatally flawed opinions, by simultaneously silencing opposition and increasing their ranks with corruption and propaganda, which will control by brainwashing their adherents through the loudness of their irrational claims, substantiated by the diverting heinous campaign of organized violence, which they hypocritically publicly condemn with invectives for the crimes that they’ve privately created. If one looks at the politically motivated acts of violence in the media during the last election year, its design is to make members of society feel like their living under siege in a state of fear. Already, an enlightened zeal for an energetic and efficient Democratic government is being stigmatized as meddlesome and overbearing, and the offspring of a lower class desirous of despotic power. Notice that all mention of Liberty in a positive context, as the basis of all societies many myriad blessings, is discretely dropped. The over zealous appeals by the radical right always appeal to the heart in efforts that try to overwhelm the public’s ability to reason, which is formalized into orchestrating monstrous events that function to catalyze a stampede to change implementing the radical right private agenda before reason can prevail; and, time serves not to make citizens aware of the injury related to the public’s interests, but rather to habituate it to the wrongs incurred and rationalized in the media by propagandistic lies. Thus, the faults are generally errors of the heart and not of the head, and what’s worse their characterized under the stale bait of popular fashion, artifice and pretence are presented to the people as promoting the public good. It’s forgotten that the basis of the oppression is the noble Liberty that’s being blasphemously usurped - in others; and, under tyranny, one is always free to agree. On the other side of the equation, it’s conveniently forgotten that a vigorous Democratic government is necessary for the security of Liberty, and, in the sound reasoning of a judgment based on objective fact a citizen’s interest is always based and can never be severed; and, contrarily a dangerous ambition often hides under a false façade of minimizing government interference, but not for the free expression of an individual’s Civil Rights, which are almost always paradoxically advanced by a strong and effective government regulated by a perspicacious Constitution. History teaches what the recent experience of the USA has confirmed that the former is the proverbial well paved slippery slope to tyrannical faction, and the greatest threat to overturning the Liberty of a Democracy comes from domestic parties that transform into faction obsequiously commencing as a populist movement paying homage to public safety and law and order, which initially functions to protect the Liberty and property rights of select citizens and then its transformed into a private weapon of faction used to assault citizen’s rights and freedoms: they start smiling and with friendly manners, as they pander to popular prejudices and apprehensions, only to end as tyrants.
In the course of the preceding observations, I’ve tried to inform my fellow citizens, to protect them by making them aware against the attempts, and their ramifications, of the transgressions transpiring today. It’s hoped that this effort will influence you in decisions that promote your welfare and that of the common good, by promoting Democracy and impressing you with the negative effects against any efforts that may result in deceit and crass manipulation of the public to the benefit of faction rather than furthering the Truth, which can only be beneficial to all of our citizens. You’ll undoubtedly have determined the full scope of them that they promote the tried and proven beneficence of traditional Democratic government based on the Constitution. I‘m confident that given the necessary tools and time for due deliberation, the majority of you will adopt the course of action that promotes personal freedom and public prosperity, as being best for the nation. I’m convinced this is the safest course for our country to realize Equality and Liberty, and that it will promote the greatest Happiness, too. After studying the question of the contemporary aspects of faction, I’ve no reservations, and note that society confronts only two possible alternatives: a society that is Democratic and based on Equality and Liberty, or a society that puts on a spacious mask of Democracy and is based on Inequalities and results in vice and corruption. I’ll not amuse you with false scenarios, lines of reasoning, and phony contrived hypothetical examples, after observing the alternatives’ bitter failure I’m convinced we’ve no real viable alternative, its in all classes of society’s interests to adopt traditional Democratic government that extends seamlessly from a society that exhibits Equality of Civil Rights and opportunity and Liberty that promotes progress, prosperity and Happiness. The alternative produces vice and corruption and ends in a ruinous stagflation, constriction of wealth and inevitable eventual discontinuous collapse. The choice is whether the change that comes will be controlled and continuous, or chaotic and disruptive. I candidly acknowledge my bias based on principle, and have presented to you the basis for my beliefs historical, contemporary personal experience, and based on reason, which form the triumvirate base on which they are founded. The consciousness of my good intentions have been met with slander, designed to distract and diminish the weight of my arguments; but, after approaching a quarter of a century of daily proving my personal merit ought to be sufficient for any reasonable just individual and disdains any possible ambiguity. My arguments are open to all – please read my previous series of discourses on the contemporary effects of faction. I’ll not reiterate those arguments and multiply the professions from that quarter. My motives are satisfactory and honorable to me, they reflect a life I’ve lead in the face of extremist generated adversity and which is a living sacrifice to my stated beliefs, and may be observed and judged by all. They shall continue to be honest and are offered in a spirit which will not disgrace the cause of Truth.
I propose continuing, in a noble tradition established by our forefathers, who looked across the Atlantic to an English exile for their example, the series I started to examine faction, only now I intend to analyze the particulars of contemporary Democracy and not exclusively those of faction. The emphasis will be the utility of a traditional Constitutional based Democracy to the nation’s continued prosperity and Happiness. The abject failure of the current radical right faction Republican Revolution to meet the basic needs of our nation is blatantly obvious to any discerning individual, with the Largest National Debt in the History of the World, the World’s Largest Trade Deficits, and a precipitous decline in our standard of living from formerly #1 till today its not even in the top 20 provide concrete evidence of the fact of its corrupt incompetence. The needs of our nation can only be realized by an energetic and efficient Democratic government that conforms in its daily operations to the principles proposed by the Constitution, in an on going effort to effectively manage American government. And, finally, efficacy in promoting Equality and Liberty in pursuit of sustainable prosperity and promoting optimum levels of Happiness, while respecting the Civil Rights that are based on human and property rights.
In promoting these discourses I’ll try to give a satisfactory explanation to all the objections presented by faction and that may be perceived by the public, as being justifiable to promote faction, or a cause to diminish our individual Civil Rights and Liberties.
It may be perceived superfluous to prove the merit of traditional models of good Democratic government, a point firmly established in the hearts and heads of the overwhelming majority of the nation, and one that can scarcely be imagined in opposition by real or imagined adversaries. But, the fact is, we’ve recently experienced a radical right faction Republican Revolution and its media adjunct still stubbornly champion its tenants deceitfully in efforts to confuse and manage the public and in private circles of those who think to benefit from the continued exploitation and oppression that impoverish the nation. The systemic corruption that the career criminals of the subordinate tyrants its operatives activated when occasion arises and the overall society based on fear controlled by a network of spies will be diminished gradually and only over a long period of time conducted by votaries who openly acknowledge with approbation the fact of their being brainwashed, for nothing is more self-evident of the vice and corruption, to those who are not blinded by subjective participation, than the alternative of a free society based on Equality supporting a traditional Democratic government. It’ll therefore be advantageous to examine the benefits, complaints, and dangers contained in Democratic government and expose the accumulated evils and dissolution that inexorably accrue from the tyrannical alternatives.
EDUCATION MEASURES
Charter Schools = Magma Schools
There is a lamentable circumstance that has manifested itself during the last election that underlines the corrupt and duplicitous nature of faction. Further, if America didn’t learn anything else from the hyperborean days of the 60s and government’s efforts at the “Great Society”, it should have learned that you can not throw money at problems and expect them to go away, knowledge is necessary applied through dent of hard work facilitated by an insightful plan. Faction’s computer models indicate that a population split 20% technocrats with good paying jobs with futures and 80% of Americans being relegated to labor markets competitive with the Third World, is supposed to be optimally profitable for factional interests. This realizes two things, it optimizes profits, by minimizing labor costs, and, it promotes the control of dissatisfied citizens, whose cheap labor is obviously going to be exploited; the explanation goes something like this, undereducated individuals receive just enough training to be useful, but not enough education to become dissatisfied and problematic, because being uneducated and ignorant they have low senses of self esteem and fault themselves for an unfair economic system that exploits them and distracts and deceives them. However, it creates greater social problems, while diminishing society’s ability to successfully solve them, it increases street crime making society less safe, reactionary measures will make society more oppressed, overpopulation pressures will increase with all of its associated problems, the health care system will be severely strained, bankruptcies will increase, it will reduce consumer demand, and impairs the marginal labor factor inputs. Further, it weakens citizenship by isolating the individual, which helps to destroy their identification with larger social units; and, it reduces their aggregate productive capacity, which will serve to exacerbate stagflation pressure. All so that tyrants with their incompetent labor inputs will have an easier time controlling and exploiting (impoverishing the majority) of their fellow citizens, which makes them vice ridden and indifferent to the suffering of their fellow human beings; they become cruel and corrupt while citizens become, besides alienated and disenfranchised, impoverished, apathetic, ignorant, fearful, and base sycophants. THE RADICAL RIGHT FACTION unintentionally accomplish all this by promoting their fatally flawed education measures that increase our education systems’ expenses to the public, who gets the new “Magma” schools (which is the repeatedly rejected Republican Party Charter schools packaged under a new name) and an unfair education system, with the overwhelming majority, roughly 80%, of American children left behind doomed to futures shackled by ignorance and poverty, while a select targeted few are advanced toward a more prosperous future. The late bloomers, of which there are many, are a clear loss, which means that under the radical right faction education model individuals like St Augustine, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein to only mention three late bloomers would be not utilized effectively by society – is it any wonder totalitarian governments can’t compete, and artificial growth restrictions are forced on our country. So,.... this is the most recent radical right faction deceit driven scam, which they stupidly believe to be clever: an unfair education system. The voters all across America in good faith believe they are voting more money for better schools for their children; but, in fact they are voting for the very programs they’ve been voting down at the polls for 20 years. Government by deceit! American voters think that by voting more for taxes for public schools they support public education, when in fact they end up spending more and getting less. Meanwhile, the radical right faction camouflages its Republican Party involvement at a local level, where political activity is supposedly non-political! I am truly sorry, but I thought you should know.
DISCOURSES ON DEMOCRACY
I.
When American citizens realize that they’re now at a political cross-roads and must decide a momentous decision, which in its consequences will determine the most important decision since its inception, the prudence of taking the great care of a comprehensive view becomes obvious; also, its serious nature, equivalent to the momentous question of slavery antecedent to the Civil War, throws into stark relief the need for somber reflection, which will then be self-evident.
Since civilization started there is nothing more certain than the imperative necessity that some form of government, to protect the Human Rights and Liberties of the individuals that constitute society is necessary. The same determinant requirement undeniably proves the essential need for a Constitution to protect citizens Civil Rights and Liberties from the abuse of power by domestic elements’ attempts to displace government and utilize it improperly to corruptly further their selfish interests at every one else’s expense. The view of a central organized power (government) necessitating the subordination of individual Rights and Liberties to its institutions is basically erroneous, and it places government in a false position; because, in fact the role of government is the protection and maintenance of the individual in their person and property, witness the multitude of institutional safeguards our forefathers provided to that end. The checks and balance of the three branches of government, judicial review, the executive function of the white house, the legislative function of the bi-carmel Congress, the two houses of the Legislative branch, the power of the purse residing in Congress, the elasticity clause, fundamental reform requiring a 2/3 majority vote and ratification of a like percentage of states, all other power retained by the people, and delineating government between states and a national government collectively and individually indicate an awareness and serious concern for the abuse of power, in no matter what form it may take, from domestic elements. Obviously, it’s well worth our while to consider whether America, under the radical right faction Republican Revolution is on the right track, or is it catapulting out of control disastrously down the slippery slope to tyranny, behind a spacious mask of Democracy.
It’s only recently been realized uncontrovertibly that by overwhelming Democracy’s political processes with money aided by the efforts of an adjunct media that a manipulated majority results in non-Democratic tyranny of the most virulent form, which was first theoretically expostulated by no less an astute intellect than John Stuart Mill. And, now we are faced with factional dominance as an established fact whose political and economic outcomes have been disastrous and the people of good will in spite of overwhelming obstacles have peacefully risen in opposition during the last election and currently are directing their thoughts, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens which are now directed toward salvaging our Democracy, resurrecting it from ruinous wreckage of failed factional exploitation and oppression. But, reactionary elements now rise to tell us that this is wrong, and in stead of seeking safety, prosperity, and Happiness in traditional Democracy’s tried and proven core values of Equality and Liberty, we ought to seek it in the politics of terror and exploitive measures enforced by oppression that have buried America under a mountain of debt and resulted in the precipitous decline of our citizens’ standard of living from the number #1 in the World, before they began, till the point now where we are not even in the top 20 of the world. However, disastrous the radical right faction Republican Revolution results have been, it never the less has its climacteric advocates; and, certain previous opponents are now corrupt supporters. Whatever deceit generated measures and arguments implemented and advocated for sustaining factional measures, it would not be wise for America to continue down a dark path without a clear comprehension of what it entails, and where it is leading, and how they intend to take us there, to adopt tenants without being fully knowledgeable and having been instructed by a firm foundation of Truth is shear folly. But, America is stuck with a private owned media dominated by faction whose primary function is to present information in a systematically distorted fashion, which is designed to benefit faction at public expense. A polite way of saying that it lies!
It’s been my pleasure to have traveled over much of our country, and seen that America consists of one consistent, compact, unified culture that stretches across the entire fertile continent. Providence has blessed us with a physically diverse land, whose varied features combine to meet our every conceivable need. Its highways unite to form a network that facilitates the transfer of its goods from the manufactures facilities to a multitude of markets scattered across the country; and, a small number of privately owned corporations help to bind the nation together in one homogenous culture, but it provides an unprecedented opportunity to control and manipulate the nation’s citizens by, either ill advised ambitious elements, or evil individuals bent on displacing Democracy, both are ultimately motivated for personal gain at public expense. The oceans serve to protect our borders except for Mexico to the South and Canada to the North, both who are long standing Democracies who’ve maintained friendly relations with us for over a century, and who we’ve recently established a free trade zone with to help facilitate economic development by the free exchange of goods and services across our respective international borders; and, the network of highways that in each country serves to efficiently facilitate it’s interstate commerce can be put to use to convey our countries’ military troops and effectively protect us from any threat of foreign military invasion, which at present doesn’t exist; because, no other nation is foolish enough to squander it’s country’s resources on military expenditures, when modern war is too expensive to wage and ever hope to recuperate it’s expenditures. America is the only country on the face of the earth to be so corruptly stupid that it foolishly spends each year more money on military weapons systems than the rest of the world combined, and its been ridiculously doing so ever since the end of the Cold War Era, even though every one of its intelligence gathering agencies agree that there doesn’t exist a single creditable threat to the United States of America in the world - not even one. The USA has been the aggressor and started all five of the wars we’ve entered in the Post Cold War Era, and it is the single largest factor of our national debt.
On another heading, it’s with great satisfaction I observe that our nation seems to have learned since our Civil War the benefits inherent in one culture and one language which results in a melting pot that unites diverse racial and ethnic elements under the same principles of government and whose various diverse elements are subordinated under similar norms and morays and have united to defend Democracy in the two world wars of the last century, which proved the superiority of Democracy as a form of government over the more extreme totalitarian alternatives from the left and right of the political ideological continuum.
This nation and its people have shared a common destiny and united and labored to create a cultural inheritance for its progeny, built on a Just foundation of Equality and Liberty that has made us one and strong. Similar sentiments have served us well for over a 150 years, till the rise of faction in the Post Cold War Era evolved (degenerated) into the radical right faction Republican Revolution, with actor puppet-president Ronald Reagan playing the part of chief executive without one qualification to lead the nation as President. Unfortunately, such a poor packaged choice demonstrated a lack of judgment that was subsequently substantiated repeatedly over the next two decades, finally resulting in such disastrous government outcomes as the previously noted Largest National Debt in the history of the planet, the World’s Largest Trade Deficits becoming characteristic of USA trade, the precipitous decline in our standard of living from #1 till it plummeted out of the top 20 in the World, efforts to Third Worldize American Labor Markets, and a list of other failures to long to enumerate here – see previous issues.
The strong sense of value and blessings of traditional Democracy that induced our forefathers to create our country that subsequent generations protected with their sweat and blood perished behind an empty façade. And, when deluded and divided the nation was impoverished, with scant time left to inquire into the facts of our country’s circumstances many of our citizens were left bleeding and in desolation as our government became purchased by special interests of the radical right faction, whose political contributions became political investments seeking the greatest rates of return generated from the most exploitative policies available. Gone were mature reasoned inquiries made by moderate people based on the Truth, which must always form the sound basis for a wise and well balanced government of a free country. Its not to be wondered during such inauspicious times that our government should be transformed into an inferior means to make money as the tool of faction, and the government resulting from the failed experiment by the radical right faction Republican Revolution has repeatedly proven itself to be reproachfully deficient and inadequate in realizing the basic purposes it was intended to serve.
Thus intelligent people perceived and lamented its defects. And, with the last election in spite of media’s lies, designed to turn aside the beneficent efforts of good citizens determined to re-establish a traditional Democratic government based on Civil Rights and Liberty, having observed the handicap of being systematically misinformed on each substantive issue by the media about the nature of events, and being convinced in the benefits of traditional Democracy, as opposed to the danger of faction manipulated majorities under a phony Democratic façade, there is ample evidence to warrant getting the national government back on the right track, to re-establish a national government wisely conducted, and, the ways to ameliorate the current damage is a serious subject to important not to be immediately considered.
This analysis should be made outside of government, it should consist of people from business, labor, the academic community, and government who posses proven practical experience, and an established record of excellence in their field of expertise; also, they must be patriotic, virtuous, and wise, which is to say independent of factional influence, which means not vice ridden and corrupt; and, they must not mind an arduous task, which will try their hearts and minds unequalled in the history of the nation since the time its founders met and formed its reformed Constitution. During the two current phony foreign wars needlessly being dragged on, to extend industrial-military profits and subject the region to the same contrived severe persecution of dissidents and subculture elements that the radical right faction has repeatedly done in other regions around the earth, in their endeavor for world domination and in their efforts to dictate human behavior and exterminate certain targeted groups, whose efforts to have fun and be happy the radical right faction finds extremely objectionable, they have created an oppressive national environment. Thus, finding such remarkable talented individuals, not awed by power, will prove a most difficult task to initiate and arduous job to complete. But, the alternative is to examine the question through bipartisan government committees and that is tantamount to closing the stable door after the proverbial horse has already fled. Another alternative would be to initiate a series of studies, either through the country’s existing leadership structures, or through the academic community which has already been displaced by the radical right, in an effort analogous to what transpired during Bismarck’s leadership of Germany at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
Obviously, this plan is a proposal, and not an accomplished fact. It is equally obvious that neither, unquestioned approbation of a government controlled by factional special interests, nor the absolute repudiation of all factional participation is practical under current circumstances. Faction must see by now that continued blind adherence to incomprehensible computer models, to make careers possible for impaired and mediocre labor inputs, whose only positive asset is their loyalty, doesn’t work; and, the exploitative tyranny of faction dominated government, which is the functional political reality of the radical right faction Republican Revolution, is a complete failure, too. What is necessary is to convene a series of discussions that are calm and candid considerations, which the magnitude and importance of the subject warrants and should receive. But, as commented on in the introduction, this is more to be hoped for than reasonably expected, because the radical right faction are conditioned to deceit and habituated to privilege and the perverse practices associated with the abuse of power. It’s not to be forgotten that there is real danger to serious challenges to faction’s privileged position, remember Sept. 11th and all the manipulated demonstrations during World Trade Organization’s meetings held in the years prior to that fatal event. That institution was brutally attacked for championing sound and judicious economic policies that were effective and obstructed factional efforts to cheat and plunder. And, look at the efforts to corrupt individuals some offered jobs that meant career advancement and others have been corrupted with sexual improprieties that involved perverting new subliminal technologies coupled with more standard practices soliciting immoral sexual acts; and also, perverted scientific technology was used in efforts to obtain business decisions advantageous to factional interests, and personal ambition and other virtues have been warped to the end that undue attachment to objectives contrary to the public good prevailed. The prevalent utilization of new scientific technologies have up till the present been indefatigable in factional efforts to persuade people to repudiate patriotic ideals based on Equality, Civil Rights, and Liberty that promote optimal human Happiness, which were supplanted by the radical right faction’s private agenda. Indeed many of our citizens are deluded and deceived, and almost half are still being manipulated by the radical right faction adjunct media propaganda machine, but the majority of the people, regardless of great obstacles, have reasoned and judiciously decided to repudiate faction; and, happy are they who reflect that they’ve done so.
They concluded that Congress was comprised with factional controlled corrupt packaged politicians. That government was systemically corrupt and the Republican candidates, regardless of what part of the country they came from, brought and expressed to Washington D.C. only one selfish point of view based on their monopoly of deliberate misinformation. That they’ve in the course of time gone from bad to worse, with corruption increasing till its afflicted almost every Republican majority party leader on every concern confronting the country; rather than, government conducted by wise individuals formed after deliberating diverse perspectives and judiciously discussing the nation’s true interests, by individuals who have acquired very accurate knowledge on the issues under deliberation based on the Truth – we’ve tired of watching vain empty headed preening before our nation’s cameras, and time spent not profitably acquiring knowledge as prerequisite to wisdom, but the bankrupt pursuit of the almighty dollar instead. That in the course of time, they’ve bankrupt the country and displaced its government’s bureaucracy with sycophants; rather than, protected our heritage of Liberty and prosperity sacrificing them on the alters of factional avarice, which left them less inclined to do their duty and pass only measures that protected personal freedom and Civil Rights and promoted the prosperity with programs that developed our nations resources, which would have been the really reasonable and prudent thing to do.
These and similar considerations caused the people to turn away from the existing government knowing it represented the special interests of faction and not the people, and no longer demonstrated judgment and integrity. They took the advice of the Democratic Party, not withstanding the various arts and means the factional controlled media utilized to deceive and have subsequently employed falsely claiming Democrats were turning to the special ultra conservative stamp of the radical right faction, to derail the public’s honest efforts to express dissatisfaction and reassert itself in its government.,
Considerations domestic and foreign induced the people to repudiate the radical right faction Republican Revolution, they no longer had faith in the judgment and integrity of the Republican Party; and, the people rejected the deceitful ploys of the media propaganda machine, and, the considerable monetary advantage of the Republicans, which were negative and turned American political processes undemocratic, were ignored by ever increasing numbers of citizens. But, if the people had once reason to support the multi-faceted, pro big business Republican Party, under the Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies just after World War II; the radical right faction dominated Republican Party, with impaired leaders who had absolutely no qualifications and no experience necessary to lead the country and the incompetence and unprecedented corruption pursuing anti-business policies that were pro-faction and that resulted in the exploitation and oppression of the nation, provided still greater reason for the people to repudiate the lack of judgment that Republican controlled government outcomes obviously demonstrated to an extreme extent not possible to be ignored, for a corrupt Republican controlled Congress and their equally corrupt counter parts in the Republican administrations of Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr., who’ve repeatedly proved themselves to be corrupt and incompetent; as they’ve pursued policies injurious to the nation and grown richer, like the Bush family and VICE president Cheney acting on ill advised military operations that have bleed both the nation and its youths. And, the post election actions and statements of the radical right faction controlled media propaganda machine clearly demonstrate that with their impervious ignorance the radical right faction Republican Party seem incapable of learning and restraint, and thus their experiences go for naught and the knowledge that they should be acquiring passes them by with the years; because, they function from a false position, using government as a means to further factional interests at everyone else’s expense, and so government is transformed under the radical right faction Republican Revolution into a means to make a privileged few a lot of money by dismantling government and impoverishing the country.
Its important to point out that not only was the first radical right faction Republican Revolution’s administration (Reagan) the most corrupt in the nation’s history, its counter part in Congress, the Republican controlled Senate was incredibly corrupt and incompetent, too; but, it’s a lamentable fact that every subsequent Republican controlled Congress and administration has invariably been extremely incompetent and corrupt, too; until, it has finally reached the point where the American people have united in correctly thinking that our country’s increasing poverty is the consequence of the radical right faction Republican Revolution’s policies, and thus, it is their responsibility. To take back our Democracy, in order that we the people might once more preserve and protect our Liberties and Civil Rights as a means of obtaining progress and prosperity, is our country’s great objective; and, the last election was our nation’s people’s first fledgling step towards that end. With what propriety, therefore, and to what good objectives are these attempts directed. Contradistinctively, at this particular period, what do the reactionary responses constitute that are designed to deceive and distract and ultimately depreciate the honest efforts of people of good will? Or, why is it suggested that a disastrously expensive phony war of aggression started on a lie should represent something essential for our nation’s safety? I’m convinced that citizens have always understood and thought correctly about our erroneous involvement in the Middle East, and, if the people were provided in a timely fashion with the Truth on this subject it would serve to correct this wrong. How our people are being manipulated, through their almost universal and uniform attachment to the nation’s government as it has historically existed, results from their lack of awareness of the profound change that’s transpired to the government’s institutions brought about by faction, with their fatally flawed view of government. This in part is what I’ll endeavor to develop and explain in the ensuing discourses. Those who mistakenly suggest that by promoting the interests of faction we promote the interests of the nation, on the airwaves of the nation’s media, seem to be cynically stupid and lying, to further their own selfish personal ambition, by subordinating all to the extremist’s myopic interests which are bent on corruptly riding herd over the entire human race. That certainly will be the case if we continue our present catastrophic factional course. I sincerely wish that every good citizen could clearly see what faction has meant; and further, what it fully intends to do, which will result in the impoverishment of the vast majority of our nation’s people, for their selfish short term benefit; and, the damage it is realizing to our nation’s Democratic heritage: so, that one of our forefather’s James Madison was prophetically correct, in quoting a poet in stating, “Farewell! A long farewell to all my greatness.” In conclusion I leave you with a quote of my own, Daniel V 25-28.