The Red States are a clear and present danger to Americans. Blame who for inflation? An ode to Democrats.
Yes! The Red States are a quantifiable clear and present danger. So how can Democrats lose 2022? They don't have to if they learn and not repeat history.
Notes
Economist/Professor Dr. Richard Wolff assigns blame for inflation where it belongs, and it ain’t Biden.
Republicans lie & project: Silent Democrats accepting the narrative is a self-fulfilling 2022 loss
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Anand Giridharadas on Musk buying 10% of Twitter: Arsonist cosplaying as a firefighter.
Chris Hayes exposes projecting Republicans. They have the pedophiles they accuse Democrats of.
Notes
I find it disheartening that too many are staying true to history instead of learning from it. While all the numbers say Democrats will take a shellacking in election 2022, that only happens if we lean into history instead of reality. The four articles highlighted in this newsletter have enough material that if packaged for each Congressional district is a winning hand. We need to empower the rank & file and disempower the naysayers, I am optimistic and you should too. Lazy loses. Engaging wins. Let’s engage the barrios, the ghettos, & Appalachia. Let’s engage rural, urban, suburban, and exurban America. Let’s win!
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Economist/Professor Dr. Richard Wolff assigns blame for inflation where it belongs, and it ain’t Biden.
Economist & Professor Dr. Richard Wolff pointed out that our current inflation is a choice in no uncertain terms. Let’s stop the insanity. The snippet in this article is from our more extensive interview that we will make public after it airs on KPFT 90.1 FM, a Pacifica Network station, and our online networks. Dr. Wolff details why our economic system is in permanent decline. Our YouTube members can get a sneak peek here.
One of the reasons I like to interview Dr. Richard Wolff is that he does not pull any punches. He does not feel restricted to toe the line of America’s general narrative. He understands that an economic system is not divine, nor should it make itself so rigid that one treats change as blasphemy. Hell, it is not a religion. It is a tool to allow us to exchange goods and services in an orderly and supposedly pleasurable manner.
I have been telling my Politics Done Right audience for some time that one can prove that today’s inflation has little to do with shortages. Moreover, those who use “inflationary problems to justify monstrous price increases are responsible for those problems.
Let me explain. Greedy, heartless, and immoral corporations stiffed their American employees of good wages by offshoring their manufacturing. They then created the Just-In-Time-Inventory method, which means they could not tolerate any disruption in their supply chain caused by hurricanes, overseas strikes, war, or pandemics. They bought politicians to cut their taxes which means dollars that government could use to mitigate pandemics and other issues were problematic. And after their plethora of screwups, they profit by using the problems they created to recover the cost of their failure at a premium. And that is why you see they are making record profits even with their abject failure. Worse, they use their purchased mainstream media and puppet politicians to blame the government — talking about a close loop that gives our capitalist corporate structure the semblance of innocence.
“Anyone who’s listening who ever had a job knows that if you’re not the employer or you’re not on the board of directors of a corporation, no one ever asks your opinion about setting the prices of what’s produced in the company where you work,” Dr. Wolff said. “If you’re not happy with prices going up, the anger or the upset or the question should be directed at the 1% of our people who are in the position to do it.”
But the professor was not done.
“Moreover, we live in a capitalist system which allows them because they are a quote-unquote free enterprise to jack up the price whenever the hell they wish to,” the professor said. “Second point, and I’m just being an economics teacher here. Why do employers make the decisions they do, including raising a price? The answer is that the employers, every action is dictated by what they themselves tell us dictates it. Namely, to make money. They’re in business. To the profit is their bottom line, they tell us. They are taught in business school. And I’ve taught in business schools. They are taught every decision you make should be geared towards, will it improve your profitability or will not? If you raise your profits, your career goes up. If you don’t, your career goes into the toilet. So the honest answer to why employers raise prices is the same answer every kid in business school writes on his or her exam. It’s because it’s profitable. If you think you can get away by charging more, that’s your job to do it. I’ll remind you of a famous saying that describes capitalism. The seller always sells at the best price the market will bear. Do you know what that means? You jack up the price if you can get away with it. So we have inflation because businesses think they’re in a situation where they can get away with raising the price. And in many cases, they’re right. But that’s why we have it. It’s not from God. It’s not divine. It’s not like rainfall coming out of nature.”
Dr. Richard Wolff reminded us that a conservative Republican president stopped inflation in its tracks by telling the employers they had to freeze prices at current levels. He said inflation stopped on a dime then.
Again, if there are no substantial shortages, which we do not have, and businesses are making record profits, it is clear that the underlying inflation, as the professor inferred, is manufactured. The corporatocracy is gauging Americans. Listen to the entire clip. The professor is quite good at explaining.
Republicans lie & project: Silent Democrats accepting the narrative is a self-fulfilling 2022 loss
Anyone watching the cable news channels would believe that Democrats will face a complete wipeout in 2022. That’s lazy thinking.
Democrats are some of the worse marketers on the planet. And Republicans do what our marketing society does best, sell defective products. Factually, Republicans continue to sell lies as Democrats are unable to impress Americans with the solid policies that make their lives much better.
Recently my friend, Thom Hartman wrote a piece that everyone must read titled “Why Blue State Living Makes You Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise” where he points out several Republican projections, some of which have proven fatal to many Americans.
Blue state taxes heavily subsidize Red states, a fact that’s been well known for decades. As an “AP Fact Check” laid out: …
People in Blue states also live longer, in part because Blue states have expanded Medicaid to cover all their citizens while most Red states still refuse to do so. …
If you’re concerned about being murdered, it’s also a good idea to avoid Red states. ….
Red states generally lead America in sexually transmitted diseases, presumably because most have outlawed teaching sex education in their schools. …
Speaking of schools, the states with the lowest educational attainment in the nation are entirely Red states. Ranked from terrible to absolutely worst, they are: Idaho, Indiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, Nevada, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
Stephen H. Woolf, MD, MPH, wrote in The Journal of the American Medical Association that the partisan divide is the biggest factor:
He notes that last year “excess death rates in” Red states like “Florida and Georgia” ran over 200 deaths per 100,000 people, while well-educated, successful Blue state Massachusetts ran at a mere 50 per 100,000:
The above is the reality of what Republicans are doing to their states and the country. It should be hard to tell how each of these items affects individuals and their families in a manner where they see that Republican governance presents a clear and present danger to their economies, health, and social well-being. But Democrats must be aggressive in telling the story.
More importantly, Democrats must have no fear in going after the Republicans’ and neoliberals’ benefactors, the major corporations who are behavioral parasites. All our ills can be directly attributed to them and with that Republicans and neoliberals.
A large percentage of today’s inflation is just corporations gouging Americans because they have pricing power.
The high price of healthcare for most and the lack of healthcare for many can be attributed to corporate-induced Republican policies.
The supply-chain problem is a direct result of offshoring, just-in-time inventory, and corporate incompetence in planning for the unknown but the possible. In other words, Republicans, neoliberals, and corporations want us to clean up a mess they created.
Liberal Republican gun policies have made the Red States the Wild-WIld West. They must be pinned as the ones generating policies that have increased murders.
I could go on and on but the enclosed video makes the complete case. Democrats have a winning story to tell. It would do them well to get aggressive. Go on the attack and win the 2022 election.
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Anand Giridharadas on Musk buying 10% of Twitter: Arsonist cosplaying as a firefighter.
Anand Giridharadas destroys the notion that the wealthy has the answers and excoriates Musk’s Twitter stake purchase.
Anand Giridharadas appeared with Joy-Ann Reid recently. He hit the nail on the head when he discussed Elon Musk‘s purchase of a larger piece of Twitter. Anand first appropriately calls out the wealthy as those who have created most of humanity’s problems. He used Elon Musk, a parasite, as the poster boy.
“We live in this moment where the arsonists are cosplaying as firefighters,” Anand said. “The people who cause our greatest social problems, global problems, are trying to con us into thinking not only that they’re okay, but that they are the solution to the problems they’ve caused. So look at Musk. Musk built his business through government subsidies years ago and now turns around, stiffs the government on taxes, and explains how inefficient government spending is. And he can do everything better privately in space and elsewhere.”
When the media was hyperventilating about Musk’s space program, as one who worked for NASA building software for the Space Station, it hit home. These charlatans take stuff developed by the government or government subsidies and then profit from it. They benefit from the service and intellect of the collective. Then we have a media that pushes their false narrative.
Anand points out the dangers of having these wealthy parasites control our media. It results in an alternate state of reality of their choosing. And as such, it puts our democracy in danger.
“Our democracy doesn’t have terrific odds right now,” Anand said. “As you cover every night on this broadcast for a gazillion different stories that are all kind of intersecting and coalescing in one historical moment, it doesn’t have great odds. One of the things making those odds even worse every day is that a growing chunk of Americans, a significant minority, are no longer dwellers of the land of reality. They live in a fantasy, and it’s not a fantasy of their own private bedroom concoction. It is a fantasy manufactured by some of the richest and most powerful and intelligent people on Earth who know better and profit from making those people believe those things so they can get right-wing authoritarian fascist governments to give them a tax cut, cut some regulations, repeat … And Elon Musk is the fox coming into the henhouse and it is shameful that Twitter, which has a fiduciary obligation, I would think, to protect people who actually use it, the millions of people who actually use it.”
When we effectively expose the Powell Memo-infested organizations to Americans as an orchestrated effort to control them, antiseptically enslave them to ensure a status quo that only benefits the wealthy and the invited, we will make progress to fix our democracy. Stay tuned.
Chris Hayes exposes projecting Republicans. They have the pedophiles they accuse Democrats of.
Republicans would have Americans believe that Democrats have a pedophile problem. Chris Hayes makes it clear it may be a Republican problem. It is nothing but projection.
Republicans made a mockery out of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings. They made it seem like Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was soft on crime, specifically pedophiles.
When three Republicans, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, & Susan Collins, voted to support Judge Jackson’s nomination, several Right-Wing hacks accused them of supporting pedophilia.
In an excellent report, Chris Hayes showed that all the hyperventilating about pedophilia against Democrats is nothing but projection. He reminded the audience of a former Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, being convicted. He also highlighted many others.
Ironically, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz has been accused of sexual deviancy with a 17-year-old girl even as he engages in Right-Wing projection. Watch the entire clip. You will find it enlightening.
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