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I haven't decided yet whether I should be an R or a D. I think it should be the R&D Party anyway.
Historically, the Republican Party arose when some New York Bankers picked Lincoln to head the ticket. They wanted the Union busted up, because this whole "Constitutional Republic" business just, well. . . . got in the way of Business. They were New York bankers, but other bankers saw the same problem, and the same opportunities. The whole West, including California, was "up for grabs". Some elemental Brits saw a breakup as an opportunity to merely reassert Brit dominion over parts, if not all at once. But the more cerebral Brits, the parlor pansies with their more astute methods of commerce, had already realized that it was imprudent to be seen by the public as the relevant rulers of any dominion, when it was absolutely easier, and more profitable, to reduce the governments to puppet level in managerial terms. And Corporations were now established around the world as relevant legal entities that could sway any government with a nod and a manila envelope appropriately stuffed. Investments in governance were now already proving more important that mobs of ignoramuses casting ballots, even in America.
The Democratic Party has evolved as well, from southern gentlemen protecting their slave holdings, their plantation system, and their trade relations with English corporates. It was the mother of the KKK racism, but it was the bulwark of resistance as well against the carpetbaggers sent from Washington. Agrarian populism and unionizing populism presented a credible front to the robber baron corporates, it is true, but both were largely financed from London or surrogate commercial and banking interests.
FDR was a blue blooded American "royal", the figurehead of "The Right People" of the American elite, attempting feebly to assert local dominance of American politics, but it was too little, too late. Although we had passed some anti-trust legislation. . . we had also established the Federal Reserve, and established socialism as America's political system of relevance. Some cartelists smarted at the anti-trust laws, and sought offshore investment opportunities, bases on more fertile foreign soil. Ah, Germany. . . and Japan. Progressive industrial havens for big ideas, and larger operations.
WWII enriched the military producers immensely, and every other kind of cartel interest. It outmaneuvered the unions around the world with a sense of "victory for democracy" fabricated by the wholly-owned subservient Press, at the exact moment where the Big Money seized global control. With Armand Hammer serving as Stalin's manager, and China basically hammered back to the stone age, western interests of the highest significance established the UN as a skeletal framework to build better world, one day at a time.
Our commercialists learned a lot from the Civil War. We developed significant industries producing gunpowder, guns, ships, and machines. Trains, and boats powered by steam. And in the wake of Americans rushing to the gold fields, were the corporate mining interests from England, and our wannabees big men like the Rockefellers. Mostly what they learned is that government officials are a more profitable investment than commodities or productive properties. Corporates learned that government officials are poor dependent blokes who can be unseated with a few newspaper articles, and installed with a relatively small investment in campaigns. What with the newspapers in the right pockets, investments in governance yield dollars for every penny invested. Our benefactor interest/leadership has learned the art of real governance with minimal public awareness or unwanted scrutiny.
We been this kind of country,now, for over 150 years. It works. Our governance circles have been capitalists of the first rank, and have adroitly managed all kinds of retail tools of mass management, like "progressives" staffed with idealists like our own Siro and Dal, and loyalist patriots like our Game, common folk capable of intense commitments to useful points of view, all kinds of points of view, and causes, enough to befuddle any opponent to The Way Things Are. And a slightly more astute class of managers, folks who take pride in being good and loyal servants of significant, recognizable interests. UN dreamers, and better yet. . . . UN employees, who will serve the interests on a global sort of scale. People with dependable good sense, and dependable commitments to The Better Way. Game asks "Who?" in disbelief. They are thousands, a few big, and many "just doing their job". But there are millions. . . nay billions. . . . of people who fall in line and do what it takes for the system to operate. Fascism is an old word, and if it invokes a shrill little demagogue sending those he imagines to be some kind of problem to the chlorine gas chambers, it is just unfortunate for the term. The term must die now. The world has probably never really been "safe" for "democracy", and in fact even the United States has never been ruled "by the people". It just takes better people to manage bigger systems of order, bigger governments. "The Few, The Proud, The Successful."
All is indeed Well. "The Way Things Are" is "The Better Way".
Today is the day of perfection. Here is our chance to perfect the system we have known and accepted for over a hundred years. George Will, a one-time voice for the more conservative sort, those too smart for William F. Buckley, say. . . . has recently done an article on how Trump is the answer to the whole problem of the Tea Party, and of how Trumps candidacy will spell the end of that whole aberration and threat to progress. It would probably be better for management to just shut down the talk radio gigs, and impose some sensible restraints upon internet speech. . . yah. . . just to keep the rhetoric civil. . . but the whole ragtag band of tea party agitators and conservative ideologues is just gonna make a few more rasping gasps for their old beliefs, while Hillary, Marco, or. . . . babe. . . will seal the deal for the next thousand years.
Nothing short of a returning Jesus, riding in the clouds of glory with thousands of angels, could shake things up now.
I haven't decided yet whether I should be an R or a D. I think it should be the R&D Party anyway.
Historically, the Republican Party arose when some New York Bankers picked Lincoln to head the ticket. They wanted the Union busted up, because this whole "Constitutional Republic" business just, well. . . . got in the way of Business. They were New York bankers, but other bankers saw the same problem, and the same opportunities. The whole West, including California, was "up for grabs". Some elemental Brits saw a breakup as an opportunity to merely reassert Brit dominion over parts, if not all at once. But the more cerebral Brits, the parlor pansies with their more astute methods of commerce, had already realized that it was imprudent to be seen by the public as the relevant rulers of any dominion, when it was absolutely easier, and more profitable, to reduce the governments to puppet level in managerial terms. And Corporations were now established around the world as relevant legal entities that could sway any government with a nod and a manila envelope appropriately stuffed. Investments in governance were now already proving more important that mobs of ignoramuses casting ballots, even in America.
The Democratic Party has evolved as well, from southern gentlemen protecting their slave holdings, their plantation system, and their trade relations with English corporates. It was the mother of the KKK racism, but it was the bulwark of resistance as well against the carpetbaggers sent from Washington. Agrarian populism and unionizing populism presented a credible front to the robber baron corporates, it is true, but both were largely financed from London or surrogate commercial and banking interests.
FDR was a blue blooded American "royal", the figurehead of "The Right People" of the American elite, attempting feebly to assert local dominance of American politics, but it was too little, too late. Although we had passed some anti-trust legislation. . . we had also established the Federal Reserve, and established socialism as America's political system of relevance. Some cartelists smarted at the anti-trust laws, and sought offshore investment opportunities, bases on more fertile foreign soil. Ah, Germany. . . and Japan. Progressive industrial havens for big ideas, and larger operations.
WWII enriched the military producers immensely, and every other kind of cartel interest. It outmaneuvered the unions around the world with a sense of "victory for democracy" fabricated by the wholly-owned subservient Press, at the exact moment where the Big Money seized global control. With Armand Hammer serving as Stalin's manager, and China basically hammered back to the stone age, western interests of the highest significance established the UN as a skeletal framework to build better world, one day at a time.
Our commercialists learned a lot from the Civil War. We developed significant industries producing gunpowder, guns, ships, and machines. Trains, and boats powered by steam. And in the wake of Americans rushing to the gold fields, were the corporate mining interests from England, and our wannabees big men like the Rockefellers. Mostly what they learned is that government officials are a more profitable investment than commodities or productive properties. Corporates learned that government officials are poor dependent blokes who can be unseated with a few newspaper articles, and installed with a relatively small investment in campaigns. What with the newspapers in the right pockets, investments in governance yield dollars for every penny invested. Our benefactor interest/leadership has learned the art of real governance with minimal public awareness or unwanted scrutiny.
We been this kind of country,now, for over 150 years. It works. Our governance circles have been capitalists of the first rank, and have adroitly managed all kinds of retail tools of mass management, like "progressives" staffed with idealists like our own Siro and Dal, and loyalist patriots like our Game, common folk capable of intense commitments to useful points of view, all kinds of points of view, and causes, enough to befuddle any opponent to The Way Things Are. And a slightly more astute class of managers, folks who take pride in being good and loyal servants of significant, recognizable interests. UN dreamers, and better yet. . . . UN employees, who will serve the interests on a global sort of scale. People with dependable good sense, and dependable commitments to The Better Way. Game asks "Who?" in disbelief. They are thousands, a few big, and many "just doing their job". But there are millions. . . nay billions. . . . of people who fall in line and do what it takes for the system to operate. Fascism is an old word, and if it invokes a shrill little demagogue sending those he imagines to be some kind of problem to the chlorine gas chambers, it is just unfortunate for the term. The term must die now. The world has probably never really been "safe" for "democracy", and in fact even the United States has never been ruled "by the people". It just takes better people to manage bigger systems of order, bigger governments. "The Few, The Proud, The Successful."
All is indeed Well. "The Way Things Are" is "The Better Way".
Today is the day of perfection. Here is our chance to perfect the system we have known and accepted for over a hundred years. George Will, a one-time voice for the more conservative sort, those too smart for William F. Buckley, say. . . . has recently done an article on how Trump is the answer to the whole problem of the Tea Party, and of how Trumps candidacy will spell the end of that whole aberration and threat to progress. It would probably be better for management to just shut down the talk radio gigs, and impose some sensible restraints upon internet speech. . . yah. . . just to keep the rhetoric civil. . . but the whole ragtag band of tea party agitators and conservative ideologues is just gonna make a few more rasping gasps for their old beliefs, while Hillary, Marco, or. . . . babe. . . will seal the deal for the next thousand years.
Nothing short of a returning Jesus, riding in the clouds of glory with thousands of angels, could shake things up now.
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The Fusion party of mainstream Democrats and Republicans does need a sort of "Platform", semi-intelligle stated optimisms that will help the medicine slide down with a touch of relish, and go smoothly.
Since, of course, the principal market I must address consists of the folks who have "interests", or money, on the most significant scale, they will need to see that I am their man, and that I will be useful. . . successful. . . . manageable. . . . and a great communicator. The function of a President is much like that of the middlemanagement professional returning from the weekly corporate meetings, needing to form a positive consensus in the ranks in support of operational decisions or imperatives.
Yah gotta speak the language of the folks, and make them happy with their lives. . . .. .
Since, of course, the principal market I must address consists of the folks who have "interests", or money, on the most significant scale, they will need to see that I am their man, and that I will be useful. . . successful. . . . manageable. . . . and a great communicator. The function of a President is much like that of the middlemanagement professional returning from the weekly corporate meetings, needing to form a positive consensus in the ranks in support of operational decisions or imperatives.
Yah gotta speak the language of the folks, and make them happy with their lives. . . .. .