ON THE WING
This spring I didn’t notice when the songbirds hatched,
nor even when they first took wing, my mind was so filled with mourning.
Today, I found an empty nest, their arrival and departure had come and gone unheeded.
Sadness drags on me like a shadow with weight;
and, a South wind came fresh and fragrant, it touched me with its warmth.
And, its sublime sweetness made my lonely heart ache for the faces now gone,
as though summer somehow had forgotten something, and was longing for completion.
I didn’t realize then that the longing was for me,
that my time was fast fleeing and I missed living life on the wing.
TO NIGHT
Tonight, I turn the corner
into a dark silent side street;
then, my shadow
reached out and touched me,
it was to be taken, too.
My shirt, and pants, and shoes,
all were waiting and wanting,
to take this little trip;
and, the shapeless Nothing
that was devoid of color
said, “Welcome, now your finally ready,
to enter the beyond.”
Wearily, I sit
in the warm sultry room.
The wicked people scream in the street
together with the crows
about tomorrow and other things
they neither know, nor understand.
This evil time probes our open wounds,
as the ticking of the clock grows progressively slower.
DRYADS DEBATE
Hearing the woodland dryads’ debate
about
the sublime beauty of
being only to sensitive souls a reflection of Nature,
I tried to focus my attention on an arbor
that contained a stand of Redwoods nestled in a draw,
which also resides in a corner of my heart.
Dreamily meditating I sit
distilling my imagination
to see the metaphysical trees,
which reside so red and green resplendent
far more radiant than the coarse woods
that solemnly tower around me.
But, before transcending sensation
and becoming blind as the stand of trees,
every scarlet sliver and crimson cone sheltering me,
till life filled my red veins pouring through every limb
glutting me with joy; a fire burns in the heart of redwoods,
and among the looming silence I hear broken voices and laughter in the brush of the
wind.
Inside the copse
floating among the towering tree tops
whispering secretively with a passing breeze
great grooved colonnades form from furrowed ruddy bark
safely sequestered in the draw
from wrathful wind and lightening - trees.
But, waiting in ambush
assaulting each sense
by an uncomprehending peccant mediocrity,
now blessed with this ethereal view
I fly loyal to my
code, like a
below the earth travels its caravansary of Night and Day.
The accumulated filth of tyranny’s vice and corruption
forces its oppressive view on its slavish audience
I’ve been compelled to watch perverts and their slattern counterparts
litter the sacred grove bellow where all the trees are scarred;
and, red tints course through the seductive lacerating
lake of silent shadows.
MY FIRST MEMORY
Autumn trees turn color
and rivers slowly start to rise
I wander through the hot tired gardens
lost in you, the high rising silence
that oppresses everything fragrant
brought my first memory of death,
the damp decay of leaves joined with chrysanthemums,
the raucous calling of a raven to us adolescents
awakens an awareness of summer’s final day.
No one takes us seriously
the light touch of falling leaves
the past that is mulch for the future
whose faint touch already was rotting.
But blood pulsed inside the branch,
my budding hand
blossomed on your thighs.
Of shooting stars
and mandrake roots are children born
to the cool crisp breath of the air.
WHAT GOOD
What good are these days,
when tyranny dictates how they must be spent?
The world becomes dull and redundant,
and, time a scourge that plays familiar reruns which bores us 2 death.
Nothing new to greet you, to stimulate the mind;
for the tyrant fears everything that’s not already known,
and anyway, only the tyrant, alone knows what is best;
besides, anything new posses as a
potential threat.
In your great impatience, you vainly fought futility,
the frantic efforts of a suffocating soul.
Your full development, you’re doomed never to know;
a grotesque, you live like all the rest, as a Goya amputee.
Since that day long ago you’ve become a chained drone.
Are you productive? Why hell yes! A modern miller’s mule locked in a circle of sorrow.
Beneath a blind sun and scarred moon,
you recurrently dream what your body will never know....
R.I.P.
So many tell me to rest in peace,
you were so central to it all,
before your touch everything seems fragmented,
like another person’s life.
There such
and now there’s so much pain and such great sorrow,
in God’s great bitter-sweet sense of irony.
There doesn’t seem to be any meaning
to the phrase ”he lived”, when what we experience
living in a tyranny, is like being impaled
and added to the collection,
carefully labeled with dates and location.
Time for us is discontinuous,
filled in with neat rows and columns of zeros,
time is plastic, too, for instance,
now skips around between various events.
Most days stand silently in stark rows
all days are wrapped up in one,
there passing leaves no discernable mark,
till the aggregate impact is observed.
Each day is strangely like you,
they all are similar pieces
that when added up and put together
form your transforming image.
I suppose that now is the time to say
life somehow is insubstantial,
whenever one’s oppressed life becomes shadowy
filled with mutilated moments;
and, yet what I hold in my arms
is solid enough, form and color merge
into one sublime harmonious whole.
What conspiring set of circumstance
created the long chain of accidents
that became the wonder which is you.
I’m just a mangled heap of morphemes, merely figments,
whose vanity contrived your varied form.
My laboring eyes have constructed
twin wings which they’ve already attached
in gaudy splashes of color and great eyes.
But, when nobody is looking
what miraculous being emerges?
The shattered dreams and various bits and pieces
of this place and that event
radiantly shine through their death mask
of the reformed you.
As for your display,
does it include holograms and computer generated graphics
projected on blank walls and empty space?
Do they include a landscape
complete with smoldering ruins
that contain the warm ashes of your remains,
and with my bifocals
search its smoking slopes –
its wind and wave swept beaches,
trembling forests, and golems.
It is filled with gray days and black nights,
as we follow the dark twisted paths
of minds we don’t even know revisiting
a past life in composite scene by scene.
What can be done to rebuke the horror of their deformity?
It seems to me
that filament by filament
a web is spun around us
wrapping us about like Protean beings.
Here we can smoke, here we must be silent,
or speak in moderate decibels about superficial subjects,
or, superficially about important subjects.
Here we are the center.
Outside, lines intersect, but obliquely wrap around us.
Finally, we’re given a miniature replica of life,
a desperately sick world
devolving constantly lower and lower.
Why were we once given such lovely lives,
filled with wonderful color and bright lights
blessed by sweet innocent dreams,
if our fate bounds us as objects –
you a unique miracle of creation
reduced by mediocre miscreants –
into the sordid superficial thought of things?
We lived a brief beautiful life,
filled with Love and rapture,
before being trapped within the perverse predator’s eye,
a quivering self-serving self-delusion
about to be destroyed and delegated to oblivion.
I avoid all needless interaction,
to prevent their unnecessary moral degeneration;
besides, not being wicked and not fond of necromancy,
it gets confusing, when your already the same as dead.
Wanted dead or alive, and, subject to whatever it takes,
becomes an incredible bore after the initial outrage wears away;
and, redundancy, like rigor mortis, sets in,
thus their sacred little system
operates as an advanced state of necrobiosis,
and, descending into their midst is a little like death.
We are dismembered by all those
whose voices form a hollow wind racing over boulders;
which serve to bind people together, objects in the slave trade,
and which wearily stretch dreary life’s limits for another moment or day.
But, you lack even the ability to talk,
what you do is echo programmed absurdities
that your conditioned to substitute for thought.
Yet even a moment of common sense,
or, better still more erudite reason dispels.
Darting over our past life,
we’re not in God’s debt;
our life freely lived wouldn’t be a burden,
just imagine a whole day before us;
and it was all fine, doing what we please.
But, we were surrounded by the buzz of stupid cell phone conversations,
battering my heart down and finally destroying us.
Living to brief a moment,
filled with fear and loathing,
we float mote like ascending
in a golden column of light,
beyond prison space confined
between an endless anvil and hammer,
past and future, smashing our dreams.
But, the destructive actions were all in vain,
because a life lived soberly,
without the light burden of dreams was not worth living –
life, after all, had only the value that dreams gave to it.
And, then I visit books,
to brush branches and enjoy their fruit.
How easy to open a window
sprout wings and fly away to mountain meadows,
where voices grow soft and thoughts become expansive.
This pen writes and travels on
leaving a stream of littering symbols behind,
it loses all worth if its not Truthful,
the integrity inherent in any line;
or, the whole tradition will die,
and become a mere adjunct to tyranny,
so much blasphemy and wanton waste;
there is a tryst with the hand,
whose wisdom is conveyed by meditative fingers;
through silent speeches lyrical and strong,
whose birth pains reaps no profit;
but, it gratifies the heart, and it eases the soul.
Such wondrous beauty
enjoyed for such a brief passing flight
seems to suggest a myriad of things,
each unique as the miracle
subjectively beholding their world;
and, if there is an objective goal
its not singular or static,
and certainly isn’t found in ourselves.
No cheap charlatan puppet masters
putting on a bogus shadow play
can imprison light in darkness –
it’ll always break away into rainbows of color.
And, now patient reader,
should we bid a fond farewell?
We’ll each grow older,
and become thin as our hair,
memories will fade and wither like leaves in Fall.
The trouble is the fossils who’ve never lived,
they cling tenaciously to lives never lived
hating anyone who would and could and did:
so as to not have to confront how much they’ve missed.
The future stretches behind them
filled with beds for prostituted lovers
and the waiting abyss,
while radiant transforming clouds are beautiful and surreal.
You’re better selves is what they demand of others,
while expecting every allowance be made for themselves.
I fall exhausted disgusted by the oppressive goal
that needlessly enslaves people and makes them empty and deformed.
In the midst of youth’s love and laughter,
is it any wonder youngsters view their elders as fools?
We live in a
and in stead see those in power
conspire to ugliness and depravity,
‘till life is infused with bitterness
and rancor and innumerable envies.
There is no end to the folly of the human heart,
and so Time continues expanding
‘till the silence between ticks of the clock swells into infinity.
UNDERSTAND
Who walked up to my window
when I was young and peered in it?
Who walked in the deep starry night wonder
when I was young and still it was utterly silent?
With His breath He made a blossom
condensed on the black pane,
and then departed to leave the houses
rising from the silence
doors closed tight and windows shut fast
deaf, and blind.
How was I to understand,
the symbol that was the moist flower of His breath?
It stayed a few fleeting hours and then dissolved away
into the pale anemic gray light of day
before I could hope to interpret it.
Eternity and a day wouldn’t have sufficed
for me to be able to understand.
ACROSS THE BEECH
The wind has blown the beech smooth
lines of sand particles snake across
lovely sand light in the sun stinging bites grain by grain
darker where the waves wash thundering ashore
only to recede in great glinting sheets
the sea white haired harmony with the sky blue on blue.
deaf in the wailing wind the huge rocks and wind smooth sand
form a gigantic Zen garden stretching back
to the beginning of time, between the sea and shore
where wooded mountains raise their heads
and gaze stolidly Westward past the silted sand and waves.
Think, how the wind blown sand erases my footsteps,
think how brief life is even mountains and seas to eternity.
All human existence is like one of these nameless sand snakes
being blown willy-nilly across the beach.
What significance there is in life, if any, comes from what we make of it.
AGING
Thanks to
Let me for my mid-life mourn
when I was woke and the day dark
to silence from full flowing river to neighboring woods
and the flickering blue flames and morning mists
sequestered shores.
hurried on with water gloaming
and songbirds singing in the shadow strewn copse
I stepped into my chariot
and joined the jostling throng, in the painfully wide awake city.
The day began in silence and shadows
with the city still asleep; but, by the river where water foul reveled
and regaled my name that set their wood winged cousins scorning
near the suburbs and the white cats,
and I rose in the sapphire sky
and surreyed out in the chessboard of sun and shadow,
I took the high road and the Western Meadowlark cavorted
over the fence and blue lupine peopled field
and doors severed shut the suburbs and city,
as the man machine ground into gear.
A Summer of butterflies
beneath the painfully empty blue of all my days
car exhausts and the roadside trees wing trimmed and brimming
with unidentified birds and Summer sunshine
on the broad backs of sylvan covered ridges.
Here were
accompanying me through morning maladies
I wandered and listened as dew diadem droplets
disappeared in the dull dusty heat and webs of shadows dropped
in the cool forests vague with distance.
Purple haze hung in the parched air over the waterways
where a barge plowed its bifurcating furrow
and church spires stabbed futilely at the near by hot heavens
and skyscrapers and skyscrapers to be, with skeletons exposed with crane crowns
thrust through the tired panting city’s bad breath and odious body odor.
Pigeons promenaded beside all the gardens of Summer
where tall blossoms concealed thorns, and cameras
lurked along borders beneath the cloudless sky
that stared unblinking like a lidless eye
and planes plied the polluted pellucid sea.
There I could wonder,
while shadows pirouetted around
with the long arching sun
my day already half spent
gasping in the intensifying heat
It turned and climbed inside a window,
and inside another universe with sharp edged light;
and, from the thin, altering and aching, sky again
the wonder of varied realities
that comprised the marvel of an aging Summer fast turning rustic.
The peaches ripened
along with apples, cherries and pears
and I saw with the changes so clearly
senile civilization’s iterative sad stories
through the sun and faint moon parabolas –
The parabolas of reflective light
and lost legends in forest green temples
the redemptive reflections realizing youthful joys
plus life’s myriad important lessons
like living each day and enjoying life happy and free...
Where a child, when watching
Summertime slowly dying whispering life’s eternal Truths,
communes with the stones, clouds and trees;
while the mystery surges strong and alive
sung in the wind and carried by the heat shrunk streams.
And here in the cool calm I sit and wonder
at the day that celebrates my life,
as the heat strikes the anvil Earth like a hammer,
and the happy days, long since deceased, stir awake, in their recumbent slumber –
singing like a bell beneath the smiling Summer Sun.
I’m fifty-five and accelerating constantly towards death
and I realize, here and now, as the Sun’s shadows slowly start to stretch West,
though the city lies sleeping, like an anaesthetized patient, in the Summer heat:
I’ve many years yet to live happy and free – each incredibly precious;
and, on this high hill the middle of another year;
the World is eternally young,
even though its already really quite old;
and, mankind’s brief span of time here,
his truly precious and gracious gift from on high,
is merely but a season on this eternally young already old World, which will be here
long after man’s time is done.
All ideas expressed in the essays and discourses presented in The Rumor Mill are the opinions of its editorial staff.
RUMOR MILL
5th Discourse on The Contemporary Effects of Faction
Nothing is
of greater value, nothing is more expedient, in
conducting public business than a just discernment of the designs of its
participants. More than merely a natural
inherent sagacity, which is helpful in gossiping about its people and allows
snoops to pry into the private affairs of others; and, allows them to learn
their neighbors latent characteristics, which provide insight into their true
characters; and, are frequently concealed from their outward actions, but I
refer to primarily that cultivated public and political sagacity, which while
similar is not superficial and pertains to more substantive matter which it
deals with in a profound and insightful manner.
This facility requires intelligence developed by experience and
culminates in
A lack of this just discernment of statesmanship, is precisely what is wanting by the leading puppet political figures of the insecure right wing faction in the Republican Party, who dealt so disastrously with Hurricane Katrina, in not implementing relief efforts in a timely fashion, from a nonexistent relief plan (the missing village idiot from Texas wouldn’t interrupt his vacation, which he finally did by two whole days) for a disaster described as the biggest potential tragedy that could happen to the USA; and, it exposed the negative effects of factional greed and incompetence, by pursuing policies that enriched the industrial-military and oil industry, but neglected important infrastructure needs of the nation, like not adequately funding the Army corps of Engineers Mississippi levees project. The lack of discernment by the right wing factional driven Republican Party’s tyrannical leadership can’t improve on circumstances nor can they obtain optimum results: witness the Iraq War fiasco where ongoing efforts of USA troops in Iraq for no legitimate reasons, besides the radical right efforts to retain control of Iraq oil and natural gas revenues, result in incurring larger numbers of fatalities in the ensuing period of peace than during the war and costing the US tax payers tens of billions more in a never ending black hole of expenses paying for features like UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE for IRAQ at USA tax payer expense, while at home the Republican Party not only has caused over an additional 10 Million Americans to have no health care coverage, but has actually reduced the health care coverage to USA soldiers and their families!!! This is an avaricious driven insult to all Americans, as the radical right factional interests desperately strive to keep their talons in and control of Iraq Oil and Natural Gas revenues, while oil prices escalate ever higher and higher bringing on repeated waves of cost push inflation, at super markets, stores and in shopping malls all across the country. The people picked by the radical right faction lead Republican Party are individuals possessed of modest abilities at best whose previous lack luster performance provides no reason for surprise that they have failed in this, too, if we reflect how unfit even people of ability are to understand the actions of others, when they are preoccupied with dishonestly dissembling their own deceitful agendas. All people are prone to error, but here lies a significant difference. Some well intended individuals, such as we have not mentioned, confronted by problems, pressed by emergencies, inflamed by passions like the issues confronting the USA during WWII or by the complex circumstances involved during the Cold War by participants on our side, may occasionally deviate into mistakes, and even follow errors of long duration like expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia, which lead to the Khmer Rouge. But, never before has there been a extreme factional driven party who never deviate into the road of good government and common sense; who confronted with no difficulties and crossed by no problems, but confronted with world wide peace and unprecedented prosperity with the highest standard of living in the world, whose biggest adversary the Democratic Party advocated our continued industry and progress, safety and security, and stability and peace abroad. The extremist driven radical right faction that now dominates the Republican Party excited efforts towards a bad model of government based on policies of exploitation that started off Bush Jr. first term in office, causing the largest stock market crash in the history of Wall Street were many lost 75% of their investments total value, an ensuing depression of six year duration to date for the majority of the nation that was the second consecutive major depression after a Republican took control of the US Presidency, (Republican Ronald Reagan also started off causing the second worst depression of the twentieth century), the largest National Debt in the history of the world, the largest Trade Deficits, the world’s largest budget deficits, three phony foreign wars, the deliberate loss of thousands of jobs through policies actively supporting job flight, and energy policies that have caused repeated waves of cost push inflation, labor policies that are designed to not only to make American labor competitive with Third World labor markets but sticks 80% of Americans with Third World standards of living that had already precipitously fallen under Republican’s failed factional leadership from number one in the world to not even being in the top 15 impairing the consumer demand that is the foundation of American markets and that were sure to severely limit future returns on marginal investment capitol, and a privatized Social Security that destabilizes the world’s money markets, erodes consumer demand, and eliminates many individual’s ability to retire while reintroducing to America the specter of abject poverty stricken Sr. citizens. Further negative net effects of the Republican Party’s failed factional leadership on their bad models of US government, is that we can’t afford to educate all our children who qualify and desire higher educations, provide adequate health care, housing for all citizens, jobs, a healthy environment, non-exploitive energy programs, and retirement for our nations Sr. citizens who no longer wish to work, and a policy that promoted regional conflict in the Middle East, to only mention an abbreviated list of negative effects of the radical right factional tyranny’s political pawns the Republican Party’s poor leadership and bad model of government that benefit only a very few fortunate folk; in efforts that impoverish a docile and trusting herd of people, who believe and follow the ordinances of a well oiled propaganda machine. There are people, whose special privilege is to proceed from all those previously mentioned advantages, deliberately and ineptly, from blunder to blunder, from year to year, in one perpetual avaricious maze of incompetence, implementing policies that result in incoherent chaos, which are the outcome of radical right faction’s failed leadership of the Republican Party with it’s tyrannical and exploitive scams of avarice and corruption.
But,
besides refusing to participate with people of this character, let’s return to
those individuals of a better class; to the people who lead the Democratic
Party, at its ascendancy during
The same predisposition toward prejudice, the same apprehension and paranoia, which exploded into persecution, previously directed toward other groups a few years previously like blacks and Communists, lay dormant in the hearts of part of the population; latent and inert, certainly, and healing by slow degrees, but still easily reawakened, and again inflamed. If we compare the 1950’s with its red scare with the attempts during the Reagan/Bush administration attacking the recreational use of drugs one finds many striking parallels. In the second instance the radical right’s secret efforts to start a crack epidemic served two purposes, first it served to distract the public and it provided the right wing populist movement with a pretense to embrace the practice of subordination, which did away with Equality and certain Civil Rights, second it was supposed to provide a source of revenue for the radical right to become an independent entity; however, the propaganda campaign that had been adversely portraying Communist Russia and Eastern Europe as the Evil Empire came to a screeching halt with the collapse of Communist Russia and its separation from Eastern Europe due to a lack of sufficient energy reserves, and a new threat had to be found, as an adjunct in managing America’s citizens; and, at that point it became expedient to characterize the recreational use of drugs, which initially targeted addictive crack and heroin, as wrong and the label Evil Drugs was first applied and became the target of intense propaganda attention which employed propaganda practices of the media, whose point of origin was Nazi Germany in the 1930’s with their “Juden free Deutchland” campaign utilizing such ploys as the big lie and the reaffirmation of falsehoods. After first adversely portraying Communist Russia and East Europe as an Evil Empire, and then, after exhausting the available market of addictive drugs (1/2 of 1% of the population) by setting them up and busting them, which was relatively easy to do because the radical right had an international monopoly as middle men who supplied the local distribution networks that they were already busily engaging in hostile takeover operations on, in their business efforts at vertical integration in efforts to maximize their profits to pay for the radical right factions nefarious operations and immoderate proposals that legitimate governments wouldn’t approve and provide funds for. The spirit of faction already was warm and extremely vigorous as the radical right faction, becoming acclimated to subordinating other people’s rights and doing away with the principle of Equality, as the basis of a Just society, corruptly expanded and extended their persecutions to include pot smokers, in an effort to sustain their subordinate tyrants’ artificially elevated standards of living that were tax free; and, which served to satisfy the unnatural appetites like perverse forms of predation that afflicted many of their members; nor were any dangers reasonably apprehended yet from these transformations of society from a freedom loving functional Democracy to a factional driven tyranny subject to the caprice of their prejudicial whims. The United States maintained its false Democratic façade, whose two party system was rapidly becoming dysfunctional, as the radical right faction displaced the Republican Party and then purged it of all liberal, moderate and conservative members and turned it into its political pawn; confronting the US Constitution with a new enemy, one from within that had degenerated in a few short years from a populist movement with affiliations with the extreme religious right into an organized criminal organization complete with career criminals who attracted all the extremists and misanthropic elements of society who wished to engage in immoral criminal behavior and pretend to virtue. Those radical right members who were not psychologically deficit in a variety of ways and were attracted to the radical right populist movement were first subject to deliberate processes of corruption, before being allowed to become privy to their inner operations. Its true that this had no immediate consequences, because the Cold War fraudulently continued and the industrial-military received its bloated profits at the golden trough; but, little fires broke out across the country in serial rapists and wide spread acts of violence which were erroneously attributed to scapegoated sub-cultural groups, who were targeted within the larger community. This great assault on Civil Rights continued to run its course, as the extremist radical right faction employed slander, extortion and coercive acts of violence in planned operations including prostitution, perversion, child abuse, drug trafficking, rape, criminal assault and battery with dangerous weapons, and murder. The targeted group now represented 75% of America’s population who had recreationally experimented with drugs except alcohol which was excluded, and receiving particular aversive attention were the dissident population groups which included anyone who openly verbally criticized and disagreed with the radical right faction, whose undemocratic policies now injudiciously embraced such extremist positions as “Whatever it takes” which isn’t exactly a moderate plea for reason and law and order, and “Your either with us or against us” which is both irrational and paranoid; in an effort to steal societies rights, and then proceed to steal the resources and wealth of the nation, in a pattern as old as tyranny and first identified over 2,500 years ago in the ancient Greek city states. It became appallingly apparent that the radical right faction used these pretences as a means of increasing their influence, displacing the Constitution, eroding Civil Rights, and abusing power by exploiting and oppressing the nation.
The full
extent of
The Democratic Administration of President Clinton placed in the middle of the most corrupt administration in the history of the country and the perpetual disaster that is Republican Pres. Bush Jr.’s administration demonstrates the positive potential of sound government principles and all that they can accomplish utilizing talented citizens to meet the needs of the country, with its eight year period of prosperity and only one war forced on it by the radical right faction, who armed an army of Albanian peasants, and it fought without a single fatality and for less than the five billion Republican dominated Congress provided for it. But, when the Republican Party fraudulently stole the Presidential election, declaring the losing candidate as the winner, the case was not the same; and radical right faction’s model of government which viewed politics as an investment and government as a means to make large amounts of money for very few people, with government programs serving as a conduit from the public’s pocket to the private accounts of right wing factions’ power elite, what a difference was immediately felt. The country and world experienced, under the pressure from Republican Party exploitive policies, the largest crash in the history of Wall Street where good people lost up to 75% of their life’s savings, retirement, and children’s college funds in an instant and an ensuing six year depression for the country while good economic news was restricted to the ruling radical right’s power elite, who retain tax cuts while Sr. Citizens lose prescription benefits and are confronted with Draconian alternatives like eating or buying essential medicine to maintain their fragile health. And, more and more Senior Citizens lost their homes and independence and had to move in with their grown children who were reeling under problems of their own like making ends meet while their wages fall to Third World levels, and jobs fled from the country, which becomes saddled with the world’s largest debt as it past six Trillion and soared to SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS, and no relief for the world’s largest trade deficit problems that could only grow worse with the flight of each additional job. Three phony wars where fought for no valid reason, which bled and already badly hemorrhaging economy that made a once peaceful prosperous nation the world’s biggest threat to world peace, and 80% of its citizens faced the stark prospect of soon living like poor people in the Third World. No jobs, no affordable adequate housing, no education, no effective job training except as radical right vice ridden corrupt prostitutes perverts child abusers rapist, pimps and sadistic thugs, in A COUNTRY WITH JOB FLIGHT PROGRAMS RATHER THAN JOB CREATION PROGRAMS.
In 1980
before the Republican Party became displaced by the radical right faction and
Regan/Bush Sr. ticket came to power, and the USA descended into the second
worst depression of the twentieth century because of their exploitive policies,
the USA had a standard of living that was the highest in the world, but by the
time they left office in disgrace the USA standard of living had fallen out of
the top 15 on its way toward the Third World standard now facing the majority
of the nation. The
In
Louisiana as in Washington D.C., the faction lead Republican Party failed to
provide adequate leadership at all levels resulting in the collapse of
government and the disruption of essential supplies and services, the
consequence of which was needless deprivation and suffering and unnecessary
violent anarchy and deaths. First, the
Mayor of New Orleans evidently did not notice that the city had somehow sunk
beneath the mighty
During the
period of transformation of the
At the same
time that the internal dynamics of the populist movement degenerated into
organized crime and political right wing extremism, others prevailed likewise
in endeavors to transform government; into a design where government spending
was not only injurious to the economy, but aversive to property rights and
Liberties of its citizens. Many well
meaning people began to protest against these practices and to comprehend that
government had fundamentally altered.
The opposition began to protest against these practices. The opposition Democratic Party respecting
the need for social stability through continuity in the nation’s basic
government structures limited its constructive criticisms to pragmatic points
about the destructive consequences of privatizing entitlements, unnecessary
belligerent military operations that bled the nation, and avaricious driven
exploitive economic policies. The
Democratic Party went further, speaking about political developments they used
the following remarkably candid disclosure, that the Republican Party had
deliberately destroyed the Separation of Powers and in doing so destroyed the
theoretical foundation of
The
Republican Party interests support good government, verses those of its members
whose crimes, or fortune, or power, or limited experiences render them in some
instances desperate to persist along a course that constitutes all that the
individuals know, which is unfortunately along a path of folly. Some extremist few will be disposed to
persist, and a hard core nucleus might likewise contend who are lacking in
other competitive abilities and hope to benefit by keeping things inert and
moving along unchecked down the path to disaster; and, others may hope to bring
things to a state of chaos, which none but irrational and ignorant individuals,
or career criminals habituated to perverse appetites which would be hard to
gratify, or bored people who use oppression as a cure for their ennui, or
financially dependant individuals for whose finances make them desperate to
continue activities reasonable, good, and decent citizens would never wish to
see. But it would be hard for the
nations political prospects if the extremists among us dictate the character of
party policies, not to mention honest common held views, or general tempore and
conduct accepted for the majority of citizens, but, rather, by the private
opinions based on 20 years of propaganda based on heinous acts designed to
inflame passions and make people hate to an extent great enough to include
embracing genocide, imputed by fanatics, or by temporary aberrant actions that
created regrettable mistakes that took reason and common sense by surprise, or
overwhelmed by violent passions which sometime or other betrayed the best
intended individuals and even the best conducted bodies of men. Democrat or Republican now form a two party
symbiotic system; but, they’re now, for once in the history of the nation, not
both recognizing sound principles of Democratic government, which the
overwhelming majority of the people still believe in and believe them to hold,
too; and, refuse to believe the horrible state that the Republican Party has
descended. The radically right faction
controlled Republican Party, because of corrupt extortionist policies they
pursued, being financially stronger than the political system will bear and
currently embracing actions contrary to the current of our nation, which have
already been mentioned now control all three branches of government. The historical view of the two parties is
that they both are broad and conclusive having a continuum of members from the
liberal to the conservative, with the Democrat Party generally being the party
that represented labors interests and the Republican Party being the party that
represented big business. This
representation is not now what the two respective parties constitute. The Republican Party stopped being the party
that represented big business and became the party of faction after the Gerald
Ford Presidency. The radical right
faction became disgruntled with Republican President Richard Nixon and exposed
his criminal conduct during his re-election campaign, primarily because he got
the United States out of the Viet Nam War which ran against the interests of
the industrial-military but saved the nation further tragedy of needless deaths
and political divisiveness, and the country’s prosperity which faltered under
the economic dysfunction brought on by the war and caused the US to reel under
the negative effects of stagflation.
What Republican Pres. Richard Nixon lacked as a warm human being he made
up for in intelligence and independence, and functioning as the last effective
pro business Republican President, he got the US out of Viet Nam, recognized
Communist China, (both are the primary reasons for which the radical right
faction could never forgive him, however the former reason was absolutely
essential if he was to win re-election which he did: remember this was the
second US President the radical right faction forced from office first, there
was the military coup of Kennedy and then only eight years latter Nixon was
forced to resign) he implemented the wage and price freezes, devaluated the US
dollar in efforts to control the economy and removed the US from the gold
standard, all moves which were based on sound government principles and good
for the overall US economy. The
Republican Party was then displaced by the right wing with the Republican Party
lurching to the political right, and the radical right factional driven
policies overtly ruling the land. The
Democrat Party continued steadily down the path of Democracy except it became
even broader and more inclusive than ever embracing pro-business policies that
united both business and labor interests under the same political
umbrella. It’s interesting to point out
that Republican Pres. Richard Nixon was the last effective leader from the
Republican Party, the rise of faction brought on a deterioration of leadership,
with the radical right employing first a retired actor to read lines provided
for him and follow policies that he was given during the most corrupt
Presidency in the history of our nation, the man was shot and suffered from
Alzheimer while President and nobody noticed.
Then, the radical right lead Republicans chose an ex spy who oversaw
genocide in Cambodia, secretly funding the Khmer Rouge through China; and,
oversaw the Iran-Contra scandal in Central America, the only quality that he
had was blind loyalty and a willingness
to violate law and follow vice ridden and corrupt policies, and his disastrous
Presidency reflected that fact.
Republican Bush Jr. is probably the American nadir of Presidents which
we have already discussed. The
difference in the quality of political figures between pre-faction and post
faction is clear and obvious, these are men who do not serve as any kind of
threat to the radical right faction to be able to function independently; and,
they fit the expectation of impaired labor inputs, specially of impaired
leadership, one expects from the inherently insecure faction’s tyrannical bad
models of government. The Democrat Party
is comprised of members who have no disposition to sycophancy and do not
function as slaves, hence the recent acrimony rising from
II.
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The radical
right’s ongoing efforts to raise the illusion with the
I for one welcome the contention, if true, which it obviously isn’t. Because it means that we will soon have arrested another set of people who are acting irresponsibly by unsafely distributing a truly dangerous drug. The contention that speed kills is true! And, if it doesn’t those who abuse it soon feel so miserable that they almost wish that they were dead.
The real story here is individuals who deliberately manipulate the public with misinformation, or contrive circumstances in such a way as to create false scenarios to stampede society into making mistaken decisions based on lies and misleading information. This is generally done on purpose to further some extremist group’s private agenda, which isn’t reasonable enough to gain a majority of public support on the basis of its own merits. At best society is stuck wasting money pursuing erroneous policies generating what has an overwhelming probability of being a less than optimum solution. It’s axiomatic that just like with any other organized human endeavor, good government outcomes are directly related to good informational inputs.