DESOLATE SAFETY
They daily strive to enclose me within their prison.
They’re constantly busy building this blank wall around us,
as this wall thrusts up into the absorbing gray sky,
I dissolve in its doleful dark shadow.
Lost are the world’s expansive horizons
cut up by the sharp edged corners of their wall,
where cracks already appear, with weeds that tenaciously sprout
shouting His name, in the silence of our desolate safety.
STRONG CURRENT
String current, flowing resolutely through the city,
contained within the restricting borders of the retaining wall,
now slate gray in Winter mists, now turgid chocolate in dark Nor’westers,
you mirror my heart.
Here sluicing between buildings, sprouting up from the valley floor;
within green fallow fields, and geometric orchards, and russet leaves lying still decaying;
and each tributary stream turbulently leaps over river rocks and along fertile banks
uniting reflective quiet backwaters, which produce single centered concentric circle
monads.
Thus, your journey writes my memories in water
randomly reflecting its environment, shaped and shaping, my life;
it starts from one point and quickly grows and flows and dies:
in an expansive estuary it loses itself –
and unites with the great swell of the ocean.
OCT. 31 at 7:00 O’CLOCK
NOV. 1 at 3:30 P.M.
They were but pumpkins for decorating the house at Halloween,
the front porch an image of domesticity.
Spontaneous gesture to the household alters
a harvest of good cheer, when hands adorned and superstition prevailed.
No nocturnal ritual , but, the eternal benevolence behind trick or treat;
no sinister intent, but sweet candy for the little children’s big smiles and bright eyes.
Let nothing be wasted, collect the remaining treats,
small packages of delight, pretty and cheerful, in the rain swept cold day’s darkness.
PORTLAND
The soft sibilant sound of fingers gliding across the page of a good book
eagerly reaching toward the concrete future of what happens next,
railroad tracks paradoxically running together past beautiful brick depots partially
abandoned,
and the great flat expansive planes of airports busy runways
optimistically terminating in the lift that leaves one suspended surprised in mid-air,
and busier terminals where conspicuous consumption
is always on display depicted behind the empty image of our superficial vanity that
looks back.
The rustle of leaves, heralding fall,
forest floors carpeted in various colors,
the glinting tongue of water close by,
as it dances singing towards an asymptotic oblivion.
How I love these lyrical sounds teeming with life.
The paradox of a free individual existence
being the firm foundation for society’s deterministic future,
aside from the crunch of my own tired tread on the garden gravel paths.
And, I cast a glance skyward, that timid earth bound creatures can’t hope to understand,
being too preoccupied with pleasures squandered on the ground –
the rasping complaint of the rusty rail
discarding the long association with its steel spikes,
sagging wire clutters up the view,
with its linear forests denuded of leaves,
the reduced top of a limited future with the advent of cell phones,
the obsolescence of fossil fuels and the defeat of time
all beyond our capacity to understand.
Our consumer car culture has irreparably scarred our fate
living on vast webs of tarmac, committed toward
technologically controlled futures, the earth bound by asphalt
grins mockingly at our concrete coliseum existences.
Slowly, we shuffle out into the middle of our elliptical field,
small souls resolved to be resolute, but betrayed by our trembling flesh,
as with dawning awareness we realize the significance of where we are.
HYPERSENSITIVE
She can’t ride her bicycle through the countryside anymore,
and she never plays tennis with any of our friends.
All she does is awkwardly sit and rest, like a tree heavily laden with fruit,
its limbs braced by pieces of wood.
Did I tell you how quickly she tires,
the least little exertion is enough to make her take a nap,
so you can guess how our afternoon walks are going.
And, did I tell you about riding in the car?
Forget about going anywhere early in the morning,
and, we can’t drive the car on a road that’s got any curves anymore.
She’s soo.... emotional, a stupid show turns on torrents of tears,
Today, I was reading a good book, she came in and said Hi, and I volleyed it back,
not really paying attention, and she turned into a human spigot.
And, yesterday, while we were sitting in the garden
watching sunset bleed bright red across the sky,
the wind faintly carried a simple song
that mixed with the flowers’ fragrances,
she flooded with sadness, it disturbed me, too.
And now, if I so much as look at her harshly, or speak sharply, or a little loud,
you’d think I was a brutal wife beater, or something else equally sick like a neo-fascist.
I swear, she acts as if she’d shrivel up and die!
IMAGINE: STONEHENGE, AGAIN
Carefully concealed lurks your hidden heinous acts
devouring centuries, while giving indigestion:
the usual ultra-real larger than life fascist sculptures,
immense statues, frozen in attitudes of sorrow; and,
hate poisonous enough to ulcerate one’s bowels,
for the catch of the day, the leviathan, whose corpse ghost white
ignores the ignorance behind “Thar she blows”, sailing towards extinction.
Hercules had his rustic time, torturously driven towards distress:
he poured a river of baby’s tears
futilely trying to clean up
that an ocean couldn’t make come clean.
But, today whose wise enough to bravely emulate Laocoon,
when greed driven Dying Gauls are more the style of the day
multiplied and miniaturized, like the diminutive Pietas,
whose profitable specials lead the post holiday sales readily available wholesale
even where what haunts the Gothic gloom occurred only once outside Italy –
museum and tombs et tu?
You,
who singed the feathers on our feet,
substituting your foul fetters in stead,
and the scars and mutilations from your mediocre works,
over dependant on perverted technology, reflects sadly from shattered mirrors,
in shallow superficial perceptions, whose impertinence
could stupidly stare down all three grimacing Gorgon sisters’ stars
of mute human agony sneakily – excuse me cunningly – afflicted
a look of rigor mortis, or habituated neo- Marat de Sades
give hurried blows to the genitals and claim glory for their other mutilations
that fill the streets with living dead grotesques, whose last groans and grunts
are a far cry from anything sage or heroic.
Tragedies were performed, as black comedies, in contemporary theatres of the absurd;
where the boards absorb more blood than Shakespeare,
and, as an audience shamefully sat and stared apathetically at perverted human appetites,
a cobra appeared center stage hissing and hideously starts to spit spite and malice
at the people’s petrified eyes; as the sadists swell with empty arrogant pride,
on every glistening black city street that writhes python like
around terminally dull blocks; and, the empire expires
embraced by the radical right faction’s Anaconda coils.
Imagine:
World domination – not exactly a new dream
a desire, festering into a cancerous sore, an open weeping wound
with human misery and suffering a sickly perverted pleasure generating glee:
and, there you have taken in hand America.
The beam in your eye is from grit you say
as some rude fascist fanatic sick-o, with a fetish for gouging out eyes
tries to exercise his proclivity that can make anyone grimace;
but, to blind an entire globe, like Oedipus...
petrifies God and turns humanity into beasts,
like Odysseus’ crew accompanied by Circe,
as despair covers the earth God mercifully covers with a shroud its face.
All creation emerged in another ice age
Extremists impregnated, Saturn madly swallows joy.
And,
now you enter in
molting feathers, sprouting wings and afraid you’ll be plucked, or worse;
conditioned to be afraid to fly, living trapped inside the reflections of Fun House mirrors
another decapitated iteration, either a GIJoe, or a Barbie doll mistake
stupidly smiling when suddenly out of their nitwit face
slithers a serpentine tongue; and, it fiercely scowls its features dark and lugubrious.
Where are the people’s Antiphonal song cycles replaced by stupid silence?
What is the religious significance of Aeschylus’ tragedies?
Where was Socrates’ daemon when he needed him?
Lost.
In Gaia worship, Sibyls eat herbage for mystic visions
or, Jimson weed is topically applied in religious services honoring God in the Southwest.
Resurrect Happiness, or, a legion of smiling saints; Laughing-men
we slip mutilated with the wounds of the extremists’ ancient plagues
and fall through the chosen world of right wing fanatics,
Stonehenge’s eternal sufferers.
Lucretius, you saw things too clearly,
and preferred to die alive and whole,
rather than to live dismembered and dead.
A grotesque you pose and repose, till the end of time;
and, again and again the Janus balance
reasserts the cosmic order and re-establishes the natural distribution pattern:
based on Liberty.
BANG
The bullet erupted from the end of the barrel,
it never will return.
Glinting its descending devout curve
asymptotically traverses the dark.
With its shining silver point it projects forward
over a path made at the moment of creation
and whether it pierces or misses its targeted heart
only our ignorance waits to perceive.
The bullet is shot towards a never arriving point
that exists only outside of time and is embedded inside of infinity.
Whose hand squeezed the trigger?
Who is it made and sold the gun?
Someone must have shot it
and judging from the facts and circumstances surrounding the event
the participants must’ve demonstrated some semblance of intelligence:
but, the modest author behind it all is sublimely wise.
Who has pulled the trigger that unleashed the bullet
that traveled through the night?
I, who stand here bleeding, demand to know!
Pause for a moment, reflect on the course of events.
You were not shot by someone standing before you,
you were ruthlessly gunned down by a deliberately destabilized sniper
who was psychologically conditioned and subliminally induced.
Why blame the one who pulled the trigger?
They weren’t acting based on free will any more than the gun.
You didn’t believe in the virtual reality technology
till the bullet entered your spine and left you paralyzed,
you never noticed the radical right subordinate tyrants
as they sadistically tormented their first targeted victim;
you never noticed the holy arc of its projection,
you believed in the deterministic path that you vainly tried to duck.
You never believed in perverted science and extremist populist movements
conditioned to severe persecutions hypocritically condemning violent acts
that they secretly condoned (planned and executed); or, extorting people
by threatening to starve their loved ones,
while others were busy prostituting and physically abusing their loved ones
for pleasure and profit, recruited from society as needed, a society spied on
just like the communist totalitarian state of the late Joe Stalin
that they started out opposing and ended up emulating instead.
The one whose free will really pulled the trigger no-man knows.
But, you feel the effect of his fire.
Why isn’t that enough for you?
Why do you yearn for something more, when the bullet traumatizes your heart?
WHEN WINTER WIND
When Winter wind encrusts the land in ice,
free to agree and be enslaved – or die –
beneath a chaos of clouds I refuse to be
darker than the devouring darkness
that surrounds me with sepulchral silence.
And, air fills with soft white kisses
that cover my face
then I’ll not know
what my discretely concealed would be masters
would do with me;
or, where my life would freely be,
who waits to meet me
at my grave.
PERVERSE PREDATORS
I.
A couple of boy scouts, working on the beach, were warming themselves
by a watch fire, about which the wet driftwood, gloom, and degenerates gathered,
“Here the news!” said a merit badge owner, “A big wig director
sends our troop leader to us with orders to pitch a camp here,
to try and tempt an alleged pervert, you can’t catch a depraved person
with just child pornography, as seed surrounds a snare to catch a blackbird.”
The two boys laughed as one; and, this cruel gaiety increased,
while a deflating radio raucously blared bad music.
“What’s this?” the other responded. “Haven’t had enough podiatry?
Have you tortured enough, bringing down cloud merchants, who are devout Christians?
As for me, I’m neither drunk nor full. To Hell with our troop leader!
The wolf’s become the watch dog. – So long live the big wig,
If he gives me more money and for fun provides vicious operations.”
Here flames of half burned driftwood turned red and blue,
and the faces of the boy scouts turned blue and red.
A nearby seal corpse, decaying upwind on the beach, stank.
“Damn the seal sure stinks and they made us move our fire and rebuild the dugout
deliberately downwind, to be directly in front of the poor bastard and his wife’s
expensive beachfront resort’s windows.” Grumbled the boy scout,
as apprehensively he quickly glanced at his parent’s nearby room and crossed himself.
II.
“Happy days are here again! By my balls! It rains bucketfuls!”
“I’ll get college educations at the school of your choice for each of you!”
“No kidding?”
“On my honor!
and, how’ll you get – yes you – such large spoils?
By persecuting that damn long hair up there!”
“Where?”
“Right here, in the USA, and all over the world, too. There, infidels handle it,
and sometimes we set up terrorists operations with gold shovels and gold hubcaps.
Does a warmer climate interest you?
We’ll provide bounties – if your successful seductively entrapping
foreign dissident patriots!”
“Iraq is far, sir!”
“Not just Iraq, India, Europe, and the Caribbean. You’ve heard of first class tickets
on commercial airlines?”
“That’s not enough.”
“The network will help provide jobs and remember the rewards
to ease your consciences and make it worth your while.
“Done! We’ll travel as youths in hostels. And, after a couple of years
the college of our choice. What do you say?”
“Oh, the spies life as a whore is a gay one!”
“Well! Your sand covered dugout and campfire are burned out.
They didn’t work, no sign of him? Break camp.
Yes kids, when you go be sure the fires out, pack up your trash,
when you depart nothing will be left but an empty beach and a dead seal!”
And, they heard the barking pack of the scout master’s dogs chasing gulls,
on the beach half way toward town.
III.
The boy scouts walked away with synchronized steps, little marching soldiers,
sadistic perverts before their personalities even had a chance to emerge.
Back in their rooms on their computers
A prostituted boy was arguing in a chat room with somebody on internet.
The boy scout demanded twenty dollars. The adult offered ten.
The child typed in kiss my ass.
The adult responded business before pleasure.
The child typed twenty, and up my ass.
The adult replied, twenty you thief. Heaven help me you’re on! Where and when?
The tools were in great condition, red handles with polished steel blades
that looked brand new.
But, the blades were chipped and blood stained.
AMBULATION
I would have liked to feel calm and quiet,
like the still deep backwaters of a steam,
after being battered by the narrows rapid tumultuous passage;
a mirror out of time in evidence
of a resolute, resourceful will.
I am different: a thoughtful man
who sees the chaos of fleeting life
destructively disturbing himself and others -
who slow to comprehend are deceived
into degenerative action that will require
long weary years and future generations to undue.
I dared to know and expose the evil
that a cancer gnaws the world,
a fishbone that sticks in the throat
I try to forestall the universal conflagration,
with reason and difficult Truths;
and, I’ve had a ring side seat to see
all the iniquities of a stupid age,
where time was already an avalanche crumbling.
I followed my difficult chosen path,
knowing that what initially appears easy,
too often proves the most arduous in the end;
and so, while walking this path,
which, while not my personal favorite, at least
had the merit of being my own, and, kept alert to their ambushes;
and, maybe I needed other tools,
to construct other alternative realities,
a mind that docilely abdicates,
as an abject sycophant. I needed other books
than their idiotic comics
containing ludicrously loud braying pages.
Yet, I don’t regret a thing:
I immerse myself in her great heart
and heal, in the gentle warmth of its loving kindness.
As their vicious frenzied fanaticism
disintegrates into its own abysmal darkness.
MISERY
They crowd into our cemeteries -
those places more easy to enter than depart –
misery stands near the open graves
and directs them, like our radical right subordinate tyrants
whose primary pleasure is the sickly one of making others
more miserable than themselves; they feebly call
denying life to others that they don’t want themselves,
merely so they wont feel that they’re missing out on anything,
these fearful, vanity driven, nay sayers to life.
A middle aged woman prematurely old, disheveled and looking rather vague,
or, a youth mutilated by a bomb and with a haggard expression –
they’re the names of relatives, friends, and lovers
which were sadistically driven – they’re gone now
sycophants and hypocrites remain, while the fond dead, happy and free,
they’re empty words accompanying the vacant names into eternity
this familiar scene is repeated all across the land
diminutive flags flutter unnecessarily over graves
that alone remain.
I SMELL A
Protruding proboscis, bifurcating caverns deeply hollowed,
what paradoxical sensations your sense of smell brings,
what impertinent asses we are, my cartilaginous nose and eye
are always Democratically eclectic always unabashed and unashamed,
and now we’ve come to this, faint scented flowers
yuletide camellias, winter jasmine, and heather, while spring bulbs
are still thrusting their green fuse spears in the air,
and thin wasted poplars: expose their high bedraggled nests and
last years leaves lay decaying, hubris humus, in the wet earth
beneath us. With the first green thirst
our desires instinctively quicken, till
knowledge knows that rank odor, the precursor to Spring!
And, the good fragrance of flowers and sex,
but why digress, can’t you be decent?
Or, like so many others are you, too, doomed to degenerate?
Ah, I reserve my ardors for my soul mate!
Lucky in love, to learn early the inherent instability in three,
and who nose the great love and blessing of a woman who truly cares for us;
as grotesque living dead, we continue living happy in our ways?
Must you, at this late date, try the all of it that’s relevant to you?
Must you always stand up and champion Liberty obstinately standing tall,
where you’ve been brutally battered knowing full well
now is a time for lying low; but, if it doesn’t kill you, you’ll become stronger
and, having your heart in the highlands, its not here,
and life without a heart is an empty shadow,
besides, life lived in the superficial shadows is to doom yourself
to an existence of insipid tepid mediocrity: and, if not me, then who;
and if not now, then when; and if not here, then where?
For both my resolute nose and I realize,
that once lost, one’s Freedoms and Civil Rights are rarely ever returned.
The ideas contained in the discourses and essays that appear in Rumor Mill are the express opinions of its author.
RUMOR MILL
DEMOCRACY: IN THE ERA OF FACTION
It’s not a revelation to observe that a nation’s course is seldom straight, as it steadily perseveres for many years pursuing the erroneous opinions required to sacrifice the national interests for those of faction. The process was initially made possible and protracted for long weary years by the same ultimate cause, the manipulation of the majority of Americans made ignorant by being deliberately misinformed on each and every issue of substantive import by an adjunct media, as if persevering in folly where somehow virtuous with respect to the country’s interests. The fact that in spite of serious handicaps reason has recently prevailed and the American public has repudiated the Republican Party leadership which lead to its recent wars in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle-East tends to give cause for the great respect America has always held for traditional forms of Democracy.
The more attentively I investigate the recent responses of the two respective major political parties, Republicans and Democrats, to ending the war the more convinced I become that they’re as inept and incompetent on the first part as cogent and compelling on the second. The Republican’s have unnecessarily clamored for extending the war, at continued great cost to the public who gain nothing from the effort but greater bankruptcy; while the radical right faction, who control the Republican Party through the funding of its candidates, receive the proceeds and benefits from the war expenses, and they hope to benefit from the subsequent increase in the national debt, by providing a pretense to privatize (profitably for them) the national entitlements – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The Democrats, hampered by the irresponsible erroneous reporting, by a faction owned and dominated national media, tries to maintain its newly won position in public opinion polls, as being perceived best to protect our country from foreign threats, by pursuing policies that end the wars while simultaneously sustaining sufficient powers for all potential national purposes. The combination of controlling the media and financially underwriting all international terrorists and thus duplicitously controlling their efforts in an on going surreptitious attempt to extort various nations’ public policies, which serves to increase the radical right faction’s industrial-military profits makes the Democratic Party’s efforts to follow legitimate reasonable policies doubly difficult.
Among the many objectives that rise before a free and wise people, prerequisite is the necessity to attend to its safety first. And, in the radical right factional era, the safety of the people, already burdened by a great variety of considerations and circumstances, becomes consequently more complex, with faction’s interests running contra variant to the nations, and impairs the ability for the development of comprehensive alternatives, opportunities that are inherently more profitable for all American industries and beneficial to the nation, too. The nation’s first primary foreign policy political objective should be the eradication of the politics of terror as a viable political objective by the radical right faction. However, squandering money on military options not designed to expediently dispatch the problem is a poor option, equivalent to utilizing nuclear weapons to eliminate house flies. The continued expensive military build-up is a reactionary response to other nations equally grotesque exaggerated military presences extorted by the radical right faction’s surreptitious politics of terror who unfortunately financially benefit in a myopic short term scenario, by extending certain industrial-military production runs and the further development of others which function to increase their profits. The politics of terror can be easily stopped with contemporary technological capacities by a two tiered strategy, which first eliminates funding to terrorists by threatening to expose the responsible parties by following the money trail, even if establishing an international banking network is required, or subordinating all existing financial institutions to IMF supervision; and, second by monitoring all weapons transactions and tracing them from the manufacture to their ultimate final destinations. Both options are readily available, and the only thing lacking is the firm will of a well informed world populace united in their effort to make organized violence obsolete, prevents the elimination of international terrorism. The Democrat Party must lead the way, because the radical right faction who control the Republican Party, also dominate the terrorists, as part of their global efforts outside regular channels of political activity, to extort public policy that otherwise would be unacceptable to the people and their legitimate government institutions, but extremely profitable to the radical right faction’s industrial-military investments, by duplicitously extorting public policies that play both sides against the public who is tragically caught in the middle.
At present this alternative represents the best option available with respect to World peace and tranquility that leads to prosperity beneficial to all classes of society, as well as minimizing the dangers from foreign arms and international conglomerate corporation’s influence exerted to extort inherently destabilizing bigger military budgets, as well as similar compulsive efforts arising from domestic causes. As the former always comes home to negatively effect domestic concerns, consequently it should be first discussed. Let us therefore continue to examine the disruptive and injurious effects of faction on contemporary Democratic government policies, realizing that an efficient national government affords optimum control and maximum security that can be constructed against external threats, even if covertly controlled by domestic elements.
The number of wars which have happened since the rise of faction on the Republican Party watches will most frequently be found to be disproportionately large, regardless of whether the causes are real or pretended like America’s recent wars of aggression, which were surreptitiously provoked and incited by domestic elements motivated by corporate greed. If this statement is just, then its essential that we inquire why so many wars are started under faction’s stewardship; for if war represents a failure in all other government options’ efforts to effectively mitigate, then it follows that the radical right faction’s Republican lead government is singularly incompetent in protecting the nation and failing to preserve the US people in a state of prosperous peace with a wide variety of other countries.
The just causes of war are basically twofold, they start either by a breach in treaties or an act of violence. No treaties were violated in the last 25 years except by the US and the act of violence which we were subject to, in spite of more massive military expenditures than the rest of the world combined in the 2 decades since the conclusion of the Cold War Era, was caused by what the best evidence has made seem completely conclusive that extremist domestic factional elements’ politically motivated manipulated foreign terrorists – see previous issues. The devastating economic consequences and the expenses that can never be hoped to be repaid present two ironclad reasons why war should never be used as a foreign policy option for any nation, except for when under direct military attack, and specially the USA whose huge economy provides it with such a considerable arsenal of economic options that could potentially be wielded as devastating weapons. The moral concerns and irreparable loss of human life make wars seem evil and inconceivably monstrous. The fact that war time economies do not promote prosperity, but wars serve to hemorrhage a nation’s economy, in the production of goods that don’t benefit anyone and hopefully will never be used, and wars squander a nation’s available resources on inefficient economic patterns that provide no benefits. And, during a time when most economic activity is conducted between components of international conglomerate corporations and between multinational corporations which create extensive commercial ties that integrate the US economic grid with the rest of the global economy make wars between the USA and its neighbors seem so wantonly wasteful and so extravagantly unnecessary as to be as absurd and useful as keeping a wholly mammoth for a pet.
The long standing stability of the nation-state unit under ever increasing Democratic governments, and international courts, and international organizations make observing peace based on lawful relations appear to be the most obvious beneficent response available to a nation. Because, once a national identity has been established, unless an underlying division that is ethnic, or tribal, or religious, exists then attempts to divide will remain extremely difficult at best with a nation’s people obdurately clinging to its established national identity, witness Poland and Ireland who both struggled for centuries to re-assert their countries. America’s efforts to superimpose a government on Iraq are doomed to failure. All that’s necessary in the Middle East and particularly Iraq, is for the USA to withdraw its military presence: stop the war, now! It’s that simple. Because, Iraq already has an established tradition of self-government, which if left alone will re-assert itself; and, once again an efficient government will emerge, where its best people will not only consent to serve, but will be appointed and elected to govern the country; for at all levels of government from local to national, whether elected or appointed, or judicial, executive and representative assemblies the greater reputations and abilities will prevail if not interfered with by a manipulated media; particularly where there is widest opportunities of freedom. And, if the US, lead by the arrogant radical right faction, weren’t blinded by pride and profits, and so stupidly stubborn it would have learned by now that only impaired people will willingly agree to serve under tyranny and corruption: a lesson America is in the process of learning at home, with Republican Party homogenous candidates; but, it is impaired, by a system mugged by money and packaged candidates who run computerized campaigns insulated from the public by means of the media. Hence domestic efforts for unification are proving impossible, as the radical right faction dominated media-propaganda machine cynically laments.
Because, under a free Democratic government its administration and political decisions will tend to be more wise, prudent, and judicious than those under the thumb of the radical right faction Republican lackeys who want to systematically exploit government and the nation’s resources in ways which optimize the rates of return of extensive expensive political contributions, which result in corrupt and inefficient government designed to transform government into a conduit from the public to the private accounts of the radical right faction leaders and use government to make large amounts of money for a fortunate select few at everyone else’s expense, with assistance from the media and subordinate tyrants who corruptly condition people to be oppressed. The Democrats started the year wisely prioritizing government expenditures that were already burdened by massive Republican Party caused national debt, with a prescription relief for Sr. citizens program that prudently helped all classes of American society, by providing help were it is needed most, and it will do the most good for the nation by brilliantly shoring up consumer demand and indirectly benefiting business, too. The radical right faction controlled Republican Party want to persist in its ongoing efforts to finish privatize Medicare and maintaining a private health care system where expensive prescriptions provide insurance industry with one of its three leading areas of profits in a faltering health care industry that is the most expensive to operate in the world, that has been identified as most unfair, the worst for children and families, a health care system facing yearly double digit inflationary cost increases, as it leaves increasing tens of millions of Americans uninsured or with insurance too expensive to use unless confronting life threatening crises that leaves Americans spending staggeringly large monthly payments to insurance companies for essentially nothing, and provides a health care that has been giving 50% of its Sr. members, its chronically ill members, and its poor members worse health every three years, and has generated over one million wrongful deaths in hospitals in one year alone, which is the same number of patients it has refused to see during the same period of time. Meanwhile, the radical right faction propaganda-machine front page bylines read, “Democrats advocate cheaper drugs”, in a classic dirty example of distorting the public’s news.
Because, the prospect always exists for faction to press for policies that represent gain for them but loss for the nation and its people; or, advantages may arise by extending an unjust war of aggression disguised as fighting terrorism, which clearly deviates from good faith and justice and pours money into their ruling elite private accounts. These temptations are always present for faction, and, a nation must be eternally vigilant to earn its heritage of Liberty and Civil Rights. The temptation to persecute and superimpose private will for good emotional excuses is always with us and is the means to corrupt a nation and condition its people to be oppressed, a path that will inexorably impoverish a country and with multi-nationals with an eye on the short term bottom line and CO’s whose annual bonuses are dependant on it, these temptations become increasingly hard to resist. The wisdom in creating a society based on Equality and Liberty that directly extends from individuals who grow up experiencing free will and self determination in pursuit of prosperity and Happiness as the convention, in protecting such a society conditioned to submit its concerns to the judgment of its elected assemblies, appointed non-political courts, and executive branch all dividing the domestic power, because it represents the greatest threat to society protecting citizens from its abuse, and then making each component and all parts together subject to the strict rules and nonpolitical jurisdiction of its Constitution, can’t be to much commended; rather than, the neo-fascist extremist alternative, which creates a nation of callous individuals who spy on their neighbors and brutally pursues people with capricious prejudice and severe persecution, and the nation bifurcates between tormented and tormentors, till it collapses under the ever increasing weight of vice and corruption.
Because, even if the governing people of a political party are benevolently disposed to resist temptation today, or for a century and a half; and yet, such temptations may, in the fullness of time, and in fact in mankind’s entire long history there has never been a single instant which did not result in the failure, in the prudent planning of forefathers to prevent the injustices meditated, or to punish transgressors well intended or not. But, the great concentrations of wealth impossible to foresee by our forefathers and the modern global concerns that inherently violated US Constitutional guidelines and prohibitions on a regular basis, finally culminated in the current circumstances which induced private parties not subject to any country’s restraint to commit a series of serious wrongs which were to be conducted on a regular basis, and its member’s participants were deliberately conditioned to utilize power, without the legal and moral restraint associated with nations and their citizenship, which became the means to processes which lead to the regular independent systematic commission of wrongful acts by themselves and others, injurious to nations and their citizens. National governments being ill equipped to contend with multi-national conglomerates and their extensive global subsidiaries larger than most nations, which has created a dynamic situation currently fluid in nature that needs careful scrutiny, to codify relationships to the benefit of all concerned parties. These formalized relationships must receive the legal stature of treaties, to prevent illegal internal manipulation potentially disastrous in terms of negative consequences to the respective parties, while simultaneously facilitating the optimization of all obtainable potential benefits inherent in the formally recognized legal entities legitimate relations. The size of the respective parties and the complexity of their legal relationships create scenarios that have the potential to realize substantial increased revenues when efficiently and equitably administered, and inversely if not administered with erudition represent the potential for interference and inefficiency, disruption and damages, which could manifest themselves in terms of possible losses comparable in impact to those incurred during a war between nations. Remembering that government’s primary responsibility is to protect the rights of the individual and thus in the aggregate the interests of society from potential dangers of any sort from any quarter.
Because, such conflicts are frequently caused by the ignorance of interested parties and their failure to comprehend the fundamental nature of complex dynamic systems and the integral inter-relationship of individual component parts and how the varying aspects combine to operate in a harmonious whole. Not a single war, since the rise of faction, has resulted from improprieties initiated by legitimate government; but, many wars and many more terrorist attacks have been initiated by faction. A fact that cries out for attention is the current lack of restraint exhibited by faction, when technologies exist that make the apprehension of individuals who are primarily responsible for the planning and commission of crimes against persons and property, though they do not directly actively take part when it’s committed, difficult if not impossible, and it creates a situation where misguided and misanthropic individuals are able to repeatedly cause crimes to occur with relative impunity. And, technologies are being abused to invalidate nation’s fundamental political processes, too, which are well documented in the USA, which implies the problem has international dimensions of huge proportions. The political outcomes have the potential to generate grievous economic results, and, it would seem, if not already that it’s only a question of time, that occasion will arise which will result in the slaughter of many innocent inhabitants.
The boundary disputes in the oil rich Middle-East, the belligerencies between Iraq and the USA extended for profit and motives of genocide, and tribal conflicts in Africa provide ample cause for concern. The quick belligerent response nation-states will have commenced under the sudden ignition of ancient irritations, causing injury to some interests while profits to others, these are areas that make the existence of the nation-state not one that will likely quickly become obsolete. And, the process inherent in market driven economies towards the constriction of wealth makes corporate conglomerates an entity likely to be a going concern for the foreseeable future. Nothing will demonstrate such utility to facilitate the development of our species as these two essential public institutions, whether they serve mankind to effectively obviate potential dangers as Democratic nations historically have done, whose wisdom and prudence generally falters in degree with the amount of individual freedom experienced by citizens of the states whose effective performance predictably diminishes in direct proportion with their reduced freedoms resulting from extremist elements efforts to inflame passions and to systematically misinform its members, and thus impair Democracies historic inherent advantages that soon overwhelms short term advantages realized by their competitive extreme political state neighbors; and, the international conglomerate corporation whose relative recent arrival on the world stage has already served to expedite commerce uniting producers and markets all over the globe, in an economic grid that unites political entities that can and should increase prosperity and promote political stability, when countries exhibit Equality, Liberty and Civil Rights advanced by Reason in pluralistic societies that serve the dichotomous function of harmoniously integrating producers and consumers, and repudiates the anachronistic belief that economics is the doleful science as the study of scarcity. Both of these essential public institutions have potentially a bright role ahead moderately promoting, by Truth and Reason, what each ones components’ characteristics and functions should be, promoting the means most appropriate to resolve problems and extricate society from future difficulties, which will inevitably arise brought on by factional greed and avarice pursuing exploitative and oppressive policies.
Besides, new opportunities will rise with breakthroughs from a more fundamental understanding of well known bodies of knowledge, as society benefits from progress promoted by freedom and fueled by prosperity enhanced by nations built on the core values of Democracy that optimizes the Happiness of all the classes of the society it serves, as science increases incrementally. And, Liberty dichotomously functions as both the catalyst and the foundation’s cornerstone promoting the nations’ prosperity and progress, while simultaneously providing stability for a large, prosperous, middle class who will conservatively cluster around the statistical mean of a natural distribution curve and provide the means of an enhanced consumer demand necessary for future sustainable economic growth, required for the steady advancement of the creative vision provided by those living free from cultural biases at two standard deviations from the norm of tomorrow’s secure society.
In the recent past the radical right faction Republican Party has tried a bold experiment which failed miserably. Having used the media to lie, so that they could cheat and advance their factional interests, they used a populist movement to expedite the process outside official government channels, which soon transformed into an immoral expression of extremist vice and corruption. The radical right faction Republican Revolution played a critical negative role converting a nation that was the most productive and experienced the highest standard of living in the world during the 60’s and early 70’s, into the nation that is fast plummeting into the ranks of the Third World, under the radical right faction’s incompetent and greed driven leadership. If pride doesn’t continue to blind them and prevent the Republicans from learning what is plainly obvious to everyone else, we have the opportunity to reaffirm America’s commitment to Democracy, and learn valuable lessons essential to the future of Democracy. Because, Democracy can’t be based on false premises to reflect the caprice of bigoted prejudices, nor can it be built by deceit for the benefit of avarice. For better or worse, God made man a certain essential way predicated on the miraculous uniqueness of the individual, a brilliant strategy with deterministic results that optimizes our species chances for survival under almost any possible alternative circumstances in a variable universe with only change functioning as a constant. The individuality of humanity has profound consequences for how society can be effectively constructed, a fact that if ignored rapidly generates disastrous results. After ten thousand years of civilization mankind has learned a little, like Democracy is the worst form of government until the other options are considered. And, an essential function of Democratic government is that it functions to develop and protect a society with certain social characteristics, like Equality and Liberty, and protecting Civil Rights, and Egalitarian Safeguards that protect those rights particularly the individual’s property rights, and the moderating role of personal freedom only functioning to the extent that it not violate your neighbor’s rights, and a Legal Systems with some sort of due process, which equally protects the rights of all. We’ve learned a little over the passage of time, but like a child who learns to walk we’ve mostly learned to fall down and how to get back up. War is too expensive and America is obliged to pursue Peace. Will we have the native intelligence and good grace to humbly admit to a series of mistakes, so we may go on, and maybe even learn to walk? Or, will pride precede yet another fall from grace? One thing is for certain Liberty is pre-requisite to any further development, like standing is necessary before one can ambulate more efficiently than by crawling. The future and what direction that we take as a nation tomorrow, is our responsibility and it is what must be decided here today.