What is the digital revolution. How did it happen.
Who benefits from the digital revolution.
The digital revolution and the stock market.
What the internet is vs What the internet could be.
Electronic voting:
accountability – User ID: everything traceable
anonymous is lawless
local network – secure and verifiable
Byproducts & Symptoms
spying
plagiarism
The History: started as open network funneled into a few major apps that demand accountability and identity,
The strategy was to be sure the industry was not controlled by government, diversified, but now the industry serves as government with the power of technology.
The Future:
Democracy will be electronic. It’s just a matter of time. Do not trust a paper ballot.
The Democratic Party conceded defeat today by ‘electing’ Joe Biden as their nominee to take on President Trump in the November election. There’s a few more primaries to go, but, you know. It’s a funny process.
Our very democracy is at stake and the Democrats have chosen the ultimate party establishment insider, Joe Biden, to save it for us. right.
I have been a Joe Biden fan for a long time, but he’s no Bernie Sanders, and sorry, he’s no Donald Trump.
Even if Joe wins, he won’t be able to swing the political pendulum back to the sane side if he tried. We’re way beyond that now.
If the establishment wasn’t so busy comparing Bernie to socialist dictators his popularity would be much higher. The corporate media is part of the establishment that Bernie is running against, so of course they’re biased against him.
And we’re supposed to believe that Biden flipped all the Bernie districts this election. They didn’t vote for Hillary four years ago, they voted for Bernie, but Joe’s their man now. Sorry, that’s not credible.
Bernie is just too radical now, they supposedly think. Sorry, not credible. This was blatant election fraud on a massive scale, of, by, and for, the Democratic Party.
Bernie won’t call it out, but I will. The establishment totally robbed him.
None of the professional pundits ever question the results, they just marvel at them. “Isn’t that amazing?” Unbelievable! they might say, with complete faith in the system.
Our electoral system is antiquated, and privatized by the very establishment that Bernie is running against. Why should we believe the unbelievable results of this election? We shouldn’t.
Like most government systems, we should demand that the electoral system be changed to provide the appropriate capability for a credible democracy.
We all wish Bernie the best, but the movement will go on long after this election. The movement is not about people, it’s about ideas, and when the idea is so obvious, to prevent it is obstruction.
Bernie has got to be disappointed. This is the most historical defeat. It needs to be duly noted for its historical importance. This is the day the establishment came together to check-mate Bernie Sanders and his movement, and to preserve themselves for yet another term.
The establishment is not only the billionaires and their corporate executives who write the big checks, like Bernie will tell you. The establishment also includes everybody who profits from the stock market. There is an inherent bias towards the markets by those who profit from them.
Our social security system has been betrayed, for the public, by the private profit interests corrupting our government, using the dark money they derived from the scam. They have privatized the public welfare and common good, to themselves, in a system I refer to as, the scam.
The result of the scam is increasing inequality by public policy that favors private interest profits. The government must borrow and invest in the scam, because it is ideologically against raising taxes on those that profit the most, from the scam.
Those who don’t profit from the markets are not the establishment. They are the uninvested taxpayers and the working class. The millions of investors who also work for a living must have faith that their retirement accounts are safe, despite being invested in a system whose profits are unsustainable without hyperinflation, or hyper-growth.
The conflict-based economy is a pyramid scheme playing musical chairs. When the music stops will your money still be there?
The majority of the public are not government subsidized like investors are. Workers work for their money, by spending their time, working.
Because money is representation, the establishment is bipartisan. Even if they don’t understand it, partisans are united in their investment strategies against their political opposition. Together they dominate the workers and uninvested taxpayers. They debate allowances of freedom for them. A minimum wage, for instance.
You don’t have to be a billionaire politician to be a part of the establishment. You just have to have a profit bias for the money that trickles down to you through the stock market. If you have an incentive to ‘vote your pocketbook’ to maintain the status quo of corporate subsidy, you are the establishment.
It doesn’t matter if you are a minority or not. If you think the government can’t afford healthcare for everybody, you are the establishment.
Corporations and political parties are the establishment. Joe Biden is the establishment. As are all presidents. An establishment is essential.
The Democrats seem hell bent on nominating Joe. It’s the old ‘lesser of two evils’ strategy. They would rather lose to Trump than win with Bernie. Bernie represents the public. Joe represents the party. Party loyalty is the priority of both parties which proves that working people do not have adequate representation.
The Republicans fall in line to vote against taxes, the Democrats are a massively diverse party, from the homeless vet struggling to find a voting booth, to billionaires buying politicians. That is a rigged system that profits the establishment at the taxpayer’s expense.
You can blame the Corona Virus, or oil prices, or chaos, for the market crash, but the crash was inevitable, as it always is. The establishment calls it a correction. Too much money was speculated into profits from thin air and it’s time to cash in the chips again, and see how much taxpayer money the government will have to pony up to keep the scam going, for the establishment.
The Corporate Lizards represent the part of the establishment that profits from taxpayer subsidized corporate welfare, but won’t acknowledge it.
Lizard prosperity is extracted from the taxpayers and transferred to shareholders through a massive industry of money administration.
Every dime made or spent in the investment industry is ultimately paid for by increasing costs on workers, consumers, and taxpayers.
There are more brick & mortar investment stores now days than there are fast food restaurants. As if everybody’s money makes so much money that an entire industry of money making money can be massively prosperous for so many. Not likely
That industry fails at every bailout. Inequality is the inevitable byproduct of the scam. The system is a scam and it should be reversed.
Republicans are religiously loyal to the scam, and should be taxed accordingly.
If a Democrat refers to themselves as a moderate, what they mean is, they’re progressive, but they still support the scam and the market prosperity it provides to their community.
Corporate lizards are not defined by race or sexual identity. They are defined by their dividends. If you make more in capital gains than you pay in taxes, then there’s a pretty good chance that you might be a corporate lizard.
Lizards pay no tax at all because the government favors their “publicly traded employment status” with taxpayer subsidies offsetting their tax burden onto small business and the uninvested taxpayers.
If the government can print money, and it can, then why are capital gains so high?
The question answers itself;
Capital gains are high because the government can print money.
The government extracts money from the taxpayers and transfers it to investors. That’s how this system works. It’s corporate welfare from taxpayer extraction. Money is extracted from Main Street workers to subsidize Wall Street investors.
With a representative government there would be no taxes on income or sales. Government revenue should come from investments and growth not taxpayer extraction. We should fund more public programs and stop subsidizing corporate lizards.
Jerry Brown gets the first Public Voter Award for Political Hero.
Before Bernie Sanders started his political revolution there was Jerry Brown. Jerry also tried to “wake people up” but Bill Clinton, representing the establishment, took the day. The corporations kept deregulating and the rest is history. It’s good to know your history.
It was before the internet. Toll free 800 numbers were cutting edge. It was an era of proud apathy for most of the public. Jerry gave it a hell of a try but not as many people paid attention back then.
For those who are paying attention now, here’s Jerry Brown speaking truth to power in 1992, running against Clinton, Bush & Quayle.
Jerry was the king of the stump speech and he should have become our president. Imagine how different things would be now if that election would have went to Jerry Brown and towards a government working for everybody instead of special interests.
Bernie Sanders represents another chance for the public to do the right thing and vote for the good guy. I hope they don’t blow it.
Bernie is taking on the “Establishment”, that includes both parties and the pundits who talk about them, and the billionaires who employ them. They control the government and use it to harvest the public for money through an exploitive system of taxation, credit, speculation, and bailouts. Public debt renders the extractions less painful, for now.
Our economy needs to be repaired legislatively to provide fairness and reduce inequality. That is the political revolution and the establishment is resisting the public’s efforts towards that goal.
This video shows the disconnect between the establishment and the public. There’s an admission by Ezra that the working class people are not represented, and that Bernie just wants the Democratic Party to step up and do their jobs for the people that elect them.
The idea that the African American community prefers Biden to Sanders is ridiculous. Or that Sanders must somehow “work” for their support. What does that mean? It can only be one thing. Money. Bring us money. The establishment is a bipartisan hierarchy of money. It doesn’t matter what color you are or what your race is. What matters is how much money you have.
Those in the African American community that do not want Bernie’s political revolution are the establishment. Those without enough money are more likely to support an economic correction.
Lawrence asks the hidden question, Is the democratic nomination determined by the public or the party? And then Steve ignores the question by accusing Bernie of keeping the establishment out of his camp? What? Like the establishment just wants to join Bernie’s movement but Bernie won’t let them. That’s crazy talk.
Bernie can’t lead the Democratic Party unless he takes it over, Ezra. Conforming to the corporate establishment is not a political revolution.
The democrats monopolize the path to public office. Join them and they will help you. That is just like a church and begs the church versus state debate. The distinction is philosophical and comes down to citizenship versus relationship. The state facilitates democracy through citizenship. Democracy is not possible in a system based on relationships, and that’s what political parties are, relationships.
A quick note about Biden and the Ukraine corruption story. If Trump didn’t have the dirt on Biden he wouldn’t have tried to coerce the announcement of an investigation. That alone assumes that Biden is guilty of the corruption he has been accused of. That not only makes Joe a vulnerable candidate, it normalizes political corruption like the impeachment fiasco normalized abuse of presidential power.
The Democratic Establishment doesn’t care. Most of them will probably welcome the corruption because they will be the beneficiaries of the new normal, where they can practice the art of the deal privately, with corporations, without concern for the public, or consequence, and secretly vote for Trump.
The establisment strikes back. Joe Biden takes the lead in the delegate count on Super Tuesday. Most notable is that Warren should have endorsed Bernie, like Pete and Amy did for Joe, but she didn’t, which shows her allegiance is to the party and not the movement.
A lot of democrats would vote for Trump over Bernie because Bernie represents a threat to their market-based prosperity. A lot more people, though, are not invested, or they prefer to afford a more civilized approach to society than what we currently have. They support Bernie, who nails it tonight, talking to a crowd in his home state.
It’s because of the bureaucracy required to administrate all the different insurance plans.
Our healthcare industry is intentionally inefficient. Services are made scarce in order to maximize the profits for investors. That’s why it cost so much.
Also, the health insurance industry is a middleman who profits investors by depriving patients of health care. Government control of the the healthcare industry would streamline the entire process and remove the profit motive that deprives patients of care.
It’s a profitable investment because health is priceless if you’re sick. People will pay whatever is necessary to be well. That’s one reason healthcare should be a nonprofit industry administered by the public for the public.
Tax dollars should be prioritized to provide what the public needs, and Not loaned to individuals in order to make massive profits for private interests, like we do.
When the “system” loans money to private investors, that’s socialism for the rich. When it loans money for public profit, that’s just good policy.
There’s a lot of disinformation being spread in this election because the stakes are so high. Bernie had to make a statement disavowing some dirtbag supporters, who might have been Russian spies, or Republican shills, or agent provocateurs of some kind. Who knows?
So there’s no confusion I have never met Bernie. I am a big fan and wish him the best. I will do my best to respect his wishes in my efforts to support him.
However I won’t be constrained by him or his party or his movement in my effort to inform the electorate of the opinions I consider relevant, to understand meaningful democratic reforms.
Even though he is an independent. I have not heard Bernie talk about the duopoly party system that has created a binary political choice and a binary economy. Both parties legislate support for the corporate economy of Wall Street while extracting from the uninvested and unsubsidized workers of Main Street.
The bipartisan system of tax extraction for investor profit is unfair and divisive. It leaves the uninvested taxpayer underrepresented. Ending that practice is not socialism, It’s just fair. It’s just the right thing to do.
Fox News is comparing Bernie to Stalin and Lenin, right now, all night long with special broadcasts, fear mongering the electorate that civilization will end if they vote for him.
There’s a massive campaign of ugly attacks against Bernie going on, right now, because he’s the front runner. Bernie needs to step up the counterpoints against his opponents rather than try to appease his allies that want to work with them.
