Howard--your voice is getting clearer! Many solid points about money, process, and culture. I strongly agree that monetary reform is the keystone to unlocking other major policy solutions.
Now about the Green Party... I may have some other thoughts to talk offline.
And if Nicaragua were to be "left" alone, then, hmm, what would money do there if health, welfare and safety were part of the collective consciousness and communities? The issue is this commerce, these canals to move goods across seas FOR the capitalists, for the MONEY hoarders, and for the RIPOFF Royalists.
It's the grand narrative that money makes the world go round. Those imperial nostalgia Westerners, who believe EVERYTHING is their dominion.
THere are many collapses at the tipping point or the point of no return, and yet, MONEY talks?
Sorry, there can't be any longing for some "democracy" envisioned in this concept of a grand constitution. Individual rights have cooked the world, man, and while art and culture and family life might be one's little castle to gather around, societies cannot exist on this individualism at 3 billion, let alone 10 billion. And the meat eaters? Christ, 10 billion bovine and swine for a country of 330 million? Two hundred and fifty pounds of flesh consumed per capita per year?
We are now cooked unless we go fast into collective action, and that means the right to eat and drink and bulldoze and pave over and mine and harvest has to be a collective agreement planned beyond any systems thinking the average "I want it now" AmeriKKKan can even imagine.
Most people don't comprehend economics and finances, so sure, they may vote for the party / candidates that promise them a better financial future, they lack the skills to take care of themselves financially and never wake up to the fact that the campaign promises are all "empty".
There are a couple other issues that are "single issue voters", it isn't just about money.
What is remarkable about the money issue is that it is connected to nearly every other issue. It is key to getting public control of public policy to empower solutions to other issues. That makes it a central issue, I would say the primary political issue, because it is about the power to decide and implement policy. What other issue can do that? Most issues are issues that can be solved with public policy but if private wealth controls public policy only to maximize its own profits how do we fix anything? Most people think the government creates and issues money, it does not, but it should, according to the Constitution, and the banking system should not. Some will say why would you want to give government such power, ignoring the fact that private unelected elites have all that power and they don't give a damn about the people, they consider them as suckers or their marks at best, or worse as enemies to be exterminated which their highly profitable wars do. It seems to me that focusing on other issues is a waste of time. Unless the elites really agree with you it’s not going to happen as the Princeton Study on political influence showed. However, whether we believe we can or can't. change the system, we're right. It is a choice; do we really want change or not?
Howard--your voice is getting clearer! Many solid points about money, process, and culture. I strongly agree that monetary reform is the keystone to unlocking other major policy solutions.
Now about the Green Party... I may have some other thoughts to talk offline.
Please do.
And if Nicaragua were to be "left" alone, then, hmm, what would money do there if health, welfare and safety were part of the collective consciousness and communities? The issue is this commerce, these canals to move goods across seas FOR the capitalists, for the MONEY hoarders, and for the RIPOFF Royalists.
It's the grand narrative that money makes the world go round. Those imperial nostalgia Westerners, who believe EVERYTHING is their dominion.
THere are many collapses at the tipping point or the point of no return, and yet, MONEY talks?
Sorry, there can't be any longing for some "democracy" envisioned in this concept of a grand constitution. Individual rights have cooked the world, man, and while art and culture and family life might be one's little castle to gather around, societies cannot exist on this individualism at 3 billion, let alone 10 billion. And the meat eaters? Christ, 10 billion bovine and swine for a country of 330 million? Two hundred and fifty pounds of flesh consumed per capita per year?
We are now cooked unless we go fast into collective action, and that means the right to eat and drink and bulldoze and pave over and mine and harvest has to be a collective agreement planned beyond any systems thinking the average "I want it now" AmeriKKKan can even imagine.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/will-the-real-adults-stand-up-ahh
Most people don't comprehend economics and finances, so sure, they may vote for the party / candidates that promise them a better financial future, they lack the skills to take care of themselves financially and never wake up to the fact that the campaign promises are all "empty".
There are a couple other issues that are "single issue voters", it isn't just about money.
What is remarkable about the money issue is that it is connected to nearly every other issue. It is key to getting public control of public policy to empower solutions to other issues. That makes it a central issue, I would say the primary political issue, because it is about the power to decide and implement policy. What other issue can do that? Most issues are issues that can be solved with public policy but if private wealth controls public policy only to maximize its own profits how do we fix anything? Most people think the government creates and issues money, it does not, but it should, according to the Constitution, and the banking system should not. Some will say why would you want to give government such power, ignoring the fact that private unelected elites have all that power and they don't give a damn about the people, they consider them as suckers or their marks at best, or worse as enemies to be exterminated which their highly profitable wars do. It seems to me that focusing on other issues is a waste of time. Unless the elites really agree with you it’s not going to happen as the Princeton Study on political influence showed. However, whether we believe we can or can't. change the system, we're right. It is a choice; do we really want change or not?
Yes, money is the issue we should give 99.99% of our attention to.