Trump's Mind
I thought you would be interested in this story from the Atlantic. It’s title, “Trump is Losing His Mind,” should be enough to convince you to CLICK HERE and read the story. If that doesn't work, you can find it at http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/
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Repercussions?
In an article in the Palm Beach Post (Dec. 15) regarding an unsuccessful lawsuit to get Governor DeSantis to close the State’s beaches due to Covid19, the Governor’s lawyers described an appeal of the court’s decision as an “axiomatic example of abuse of the justice system. Appellant’s empty political posturing warrants repercussions.”
Of course, that is equally true of the far more
severe abuse of the justice system by seventeen Attorneys-general, including
Florida’s, 126 Congressional representatives and of course, President Trump. “Repercussions” to those acts, bordering on
sedition, would be a much more serious matter, and though well deserved, won’t
happen. Lawyers will say anything to put their
client in a more favorable light. Most
are well trained in the empty posturing they mention, political or otherwise. There
are courses devoted to it in some law schools.
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The recently
discovered Russian hacking of our systems even reached down to this humble
level. It was not just limited to commercial and government sites. The other day, emails which I sent to
relatives at email addresses I've used for years got bounced back to me with "this email address doesn't
exist" messages. My son, who understands this stuff better than I do,
explained that Google was hit with an outage which affected Gmail for a short
time, probably in some way related to the hacking. I cannot recall that
happening before. I’ve retaliated by changing some of my passwords. You should too. "Ask not for whom the bells toll, they
toll for you."
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Unless something miraculous happens, I will not be alive
thirty years from now. But looking
ahead, here is what I think the country’s agenda should include over that
period.
1. We must get rid of the electoral college as it
is now constituted. There are several
alternatives on the table right now.
2. We must get rid of “gerrymandering” so that
Congressional representatives represent geographically logical districts, and
not ones tailored to give one party an advantage.
3. We must be certain that high quality health care
is provided for all Americans, regardless of what State they live in. Health care at all levels must be removed
from the private sector and managed at the Federal, not the State, level. All medical education should be free, with
the recipient obligated to work for the government for a stated period.
4. All undergraduate colleges should be tuition
free, but equivalent education in trades and technology should also be provided
as well. More advanced degrees in the STEM areas (science, technology,
engineering and mathematics) should be heavily subsidized by the government, academic and
business entities for which people with such degrees will work.
5. We must clean up our environment at all levels
and promote practices which will preserve the planet’s health.
The increased role of government in this thirty-year agenda
should be accompanied by financial and monetary regulations which assure that
private enterprise will have access to capital, so that jobs in manufacturing
and service areas might be created and financial marketplaces flourish on a
domestic and international basis. With
health care and education clearly falling under government programs, the
private sector can concentrate on what it does best, making money, something
which should not be the object of institutions devoted to health care and
education.
Antonio Gramsci was the co-founder of the Italian Communist
Party. He did much of his writing during
his 20 year imprisonment by Mussolini’s fascist regime. Gramsci went further in his writings on
Communism than the usual Marxist arguments regarding the ruling class
controlling the economic base and thereby controlling the masses of workers. Gramsci
argued that control really occurs through ‘ideological illusions’ produced by the ruling class, coercion alone
being insufficient to keep them in power. He called this complex process ‘hegemony’, which
simply put, is a means of class domination through persuading people that the ruling class’s ideas are just “common sense.” Gramsci argued that hegemony is an invisible mechanism and the ruling class’s ideas
permeate the whole of society, are unquestioned and become normalized
through constant exposure. particularly for the working class.
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And this is what Trump did to the uneducated portion of our
working class, using the internet, tweets and FoxNews! It's what the
Nazis did in Germany. If you want to read a little more about Antonio
Gramsci, CLICK HERE or if that doesn't work, just visit https://www.tutor2u.net/
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