"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Neither the Democratic nor the Republican party represents the interests of the competent (see aforequoted) in this country. And this has been the case for at least as far back as the assassination of John F. Kennedy (reference Executive Order 11110, which relates directly to Point (1), below). The competent have been disenfranchised in this country.
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Now, as to the political parties as they are currently cashiered, controlled, and constituted, and how they are to blame for the fall of the United States:
I'll preface what follows with a statement that I will never support a political party:
whose historical record has supported slavery
that has given us the slaughter of the innocent unborn into the tens of millions
that has given us the income tax
that has given us the very institution that (in the US) is responsible for monetized debt, called the Federal Reserve (and by extension, the Bank of International Settlements)
that has given us the ponzi scheme of "Social Security"
that has given us a "healthcare system" that they had to pass in the middle of the night behind locked doors because in their own town hall meeting their voters were uproariously angry
that is the party of socialist special interests
Now, as to the Republicans: what was heard from them when they got in front of the microphones and appeared on the Sunday morning talkshows in the wake of their 2010 and 2014 congressional victories--victories based on nothing other than people voting on what they percieved to be as the lesser of two evils--was about how they were going to bring jobs (back) to this country. Which is ironic because it was (primarily) the Republicans who, starting with the Reagan administration, have been the political party responsible for GATT, NAFTA, and all the other amalgamations of rampant, full, laissez-faire, international free trade policies that have handed the US's manufacturing base to China (among other nations)...I'll address this in point (2), below...
But the Repubicans--even while alarm bells should have been ringing in 2010 and 2014 to even the dullest of Republican politicians that the very survival of their party as a viable political entity was at stake--have never even talked about the
Two essential steps for reducing the federal deficit and bringing real, breadwinner, middleclass lifestyle or better, jobs back to this country:
(1)
You cannot reduce a govenment debt so long as a private banking cartel has a monopoly over the issuance of that government's currency. Because when a private bank has that monopoly, the bank cannot issue currency--it can only loan it. So, there is never enough money in circulation to pay the interest on the principal that is in circulation: the debt can only grow.
The only way that this country was set up, in terms of monetary policy, is that the government issues real money--whether it's gold, silver, talleysticks, or what have you--on the goods and services produced by the nation. In other words, real money is a reciept on those goods and services.
The (cynical, disingenuous, and false) argument of the international banksters (and if someone wants to tar me with the same tired strawman that the international bankers set up and funded in the first place, then that person can eat shit, because the term is accurate) is that, if governments take over the issuance of money, it will lead to runaway inflation...but, in actual fact, at every point in history when you study the policies of these banksters--from the days of their headquartering in ancient Babylon, to Venice, to Amsterdam, to the City of London and New York City--it is THEY who have promoted runaway inflation, not governments.
The 13 Colonies that existed (prior to the 'American revolution'
were issuing their own debt free money and had excellent prosperity and full employment...and of course the banksters and the (City of London controlled) Bank of England had to come and shut that down and that led to the "Revolutionary War"--and that is a fact that you won't hear in history classes--not, at least, in Government funded school.
^^That's necessary policy (1): if we are to be serious about servicing (reducing) this runaway debt--and if we want to fund the grab bag of "wonderful" entitlement ponzi programs--which should never have existed in the first place and which are synergistic with the current monetized debt scheme in destroying whatever good might be left of "Western Civilization,"---if you really really want this, then the first thing we should be doing is getting back to Constitutional money. The "Federal" Reserve and BIS must be audited. Find out who owns the shares, find out how much money--how much blood--has been embezzled in the last 100+ years and mainlined into funding the world wars and the pools and the mansions and the yachts and the corporate jets of the international banksters...and try these people in the World Court or in a back alley or in a stadium or wherever...and execute them.
The international banksters must be destroyed, from baby to Baron.
(2)
You can talk about sound money all you want, but if money is based on the goods and services of the nation, then you have to have people producing things. And I don't mean flipping hamburgers at McDonalds. I don't mean babysitting 75 IQ monkeys in the daycare centers that are euphemistically referred to in the US as "public schools." I don't mean working jobs in callcenters at LG or Verizon. I mean people making cars, toys, toolboxes, shipping containers, televisions, computers, spacecraft, railroad tracks, airplanes, and what have you: in other words, real manufacturing.
The reason we don't have real manufacturing (other than the defense contractor corps) in this country is because of the Republicans under Ronald Reagan endorsing (with the exception of Harley Davidson) and carrying out a rampant, laissez-faire, international "Free Trading" policy. The only thing that resulted from that was that US business could not compete with the cheap labor in other countries and therefore manufacturing fled from this country.
If you are going to be serious about bringing back jobs to this country, you GOP Establishment Republicans, then the first thing you must do is to raise tariffs to protect the industrial and manufacturing base here.
Take, for example, Germany. It's a country not much larger than Texas, yet it is the 5th largest economy in the world. And while it is true that Germany (until its immigration "policies" make it otherwise) produces excellent engineers and such, the main reason why Germany even has a viable heavy tool and die industry is because they have erected significant tariffs to protect that industry.
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Assuming that Trump isn't simply a big entrainment/psyop being carried out at the behest of the "Cock club" and their leaders (the Rockefellers, Rothschildes, Maurice Strongs, Schiffs, etc.)--and that's a big assumption that I'm not at all comfortable in believing in or making--then this current Trump phenomenon, or some analog of it, should have been entirely expected
Neither Trump nor Sanders are addressing (1), but at least they are bloviating a little bit about (2), and that is the reason why there is tremendous support for them.