Capitalism has
reached a global tipping point in a concentration of elitist prosperity that
has alienated the traditional lower and lower middle white social issue voters
that sustain the voting block to push a supply side economic agenda. Ronald Reagan catapulted this economic battle
plan into prominence during the ‘glory days’ of the 1980’s. The economics are now systematically dysfunctional
enough to threaten rampant governmental bankruptcies. The aging of the Boomer population has left
the Republican Party to political strategies such as: disenfranchisement
through voter-fraud paranoia and gerrymandering, petulant legislative obstructionism, xenophobic nationalism,
theistic fundamentalism, and most importantly degradation of science and at its
root mathematics.
Political discourse
based in mathematics is the greatest threat to the elitist Republican agenda
inside the donor pool that funds candidates ballyhooed by Citizens United. The Trump conundrum inside the party is that
the traditional strategies of the Republican Party are backfiring by empowering
a rouge candidate who may not be under the Darth Vader-like obedience to the
donor Emperors. The donors for the
preponderance represent Wall Street, the humans who run Wall Street and the
capitalist agenda of aggregating the wealth of humanity into an elitist finite
ownership group to direct the continued consolidation of that wealth.
As the average lower
to lower middle class Republican voter sees her or his economic position
deteriorate the clout social issues that previously encouraged that individual
to vote against her or his economic self-interest is waning. One can see the budgeting nightmares of state
after state and nation after nation which has tied their prosperity to
unfettered capitalism prioritized on stock markets rather than the health,
education, housing, and security of citizens.
Wall Street has created a moving goal line to keep desperation and
ignorance among the citizens at a constant creep despite an avalanche of
profits since Reaganomics was implemented.
This has been carried forward by Clinton and Obama’s Democratic
presidencies because Wall Street controls both parties.
The rise of Bernie
Sanders and the popularity of Elizabeth Warren, who will either continue to
lead in the Senate or be the vice presidential nomination as the first open
democratic socialists in decades, is directly related to the antithesis of this
global tipping point on capitalism.
Hillary Clinton represents a candidate closer to the Obama economic
doctrine in not directly going after Wall Street. Sanders and Warren will. Clinton takes their donations just like her
husband.
Clinton is spouting
the impracticality of a full assault or revolution against this form of crony
capitalism. We face an environmental crisis which requires an economic evolution
based on empathy and an overhaul of Wall Street through a consortium of nations
to insert a global progressive wealth tax and the elimination of tax shelter
locations like Ireland. Wall Street will
exploit the definition of what is legal in terms of filing locations and labor
sources on a global basis until market assurances are in place to assert a
consistent set of rules to prevent legal tax avoidance equating to higher
earnings per share through offshore havens and the exploitation of human
capital through non-living wages. The
root of the problem must be addressed with the United States leading the change
for the good of humanity with international agreements to put teeth into
legislation like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and a revision of the
tax code to focus more on capital wealth rather than income after the nexus
issue has been resolved. The global
economy has a cash consolidation issue that must be addressed.
The Republican Party
appears to be begging for a candidate other than Trump to take the lead in
polling with a slew of Mitt Romney clone candidates spouting the Regan agenda
in Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie, alongside the tea-party flavor
Ted Cruz who all pose the same ideological flaw at the root of the party. To get traction one must not use mathematics;
one must avoid or reinvent science.
The Democratic Party
has flaws with the overt political correctness and an impractical approach to
the gun crisis in America. However due
to a xenophobic rebuttal and the NRA the Republican Party does little to
capitalize on these issues. The answers
are all in institutional and systematic changes to the economic foundation of
this country. Government is not the
problem. Wall Street running the
government is.
We need to regulate
and break up the banking industry. Overturn
Citizen’s United. Deconstruct government retirement systems into defined
contribution. De-privatize corrections
facilities and address institutional racism.
De-criminalize drugs grown via the sun and implement international
distribution agreements regulated by the U.S. government to support local
farming in foreign supply-side nations and the street price in America to
coordinate a demand-side approach to combat addiction through a functional
national healthcare system which includes mental health and taxpayer negotiated
pharmaceutical pricing.
We need to create national
federally funded web based software to run or guide the governmental functions
of almost all taxpayer to government interfaces that recognize what the
internet is. This includes the IRS,
utility systems, fines, permitting, sales taxes, educational curriculum options
under the discretion of local educators, medical premiums and appointments
under a single-payer system which ties cost and ability-to-pay with user-driven
demand. We need the average citizens to
have the option of controlling their digital identity and data in context to
all government functions from utility bills, education, tax payments, banking,
and medical history through a secure modernized web-based approach.
Shift a significant
portion of defense spending into a total reinvestment to educate students from
preschool to college to function in a globally competitive market place that
emphasizes mathematics, science, and information technology while securing our
empathy for the global community by a proper use and recognition of how the
arts benefit the interconnection of our species. Sell the usage of web-based portions of that
educational infrastructure to the countries we have military conflicts with as
leverage to combat the ignorance at the root of global terror and systemic
poverty.
Invite the leaders
of the world’s major religions to embrace the science of climate change in a
consolidated effort of choice and maintained dignity to each religious doctrine
that links the survival of humanity with the interconnection of our species
through empathetic individual decision making as a commonality of the ‘golden
rule’ amongst faiths. Use a system of
carbon credits, emission reduction, renewable energy, and greener manufacturing
and transportation that recognizes the economic threat the world’s reduced
appetite for oil has on the political stability and wealth disparity in the
Middle East and other hot beds of conflict as access to water continues to
become the crucible for planetary survival.
None of that can be
accomplished through the current form of capitalism. Given the internet every trend to expand the
empowerment of the individual through technology to participate in his or her
government through democratic socialist mechanisms inside the arenas of
education, healthcare, security, energy, voting, and civic participation will
be encouraged by the people. Every
policy to hinder that current will inevitably be defeated. The Republican Party must reinvent itself or it
will never win another national election given the population trends based on
its core problem with suppressing science and mathematics.
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