Thinking Aloud about the last 42 years of politics
The Slopping Path
It all started a while back with a guy named Ronald in 1980, followed by The Hawker Rush. Ronald converted from working people (unions) to a Capitalist. A skirt and a monied stepfather got him to the bottom of the sloping path, a conversion to a Believer. At this time Hawker-Rush was an entertainer looking for fame and money and carefully said those exact words in the beginning days. Then when he reached the bottom of the path, he was a Believer cemented into that position with dollar bills and fame. No longer just an entertainer looking for fame and fortune.
Bush-One was an honest conservative who cared about humanity and conservative ideas. Still, re-election became a train wreck caused by Ross and that charming, intelligent, street-smart, skirt-chasing hound dog from the south, Bill. Bush-One was on the slopping path but did not have the chance to stop, turn around, or reach the bottom, but he did close the failed re-election with a “Bottom Kind” of action: Pardon for Caspar Weinberger.
Eventually, the Hound Dog, Bill, sells his belief practice to the money accumulator’s crowd. Intelligence does not always work for the good of ordinary people because your view can change when you get to the top and see everything from a balcony of the penthouses. Neo-liberalism forgot that the success of the big money accumulators does not trickle down to the ordinary people. If it is an excellent Healthy Practice for Ordinary People, it will always root in the dirt and bear fruit, where “ALL” can reach the fruit and partake.
Then Bush-Two happened, not on his own but on the cleverness and ability to execute: Karl, who really was the one who worked on the ground level, in the trenches, beating up those who were not conservative enough, and Karl was making effective use of what had been built by the Believers already at the bottom of that slopping path. At the Bottom were the Money Accumulators. They were there for their causes by hiring a lobbyist to increase their accumulation by reducing or stopping progressive taxation on income and big inheritance (already started by Ronald). Do not forget that Bush II did not win the popular vote, and James Baker rallied the picketers to create a need for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of Bush II by not having a recount in Florida. At the bottom was an army of Propagandized Believers. Believers waiting for victory for their own singular personal reasons, such as lower taxes (income and inheritance), right to life (life begins at the moment of sperm crashing into an egg), USA can do no wrong (gods people, we are #1, yes the Shining City on the Hill), it is my conservative guaranteed constitutional right to own these assault rifles (that can kill 86 mother, dads, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and wound 184 more from the 14th floor) and throw those druggie’s-lazy-welfare losers’ in jail. These were the Propagandized Believers with a single issue already having been led to the Bottom of the Slopping Path to execute their plans and the plans of those Money Accumulators who were there to invest money into lobbying for their legislation and to move the voters to be a Conservative Believers and Money Accumulators can keep every single dollar earned from the ordinary people which includes those Propagandize Believers through rich people tax breaks and getting rid of Progressive Taxation.
The workers of a propaganda movement were already at work. Newt had been doing grassroots work and doing it well. Murdock was buying media companies to convince the voter to follow the slopping path (and while making a profit). The rich were building TV business channels to talk about the stock market. Because the pension fund of the ordinary people was now practically all IRA, 401k’s owned by the individual and may be funded by the employer. The big-time pension funds were now mostly public employees who did not have to deal with getting part of the profits but from our taxes. These public employee pension funds were investing tax dollars and not profit dollars. The employees-only public unions are firefighters, schoolteachers, law enforcement, city, counties, state, federal, courts, water districts, sewer districts, and, more and more, all tax-funded unions.
Back to Karl, now joined by Frank, who scientifically found the perfect words to convert the voter to be a Bottom of slopping Path Believer. The brain and the snake charmers were carefully choosing the most influential words to be used by the propaganda machines and all those politicians if they wanted to be re-elected. Bush-Two, a nice guy and not a Bottom of the Path Believer but not smart enough to be brave, was elected twice. The Bottom Believers were fed a diet of specially styled information regularly via Fox, Wall Street Journal, Cable TV Business Channels, and Radio shows.
2008, Obama came up with the Affordable Care Act with a bit more, and then six years of the Senate protecting the beliefs of the Bottom Believers.
2016, TRUMP came who had no understanding of the life of an ordinary person. Trump had an understanding, put together in a very limiting way, with nothing to do with the experiences of an ordinary person. A Trump Monster began living among the Bottom Believers. Trump does not even understand the working of the pure Money Accumulators. Trump-Monster does not even understand the one issue of the Bottom Believer’s beliefs; they are most of the residents at the Bottom of the Slopping Path. Trump does feed the Bottom Believer with dangerous practices and lies with his self-serving propaganda via social media, with the free press media unwittily being his echo chamber. Trump understands how to use propaganda, so he is the MONSTER among these BOTTOM BELIEVERS.
So, who understands the needs of “We the People,” who includes the Bottom-Believers?
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