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The Corporate Establishment

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.

Super Tuesday

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.

Socialism for the Rich

How is it that we pay so much for healthcare?

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.

No Jerks or Shills

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.

Socialism vs Cannibalism

(This post was written when Senator Sanders was leading in the state primaries. It looked for a moment like he might win the democratic nomination. Turns out the party had other plans. The Democrats betrayed Bernie and the public. Joe Biden became president and we found out Trump spent 8 trillion dollars of borrowed money in four years. Proving my cyinical predictions, here, of his intentions, were correct.)

Cannibalism is a metaphor for capitalism.

Capitalism is an economic system of, by, and for investors, who maximize their profits by forcing labor to compete for less.

You can only make so much money forcing labor to compete, so emergency taxpayer bailouts help provide a veil of success to the scam.

Every bailout paid for by the taxpayer is proof that capitalism has failed. It’s a mathematical and historical fact. It’s a wealth extraction scam.

Unless the goal is more inequality, capitalism continues to fail.

The terms socialism and capitalism are themselves misleading words defined to deceive. In reality, all governments use whatever economic polices are necessary to perpetuate themselves.

It’s all academic theory, practiced as necessary, for incumbency.

The main distinction that matters when it comes to economic policy is whose money is used for the investment strategies a society needs, and who will profit from that investment? Will it be the public interest? or those the government borrows the money from?

The government could just tax those it borrows money from to get the money it needs, but it doesn’t. It should, but it doesn’t.

That’s how you can tell who the government serves.

We have an economy that undermines democracy and increases inequality as public policy, under the banner of capitalism.

Trump represents capitalism. Bernie represents socialism. Both of which are just labels defined in a way to mislead the voter from the more important point, which again is,

Who should prosper from the creation of money and investment, the public interest or private interests? That is the appropriate question to consider when pondering socioeconomic design. That’s what the government does. It negotiates socioeconomic design.

The question is, and this election is about, a choice between capitalism, which is the conflict-based economy, on the Trump side, against socialism and the health-based economy on the Bernie side.

This election will either solidify the swamp as government, or begin the healing. Will the voters prefer healing with Bernie, or double down with Trump on the debt based prosperity we’ve been practicing forever?

Capitalism is likely to win because it cheats every chance it gets. It wants more secrecy, more authority, and more money. All of which it gets by taking it from the public.

Trump is merely the current cleaner for the bipartisan intergenerational Ponzi Scheme we call capitalism. The bubble will burst and the next “correction” could get real ugly, or perhaps even perpetually sustained in a state of real ugliness.

The next Great Depression will happen because the public’s money has been stolen, legally, through a “system” described as broken by some and capitalism by others. capitalism is the conflict-based economy, by any other name. It’s the same thing.

Capitalism is actually an extraction scam designed by and for the establishment, for perpetual privilege by preventing democracy with inequality, counterfieting, and bribery. etc.

Socialism, on the other hand, just wants to get along. It’s not going to war to steal your money, that’s capitalism. Socialism simply prefers a more ethical approach to wealth distribution, through taxation, rather than extraction and inflation.

Still, I don’t know why Bernie uses the label, socialism. What Bernie wants to do is not socialism. It’s not socialism to reduce student debt. It’s just the right thing to do. It’s not socialism to insist that the government be ethical, or promote the general welfare. That’s not socialism, so why take the label? Whatever.

The public mostly understands socialism as being a compromise between capitalism and communism. A communist government controls everything, in theory, like dictators, allegedly for the greater good. In reality that is a fairy-tale, or maybe a goal. It’s never happened.

By contrast, capitalism controls the government by controlling the money, for the establishment.

Because an honest democracy is not possible in either system, some degree of socialism is inevitable in both.

The degree of socialism in a society is equivalent to its civility. Socialism and civility are the same thing.

If Bernie wins, which he won’t, congress will continue to resist him.

Bernie will likely lose because Trump will definitely cheat. It’s what he does. To think otherwise would be naive.

Trump will likely win, because money is representation. That’s what people want, more money. People will vote for Trump because they think he will give them more money, and send the invoice to uninvested taxpayers.

If you have enough money you don’t need political representation. You are represented by your money. The house of representatives is for people who need representation and can’t afford it. It’s not for those who can afford to give money to candidates. That’s corruption, legalized.

The government should be occupied by people who protect the public interest, like a public union, and negotiate with private interests, such as political parties, and corporations. That’s what the government should be, a unified body of public interest representation.

Now with our new high tech ability to access information and understanding, conduct consensus, and share ideas, an alternative to the current system can be easily discussed and developed, understood and shared, and eventually implemented for a healthy and sustainable conflict-free society. It can be done.

A better system based on modern technology and the age old philosophy of democracy, peace and justice, law and order, and the like, is possible right now, with the technology available to us right now, and affordable to us, right now.

We can win if you help us fight back. Vote Bernie!

Fight Back

Since I last posted, Trump passed a big tax break for the rich, as expected, just like his presidential predecessors did. He cut taxes for those that make the most and abandoned those who make the least. How long’s that been going on?

The past few years were just wacko distractions from political solutions, so I thought it best not to clutter the site with all that sordid unprovable history.

It becomes futile to keep up the critique of the ongoing failures of our government. The scandals just keep coming and going, for our entertainment pleasure.

The Trump presidency has made our news programs his own reality TV show. He’s an agent of a foreign power dismantling our government and nobody can stop him. Or so the narrative goes.

I will note that Trump was just impeached. The democrats, finally reacting to an endless stream of lies and corruption, charged him with abuse of power and obstructing congress. It was a nice gesture but in the end it was a total failure.

Unfortunately, because the government is in a perpetual partisan divide, the result of the effort was the senate got to rubber stamp the president’s ability to abuse his power and obstruct congress. Great!

The house could have impeached him for anything. They had the votes. The hush money payments to a porn star would have been perfect. That way, if the dems failed, which was inevitable in the senate, the precedent would be that the president can get away with paying hush money to porn stars, but instead, the democrats charged abuse of power, knowing they wouldn’t get the votes to convict. So now, all of the sudden, the president has the power to do whatever he wants. Anything he wants, they say..

Is that well played by the speaker and her team of dems? I think not.

That’s intentional failure. America would have loved the porn star impeachment. The dems could have milked it through the election and the public would’ve been on the edge of their seats the entire time, lusting for more details, and then in their disgust, vote for anybody but him.

The Democrats are accusing him of being a Russian puppet, and he probably is. So they’re well within their right to stop funding the executive, entirely, until a new president is sworn in, but they don’t. Which makes them accomplices, imo.

It’s all a sad state of affairs and a distraction to the real political solutions we need, so we’ll save all that for another time.

The two party paradigm is the real problem. I just checked a box on the outside of my ballot envelope, indicating my allegiance to a party.

Declaring allegiance to a party or your vote doesn’t count? Anybody see the problem with that? Private organizations controlling the path to public office is not compatible with democracy.

Party politics is designed to divide the electorate and it has. Political parties are not even compatible with the constitution. They are part of the problem.

Therefore it seems inevitable that the most appropriate response is to begin a new organization based on the belief that money is representation, and push the democrats to do the right thing.

Your true political opposition will deprive you of money, and education, healthcare, and opportunity. They will likely prevent your prosperity and quite possibly kill you, incarcerate you, or even enslave you if they can get away with it.

Democrats and Republicans are not true political opponents of each other. They are in allegiance to the conflict based economy, which needs a victim to prosper. In this case, the victim that can vote is the uninvested taxpayer.

The true political spectrum, the relevant opposing forces in this case, are the uninvested taxpayers at one end of the spectrum, being exploited by investors who prosper from government bailouts at the other.

Billionaires are at the winning end of that political spectrum. They have all, intentionally or not, made their fortunes exploiting corrupt government policies, like taxpayer extraction scams and tax policy that favors private markets at the expense of taxpayers.

The public debt profits investors at the expense of the uninvested taxpayer. That’s why we have increasing inequality and public debt.

The obvious solution to this trend is to fund the social security insurance program, by taxing billionaires, and reduce reliance on the global profit schemes of Wall Street.

So that’s what I was thinking when I saw the opportunity to advertise in the Fight Back edition of the Stranger.

I thought yes, there’s enough time to revamp the website, but then it’s taken a week of trouble shooting and technical problems, that I won’t get into.

So the site will be a work in progress for a while either way. It won’t be ready the day my ad runs in the Stranger, so I thought I’d just make mention here in the blog, that if you can understand what I’m saying and agree, to some extent, Public Voter is looking for progressive writers and others of like mind who might have talents they would like to share here on this website, for a good cause.

If you are interested in joining Public Voter, post a note in the forum or send me a message. Income-based representation is the only solution that will save our democracy. Get in on it.

It’s important to recognize and counterpoint antidemocratic propaganda as much as possible. Whether it’s from the Russians, the republicans, the democrats, or space aliens, the result is the same and so is the remedy.

Get smart. Fight Back. Advocate for a democratic upgrade.

Collusion or Conspiracy

The Deregulation and Market Manipulation by Enron was crime. Was it Collusion or Conspiracy? There was Something Very Wrong With A Lot of Bad People because there was No Cop On The Beat. The Dominoes of Fraud exposed a strategy of crime, profiting investors, at the taxpayer’s expense.

Enron, and its culture of corruption was a prototype, and a precursor to the deregulation that led to the Financial Crisis of 2008.

Occupy Wall Street

Capitalist Socialism Money vs Resources Banks vs Everybody Else Unregulated Ponzi Scheme No Infrastructure Investment Debt – No Way Out AIG – Rewarding Fraud Our Real Sin – Market Faith Wealth Is Work System of Credit Fraud Trading vs Working Inside Job – Wall St No Justice – No Jobs No Jail – No Deterrence Sinister System Financial Murder Occupy Wall St. Get Money Out Break Up The Banks Too Big To Exist Mega Bank Profits Support for Protests We are the 99% Violent Confrontations Pillaging the Population Day of Disruption A Small War The Movement Spreads FOX’s Tea Party Fraud Let Me Eat Steak Rigging The Game System Without Integrity The Digital Wave The FED Problem Government Auction What Took So Long? What Does OWS Want? Special Interests of DC American Oligarchs FED-Fueled Rally QE – $85B A Month Money From Nothing Bankster Record Profits Fix Regulatory Structure Mightily Vulnerable Regulator Collusion Regulator Ignorance Funny Money No Reforms Frustration Corruption Envy Stole Their Money Too Big to Fail Secret Insurance In The End Circling the Drain No Justice Ordinary People 1% versus 99% Protected Speech Bloody Streets Grow Up The 2nd Phase Looking Ahead

Capitalism Fails

What’s going on? Corruption not Capitalism They Know Something Bush Was Lying $11 Trillion in Debt Anything Goes Free Market Guy Rescue Plan Fails Mud Sandwich American Socialism People Don’t Know Lying Cheating Thieves Imagine If this Bill Passed? Greasing The Wheels Foreign Banks Buying US Bailing Out Foreign Banks Clogged with Illiquid Assets Speculator Bailouts Buyer’s Remorse The Pusher Sweeteners Pure Lard – Pork Trashing the Bill Anybody Happy? Fear Outrage Panic Bush Signs Bailout Market Crashes Capitalism failed Fat Cat Packages Bait & Switch #2 Capitalize Banks Instead of Infrastructure Wealth Shift to the Wealthy Bonus from Bailouts Intentional Fraud Fat Cat Loophole Wading in Money Culture of Squeeze Golden Parachutes Paid to Fail Protesting Wall St. Bonus – No Caps Shareholder Bailouts Aristocratic Theft Digging a Bigger Hole Bipartisan Scam No Reforms Wall St. Over the Barrel Main St Protests Let them Fail Wealth Vampires Looted by Wall St Secret Deals Cost to Taxpayer 100% on the Dollar Bailed Out withTaxes Far From Over No Disclosure Giving Money to Banks For Shareholder Profits Corrupt Blind Eye Bipartisan Frauds Shareholder Welfare Double Standard Let Them Foreclose Political Insanity Moral Hazard The Most Sickening Kind Justice Dept Collusion Everyone Knew – Cynicism and Mistrust They Got Away With It Banks Get Bigger

The Perfect Crime

Mortgage Backed Securities Bush – The People’s Money Bush v Gore: Case Closed Freedom Under Attack Saddam Captured Bush Tax Cuts Cause of Deficits Tax Cuts for Hot Horse Security Threat from Debt Politically unstable Unfair Trade Policies Institutional inequality War on the middle class Dire Warning Ominous Consequences National Rescue Plan How did this happen? Good Questions Real Reason For War? Contractor vs Taxpayer Outsourcing Defense Keep Government Small Financial Mess Money Lost Audits Fail Enron Accounting Borrowing to Waste Debt Slaves – perfect crime Don’t Buy American Two-Way Street Buying & Selling Weapons War Continues