Franklin appears in the court of King Louis XVI in 1778
Benjamin Franklin was famous for wearing his simple ‘Ditto Suit’ to the French Court in 1778 after two years of war against the assault of one of the world’s superpowers England. The men of the court mocked his suit cut of the same silk for both coat and pants and unadorned with lace or different colored sashes or waistcoats.
“I am persuaded, a pleasure in reflecting on the generous benevolence of the action in assisting oppressed people” – Benjamin Franklin on Louis XVI
Vice-President Vance who laughed at Real America’s Voice host Brian Glenn’s derision of the Ukrainian President needs to remember the history of the nation he pretends to love.
Ukrainian President Zelensky in Ukrainian ‘Ditto Suit’ with US President Trump
JD Vance then took that cue of mockery to say it was disrespectful for Zelensky to wear the symbols of his nation’s struggle.
Screen capture of One IndiaNews coverage of the attack on Zelensky for his ‘Ditto Suit’
Vance then further attacked the Ukrainian President claiming that Ukraine was sending conscripts to the front. Actually a reversal of criticism of Putin’s need for Russia to send conscripts to attack Ukraine. Vance somehow forgot that US sent conscripts to the front in Vietnam. A full 30 percent of whom died in that US conflict.
It might be understandable for Trump to forget such a lesson in US military history. After all Trump used money to buy his way out of Vietnam service. However, one would think that after actually serving and military veteran, Vance would understand how nations force their citizens into combat during times of war or conflict. Especially a conflict as important as being invaded by a super power. Vance, after all, was a reporter during the US-Iraq invasion. The US called up more than 80,000 reserves to fight that war to protect him while he wrote apparent ‘touchy-feely’ articles about military life in the war.
Luckily for Vance and his three children, Benjamin Franklin was able to obtain understanding help and financing from one of the world’s great superpowers to fight the aggression by one of the world’s other superpowers. Vance’s children live, today, with freedom and liberty. It is the very thing the Ukrainians are fighting and hoping for their children.
Look hard Mr Vance and Mr Trump. The symbol on this map of Ukraine is that of a nation fighting just like 1778 US. The same symbol found on the Ukrainian President’s ‘Ditto Suit.’
Forty Seven States have state laws requiring all schools to indoctrinate students into ultra-Nationalism by requiring the daily ritual of prayer in the memorization and recital of a Pledge of Allegiance to a US Flag.
A classroom poster of the Pledge of Allegiance Words
Retaining liberty requires a fight against it’s enemies, foreign and domestic.
The past 20+ years of losing wars in the Middle East has turned Americans into a hot bed of ultra-nationalism. This movement has stolen political power using the destruction of liberty for thousands of Americans. There is no indication that their minacious activity will temper.
The right wing bellows that American schools are liberal breeding grounds of a ‘Woke’ agenda. It is a false definition of ‘Woke’ that has been invented not by what has been discussed in schools but by the agenda at the heart of the Christian Nationalist movement. American children are indoctrinated everyday by law in the right wing’s requirement of a recital of a pledge of allegiance prayer. The daily recital reinforces the Christian Nationalist themes of God and love as an invocation of the mystical powers of the US national flag. It ends in a blatant lie that a Christian Nationalist believes in ‘liberty and justice’ and ‘for all.’ They have ingrained this into the nation’s youth this concept everyday of their education. That is the best kept secret in the open that they don’t, noticeably to the latter statement.
The Oppressed become the Oppressor.
Ultra Nationalism has become a thing in the MAGA movement. They have achieve untold elective power from the corrupted discussions for the oppression of women’s rights to their bodies, transperson’s rights to exist and now a re-emergence of attacks on same-sex marriages and women’s birth control options.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s campaign advisor, raises his fist as he speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Coachella, California, U.S., October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy comes from a Jewish immigrant background that fled the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Anatol region of Russia (currently Belarus). Agents of Jewish foreign influence were blamed for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 starting the attacks on Jewish communities. Even though only one of the conspirators was of Jewish decent, none-the-less the pogroms caused Jewish families to be stripped of rights, reduced to poverty and in many cases, murdered. Laws restricting Jews were enacted including the forbidding of Jews to adopt ‘Christian Names,’ and forced them to use only their Hebrew names to insure proper identification of their heritage. Jews could not conduct business on Sunday or any Christian holy day. Jews were forbidden from holding public offices. Jews were restricted by quotas to enter public schools and universities to the point that many public schools at the time were left half-empty. The laws were worded as ‘temporary measure’, and until a general revision is made of their legal status.
“This government had found occasion to express in a friendly spirit but with much earnestness, to the government of the Tsar, its serious concern because of harsh measures being enforced against the Hebrews.” – 9 December 1891 speech to the United States Congress, PresidentBenjamin Harrison
President Benjamin Harrison defends equalization of individuals in 1891 Russia
In a short three generations, Mr Miller has forgotten his family’s struggle against and ultimate flight from political oppression in Eastern Europe. To Mr. Miller, the history that political power was achieved or retained by the oppression of his ancestors is pretermitted. He has created the America First Legal Foundation. An organizations that sent flyers to voters in Colorado that were characterized as transphobic by the Queer and Trans People of Color Program of the Latino Action Council. America First Legal won the judgement in November 2022 that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity from Trump appointed Judge Kacsmaryk. Judge Kacsmaryk also vacated protections for transgender workers that prohibited employers from discriminating against employees for being gay or transgender, in 2022. This decision a violating contravention of the Supreme Court’s Ruling inBostock v. Clayton County (2020). Clearly, being a gay or transgender US citizen you are not part of the ‘all’ in Judge Kacsmaryk’s or Mr. Miller’s pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.
Demanding the equalization of individuals
No matter how many times, as a child, one says the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, it never seems to define the whole of society, as understood by the Right. The pledge appears to have allowed the creation of a society where ‘liberty and justice for all’ meant individual rights.
The Pledge of Allegiance in one word defines for all Christian Nationalists the reason they oppose the equalization of individual rights. That word is in the phrase ‘One Nation Under God.’ God used in this pledge is the very definition of discrimination. It is the sinister core statement attempting to orientate all children to the concept of a God. The biggest concern to Christian Nationalists is having forced a secular government into indoctrinating the children for them, God cannot be further defined by constitutional decree. The concept of a deity and divine rules for individuals are left to be discovered from a plethora of acceptance and policies by parents, teacher conferences, administration bodies and teachers themselves.
The ‘liberty and justice for all’ society began to move towards a vision of a humanity based on the equalization of individuals. Society had begun to allow for gay or trans children to participate as equals on its platform. This became antithetical to the Christian Nationalist of their concept of a society ‘under God.’
The Pledge of Allegiance could not be failing to provide the proper instructions for children to follow. Such a thought would be, at its heart, anti-American and anti-Christian-Nationalist. It had to be those entrusted with the education of children that have failed to define the harmonious concept of rules ‘under God.’ Thus began the underlying waspishness found in Christian Nationalists discussion of individual rights.
Individual rights ‘under God’ began a movement against societies inclusiveness of gay or trans children and their lives as understood by children. The ‘under God’ movement further had act to force society away from an equalization of individuals. This defined political power under such things as the Don’t Say Gay Laws or Anti-Trans Laws. All of them using children and the protection of society through call to protect children from indoctrination. A society to the Christian Nationalist that definitely was not ‘One Nation under God’
A new billboard welcoming visitors to “Florida: The Sunshine ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ State’ is seen Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Winter Park, Fla. Billboards, which are being placed in key areas with high visitor traffic and visibility, are part of a new advertising campaign launched by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). (AP Photo/John Raoux)
The campaign created focused banter to claim political power at the national level. It produced laws in Florida, which was only the first of many, punished with imprisonment the discussion of gender or sexual orientation in grade schools. The Christian Nationalist’s society redefinition efforts created 391anti-LGBTQ bills/ laws in US States. The majority designed to apprehend and control of minors, their education, their parents actions, their medical care.
It should be noted, none of these laws did not take down the pledge of allegiance posters nor stop the requirements for its continued daily indoctrination ritual. To school children, at least, the US would remain the ‘one nation, indivisible, under God with liberty and justice for all.’
Children, for Christian Nationalists for the moment, no longer will be confused by a nation infected by a concept that would demand the equalization of individuals. Such a demand is defined by the Christian Nationalist as a radicalization of the concept of any ‘liberty under God’.
The Christian Nationalist movement continues to move in a more Machiavellian manner to define the literal definition of freedoms and the identification of anyone’s selves. Laws have passed defining “sex” as “the classification of a person as either female or male. They have forgotten to redefine Liberty.
Liberty is defined as the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.
By definition the US has killed ‘Liberty and Justice for All’ even as they make every school child blindly repeat its holy prayer each morning in a nationalistic pledge.
The current trend of News organizations requiring a subscription or sign up to read their articles has become an impediment to our Republic’s constitutional requirement of a free press. The world of just a few decades ago only had local newspapers, free radio and free television. It was here that people found their viewpoints and windows into the events that formed their world opinions. But news and opinions now have become the world of YouTube, Twitter (X), Instagram, Bluesky and a multitude of streaming services or podcasts. All of these making it quite easy to discover your own personal news sources. This internet phenomenon has multiplied the voices into a Diverse, Enigmatic and Individual river of opinions from which one develops their viewpoints.
Since the advent of newspapers one had to purchase the paper to read the news. This newspaper could be read over-the-shoulder, discarded, left in a coffee shop or found in a library for the perusal of any number of informed opinions to be had.
Having been a paperboy, as a child, I can say that many of our nation’ s social and political opinions were illuminated from a cold winter’s morning delivery of that newspaper to a snow drift filled porch. Sure a small cost was collected by the paper boy for subscription but I believe that the majority of that fee was to secure the distribution process paying both the distribution delivery truck manager/driver and myself for walking in the snow that morning. Newspapers gathered much of their revenue from the advertisements within the paper along the side of their edited pages of stories/opinions about the days news.
News of current events is essential to the formation of opinions upon the politic of the nation. To understand and read/hear the opinions of others about a subject allows the formation of one’s own opinion. This formation takes time and can change amongst a varied amount of external events.
One of the dangers of the small exchange of information can be learned from the years of the late 19th and early 20th century control of newspapers by small groups of publishers that sought to control the narrative. The so called ‘Yellow Press’ with its sensational news form is blamed for everything from the War with Spain to the sensationalism of crime leading to a feeling of insecurity by American citizens.
I worked with a young colleague that broadcast with pride that he did not get news from the paid media but rather from following Twitter (X). The online aspects have changed the playing field and the necessary reading the free speech of others has become more difficult as the proliferation of opinion writing has opened widely in the internet. The need to subscribe on the internet to read an opinion has actually limited free speech not increased it. It has led to the narrowing of views to a small demographics of followings that have overtaken the wider writings of the professional pay-for-it media.
More now the dissemination of ‘Free Speech’ is found free in a legal voice sense that is not found in the physical world. If you read part of an article online of a major newspaper or news outlet invariably you are suddenly hit with a call to ‘join’ or subscribe. You cannot read the increasing varied opinions without some sort of not-free sign up. As such these outlet authors like the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell, San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garofoli or even NBC’s Alexander Smith have their voices muted to the world without some form of payment. You cannot read an old discarded newspaper because they literally are so small in number now the physical copy is a rarity. You need a subscription to Apple News or to the Washington Post to get a varied opinion. Instead, you read the free opinions of radicals posted on Twitter(X).
This type of selectivity leads to a narrowing of the views one is exposed too. This type of exposure reduces the ability to form a varied opinion. This type of selectivity actually is a form of ‘self censorship.’
A reduced selection of opinions is not Free Press. My suggestion is to change the method of distribution to one that can withstand the winter storms of our politics and land up on your opinions front porch.
Nothing has become more grating on my ears than when I hear the phrase; “Thank you for your service.” This is typically said aloud today, to every military serviceman, every fireman, every policeman, everybody except, well nobody. Yes, people even say it to me when I accidentally alert them of my time holding a US naval commission.
This singular phrase said with such abandon as ‘good morning’ at the first arrival of the day at the office or ‘welcome’ every time you enter a commercial store that it has cheapened the meaning and made everyone a hero for even their ability to drive a truck to the docks delivering goods to be shipped overseas for the military. It has made being a hero so prolific that they can even now be called ‘Losers and Suckers’ by the current President-Elect of the United States without retribution by those that support him.
Republicans of all walks of life look the other way or deflect the questioning of a man who was and will be the commander in chief of our military on this idea. Trump plays this game for his political enrichment but it is the American people that have abandoned the meaning of the terms hero and service. It is the American people who have allowed those wounded and killed in the defense of this great Republic’s objectives and ideals to be ridiculed by this man who himself is a beneficiary of their idyllic sacrifice.
Ever since 9-11 the awarding of participation heroism has become a cornucopia of verbal awards to those that served in any capacity the same status as those decorated. Their efforts cheapened. Their service almost becoming a tissue paper to sneeze the words in.
The 21+ years of seemingly endless Middle East wars has deadened the American people to the heroic acts during combat for their government. It has equalized all efforts to be reward with a single phrase, letting Americans thinking they are showing true gratitude when they are only saying it in a self-satisfying monotone. This relieves their souls of the guilt that the government they voted for creates these conflicts.
It may be better to look to the days of Vietnam or even the World Wars where soldiers knew where they stood. All soldiers enlisted, drafted and commissioned alike were one. They did not find the need to inflate their part but remained part of the whole. They knew they were summoned to be part of their US government’s efforts and felt the most pride in that quiet role.
I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. – George Washington.
I often spend hours taking notes and collecting ideas for post that I literally have dozens of pages on differing ideas that never make it to the publish button. To make a post very often requires not just inspiration for me but a spiritual feeling that wells up then cannot be stopped. So it is for this reason that I start this post as an apology to any that follow. It should have been sooner.
The use of attacks on the right to liberty without fear for the Trans community has been something of a right wing conservative’s political bonanza in Republican States but most notably in Florida and Texas. Such states have governors and political party legislatures that created movements to attack the LGBTQ citizens of their State to further their political power. It is not a new method. It is a technique used by conservatives that is as ancient as civilization itself.
The United States and its conservative political parties have been one of the most discriminatory political movements in all of civilization. Yet, it is these conservatives that claim they are the sole patriots of liberty. How this dichotomy exists in this self declared, “Land of the Free”, is not such as perplexing as one might think. The United States political system not only allows for such discriminatory activity but actually thrives upon it. Conservative members of US political parties acquire political power through the acts of discrimination.
Conservatives are defined as persons who are averse to change and hold socially traditional values. A bunch of words that in reality lead to a contraposition proof to the existence of the United States in the first place. To clarify the term is more often used in mathematical proofs but is utilized here to provide insight in the fallacy of US conservatism’s claims as being the sole defenders of the Constitution and Liberty.
If the conservative viewpoint prevailed in 1776 then the colonies would remain loyal to King George. An American conservative in 1776 was not for the Declaration of Independence. So if an American was for freedom and liberty then they were not conservative.
No Conservative Americans in this firing line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
So we have now a mathematical contraposition establishing by inference and a logical equivalency that only liberal Americans brought forth this nation. We can further claim that liberal points of view have advanced our freedoms that even the conservatives who always oppose changes in liberty, enjoy today.
The political success of conservative attacks on the liberties and freedom of the Trans community in Florida and Texas are an example of discrimination against minority groups that provide political focal points and add to the power of those in government. I use the term conservative because political parties have change of the years on who is the conservative and who is the liberal party. Both Democrats and Republicans over their history have found conservative viewpoints and discrimination as a means to power.
After the Revolution and before the Civil War the ability to maintain political power required the discrimination against Blacks. With nearly 700 thousand Blacks in the US in 1790 almost 18% of the total population the discrimination tactic of using Blacks as political pawns, not to mention white wealth, was found throughout the formation of the Constitution. In fact the revered Constitution as adopted in 1788 protected the importation of slaves until 1808. Article 1 section 9 was written purposefully ambiguous to hide the discriminatory act and it denied congress the power to restrict the importation of slaves until 1808. The clause was a compromise between the liberal Quakers from the North that wanted to abolish slavery and the conservative Southern representatives opposing any such nationwide emancipation.
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States; Howard Chandler Christy
The Southern representatives had found that discrimination against 18% of the population provided sufficient political power to change the Constitution in their favor. The subsequent banning of the importation of slaves in 1808 did not solve the liberal push for emancipation. Rather the Southern states resorted to a form of ‘breeding farms’ and breaking up of families to increase the supply and sell these new victims for profit.
The success of Southern politicians to protect slavery in the Constitution became so triumphant politically that by 1860 nearly 4 million Blacks were in the US with 89% of those enslaved. The population of the South’s free population was only around 5.5 million. This resulted in discrimination by enslavement against nearly a whopping 39% of the Southern State’s population.
This extreme percentage in a discriminated population provide so much political power to the Southern conservative politicians that the act of treason against the United States became the path of succession by Southern States resulting in the Civil War. Nearly 1.5 million persons, military and civilians, lost their lives to overcome this heinous act of discrimination against a segment of the population by a conservative viewpoint.
The numbers never lie in the result of power to discriminate
While the Civil War was the extremes to which proponents of discrimination in the United States have taken their beliefs and the horrors needed to correct their attacks on men’s liberty. Discrimination has never left the US political scene and use of discrimination as a crusade for political power persist to this day. It may take fewer and fewer numbers of those to be discriminated but political conservatives and radicals in the US have successfully used such practices for political power.
Throughout the 248 year history of the United States there are countless numbers of politicians using discrimination. Discrimination against segments of the population has become the crux of conservative politics even if they have had to rely on smaller and smaller percentages to achieve measurable results.
The reasons for these dwindling population numbers are mostly the result of the general population beginning to believe in the basic ideals of the Constitution and accepting those that are discriminated in the previous power grabs. Conservatives are pushed back from their claims and excuses of failures caused by the dangers presented by these smaller groups seeking to steal there own liberty. The greater US population has shifted and has accepted the rights to liberty protected by the Constitution for these attacked groups.
We want your labor and taxes but not you
During the 1800s Chinese immigrants began to appear amongst the citizenry of America. Many of them came over to provide needed labor for railroad construction that created an explosive growth in this country. But many came just for a vision of liberties promised by the Constitution enjoyed by Americans. They started business to support the communities in which they lived or like so many Americans sought instant riches in the mining for gold.
In the 1880s there were around 110,000 Chinese heritage citizens in America. This was basically 0.22% of the entire US population. However, this represented nearly 12% of the population of California where the majority of Chinese immigrants settled. However, the Chinese people had by that time been targeted by politicians desires for political power for over 50 years. In 1871 in Los Angeles Chinese-Americans lost not just their rights but 18 were murdered in a mass lynching.
A cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in 1869 takes a sympathetic view of the difficult conditions faced by Chinese immigrants. It depicts abuse of a Chinese immigrant at the hands of a white laborer wearing a hat labeled “California.” Anti-Chinese sentiment was widespread in California at the time.
In 1852, California Governor John Bigler asked the California Assembly to pass laws to stop Chinese immigration. Bigler argued that the Chinese could not be assimilated for racial and cultural reasons, and that they were therefore incapable of becoming good citizens. The California Supreme Court in 1853 declared that the testimony of Chinese people could not be used against white defendants, and a white man convicted of robbing and murder of a Chinese-American was released.
Jobs are very often the motive for political discrimination as in 1920’s, Colorado had only 939,629 total Latino population, about 1.2% of population saw a movement to strengthen the State border to prevent further immigration of Latinos into Colorado. The Colorado government arrested Latinos to deport them. The tragic result of this political fervor was that 60% of Latinos deported were actually US citizens.
Today the conservative State of Texas takes in nearly $4.9 billion in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants. Florida takes in nearly $1.9 billion in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants. Since these populations cannot vote the Conservative politicians are free to use them in political attacks and fear mongering. This is not limited to the State political arena. Nearly $100 billion in taxes are paid to the federal funds by undocumented immigrants making for an analogous situation for misrepresentation in federal politics.
The smaller the group the more political power or Good News for Bigots
Growing minorities often gain political power as a counter to the discrimination against them. Modern social media and loud megaphone type television media have enhanced the ability of politically motivated discrimination to find value in small niche minorities.
In 1860, the Black population was listed as 5.5 million free and 3.5 million enslaved, over 40% of population.
In 1880 The Chinese population was 12% (110,000) of Californians and only 0.22% Nationally. However, Senator John Miller and Representative Horace Page, both Republicans from California proposed The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) which was the first major immigration law aimed at a specific nationality or ethnic group. It banned the immigration of Chinese laborers and their families for ten years. Most importantly, it excluded all Chinese immigrants from US citizenship, and any Chinese who temporarily left the United States (for example to marry) had to obtain a certificate of residence to allow re-entry.
Sexual behavior in the 1970s indicated that 7% of males and 3% of females had homosexual experiences. Yet, the religious and conservative politicians found themselves compelled to use discrimination against them to hold and define their quest for power. The Gay population found itself propelled into a movement to protect their civil rights. It took 20 years before the disapproval of Gay life was no longer great enough for the conservatives to use for any meaningful political attack to gain power. By 1980 the public saw tolerance of Gay life was nearly 30%. It took another 20 years and a demographic change in the population before it rise to near 50%. This forced religious conservatives to seek other victims to attack for their political banners. They could no longer attack these freedoms to create a movement.
Only 7.6% of the population identifying as Gay today in the US, the issue of Gay rights being the same as the broader population because the broader population thought they indeed had and were entitled to the same rights. Religious and radical right wing conservatives could not longer use the attack against Gay rights as a political forum to gain votes.
The percentage of those being attacked now has to be even smaller to support the calls for discrimination. So, the population of trans persons which amounted to less than 0.6% of the population was chosen to be singled out and attacks on any rights they had to be themselves was demonized.
Conservative politicians must they have generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder when they attack the liberties of others. Conservatives slowly began to segregate trans persons who identified as the opposite gender, present themselves and act so to provide happiness and a general feeling of being presented as normal. Laws against sharing bathrooms in public began to appear. Prior to this most trans persons used the bathrooms of their identified gender without being notices. However, suddenly it was a politically powerful issue especially since schools began to allow for this because of Federal guidance. Conservatives in States could use a denial trans rights and dignity to attack liberal Federal rights protection guidelines to create their political power.
The smaller the discriminated population the higher is the need for general approval to reduce this discriminatory political power. With only 7.6% of the population identifying as Gay one would think they are still a target for the right wing attacks but today 80% of the US population approves on non-discriminatory laws against the Gay population.
The trans-rights opponents now only face a 64% approval with the smaller percentage of trans-persons it appears that a mere majority is not enough to secure trans-rights. Especially since the attacks across gender lines involves transactional issues that have been created by trans-athlete successes. Conservatives can now attack trans-persons on he basis of a imprecise broad judgement of immediate or unfair physical advantages in competitive sports not just social identity. While these should be left to individual sporting organizations and schools, their use in the political forum have as recently as the 2024 political attack ads used by conservatives against their opponents. Since the beginning of August 2024, Republicans have poured more than $65 million into television ads in more than a dozen states on anti-trans rights. 1 Unfortunately, the Conservatives are not using just ads to win political votes but actually enacting laws to gain political advantages in Republican run States to actively single out and discriminate against this small group of citizens.
Since the beginning of August 2024, Republicans have poured more than $65 million into television ads in more than a dozen states on anti-trans rights. 1 Unfortunately, the Conservatives are not using just advertisements to win political power but enacting laws with the sole purpose of political advantages in Republican run States that single out and actively discriminate against this small of group (1.1% of the US adult population identifies as transgender) of citizens.
The Conservative Century for the Protection of Bigotry
Due to increased immigration and a large rural-to-urban shift in population from 1910 to 1920, the Republican Congress in has refused to reapportion the House of Representatives because such a reapportionment would shift political power away from the Republicans. They have done this since Republican President Herbert Hoover. Signed into law by the Republicans in June 18, 1929 CFR 46 Stat. 21. This law prevents the US people from gaining minimal political power in the US Congress simply by being an increasing population. This law some say rewrote the Constitution and cemented bigotry discrimination into the American political system. It not only allowed conservative bigots to obtain power through the lower rural conservative population but enabled them to freeze the growing power of those that might oppose them.
The law froze the number of house representatives, keeping the existing constitution’s rule that every state gets one house representative. It apportioned the number of voting representatives in the House and fixed by law it to no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 states. This in effect created the US as the least representative government in the free democratic world.
The founders discussed a different issue of discrimination when they formed this nation. That is why they compromised (some would say cowardly) on the legislative branch to have both a State level politically determined house, the Senate and a citizen voted Representative’s house based on population. The smaller populated States were given the same ability of veto power in the Senate over any of the more populated and higher congressionally representative states.
Today, one representative represents upwards of 786,000 Americans. This cap on representation at 435 congressional representatives was formed because of conservative discriminatory fear of immigrants. This gives in-proportionate power to smaller right wing conservative populations in the Government leading to these discriminatory struggles. A representative in liberal leaning California (752,461 per representative) or New York (752,692 per representative) for example is normalized by Wyoming (580,000 per representative). That becomes nearly 200,000 voters out-voted by a smaller population in congressional House along with an equal vote in each state in the Senate.
The myth: Trump has chosen his next life in the sky.
Even the gods can be tricked by a clever charlatan who appears to be pious and just. There is little they can do to detect a false ‘man of the people.’ who is unjust in his psyche. Now Trump crawls under the throne of Ananke.
As Socrates explains to Glaucon the choices and the character of the immortal soul of a political man are revealed in his choice of a future incarnation. Success, fame, and power may provide temporary heavenly rewards or hellish punishments Socrates explains. The fate of the chooser is decided by the choice of their soul after the meadows at the shaft of the rainbow..
Ruben’s Saturn devouring his children
The Party has, like Lachesis 1, declared to Trump – “behold a new cycle of life and mortality. Your genius will not be allotted to you, but you will choose your genius.” The Interpreter has thus spoken and scattered lots indifferently among all the souls of the GOP. Each can choose there lives of every matter and in every condition. There are tyrannies among the lives to be chosen, some lasting out the tyrant’s life, others which break off in the middle and come to an end in poverty and exile and beggary, There is every other quality, and the all mingled with one another, and also with elements of wealth and poverty, and disease and health; and there are mean states also.
He who had the first choice has come forward and in a moment chose a life of the greatest tyranny; his mind having been darkened by folly and sensuality. But as he has found this new life not progressing in suitable form, Trump seeks instead of throwing the blame of his misfortune on himself, he will accuse chance and the gods, and everything rather than himself. He plays out his philosophy as told by the prophets of Necessity.
Fearing his loss of leadership and the overthrow of his ability to draw more political funds and followers, The tyrant Trump has begun devouring his children so as like Saturn2 to prevent his overthrowing as has been foretold. No, we’ll not see pictures of a stew of fingers from Eric or Ivanka in the news but rather metaphorically with the disembowelment of the GOP leadership. The butcherous ousting of Liz Cheney who voted against his willing lies and deceit and refused to launder his Mussolini style attempt to seize illegal power. Trump and his cowardly GOP leadership have chosen to ignore the murderous attack by Trump on the Capital January 6, 2021 as if it happened in another country. They believe it can be forgotten by history as the brutality of slavery, lost under the propaganda of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.3
Trump revealed that he has made the immodest choice of a future life as a tyrant. The entire GOP now is presented with their choice of the lots of their new life. As revealed by the messenger “Even for the last comer, if he chooses wisely and will live diligently, there is appointed a happy and not undesirable existence. Let not him who chooses first be careless, and let not the last despair.” Let not those who have come from heaven and never having been schooled by trial be in such a hurry to choose especially if they have not a sound philosophy.
Most curious, is the spectacle of Elise Stefanik—sad and laughable and strange; for the choice of the souls in most cases is based on their experience of a previous life. Like Atalanta4; Stefanik, seeing in lots of a new life the great fame of an athlete, is unable to resist the temptation of Trump’s golden apples.
All the GOP souls are now choosing their lives, and they will proceed in the order of their choice to Lachesis, who will send with them the genius whom they had severally chosen, to be the guardian of their lives and the fulfiller of the choices. Next to Clotho, to draw them within the revolution of the spindle impelled by her hand, thus ratifying the destiny of each. Finally to Atropos4, who spins the threads and makes the choice of lives irreversible.
Next the souls of the GOP are marched with Trump, as the first, in the scorching heat to the plain of Forgetfulness, which is a barren waste destitute of trees and verdure; and then towards an encampment by the river of Unmindfulness, whose water no vessel can hold; of this the GOP souls are all obliged to drink a certain quantity, and those who were not saved by wisdom will drink more than necessary; and each one as he drinks forgets all things.
And thus begins the lot of lives chosen by each of the GOP souls for the journey to last a thousand years until once again they are found at a mysterious place at which there were two openings in the earth; that are near together, and over against them two other openings in the heaven above. As was proclaimed for the Reich will America’s journey through Trump’s choice of a second life in the sky last the thousand years until once again there is the festival on the meadows? Virtue is free, and as a man honors or dishonors her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser—God is justified.
There was a time when the United States was the beacon to the world. The shining city of democracy on the hill some politicians used to call it. The country was growing and fighting the spectre of totalitarianism referred to as communism. There was upheaval as the United States got itself into a war to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. The youth of the country rebelled against the established conservatism that was sending it to this seemingly endless war.
Black Americans both young and old were rebelling too. Theirs was a different conflict born from a disproportionate reduction in opportunity and rights compared to their non-Black fellow US American inhabitants.
The two movements simultaneously shifted the American psyche closer to a pure, just democracy. Nurtured by the visions of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who both pushed the hardened conservative agenda against the foe of totalitarianism and accepted the reasons for the social upheavals, the rebellion’s goals pushed against the blockade against them with seeming success in the 1964 civil rights bill. This was followed by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which prohibited the implementing of a voting qualification or prerequisite to voting.
Richard M. Nixon readdressed the conservative agenda to pushing Vietnam to a higher and more deadly conflict. Men were drafted to continue the deadly conflict against the Vietnamese struggle for freedom against colonialism and their imperialism past in the name of the American conservative’s visions of world democracy.
During these times women won the right in the decisions about their reproductive organs and control their future. They were saved from the deadly alley coat hanger and won the right for safe and legal abortions Roe v Wade was decided January 22, 1973.
Conservative President Nixon, guilty of prolonging the war for political reasons, found the means to finally end the US involvement.
January 1973 the drafting of men into the U.S. armed services for the continued push of the anti-totalitarian war on communism was no longer needed. Americans would no longer face the economically discriminatory policy designed to send poor young men into conflict for the anti-totalitarian war effort. The Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975. though registration was resumed as mandatory in July 1980 under Republican Ronald Regan.
The United States was going to be different according to the anti-establishment liberal viewpoint. There would be an end to military conflict for the sake of some global anti-totalitarian dream. There would be increased freedoms and civil liberties. There would be equality for Blacks and increased awareness of the importance of women’s equal participation in society as a whole.
Forty five years later under continued Conservative ideological political pressure little of this has come true in the fight for personal and racial freedoms. The establishment that was so rebelled against in the 1960s and 1970s has in fact maintain a stranglehold on liberty and freedoms in the US using the impersonation of a democracy preserved by the conservatives. Totalitarian communism fell in the world governments to totalitarian capitalism but a capitalist regime could not be a threat to the GOP, a long proponent of capitalistic governmental rule. Perplexed, they turned inward and named those that continued to strive for the hard won freedoms of the 1960s as enemies of the people and radical leftist. They must be the enemy all along. They turned the finger pointing and blamed the globalism viewpoint of conservatives used for anti-totalitarian wars since the the 60s as caused by enemy globalist liberals. The assertion of unlimited gun rights and internal control of legislative power through gerrymandering and restrictive voting policies are the new conservative tactics. The GOP’s New Rule: White People Can Shoot, But Black People Can’t Vote.
Their youths squandered in a generation that has spent their entire lives in conservative global wars. Continually praised as good Americans and thanked for their service, they never understood the rejections of conservatism by the movements against racial and social injustice or the unnecessary war of killing in Vietnam of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Hidden from them by a conservative political narrative of praise in securing America’s freedom. This has left Americans aligned with the GOP skewed in the viewpoint and lacking inter-social values found in the ‘love’ movements of the 1960s. This created a conservative GOP that has become the Party of Sociopathism. A new social order on the basis of sociopathic actions and false claims by them being expressions of individual freedom.
There is little to no representation in the US Republic for any minority viewpoint. There is nothing but winner take all and suppressive denial of the minority. This may sound like a harsh judgement but in fact it has become the very nature of a country built on a concept of the good nature and joint ideals of a not so diverse populace. This type of Republic set forth by the founders has created an evil and terrible menace upon the people of the United States. It has set them up for continual conflict and division. Nobody that votes against the majority in their area has any representation of their idea of freedom, values or views.
I have for the majority of my adult life been in an area that votes approximately 20% for one party while the 80% win every election and set every policy based on their viewpoint regardless of the 20% needs, values or requirements. I have by this fact never had a political viewpoint of mine represented in the US government. It is this type of government that has all but destroyed the notion of democracy in the United States. It is a tyranny of the winner against the minority view. There is no reason for the majority to listen or acquiesce to the need of the minority. There is no proportional voice for the minority voters. The winners get the only voice and all decisions.
This phenomenon is true down to the smallest level of political office in US politics. It has become even more acute as the ruling parties change the rules locally to support themselves (i.e. gerrymandering of districts to support their party’s dominance) and as an example the US Senate to only require a simple majority for most votes. They therefore, do not have to listen to the minority at all to decide judicial direction as well as legislative direction. This winner take all has led to a Civil War as well as several destructive periods in US civil life. One of which is currently appearing to be driven towards becoming almost fatal to the Republic.
Segmentation of political thought in US Politics.
The United States are in fact no longer united. It has become so factional and to a point almost directly in half that it has created a volatile scenario of us versus them. The left-right political spectrum has become defined in a prismatic division of clear political loyalty lines with unclear definition of policy. President Trump in his efforts to stay in power has create an even higher level of division with his voter fraud stranglehold on one of the more powerful US political parties. All aligned political thought, actions and funding of this party is driving towards the goal of remaining in power despite the loss at the polls by claiming fraud and dishonesty of the opposition thereby creating a disenfranchisement of voter’s good political sportsmanship. The power in the US is absolute either win the election or have no voice is the nature of the American political system.
The struggle for a political view to win in this all or nothing US Republic is no less than having the ability, as in the French Revolution, to cut the King’s head off or be vanquished then imprisoned by a state. A state that does not look at you as a valuable contributor to society but rather as a danger to it.
So as with the original colonies and depicted in the 1745 Benjamin Franklin cartoon of a snake cut into colonial segments, the colonies had to unite to express its political view against the British King and parliament or die . So too does political thought in the US have to align to win representation in the US or die with no political power to have it’s viewpoint affect the political nature of the United States.
The Founding Fathers had no idea of the flawed corrupting system they created . Their political viewpoints though varied in nature were united in the creation of a new country. They were united in the common history of the struggle to leave the United Kingdom. They were united in a extremely similar ethnic, religious and social viewpoint. Something that has not been the case in an America of the 20th and 21st Centuries that has seen decades of migratory, social and financial class dilution.
This dilution has pushed political thought in America to review and compensate because of the social upheaval caused by the political majority’s ignoring the issues faced by the diverse population. In some cases, a political party can ignore the viewpoint because of their political power and face civil unrest and in others they can enjoin the political viewpoints to link up the body of the snake so that a particular party can win and rule.
This linking of the political viewpoint snake to win political representation is often thought to be a democratic process but it is not. It is worse, as the larger of the parties very often ignores the representation of political viewpoints of the political viewpoint allies. The ally’s political viewpoint gains no voice in the government directly and must remain subordinate to have any hope of influencing the viewpoint narrative. This is not a democracy but a political view dictatorship without consequences for the ruling party. There is little or no repercussions for the dominant party ignoring the minorities political views. The ally political view can be quickly disavowed and disenfranchised if it comes under attack by the opposition. No vote needs to be won or lost to affect any change during a party’s term in power of their singular viewpoint being presented into governing. There is no coalition, oversight or balance required to maintain a varied political view of all those represented during governance.
This failure to represent the political views of the entire nation has fragmented US politics very similarly to the pre-World War II Weimar Republic. The Germans solved this political viewpoint problem when they formed their government after WWII. They did not follow the American system created by the US founders of a winner take all system that required extremely strong political parties. This is what they had and failed miserably in the 1930s. Germany formed a coalition style government. This allows political parties with more than 5% of the vote to have an direct representation of their viewpoint in the government. The individual voter gets true proportional representation. The larger party cannot ignore the viewpoints of the smaller parties and with it the viewpoints of the people who voted for them if the lager party needs the party to create the larger united snake to rule.
Without true representation, each American finds that he suffers from no representation by this Congressman, Senator, Governor or President. The large American parties have become de facto kings, who are fighting over a crown. They fail to represent the political viewpoints fairly and diversely enough to truely represent the people in the US. The voters have limited choices of two kings to represent their viewpoints. This becomes similar to the War of the Roses in English history. The two kings fight and fail to govern until one is vanquished and the opponents slain. This is not Democracy but political viewpoint Autocracy in the US. It is time to change the US to a representative Republic before it dies.
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