Danse Macarbe

Today half of the 'inevitable duo' packed in his campaign, ironically polling poorly compared to his party's other hopefuls. If the polls can be trusted and anyone with two brain cells still in communication with one another knows they can't.

So as the now seeming endless campaign runs into it's second year we are left to ponder what, if anything will 'change' after the election (regardless of who wins.)

What do we know for certain since 'Morning in America'? That the 'death spiral' our economy has plunged into will continue unabated. Just had to look up Reagan's reign (1981-1989) because some of my readers are to young to remember and the nation's 'electronic memory' doesn't display any of the truth regarding the Reagan years or what the second 'Imperial President' did to this nation. (In case you're wondering, the first was Richard Nixon...who gained office when what passed for a Democratic challenger couldn't shake off the media generated disgust over desegregation...and Kennedy's heir refused to run for a second term of his own...inexplicably.

Yeah, much goes unsaid by our badly biased media, which is why a whole generation thinks Reagan is a 'saint' and not a 'B list' actor who's greatest claim to fame were Bonzo movies, where his co-star was a chimp.

Perhaps more telling is how he shilled for GE before seeking political office.

The more you scratch anything connected with JP Morgan [And GE is a wholly owned subsidiary of JP Morgan] the stank of corruption clings to it.

But the media sees no evil and that should disturb every voter out there. How can you be expected to make informed decisions if you don't have the facts?

Um, there's more than a little reluctance to point fingers and throw stones but if they're going to come after you, there's really no place to hide.

I mention this because besides the institution the founders established to prevent/thwart criminality (which has always had, in capitalism's case, a 'dual purpose'...which also explains it's lack of effectiveness that conservo-whackos so bitterly complain about.)

You can't use a justice system built to defend injustice.

One of the most vexing situation the citizens of capitalist nations put up with is a legal system built around the concept of 'Do as I SAY and not as I DO!'

The government will lock your ass up in a heartbeat for things it does routinely. The thing to remember here is the people who 'designed' our legal system did so with larceny on their minds. Another sterling example our 'free press' doing it's utmost to preserve the 'public trust' [mostly by insuring YOU remain ignorant.]

Not that this is anything new (although, for that, you'd think the public would be more skeptical...but alas no, just because you weren't a fish today doesn't mean you won't get reeled in tomorrow by an even bigger fiction.

Which is to remind you of the now ANCIENT axiom, believe half of what you read and less of what you hear. Not that the printed word is more reliable but because it can be referred back to it is deemed more trustworthy than the old 'I never said that!' when the teller of exagerations is confronted with their lie. Now who looks like the liar?

But I (by now famously) digress.

As most of my posts race from topic to topic...because it's all related, with A. often driving B.

Now to go 'off the reservation' once again! When I was a kid (more than a half century ago) the public was alerted to a numerical ticking timebomb...which is exploding as you read this, driving the current mess toward the cliff of an, er, massive die-off.

In the 70's the media was abuzz with the 'Population Explosion'...then it went away...became non-news. Ironically, most of you too oung to remember the PE are totally aware of why the JOB MARKET is FUBAR, it's because Capitalism CAN'T provide enough jobs for everyone who needs one.

Pull that thread and you have the mortgage debacle, followed by the homelessness crisis (that's been building for decades! and the lowest labor force participation rates since WWII!

Like Barry before him we finally have someone campaigning to 'address' SOME OF the major problems our species is facing [mostly because we are trapped in a 'more for me' commerce system that only benefits the few.)

The bad news is Free College and doubling the minimum wage will do NOTHING to address the problem of too many participants and too little/few economic opportunities.

The worse news is there's no way to use the system (that currently exists) to fix the 40 work week, that SHOULD BE twenty or less AND put an end to buying and selling houses [making bankers rich and leaving millions homeless.] Great if you're a banker but it sucks if you're suffering from over fifty disease.

It's one thing to point to the elephants in the room and quite another to spearhead a movement to DO SOMETHING about it.

So as we ponder Jeb's 'surrender' shouldn't we also consider just how far 'off the rails' the crazy train is headed?

The fixes are simple, all it takes is the intestinal fortitude to make them happen...and not to be another who criticizes what we have while NOT offering a solution, the end of Capitalism, which is coming whether you like it or not, lies in the Human Anti-Exploitation Law {which outlaws the employer/employee contract.)

The resources of the world belong to ALL of us, your paycheck should come from the society that benefits from your labors not the asshole that charges the rest of us TEN TIMES what he pays you!

In a 'perfect world' money wouldn't be necessary but humans have proven repeatedly to be shameless opportunists, taking more than their share whenever possible...so money remains. As a tool useful only to YOU!

While the untried system is, er, 'bold' the alternative {which existed before capitalism' is considerably worse. The crown owns everything, you own nothing and you HAD TO surrender part of your harvest with the crown 'for your protection'...whether you wanted it or not.

So good citizen, a couple of 'tweaks' to stabilize the current system or will you damn your children to a short and brutish life under the yoke of Monarchy?

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner.

The wages of stupidity

div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Greetings good citizen:

I am brushing the dust off this relic partly out of boredom (as I predicted...but kept to myself, I have 'aged' out of a job. The dual forces of automation and population growth have made me 'redundant' despite a severe shortage of talent in my once ubiquitous trade.)

But enough about me. The purpose of tapping out these exercises in belaboring the obvious is to provide much needed 'verification' that you aren't delusional...at least totally, bringing us to the title of this entry.

Stupid is becoming pervasive as the 'They wouldn't lie to us' media continues to insist black is white and night is day and how it's more important to 'believe' than to trust your own senses/conclusions.

You (maybe not you specifically but you understand what I mean) increasingly don't know what to think because your experience tells you one thing but the media tells you the opposite.

To the plus side, the media will soon stop the 'mis-information campaign' in favor of their preferred operating method, silence. Don't misinterpret, it's not like the talking heads will shut up, no-no! They will continue to do pretty much what they do now and spew meaningless, feel-good BS that keeps you just the way they want you, ignorant.

Again, don't get me wrong, you'll see things with your own two eyes but you won't see them mentioned on the news because officially the cops never gunned that guy down after they tazed him motionless, hands up the whole time.

Can't go showing the blind eye being turned to police brutality, may give the public the wrong impression about the difficult job those working the front lines of 'Homeland Security' face every day. {And yes, there was just a news item of a State prosecutor 'declining' to prosecute an officer for doing exactly what I describe, but mind you the incident itself occurred COMPLETELY under radar, the 'failure to prosecute' is what made the news.

If you think it's time we 'raise the bar' (or hang the miscreants who defend this variety of excess deemed necessary to keep officers patrolling the streets) then you need to know the vast majority of those who wear badges consider it their 'right' [their pappy was a cop and so were most of their male relatives, which lays the foundation of the well-known 'Blue Wall'...often indistinguishable from 'honor among thieves'...although thieves will steal from one another it's extremely rare for a cop to rat on a fellow cop. They hold THAT 'obligation' HIGHER than their 'sworn duty' to 'uphold the law'.]

But as long as you remain 'ignorant' of the forces behind the greasy palms at play here, it won't get addressed and the streets will remain dangerous BECAUSE OF 'who' is in charge of 'the piece'.

Probably more than a little disturbing that I keep returning to this dangerous topic but if you don't address the sources of corruption, nothing will change.

And guess what? Don't call the cops, the FBI or the NSA because they ALL take their marching orders from the same band of buccaneers we call the > 1 %

All the 'shit' we all face everyday starts with a badge and the public's 'confusion' over what law enforcement's 'role' is in this, not our, society.

Did I mention that these missives/rants are largely exercises in belaboring the obvious [and if you don't know that, you should!]

Stepping away from 'root cause' of our decaying civilization we arrive at that other exercise in 'self-delusion' known as the 'election cycle'. Last presidential election [resulting in Obama's 2nd term] some candidates were not only denied access to national debates but they were arrested for ATTENDING the debate.

Which again shifts the spotlight back to where we just came from as opposed to where we're headed.

Now let's turn back around and look at what's at stake, considering the clown car of 'dangerously stupid' candidates the conservative wing of our nation is running to lead this nation and, strangely missing from this entire conversation, [just like the media 'disappeared' the entire 'working class' from the last two election cycles] are the presidency's biggest responsibility, the keys to our nuclear arsenal.

Honestly, good citizen. Which conservo-whacko do YOU trust with the power to turn the Middle East to glass?

How long after The Donald is sworn in do you think it will take the UN to round up an 'occupying army' to relieve him of control of enough firepower to vaporize the planet a dozen times over? (My guess is it will take under an hour.)

And make no mistake about it good citizen, Pull all the levers and push all the buttons you want, it doesn't matter, YOU will NOT have ANY choice in who becomes 'meat-puppet-in-chief.' The > 1% decides the winner and their bought and paid for media announces the results.

Not to worry though, the position is 'ceremonial' for the most part. Not that it should make you feel safer, the meat-puppet's job is to do what their told, regardless.

Which is to opine that the people hiding behind the cloak of secrecy are in fact batshit crazy for running things the way they have (but they didn't have any 'good examples' to follow. Slavishly obeying Ayn Rand was bound to turn out like this.

Since it's been a while I will once again wrap up by explaining it is not my purpose to tell you what to think but to provide you with something to think about.

It's up to you to decide if I'M the one that is batshit crazy.

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner