God, Black People, Democrats Must Fix Their Mess

As a Father and a man of African descent, I have come to accept that some messes in this life fall squarely in my lap.

Within the fictional land that we commonly call the "black community" (blacks don't really like each other enough to be communal anymore), there is a mess of spiritual angst against the tenants of Christianity and the behavior of black church leaders seen as exceedingly money hungry and doctrinally flawed in order to intentionally grab said money while simultaneously subjugating blacks, the original man, to whites, the creator of the plan.

I couldn't properly begin to debate the flaws within the Christian Bible well enough to change anyone's problem with Christianity, especially since human perception is a human reality, and Jesus hates religion too.

Besides, this angst of angry black people, pointing fingers at God and rich church leaders, is as legitimate as the angst of the Atheists, who are mad at the notion of God (the leader of all creation) being a man and/or that She (is it better if She created all of this mess?) would allow for a world of so much disarray. If you acknowledge these indictments with your defenses down, you see that angry black believers and Atheists actually have a  reasonable ax to grind. 
Who else to blame but the creator of all things for the existence of all things, including Satan?

While you are debating in your mind whether that comment constitutes blasphemy, I'll double down by conceding the accusation against money grabbing pastors, who clearly exist, even if to the chagrin of the noble pastors. Tough questions of every sort exist for reasons worthy of discussion, and when you aggressively embrace these hard questions, the questions themselves can give birth to the answers.

So, I'll ask again.

If God created everything, isn't She responsible for everything including war and the failure of trickle down economics caused by the unquenchable greed of man? And when does man assume responsibility in this mess? Somewhere in Africa at the beginning of creation or do man's problems begin when white people come to exist?

As a proud God lover and defender of Christ, I humbly concede on the blame pointed at God, as long as my black friends and family are willing to acknowledge blacks as the original man, and also the origin of every subsequent race of man that followed. Assuming ALL races descended from one race, who else can we blame for the division that produced race, religion, and politics if not the original man?

Who Is To Blame When NO ONE Is To Blame?

Will the NFLPA wield leverage to win  guaranteed
money while so many NFL fans stand ready to
boycott over Colin Kaepernick and concussions?

These inflammatory questions are questions with no definitive answers, but I offer them as poignant examples of the roots of the division and the remedy.

As WE struggle to attain agreement politically, our strained personal economies are the only problem we agree about, because economically we all feel basically the same as we've felt for years despite a booming stock market and our government insisting that things are better. Even with better budgeting, WE the People are still being slowly price gouged by inflated housing prices, at the gas pump, or wherever they can get US.

WE have allowed ourselves to be placed on a treadmill to nowhere, chasing a seemingly unreachable dream simply because WE've abandoned one another along with the formula for economic advancement. When our voices spoke loudest, they were collected and poised to bargain, not to beg for rights or wages.


Over the span of an industrialized half century or so, corporations, unwilling to operate in good faith, have tanked our economy more than once while waging their war against the collective body of collective bargaining. The disintegration of the livable wage America once knew is directly connected to the deliberate destruction of unions and of collective bargaining.

Whether you consider the benefits of paying union dues worthwhile, or you consider paying dues to be socialism, the political right has succeeded in pegging nearly every collective human action as the exact same thing as socialism, something mostly viewed as bad in the eyes of the unlearned.

Instead of potentially winning the presidency as a Socialist, even Bernie Sanders fearfully ran from the tainted label and lost while being undermined by a political party he didn't belong to.

The truth is, we'll never really know if America was ready for a Socialist president, nor do we know what exactly Socialist policy looks like even when it's staring us in the face. Whether collective bargaining qualifies as true Socialism is inconsequential so long as the ideology remains demonized and tagged to anything that involves collective agreement among the masses. Haters of capitalism have besmirched its image fairly well too, even though both economic philosophies remain fully co-dependent on one another.

As Democrats take a short vacation from the Donald Trump debacle, they are finally realizing that they represent the haters of capitalism, and it's an image they must shake if they hope to win the White House or a majority in Congress instead of hoping like Hillary that America is too smart to elect deplorable dummies again.

In the annals of gerrymandering, the Democrats are just not in a winning position to overtake Congress. Their popular vote advantage will never matter much so long as poor people pile on top of each other within big cities while begging suburban big wigs for $15 per hour and better ObamaCare. They must improve their economic message and it needs to make sense, even to the average Joe.

I'm not personally in favor of negotiating for fair wages through D.C. mandated minimums, or for waging the wage war through Washington against the same companies that must thrive for the collective to realize their wage demands.  The reality of our wage future is that some companies can afford $15, or more......and some can not.

That is why collective bargaining matters. It forces the books open and finds a wage that is fair, not just wanted. Collective bargaining doesn't beg, nor does it function like two parents divided over proper parenting, allowing their toddler to assume full control in the vacuum created by their division. Collective bargaining and the resurgence of unions is a time tested, reawakened answer to America's wage issue. Most importantly, collective bargaining is not some pointless platitude that progressive voters will tune out. It is also far from fingers pointed in the wrong direction.

While Republicans have never embraced unions, Democrats have almost abandoned them and are not currently promoting any viable plan for our economy that distinguishes them from the Russian-loving Donald or the GOP. Despite the "more of the same" stuff Senator Chuck Schumer is backing as an economic plan, America mostly views mandated handouts (Medicaid, welfare, once a year tax credits) as progressive band-aids on a knife wound that will never stop the bleeding or address the increased cost of healthcare and education worsened by stagnant wage growth.

Happy days for wealthy folks, however, is not really a positive economic indicator or even a point they need to keep mentioning so long as wages remain unchanged. But that doesn't let Democrats off the hook in the least, even though they keep thinking it does. Although no one believes in the trickle-down theory anymore, they also don't expect incremental government handouts from Democrats to close the earnings gap either.

Within any organized community, the challenges you face are the ones you created for yourself via proactive or reactive choices. Hatred, division, and Donald Trump are alive and kicking, in part, because the party for the common man has been way too busy pointing fingers towards who they think is responsible instead of directing the fingers and responsibility towards themselves.

WE- the believers in the power of collective agreement- are responsible for embracing the power of our unified will, or accepting the results of the division WE've allowed. 

God and black people bear a similar responsibility.

Trump Won Iowa, Sanders Proves Socialism Okay

Nobody really wants to hear me say this, but I have to keep it SquareBiz for those of you who need it.

Trump won Iowa.

No really.

Trump won Iowa, and it wasn't even close.  Well, it was close, but not in the way that you think. Iowa is AS full of religious fundamentalism as any state in the union.  Not only is Iowa full of it (so to speak), it is full of religico's who are highly politically active as well- possibly more so than any other fundamentalist spot in America.

In other words, betting Ted Cruz to win in Iowa would have been a wasted bet in Vegas because you would have had to put down $3,000 just to win $100.  I just made up those odds, but you get my point.  Iowa chose Mike Huckabee two cycles ago, and Rick Santorum during the last presidential election primary/caucus season. because the Tea Party has owned Iowa for some time now.

Polls might have threatened to hand Iowa to Trump, but they didn't have a great way of knowing who would actually leave their home and caucus for Trump.

Now we know, and the numbers are staggering.

Cruz might have stopped Trump from finishing on top like he claims he always does, but he barely kept Iowa from shifting itself away from its religious roots and firmly into the area of social dissent with many other parts of the American electorate.

If there is any reason for Marco Rubio to be doing victory laps over a third place finish (and there is), Trump has just as much a cause for applause for finishing second in a place that his heathen arse should have never finished so high, but he did.

Without the benefit of a real ground game in a state that he knew would be a waste of money to fight in, Trump still came up second.  Cruz committed mightily to the outcome he got, and should also consider the Rubio result to be a considerable challenge to his evangelical claim over the GOP.  As for ground game, the same could be said for Clinton who had a representative in each of Iowa's 1681 democrat caucusing precincts.

Hillary and Cruz worked like crazy to insure the Iowa outcomes that they sorely needed.  Trump and Bernie Sanders will be hard to beat in New Hampshire, so a loss in Iowa too would have been a rough start for Hillary, too rough in fact for either to allow for such an outcome.  So she didn't lose, and neither did Cruz. 

But they almost did.

Did Cruz win by a wide enough margin to celebrate?

Rubio can feel happy about the large portions of Cruz's voters that had to be a part of the results he enjoyed last night.  Yet if Rubio has any legitimacy to his joy (and he does), than Trump and Sanders should be sipping champagne too.

From my perspective, they answered the question of how loud will the voice of the angry populist actually be in this upcoming election.  Will unusual voters show up to do something that they've rarely done before?


After our first sampling, it is clear that they will be pretty damn loud if we heard their voices all the way from fundamentalist Iowa. 

Pretty damn loud indeed.

Donald Trump: "We'll Win Until You Are Sick Of It"

Communication is a powerful tool.  The more you bathe in its power the more you realize that words are only one manner of communication.  Often silence speaks louder than words ever could.

As in that moment when you confront your spouse with the question of "are you cheating on me" and they do not say a word.  The level of communication associated with certain moments of silence are absolutely astounding once you condition yourself to pay close attention to such things.

Donald Trump has been virtually silent on details but has parlayed a wealth of conversation into a sizable lead in the Republican race for the White House. 

Don't look now, but Ben Carson is racing from behind  and is polling as the second option for Donald Trump supporters who may be asked to choose a more reasonable second option before this is all over.

What's happening at the top and the bottom of the Republican polling?

Yet, what critics of Trump keep claiming of him is a dangerous lack of specifics connected to bold claims of wide sweeping reforms.

What I have begun to really believe of this Trump run is that he is in fact an internal plant of the Democratic party designed to corner the Republicans into a web of their own often confusing rhetoric of fear, which they've used for way too long, and with way too little to show for it.

Can We Soften Rich Hearts Into $12 min wage?

Either Socialism is really bad and Bernie Sanders needs to be killed before he kills America, or the cash is not going to trickle down like Reagan promised it would. Right now is a prime opportunity for the wealthy to open the faucet  and rain on the regulars. Instead, they are proving  the case that human greed will always dictate human behavior where strong policy doesn't resist it.

Have you heard the billionaire Donald Trump talking about taxing those hedge fund managers recently?  You better believe that those hedge fund managers and those who they elect to correct this kind of stuff heard it. The millions that are closely watching Trump, including those who actually hope he wins should have heard it also.  From my estimation, that excludes about 3 people in America who don't have media access because they live on the street............ and can't hear, speak or talk. (had to cover that last base)

In some ways, the election feels like it is a long time from now.  For us political junkies it feels like Christmas is here again.  Speaking of Christmas, if you don't start taking advantage of  early purchasing and best price guaranteed, you will get the worst parts of the upcoming Christmas shopping season which starts up in 90 days.

I didn't say that to scare you. I recognize that the sun is still shining in most places across the land, however, way too many of us just drug those Christmas lights to the basement or attic.

I'm more sympathetic now to those bold or lazy folks who have taken to simply leaving the lights hanging instead of enduring that deja vu  that you just put the lights up that happens every year as you put them back up again.

A year is never as far off as you think, and several SuperPAC's with a struggling candidate had better spark up the lights and start spending that money to justify all of their other hard work of getting behind that candidate in the first place.  That should translate into heavy media blitzes (sooner and not later) and the feeling of an elongated campaign season that we'll be ready to burn in effigy when its all said and done.

Hard to imagine a better helper to the Hillary's cause than Donald Trump is right now.  How come Trump blows up Megan Kelly but only offers predictions about his great friend Hillary?  How great a friend is Hillary Clinton, Donald?

Currently, conservatives are adopting the copycat model relative to Donald Trump and what to do about his surge.  Every time he gets attacked, the attacking candidate loses steam in the polling, so few are eager to take him head on anymore, preferring to mimic him and see how that works instead.  
This is where and why I've come to see this guy as a genius spy planted by the other side with a mission to implode a party with an unstable foundation- from the inside out.

eep opp ork- ah ah!....and that means I love the Bible,
The Tea Party, Mexicans and Women- and they love me.

What makes him so genius is the ability to talk so long and say so little.  In reality, he is saying just what needs to be heard by the people needing to hear it. He has learned to stick his thermometer so deep into the back side of social media and media types that he not only understands what they had for lunch, he's chosen their dinner and desert to hit them in  that visceral spot that words can only partly reach.

That viscerally pleasing silence, where Italians prefer a gesture or odd sound so they can perfectly fill in their own blanks. (Must be all those years of living in New Jersey for Trump)

Donald Trump wipes and reinserts his thermometer as we sleep, and wakes up saying what needs to be said the next day to bring that angry political fever down and push his poll numbers up.  No one has ever done it quite so well, or done it so badly all at the same time.  Donald has tools that Ronald Reagan would only dream about, both technology and a supreme media savvy from catering to the green light of a camera all of his life.

Trump Talk or Donald Speak?

When Trump tells you that voters don't need detail only the media does, believe him. The need for detail either happens late or never during campaigns; substantially less when power and charisma are the traits we're pursuing in the first place.   When details don't matter, someone has to stand in the communication gap that happens from what Donald is saying and who, in fact, he is actually saying it to.

If he actually wins the White House, time will help us all learn what he means versus what he says, but that might be a bit too late. In the process of selecting a president, it's vital that we are clear about the leader we select, and right now the lead republican is just too difficult to get a read on.

So I Will Translate For You 

Trump:
"The largest suppliers of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs are Mexican cartels that arrange to have Mexican immigrants trying to cross the borders and smuggle in the drugs. The Border Patrol knows this," Trump wrote. "Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border. The United States has become a dumping ground for Mexico and, in fact, for many other parts of the world."

TRANSLATION:

Don't worry people of the conservative South.  I realize that there are way too many Mexicans shopping at Sam's Club down South these days instead of just California and Arizona. Just because they have Grandma, mom, dad and all of those bad kids clogging the free sample line doesn't mean that those Latin men are not sexual, drugging rapist., so I'll send them back for you...and make them pay for the fence.

Trump:
Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have stupid people.

Translation:
Pick me because I'm smarter than Obama and Hillary or anybody else who makes trade bad.

Trump on ObamaCare:

We do have to help people
. ... we have a 5 billion dollar website. I have so many websites … I hire people. They do a website. It costs me three dollars. 

Translation:
ObamaCare is working pretty well except  for the name and that web site thing, so don't ask me about health care until people stop signing up for the help, because we gotta help people.

Trump:
I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

Translation:
Nobody cares how they get a good job (i.e., details) so why tell them how you'll do it?

Trump:
When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time.

Translation:
How are we going to make lots of money without cheap Asian goods?  I better tell them that I can beat China and get  Asian goods even cheaper so we don't screw up the TPP.

Trump:
What about Huma??!!! And her husband, the perv??!!

Translation:
I like Hillary too much (and might be her internal plant) to hit on her or her assistant, so I will attack the low hanging fruit cake husband and hope nobody notices how nice I've actually been to Hillary versus everyone else running.

We're Going To Win


Now the latest Trumpeting almost sounds like a replay of Howard Dean's screaming rant during his presidential run.  "We're (republicans) going to win so much you're going to get sick of winning", which translates to mean- "We're so sick of losing to Obama that we just need to feel like a winner again, and I'm going to say "winner" even if I'm voting Hillary".

This present line of Trump stump has carried on for a little longer than expected.  Apparently, the thermometer says that the fever for a victory has not yet subsided and probably won't until Trump fully destroys those unreliable republicans who don't fulfill their promises.

If you had to wrap everything Trump is saying into one digestible quote, even his "Making America Great Again" theme, is all about winning- finally- and not being a loser.  The entire brilliant, understated campaign message of Donald Trump is, don't worry about winning anymore because my name is Donald Trump and I always win.

The evidence is very far from the message, but only reporters research evidence.  Trump doesn't own all of those towers or all of that facade of wealth that he puts up for the sake of the deal. Eventually everyone takes the raw end of negotiations- or runs out of money and has to settle for only putting his name on those Trump towers instead of collecting rent on them too.

Even the Democrats took a major loss during the mid-term elections but the Republicans haven't enjoyed that victory or basked in the feeling of #winning.  Angry conservatives post all day long on social media sites about getting beaten by Obama at home, and Obama capitulation abroad, but they are furious towards their own party's passivity that allows him to do it.

The thermometer says losing  sucks and winning is good, so Donald changes his stump speech to "We're Gonna Win... and win a lot."

Sorry Donald. If you win that means WE all lose.  In fact, there is no win win with Donald.  Every victory that Donald tallies is a victory for Donald, and Donald alone.

........and maybe Hillary too.

Immigrants Are Not Our Greatest Problem. Republicans Are.

I wouldn't beat up on Republicans so often if it weren't for the fact that they always stick their chin out every time I'm feeling politically punchy.

I consider myself "THE" Conservative Socialist because I stand firmly for the destruction of the welfare state and I love God and the Bible just like Donald Trump.  I firmly believe that proactive health care and education investments (socialism) have the power to disintegrate all other forms of social welfare since educated and healthy people rarely need welfare (conservatism). I believe we owe it to our future generations to eliminate the welfare mentality more so than welfare itself, which is actually hard as hell to get and keep these days.

Welfare is an ugly word that started in the 20's but became any ugly blight on its recipients during the politically polarized and economically challenged years of the late 60's and  early 70's.  Once Bill Clinton got his hands all over it, it got rightfully relabeled into TANF (TEMPORARY Assistance for Needy Families) .  Consequently, it is no longer the stereotypical handout that it used to be.  Those who get any services these days get them because they are American born or have American born children (anchor or whatever you like to call babies who could be our president one day).

Benefits are temporary because Bill Clinton insured that all welfare recipients return to work via services designed to connect people to jobs. Some poor folks will tell you that welfare is currently the best way for the needy to get connected to a good job because it insure access to the additional (free) training support (education) and (free) health care connections that are needed to make a the transition from welfare to work a success.

In this post-Clinton era, food stamp benefits in particular demand part time work or volunteer hours just to maintain them or get them at all in between any proven period  of absence or reduction of work.  As a result of the Clinton clamp down on welfare,  (almost no one remains on welfare for more than 5 years) because the system NO LONGER ALLOWS IT.

The challenges with getting and keeping any welfare benefit these days is immense for an actual American citizen. Any non-citizen without American born children has no access to anything accept emergency medical benefits, and this only helps to reduce overall health care increases from the proliferation of unpaid emergency care.  In other words, paying a premium for the emergency room or clinic is immensely cheaper than absorbing the entire unpaid bill on the back side.

Welfare in America does insure that American children are eating, but focuses these benefits towards the children only, so even the families who try to hang from the "Anchor" must try diligently to under report the entire household size and incomes just to avoid weighing the anchor down and losing benefits altogether.

Most poor working families that could probably use a little help with food and bills don't care to bother with the struggle Clinton created getting Food Stamps or TANF  because they are dehumanized by the challenge to constantly jump through hoops to prove you really need help.

In some ways welfare has always been dehumanizing for very proud people.
Now it is only worse.

Because of  the diminishing size of all families in America- even poor ones- the old theory of broke and downtrodden welfare recipients bleeding the system and having more and more babies is totally mythical as well.

Yet, if you listen to the current patch of republican leaders (leaders for the lack of a better word), you start to wonder if regular poor people who actually can use welfare are still the target of republicans anymore who now seem more apt to blame the ruination of this nation on the welfare state that immigrants create?

Minorities rarely vote so they typically make for great political targets.  Immigrants can't vote but are assumed to be eligible for welfare so they are also an easy target for blame when a little inspirational blame becomes necessary during voting season.  Women, on the other hand, vote in droves and have exercised their voting privileges for as long as they've had them (1920).

I guess I understand the calculation of upsetting immigrants and inspiring ignorant's who think welfare and the illegals are destroying our nation; although I don't quite understand what message such an attack sends to the mass proliferation of legal Mexicans and Asians who can vote and didn't vote particularly strong for republicans last time around.

You Call This Outreach?

If there is one thing that makes me think that Donald Trump is in fact an internal plant from the Hillary Clinton campaign, it might be his single handed destruction of the republican platform promise to reach out to MINORITIES as a result of the last two presidential campaign failures; failures that Trump criticizes but is doomed to repeat without Hispanics or Asians or Blacks or Women or any strong support from minority groups.

 Among organized American minorities, women lead the power rankings list but remain at the back of the pack in the perception of way too many republicans. Say for example, those foolish republicans who are co-signing the video terror attack being leveled at Planned Parenthood.  These attacks falsely assume that WOMEN who believe choice is important also HAD NO CLUE THAT FETAL RESEARCH EXISTED IN AMERICA. Fetal research has never been a field that we hire women to have babies exclusively for research purposes, and smart women have NEVER been stupid about abortion or fetal research.

In fact, many clueless republicans all throughout the land think welfare is mostly for illegals because they actually tried to get help during these trying years; help that hardworking people who really need temporary help can't really get it anymore, so they blame immigrants for changing our job market and for our stringent temporary assistance laws.

In reality, the conservative Clinton's are responsible for welfare stringency, our job market transition (caused primarily when NAFTA forced Mexican farm workers into America), and might be responsible for finally getting that Keystone Pipeline drilled and all of those infrastructure jobs since Hillary, who's been very vocally opposed to drilling in Alaska, won't tip her hat on Keystone one way or another.  If she's shutting up about Keystone though vocal about Alaska, it's because the distorted structure of today's Super PAC's allows her to get secret donation's (10 time's more than ever before in case you forgot) that a few of her conservative oil loving friends (maybe even Trump) won't regret once she gets elected.


WE Didn't Create Capitalism Nor Do WE Control Its Advance

The Clinton's are not only neo-conservatives just like me and Donald Trump for that matter, they are Global Initiative capitalistic conservatives with a mission to expand capitalism to a universally hyper level in which the nation at the top will ultimately gain the most from capitalism's destined design.  A globalized mission is maniacal  in some ways but so is capitalism.

If capitalism's global advance is inevitable (and it is), America may as well be positioned to benefit the most, since often times WE are asked to sacrifice the most for the sake of capitalism too.

I totally support the make a buck to help me rub more backs approach that the Clinton's are using towards worldwide diplomacy because the nation who gains the most from capitalism will always be challenged by the existence and the needs of the needy.  Even Christ was bestowed with wealth though he shunned it. Because our power to perform Christ-like miracles is limited, our need for money is great if in fact we are to do greater things as Christ' suggested we will.


Make America Great Again By Redefining Conservatism

 I wish the Clinton's could help me recapture the conservative label so that it goes back to only meaning God(Grace....forgiveness...tolerance) and Country(that place made up of a bunch of immigrants) instead of  this distorted meaning of conservatism that republicans are crafting for their own purpose. I'm not sure if republicans or conservatives are driving the Trump frenzy, but I know for certain that they are not the same group of people since the same people who are voting for Donald Trump could never be willing to settle for Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush instead.

 (check out Trump's performance with evangelical's)

I would totally be on board the Hillary bandwagon if not for the Run Hillary Run prelude to this kiss. Hillary is trying to give us her best smooch while avoiding the Jeb Bush label of being dry and flat. Bush is fighting for energy because he too was encouraged into doing all of this by a crowd of normal conservatives like me who keep searching for an electable candidate while wondering why the republicans can only uncover the best of a bad bunch of options.

Now we've got the Draft Biden camp working hard to encourage another presidential run from somebody who wasn't already encouraged to be our president.  While I TOTALLY understand the hesitation to run for this job that produces Teleprompter Hillary or SuperDry Jeb, I also find myself a bit leery of anyone who is already justifiably weary.  I hope Jeb Bush survives to go head to head with Donald so us neo-conservatives can rest assured of holding office like we basically have since way back when trickle-down economics didn't stop the Bush boys from raising taxes anyway.

I am Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and every neo-conservative socialist that appreciates immigrants and enjoys praise and worship service too much to accept that kids started struggling in school right about the same time they kicked God out the door. From the sounds of it, I am Jeb Bush too.  All of us neo-conservatives want to do something RIGHT NOW about immigration, but none of us cared for gay marriage until we discovered that our gay friends and family had been struggling to breathe for years. Abortion is hardly preferable to neo-conservatives, but we certainly accept the intelligence of both women and the Roe .v. Wade decision enough to leave that topic alone too.

The Clinton's and I are in lock step on the importance of a global economy for the sake of diplomatic outreach and for America's vibrancy over time. Trump clearly agrees, and we all know how the Bush family reacts to the word oil.  Whether we like it or not, the global economy WE resist already exists but begrudgingly, which is what creates so much counter productive competitive corporate sabotage like the Chinese did with their inflated market valuations in the hopes of helping themselves and hurting the dollar at the same time.

As we recently discovered ourselves, all balloons will eventually pop. What we are now waiting to uncover is how attached to the struggling Chinese market are WE really, and what long term impact does China's market struggles have on U.S. economic strength?

My market hunch is that our economy has inflated enough rich Americans in recent years for US to totally exploit the self off in China, of China.  Aside from cheap loans from China that our economy is fully positioned to re-pay if necessary, we are disconnected to China just enough to use them more than they use us since their citizens do the back breaking work that allows us to enjoy the benefits of The Dollar Tree, and our farmers export enough products to insure the health of the American farmer and the long term necessity of farm work in America.


Now That Oil Has Fallen, Are Cheap Workers The Greatest World Commodity?

In reality, rich Americans are perfectly positioned to take full advantage of Mexicans or Asians, including the one's who stay in America on visa's and are now working illegally all over America as we speak.  Since the common immigrant flies into America, none of them will be stopped by Donald's big wall or Donald's big rhetoric that keeps placing the most valuable assets in the American economy in full opposition to the republican party and its fence building, gobble up and deport, change the 14th Amendment and, oh yeah- defund Planned Parenthood agenda. (did I miss anything)

Donald Trump might be really good at pretending that he doesn't call anyone a bimbo except Rosie O'Donnell and Megan Kelly (via retweet), but the rest of the republican field is not so good at this media trick.  They will be held to account for the direction that the lead polling republican candidate took the entire party when it comes time to really address immigration instead of temporarily using it just to drive primary poll numbers.

These same republicans are currently being asked to own the false fear that they've created of immigrants on welfare just like they are being asked to own the unsubstantiated fear they created of ObamaCare; a fear that they mysteriously refuse to address now even while a few of those fear mongering republican governors gave in already and adopted the very program they denigrated.

A real conservative would have quickly taken advantage of the opportunity to receive federal financial support for the vital duty of providing health care access to the people who need it the most and who elected officials are duty bound to serve.  A real conservative would never accept poor schools that don't offer EVERY American citizens the best of America's educational opportunity.  Most importantly, a real conservative would never give a man a fish, or not share one, when he could feed that man while teaching the skills to acquire a good job in the fishing or food processing industries.


Republicans Are Not Necessarily Conservatives

I'm drawing the lines between those republicans and US conservatives because I want to make it clear that creating free benefits to insure life long healthy and educated Americans who don't need welfare or excuses makes me much more a conservative than socialist. Once Hillary comes clean on Keystone,  I will probably decide to join her in support of the Keystone Pipeline because creating really good pipelines that don't actually burst open and spill everywhere will someday minimize the environmental impact on our roads and railways- that just so happen to need to be rebuilt as they've become human death traps. These bills have long since been jammed together as one.  Both need to move forward and get Americans back to work.
        _______________________

Trump Supports Rebuilding Roads & Bridges Too (does he know about that jobs bill that republicans jammed up in Congress over the Keystone pipeline?)
      _________________________

Continuing to destroy our roads and rails with oil transport won't be a great way to fix or maintain our infrastructure,  or achieve cleaner air, an initiative we've promise to lead the world in as well.

Why do we have droughts in California at the same time we have
floods in Colorado?  Can't one problem address the other?...
..and whatever happened to that jobs bill to fix our roads and bridges?
Are republicans using the Keystone Pipeline to get people killed?

In the long run, increasing oil production to the point of extreme saturation is the best way to devalue the price of the commodity and usher in the era of alternative fuels and the era of alternative thinking. Smart companies who currently produce oil, have already anticipated the coming change and are transitioning into the future of alternative fuels,



Being A Conservative Is A Good Thing.

My greater vision relative to alternative thinking is the day when we consider the greater good of people and the economy as mutually achievable; when we embrace conservative sensibilities like pipeline technology for its value and its worth instead of run from it and never use it to mitigate the impact of oil transport or the floods in Colorado at the same time we deal with droughts in California.

Or when we realize that you don't have to agree with climate change to recognize the value of destroying the grip of oil and dominating the alternative energy industry at the same time we minimize the emissions
causing this debate.

It seems plausible to my small brain that people who are dying to carry humans into space or dirty oil across risky pipelines could also transform floods from immigrants or water into resources and not problems.

There will probably come a time when we have no choice with either.

"On The Phone": Donald Trump Hijacking Air Time (and GOP) While Still In Pajamas

Hillary could learn from Donald when it comes to calling out opponents by name.
Generalizations generally assume that voters are watching that closely right now.  They are not!

Now that Fox News., Megan Kelly and Donald Trump have buried the hatchet, Trump has moved towards attacking Jeb on his position with women instead of remaining on the defense regarding his own standing among women spurned by the Kelly conflict.

Trump has overtaken Scott Walker in Iowa after the debate.
Prior to the debate Walker dominated Iowa polling.

The newest ploy of Trump is to call in to news stations who are notoriously hungry for such exclusives, especially the kind that don't require much staging on set.  Trump's comfort with using the media to his bidding is becoming more than a factor in the republican race.  It might allow Trump to hijack the GOP, a party that's longed for a true face for some time now like Barack and Hillary have been for the Dem's.

When Did Immigration & Abortion 
Become Winning GOP Issues?

Trump might not be willing to devote himself to the party, but the party (as reflected by Fox giving in to Donald) has accepted that he is a necessary evil and might have been the sole reason for 24 million viewers during their debate.

Trump is certainly partly right when he say's that 24 million viewers tuned in because of him, though he didn't mention that most were hoping to view the train wreck that they mosty got.  He is also correct when he says that we wouldn't be talking about immigration or abortion if it were not for him.

That's not a good thing Donald.  That's not a good thing.

What was a good thing was pointed out in an article by Vox.com.  Donald Trump was the only person on the stage to offer a real and really valuable policy point when he suggested the cross state line commerce idea that many of us have long awaited for the ACA, the only idea guaranteed to force pricing changes that insurance companies are still resistant to.   This is not a new idea or one unique to Trump, but it was the best policy point of the night which only accentuates the weakness of the republican debate as it related to real substance.

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Does Capitalism Force Americans To Sell Democracy(Too), But Stand For Oligarchy?

It's not just Bernie Sanders trying to warn us all that we are being ruled by the oligarchs. Even the oligarchs agree.  Let that really smart billionaire Donald Trump tell you his real idea for immigration and he'll describe some crazy plan to gobble up 11 million people, send them back to Mexico (or wherever they came from), and then find a way to expedite their return because president Trump will be creating a whole lot of jobs that those 11 millions Mexicans will be needed for. This won't endear him to his conservative colleagues during the upcoming debate but he'll be the man in the big chair, not them.

Teflon Don-ald

BTW Trump is not very conservative!

Trump has defied all political punditry and risen regardless of his so-called gaffs. The more substantive gaffs are soon to come. For example, Trump keeps warning us that republicans won't like the fact that Donald Trump believes in helping people that are poor in more ways than GOP tough love.  This probably means he'll be repealing ObamaCare  and reinstating it under  TrumpCare if you press him on the question.  Soon he'll be pressed on a whole lot of questions which could be the moment in which potential republican supporters determine that "The Donald" does not actually lean to the right at all and was a registered independent before trying to assert his voice within the republican arena back when Fox news first became entertainment thirsty enough to seriously recognize his commentary. Sanders is hardly a democrat either, which makes his running as a democrat as peculiar as Trumps misplaced republican approach to the White House.

The truth is that third party options are still mostly laughable simply because not enough Americans actually vote.  Voting apathy not only allows for voter suppression, it ensures a system that is rigged for the money and the support to be driven behind predetermined talking heads representing an invitation only, party of two where the party plan and the keynote speakers are dictated by Super PAC's, a new methodology of America's oligarchs.  If a PAC don't back you, then you really aren't a candidate at all, which is why Vice president Joe Biden could struggle as a candidate, unless of course president Obama is preparing to publicly back him since the Obama's are a Super PAC, especially Michelle, and their influence could mean that Biden won't need another PAC.

Donald's early threat to be a third party alternative made me think he didn't get into this thing to actually be the president of America since third party candidates can't win yet. Now, even Trump is trumpeting this refrain by telling republicans recently that their best chance is with him as a republican.  The best chance for The Donald to actually win the presidency is as a republican, but does that also mean that the best chance for the republicans is The Donald?  General election polling says no way, and soon both Trump and Sanders will have to determine if their displaced, long-shot campaigns have the legs for the long hall. Bernie's populism message and Trump's fear mongering will have a voice in this race, though each of them are long odds to carry it beyond the primary season.  That duty will likely be left for the more electable candidates to accomplish

It's Not Too Late For A Cross Party Debate.

Sanders and Trump could collaborate on a debate and force a conversation that Fox News, or whichever network that has the next debate, can't control.  Bernie needs to elevate his populist ideology by arguing it against a contrasting conservative anyway, which no longer applies to Bill and Hillary's rhetoric. Trump, on the other hand, needs to remain entertainingly toxic without trying to prescribe policy points from off the cuff, like deporting all of the Mexicans and then expediting their return somehow; probably after he assigns them a president Trump card (I couldn't resist).  A cross party debate would be just the thing for both candidates to break away from the oligarch's (PAC's and network television) control over the political process.

Since Trump is soon to be uncovered as the real RINO (republican in name only), more right leaning republicans who aren't happy with fighting for a chance just to flank the poll leading Trump on the Fox debate stage, will soon be chomping at the bit to bite at Donald.  Trump won't take kindly to being bitten and the whole scene promises to be something that I will eagerly watch, but only so that I can say that I witnessed one of the lowest representations of America's democracy during my lifetime. Hopefully this is our lowest point.

Is any American politician free from the negative impression
that most Americans have of the process? Do WE believe in
any politician or are they all just who WE get to choose from? 

Unlike dirty laundry, ours is the democracy that we boldly reveal before the world and then hold it against Cuba for not following in our footsteps.  A democracy that sends open letters to the Ayatollah of Iran in the middle of nuclear negotiations. A democracy that allows an extremist video to ignite yet another attack against Roe .v. Wade, but also blocks all productive legislation in Congress in the fear of giving the sitting president too many legacy points.  A democracy that reaches out to deal with the challenge of a middle eastern nuclear arms race and Cuban normalcy with a political war at home that promises a swift end to diplomacy in both Iran and Cuba if the wrong party wins that war.

Can You Call Yourself A Democracy Officially With only 36.4% Voter Participation?

This is a democracy that doesn't really vote in mass because voting, as it stands, doesn't help to avoid "do nothing" elected officials.  In our democracy, WE still have 600,000 citizens of Washington D.C., the nations capital no less, who pay taxes but live without real representation because they can't vote and neither can their lone representative in congress who has limited voting powers. Instead of national ballot initiatives that give every American the right, privilege and duty (maybe legal if necessary) of a real democracy and not a broken representative one, our democracy insures that gerrymandering and guns remain a right while education and voting are privileges with embedded hurdles that really old people and ex-cons are finding harder and harder to surmount.

Our democracy sucks you up and spits you into a category of its choosing.  You can fight and claw your way out of economic slotting, but you had better dig in deep to pull yourself  to the top of the the social casting system which demands Oprah like wealth or Rush Limbaugh/Bill O'Reilly influence to counterbalance the weight of casting.  Regular Joe's (or Barack's) often make their social climb using political power plays, but find themselves handcuffed by the oligarchs or caving to lobbyists who are enlisted by the oligarchs. These are aspects of our version of democracy, but for some reason WE often hope no one mentions those ugly parts while insisting that others be more like US for the sake of business considerations.

Reports Say Castro's Struggling To Swiftly Embrace Change

If Cuba is resisting normalized relations and hesitant to implement change, it might be the kind of democracy that has Donald Trump on every news channel that's driving their fear.    If you remain on the channel past the five minutes of  Trump, and take a deep dive into poll numbers of our current president and every candidate for our next president, it becomes clear that even WE don't really care for any of these candidates even though we know one of them has to be the next lead representative of American democracy.  What Cuba and all nations adverse to U.S. democracy must realize is that capitalism is bigger than all of us. Americans- even Donald Trump- do business in China because we have to not because we really want to.  China and countries worse than China have done business in Cuba throughout our 50 years of Cuban sanctions and will continue to make their way to Cuba to do business in the event that hard line republicans in congress force the U.S. to remain not as welcomed in Cuba simply from continued toxic rhetoric.  Can you imagine what happens if Marco Rubio somehow actually wins the presidency?

 No, rambunctious Rubio and tenacious Trump are not the only reason that Cuba and many people around the world examine the American pride in for our version of democracy and snicker just a bit.  On balance, this great nation has accomplished too much to deserve such an indictment against our politicians or our version of democracy. But WE can't keep ignoring the sound of laughter.  Can WE?

Cruz Ignores History! Becomes First To Declare Himself For President

Ted Cruz is in.

He was forced to launch the Cruz missile because Scott Walker is winning the Tea Party skirmish while Jeb Bush is waging war for conservative donors, threatening to wipe out the competition before they ever get started.  Once again, the Bush family is engaging in a half-assed war as Jeb Bush soaks up republican money while simultaneously keeping his feet away from the deep waters that come with being a declared candidate.

As with any good military tactician, Bush is doing his best effort to control the republican roads that lead to the presidency, and his potential opponents are reacting.  Bush is dominating the money road because these roads get attacked on all fronts when the Libertarian and Tea Party segmentation of conservative ideology affirm their relevance during election seasons.  As a result of this segmentation, the Paul family (Ron and Rand) get to unofficially launch the republican race to the presidency by voicing Libertarian dissent and then fading into the darkness once republican in-fighters realize that their Civil war is too bloody to put forth a worthy general election candidate. Especially one named Paul.

Cruz is a dangerous weapon  because he will turn the tide of the republican unCivil war by placing the focus on him. What is becoming sadly apparent is that this Cruz is not one of the modern guided missiles that could make republican opponents surrender.  Although most recognize how widespread the appeal for Cruz is, it is also easy to recognize where the border of his appeal ends.

No! That was not a stab at Cruz's Canadian heritage. We will save that line of birtherism for Donald Trump to do since his own run for the presidency (teehee) might require he use it.  Cruz is as worthy to run for this dysfunctional post as anyone in this dysfunctional nation. As a politician, Cruz makes you feel that he's been waiting for this moment every since delivering that winning campaign speech in primary school. For hours- and years now, Cruz has been staring into the mirror, practicing for the day that he would deliver that winning speech to America.  When you watch him today, it's clear that he has spit shined and polished his message so well that he rubbed all humanity out of the delivery.

Convincing Believers

Does that T-shirt say "WE Want Rand"?

Those inclined to already believe in Cruz's message seem unaware that his hair and his delivery are way to smooth and way too deliberate to sincerely impact crowds that don't already believe. Cruz is preaching to a small group within the republican choir that came to hear him preach.  The other choir members, and most parishioners, are now realizing that they don't really care for the message since they lean Libertarian or don't lean much at all.  They all appreciate the passion of his delivery- which is what makes him the dangerous weapon he represents to fellow republicans- but this crop of conservative candidates don't need their strongest voice to be their least electable candidate--again.

Cruz jumped in to seize this chance to elevate himself above his least electable image by becoming the only one in the race right now. Jumping feet first into the deep waters will allow Cruz to carry the party flag and influence the republican brand.  Chris Christie seems incapable of clearing his traffic jam and getting back on the road to the Hillaryesque coronation that he was receiving prior to BridgeGate. Consequently, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush are the only remaining conservative candidates with general election appeal, and even Walker is proving himself way too appealing to the same passionate Tea drinkers that Cruz hopes to steal away with his announced candidacy. Walker is not as contrived as Cruz, but even Walker won't be electable in a general election if his union busting behaviors mobilize the unions against him. America's unions are clearly declining, but they're not dead yet.

As much as WE pray that the republican party will return to the age of reason and stop disrupting the direction of the party and of American politics in an irreparable way, the reality is that a leader of the republican party must rise up and carry the party message to the public at large instead of constantly convincing those who already believe.  Dismantling the republican party is actually the beginning stages of unraveling the two-party system that limits the voice of too many. Stephen A. Smith was right about the marginalization caused by the two-party system, however, does Smith also believe that having all blacks vote republican for one election will make republicans adjust their recent behaviors towards minority voters? Nationwide voter restriction measures suggests that republicans expect it will take more than Stephen A. Smith and other party faithfuls to win back the white house.

It's The  Stupid Two Party System, Stupid. 

Breaking the two-party system will demand the sacrifice of  upshoot alternative parties who must be willing to lose elections for the sake of party relevancy.  The Tea Party is holding on to relevance, but their Libertarian offspring is on a rapid rise.  Cruz or Walker might get their turn to elevate the Tea Party's role in the republican party, but I doubt it since not enough of America seems ready to lean to these extremes when it comes to selecting a president.  One day they might, but that day hasn't arrived, so Jeb Bush, or some regular dude like him will eventually be asked to win enough regular voters to give republicans a chance to get back into the white house.  Unless this is the election when Rand Paul runs as a Libertarian and Walker or Cruz run under the Tea Party banner, the two-party system continues functionally intact- which will likely mean a democrat in the white house and a republican controlled congress for years to come.

The Sacrifice of Change

Republicans are doing something noble for America even if they didn't originally plan it that way. Liberal leaning Progressives will be forced to follow suit eventually by creating party alternatives that will break the back of gerrymandering. What that requires is candidates and political ideologies that centrist-conservative voters will vote for. Although several Progressive parties have sprouted from democrat roots, democrats seem unwilling to take the pioneer path that the republicans are taking .  When it comes to presidential elections, democrats remain fully afraid of the futility of segmenting their vote and are resisting party alternatives for now.  Right or wrong, coronations remain the method of operation for democrats who will have several years before they must find a centrist progressive to carry the democrat banner. But that day seems inevitable.

Jeb Bush fills this role and is the most reasonable answer to the executive branch challenge for republicans, but his party seems uninterested.  Early feedback has Jeb securely controlling the inside elements of his party(money), yet he's unfamiliar to republicans who didn't follow his political career, and unfamiliar to those mythical independents who vote predictably despite shunning the two party labels. Jeb is also suffering from the strong familiarity that average Americans have of his brother and father.  As a result, he will need every bit of that financial support he's building to convince his own party to carefully consider the electability  of the candidate that they will soon ask America to choose from. By those standards, Bush is it.

Cruz is ignoring that electability issue while also ignoring America's disdain for Tea Party extremism. Most importantly though, Cruz seems to be ignoring the fact that timing your announcement to be a US president is vital to your prospects because getting to know the public while avoiding unnecessary exposure is a tricky balancing act.  The longer you are out there, the potential for bad stuff looms heavily, which is why the first person to announce almost never wins the race. Smart political operatives play this card game masterfully while cardboard stiff politicians easily confuse their partisan appeal with global acceptance.  Ideological statues who can deliver tape recorded speeches, but make you afraid that robots are running America, should never be the first to announce themselves as a candidate for the president of the United States of America, if they really have plans on winning.

Oops. Too late!