Author Archives: Andy Hailey

About Andy Hailey

Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, 60's Republican now progressive, web admin, blogger.

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.

Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News

——— Check them out! ———

Posted in Politics   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Preserving Our Democracy – Allegiance To a Nation OR Serving a More Perfect Union

On the one hand, patriotism divides citizens into multiple factions based on variable notions of a nation and its history. On the other, a citizenship oath could more effectively unify voting citizens with all the others in our democratic election process to focus citizens on forming a more perfect union. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Powerful Nationalism   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Voters Can Empower and Protect Our Threatened Democracy

Voters have witnessed a long history of peaceful Executive leadership change.  However, we’ve just seen, 1/6/2021, how fragile that transition can become.   In addition, steps are being taken to completely break that change process.   Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism, Obsession with National Security, Obsession with Punishment   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

WAR, Civil or World, Enables Hunting Humans

This is about the need for national efforts to stop enabling haters (individuals and political parties) from optimizing their hunting of human ‘game,’ local and international. Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism, Enemy/Scapegoat, Obsession with Punishment   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Authoritarian Domination by 2030 in US!

In 2030, the entire world is condemned to extreme inequality, slavery, baby farms with women dressed in red and world domination as originally planned in 1997. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Avid Militarism, Church/State Unification, Corporate Intrusion, Election Fraud, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control, Rampant Sexism   |   Tagged ,   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Predatory Capitalism: Chaining It?, Embracing It?, Controlling it?, Saving it?, Replacing It!

Any nation with either an authoritarian political system or an authoritarian economic system, like predatory capitalism, is susceptible to totalitarianism. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Powerful Nationalism, Rampant Cronyism/Corruption   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Waking Up To The Authoritarian Stealth Plan in America – Before It’s Too Late

Waking up before it’s too late as the pattern of authoritarianism enfolds us. We should be alarmed, but the stealth plan of the authoritarian movement, the odd normalization of its aberrations, has not triggered those limbic regions of our brain that signal us to action. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Election Fraud, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

The Darkness of Plagues – Dawn of Better Societies

Now we are in a forth plague that could “bend the arch of history” and “upend core economy structures.” We can do better than capitalism. Continue reading

Posted in Environment   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

What Socialism Is, Has Changed

Democratic Socialism is about social responsibility for all citizens through expansion of democracy in both our political and economic systems. Continue reading

Posted in Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Survival of Our Democratic Republic – Expanding Human Rights …

Contriving to limit rights is about control and power over others. It’s about arrogance and imaginary supremacy over others. It’s about maximizing inequality! It’s about destroying our democracy! Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

American History of Authoritarian Coups: Ending the Cycle

We need to break authoritarian driven cycle & prevent any future authoritarian coups. We need more democracy in our political & economic systems. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control   |   Tagged ,   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Caging Anti-democratic Forces Requires Eternal Vigilance

Our democracy requires eternal vigilance and massive participation to keep the ever-present anti-democratic forces corralled. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Enemy/Scapegoat   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

End The Authoritarian Nightmare – Cage The Rampaging Republican Elephant!!!

The Republican Party is populated by almost all those in America who tested as highly prejudicial and authoritarian as documented in Dean’s new book. As Dean documents, They are not going away and the rest of us will need to stand up, en masse, to keep these confirmed authoritarians under control FROM THIS ELECTION FORWARD! Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Church/State Unification, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Stopping The Authoritarian Nightmare – VOTE!

INTRODUCTION John Dean’s newest book. Authoritarian Nightmare: Donald Trump and His Followers, details the threat of American authoritarianism. In addition, he recommends how America can stop the threat of dictatorial rule by highly prejudicial and authoritarian personalities. Forty years of … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Enemy/Scapegoat, Obsession with Punishment   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

DJT’s Destructive Dilemma and Reconstruction of America

“I’m in control. I don’t need anyone. I hate all these lesser people that are part of this political system ‘helping’ me. I hate those I hire to do my bidding and then don’t. I really hate those suckers who are making me rich while I pander to them. I’m getting so angry that If I lose the election, someone will pay and it won’t be me. If I can’t have my kingdom, I will destroy it on my way out and blame others.” Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Systemic Change IS Necessary for Maximizing Equality

Right-wing authoritarianism has been corrupting our critical national systems so as to end our long-term democratic experiment to maximize equality. Citizens have suffered needlessly for decades and we must stop the authoritarian’s final push to maximize inequality in their favor. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Who are Antifa? They VOTE!

We may all feel despair, but don’t let it have the last word. Embrace your despair and use its emotional force to stop our growing neofascism by any means available. Use it to become a force for a long-term greater good that is still possible but not yet within sight. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Voting in 2020 Election Is About So Much More

It’s Also About Voting to Protect and Empower Our Democratic Republic This election is about much more than replacing DJT.  It’s about the system failures that have enabled him to get elected and that refuse to remove him from office … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Election Fraud   |   3 Comments   |   Email This Post Email This Post

World Domination – Different RW Totalitarian Systems

Both totalitarian systems are a merger of political and economic systems. Both are authoritarian but one is controlled by the political system and the other is controlled by the economic system. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Replacing Current ABNORMAL With an IMPROVED NORMAL

We need a new and BETTER NORMAL that not only re-establishes what we’ve lost since the mid twentieth century, but includes FDR’s Second Bill of Rights (6.), and more. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Authoritarian Nations – They Grow Slowly and Imperceptibly

In summary, a 400 year-old authoritarian economic system gave birth to our authoritarian policing system to put property rights over human rights, legalized massive looting, stealthily stole ownership of the citizen’s government and is maneuvering to turn it into a fascist-like totalitarian state. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Avid Militarism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

The American Revolution and Great Depression of the 21st Century

Tens of millions of citizens have nothing left to lose! The knee of our right-wing authoritarian oppressors are on the necks of all citizens/workers. Removing that knee of our failed systems requires historically massive public action and political participation. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

What The Greatest Generation Can Teach Us About Defeating Today’s Totalitarianism

Since WWII, the enemy of the United States has grown from within from a seed left over from that time. We must all unite as The Greatest Generation did to take out the Kreepy, Krawly, Kudzu that has infested our land. We must unite to bring down the wealthy, double-high, RWA traitors who are stealthily stealing our government from us. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Ready For A More Caring Economy – Democratic Socialism?

Do you now see what America has become: An Inverted Totalitarian State of, by, and for the capitalists? Would you like to know more about a system that puts people-before-profit, democratic socialism? The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing out the worst … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Two Broken Systems – More Democracy is the Solution

Both our political and economic systems are broken and making our economic system more democratic would enhance Maclean’s salvation recommendations to help save our political system by disempowering the wealthy authoritarians/employers who are using our authoritarian economic system, capitalism, to fund the destruction of our democratic political system. Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

How My Moral Values Guide My Politics

Our moral values inform and provide the foundation for our political choices. My political choices have changed over the decades as I’ve evolved my moral foundation. As I’ve stated many times, including in my email signature, “The morally right option … Continue reading

Posted in Politics   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Inequality of Endless Growth vs Justice of Universal Wellbeing

Quotes from “Outgrowing growth: why quality of life, not GDP, should be our measure of success” The world’s right-wing authoritarian, self-enriching, gobble-up, neoliberal, abusive, form of capitalism is based on never ending growth and has birthed massive inequality and the … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

American Capitalism’s Immoral Response to COVID-19

Quotes from The Virus and Capitalism. America’s unique, right-wing authoritarian, self-enriching, gobble-up, neoliberal, form of capitalism is helping it’s wealthy owners again while ignoring and abusing most citizens.    Back in 2008, the neoliberal puppets bailed out the banks and screwed families out … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Rampant Cronyism/Corruption   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Fiscal Conservatism Has It’s Place – Just Not at the Federal Level

If the federal government were forced into fiscal conservatism and had to balance its budget instead of balancing the economy, our economy could not be rescued or protected from another financial crisis nor could it help solve national problems like it did after other Great Recessions, or needs to do now to minimize the Sixth Great Extinction. Continue reading

Posted in Common Wealth, Environment   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Oligarchs – The Abusers Behind Our Authoritarian Economic Systems.

It’s going to take a vibrant democratic political system with massive citizen participation to enable this new democratic economic system called socialism. Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged ,   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Political Democracy v Economic Authoritarianism: Checks and Balances

In our Constitution, our democratic political system includes a division of responsibilities to enable a means of checks and balances. Each of the three branches of government is responsible for keeping the others in proper bounds. In Capitalism, this authoritarian … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

A Scale of Equality – Maximizing Turnout for 2020 Election

What’s required to activate and unify voters on the left? Kochkash Increases Inequality: America’s political and economic policies have moved from greater equality after WWII and through the 70s to massive inequality in the decades since. This has happened surreptitiously … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Economic and Political Decisions: Oligarchy v Democracy

Decisions by oligarchs only benefit oligarchs whether they control our economic or political systems. We need more democracy in both systems. Political Decisions Economic systems controlled by oligarchs benefits only the oligarchs. For example, as worker productivity increases, the oligarchs … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Fascist Politics for Protecting and Empowering a Demagogue

The distinct strategies of fascist politics include: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, and victimhood. Other strategies also included are law and order, sexual anxiety, appealing to the heartland, and dismantling public welfare and unity. Below is summary of … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Disdain of Educated & Artists, Enemy/Scapegoat, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control, Obsession with Punishment, Powerful Nationalism, Rampant Sexism   |   Tagged , ,   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

American Socialism – Equally Empowering and Protecting All US Citizens

(A cycle of building, destroying, and now renewing/expanding) Even before FDR’s socially responsible New Deal and laws passed since, corporations and excessively wealthy individuals have been stealthily working to put our democracy in chains by neutering the Federal government, eliminating … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Protect & Empower   |   Tagged ,   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

How do Lies Become Accepted as Fact? Please Don’t Help!

The professional messengers of Nazi Germany and the Republican Party know there are two key factors for turning a lie into accepted fact over the long term: – Exaggerate the situation or issue beyond the pale – Get everyone on … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Full Employment at a Living Wage Is Impossible With a National Balance Budget

A federal government with a sovereign currency has a unique responsibility/capability – A Balanced Economy. Unlike the federal government, you and I, our local governments, our county governments, and our state governments all have to live within a balanced budget, … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

As a progressive, am I too extreme?

Am I too extreme to want representatives who will unabashedly speak out against all forms of economic injustice spawned by right-wing extremists and their belief that only the wealthy deserve government aid? Am I too extreme to want representatives who … Continue reading

Posted in Protect & Empower   |   2 Comments   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Ending This Long Era of Worsening Injustice

RE: Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean and Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean … Since – Brown v Board of Education in 1954 that caused Virginia to shut down all public education for a short time and initiated a … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

News Media “Bad Barrels” And the Parable of the Frog in Boiling Water

Professor Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment in his younger days and has since written about what he’s learned, The Lucifer Effect – Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, coined the phrase “bad barrel.” A bad barrel is … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Fighting the PRIVATIZATION of Publicly Owned Documents Can Be Deadly

While corporate bankers get bailed out with public funds for their greedy mistakes and with Net Neutrality changed to enhance corporate greed, citizens are being arrested for protesting economic, social, racial, and environmental injustices (Poor Peoples Campaign), and gifted children, … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Implementing the 1980 Koch Platform May Happen With a Consitutional Convention?

Back in 1980, the Koch brothers documented their Libertarian goals when David Koch ran for Vice President by preparing their campaign platform. Below are key “excerpts” from their platform. For contrast, I’ve added [my 2 cents]. “We urge the repeal … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People

Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public resources. Blind allegiance to profit has also led to torturing of gifted individuals … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

More on How We Got Into The DJT Political Swamp – It Has Little to Do With Russia

In 1970, income and wealth inequality were at historical lows. The income tax tables had over 25 brackets with the top marginal rate of 74%. Campaign funding was limited to the presidential campaigns and lobbyists were few and far between. … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion   |   2 Comments   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Reclaim Justice for America – Register, Educate, VOTE #REV

Which candidates will speak loudly and repeatedly about long-term, still-growing, massive, widespread, injustices in America? There are those who believe inequality is normal and ordained. God is at the top, followed by white male Christianists, then everyone else based on … Continue reading

Posted in Election Fraud, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Our Mass Murdering Domestic Terrorists and Their Enablers

Who are these people using WMDs for mass murder in America? They are men who have been taught that there is a social heirarchy with God at the top. After God comes white, Christianist, males, then everyone else based on … Continue reading

Posted in Disdain of Educated & Artists, Enemy/Scapegoat, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment, Rampant Sexism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Modern Money Theory/Practice – Fixing an Under-capacity Economy.

From Intro To Modern Money Theory: “Modern Monetary Theory is partly a description of how our modern fiat, floating exchange rate currencies actually work, and partly a prescription of what we ought to do with this knowledge. MMT realizes that … Continue reading

Posted in Protect & Empower   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

False Equavilancy Reinforces Beliefs in an Alternate Reality

I’ve posted multiple times about my concerns with profit-centric MSM and their requirement to put profit before the common good of we the people. For many, profit-centric news is only kind of news with which you are familiar. Well, back … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Federal Spending for Sustaining Instead of Destroying LIFE

$700 Billion for the Pentagon – Where Will All That Federal Money Come From? A Few Taps on a Keyboard. DJT just signed a bill to provide $700 Billion for the Pentagon in FY2018 while Congress is working on a … Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism, Human Rights Abuse   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

What I Would Teach a Child in My Care

That self-made individuals are a myth. That empathy is natural and requires nurturing. That we are all responsible for ourselves and each other. That equality is an honorable goal. That we must protect and preserve our common wealth for our … Continue reading

Posted in Common Wealth, Empathy, Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Killing The RT Messenger to Void An Alternate Message

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. For if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” — Revolutionary activist Thomas Paine “We will not walk in … Continue reading

Posted in Enemy/Scapegoat, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Growing Our Democracy, Economically, Is Key to It’s Survival!

This growth must go beyond reversing voter suppression, improving public education, and expanding civic participation. Maximizing the rule of democracy for our government of, by and for the PEOPLE must also include democratizing our economy. Record economic inequality must be … Continue reading

Posted in Nurturant State   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Too Much Ado About So Little – Russian Hacks

How effective was Russian propoganda on social media? Who many votes were switched? What other voter numbers are more significant? But just how many Facebook users who saw this propoganda, actually bothered to vote? A 2010 study of Facebook users … Continue reading

Posted in Election Fraud   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Democracy In Chains – Adding Corporate Veto Power to America’s Checks and Balances

From the last chapter of Democracy In Chains, by Nancy MacLean, here is how the Koch Brothers and their elite Libertarian cadre are increasing their, white, billionaire, veto power over govt and majority rule: 1. By mandatory and ubiquitous Arbitration … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Election Fraud   |   Tagged   |   1 Comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Leasons Learned Early by Key Libertarian Messenger Contribute to America’s Dystopia

I’ve been reading Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean. Yesterday, I read about some of the lessons learned by James Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan is the main subject of the … Continue reading

Posted in Election Fraud, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

The Libertarian Stealth War On America’s Democracy

After decades of refining his extreme, right-wing, ideas on control by the wealthy, James McGill Buchanan, professor at the University of Virginia and head of his very own Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy and Social Philosophy department, joined forces … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Voter Suppression: Legalized, Rationalized, and Self-inflicted

Voter Suppression: Legalized, Rationalized, and Self-inflicted Right-wing extremists have been promoting voter suppression since the founding of America. Since Brown vs Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act, it was started anew with the Nixon’s war on drugs and … Continue reading

Posted in Election Fraud   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Bashing Loses – Speaking Values Wins

Complaining about the idiocy of the opposition is such a distraction – a waste of time – and provides little incentive for Democratic voter turnout. Democrats need to talk about how they will address the massive economic, social, racial, and … Continue reading

Posted in Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Protection, Empowerment, Freedom from Injustice, and Participation – Rebuilding the Middle Class

As an American Baby Boomer, I’ve lived under two different systems of government: Post depression/post WWII and pre 1980s government: Government of, by, and for the People requires: Government with the moral purpose to equally protect and empower ALL the … Continue reading

Posted in Personal, Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

A Historical Perspective on Why Free Trade (NAFTA, TPP) Has Screwed the American Middle Class for 30 years

The following are from an article by Thom Hartman, where you can read more: When Washington became president in 1789, most of America’s personal and industrial products of any significance were manufactured in England or in its colonies. Washington asked … Continue reading

Posted in Rampant Cronyism/Corruption   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

A New Costly Cold War?

Are profit-centric media and supporting profit-centric defense contractors promoting a new cold war, via Russian Hack hysteria, and boosting support for more defense spending? Are regime change neocons fanning the flames for a new cold war to remove Putin from … Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism, Corporate Intrusion, Enemy/Scapegoat, Media-Info Control, Obsession with National Security, Obsession with Punishment   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Two Definitions of Government – Progressive vs Corporate

This was a response to part of business editorial on DJT’s “Wheeling and Dealing” over the Carrier jobs. _______________________________________ I agree that DJT’s approach to governing is frightening. What I take issue with is this statement from the editorial: “The … Continue reading

Posted in Protect & Empower   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

What will DJT do to Make American Great Again (MAGA)?

Remember the Tea Party motto Take Our Country BACK? Back to where, I once asked a local Tea Party leader? As a boomer, I enjoyed a well-regulated economy that wasn’t influenced by the many conservative think tanks of today and … Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Why Privatize Social Security? More Wealth Transfer for the 1%

Right-wing authoritarian Republican politicians, like Paul Ryan, believe that the individual is solely responsible for their success or failure. Their moral righteousness is based on one’s self-discipline and ability to plan for every contingency. That leaves the 99% to fend … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Ready For Rule by a Dictator? – When Will The People Respond?

Since 2005, I’ve written 425 blog posts, , and most of them have been about America’s growing authoritarian state. I’ve had a lot of help along the way from many others more knowledgeable than me. It started with a paper … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Understanding Your Right-Wing Authoritarian Neighbors And Why You Can’t Re-wire Their Minds

Based on the work of others, primarily Professor George Lakoff, an expert in cognitive linguistics – how the brain uses and responds to language, here is what I’ve come to understand about those who support people like racist, misogynist, DJT … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Obsession with Punishment, Rampant Sexism   |   Tagged   |   3 Comments   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Greedy Free Market Fundamentalism is Killing Our Middle Class

What is killing our middle class is the replacement of a more SHARING economic system, which considers all STAKEholders in the economic system, with a free market fundamentalism, or neoliberal economic policies based on maximizing GREED for the few! Greedy … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Who’s The Real Enemy of Our Democracy? Widdle Donnie Thwimpie or ???

The distraction of Widdle Donnie Thwimpie is all over the news as the worst ever candidate for an American president, while mainstream media ignores the real enemy of our democracy: This should be no surprise. The corporate take over of … Continue reading

Posted in Avid Militarism, Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Updates on America’s GOP Authoritarianism – Trump Leading The Way, GOP Split, GOP Dictator

Here are links to three articles on American Authoritarianism and selected quotes from each: The Rise of American Authoritarianism Trump embodies the classic authoritarian. Donald Trump could be just the first of many Trumps in American politics The political phenomenon … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Our Choices In November: (Neoliberal Austerity or Neofascist Racism) and Bad to Worse Levels of International War(s)

Here are two interviews comparing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. One with Dr. Henry Giroux and the other with Dr. Cornel West: This Is Hell! | On violence, neoliberalism and the hallucinatory anti-politics of the Trump era If we can’t … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

It’s All About Voters Who Are Angry at the Establishment.

The BREXIT surprise resulted from a broken political system burdened by an austerity driven, neoliberal, economic system under the EU that drove angry voters to the polls. Is this a precursor for a surprise in the US presidential election? Aren’t … Continue reading

Posted in Politics   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

More Than Ever, Dems Need Progressive Independents to Win – Two Perspectives

Based on two different graphics about voter preferences, one for party and one for progressive vs conservative, Dems will win only if they inspire the progressive base and progressive independents to vote. According to results of the above Gallup poll, … Continue reading

Posted in Politics   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

To What Degree Will November Election Complete Corporate Coup of America?

Now that the party primaries are over, it appears that the profit centric MSM has guided the voters quite convincingly. We ended up with the candidates which both media’s profit masters most approve of and which voters have the lowest … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Dr. Bob Altemeyer on Donald Trump and Authoritarian Followers – Who Will Stop Them?

Professor Altemeyer, was referenced extensively in John Dean’s Conservatives Without Conscience and in this blog. He has written a summary on authoritarians and related articles. If the New American Majority, discussed by Steve Phillips in Brown Is The New White, … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Policy Priorities for Winning in November with the New American Majority (NAM)

RE: Brown Is The New White by Steve Phillips (This is my kind of book. Filled with quantitative and qualitative details, and progressive policies for the mind, and, more importantly, backed up and supported by progressive values for the soul.) … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism, Human Rights Abuse   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Right to Slave Wages is Now Possible as Your Own CEO.

Another example of information you won’t get from profit centric MSM that must keep its profit master happy by entertaining the masses: Steven Hill has written Raw Deal. Using companies like Uber and AirBnB, Hill discusses the next move in … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Labor Power Loss   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Questions for Millennial Bernie Supporters on Behalf of Boomer Bernie Supporters

How much of the following would you either agree with or can offer a more accurate/corrected summary? – Is incremental, slow, change no longer acceptable? – Is working from within the rigged system not worth the effort to re-rig it? … Continue reading

Posted in Authoritarianism   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

Trump Ascendency Should Be No Surprise

It is a natural result of many factors including, but not limited to: – Decades of repeating that “government IS the problem” and predatory privatization of our government – Decades of disempowering the people’s government while empowering the excessively wealthy … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control, Rampant Cronyism/Corruption   |   2 Comments   |   Email This Post Email This Post

November election – How to Minimize War and It’s Fuel: Greed

The Powell Memo of 1971 formalized our path to this point in our corporatocracy. Since the corporate plan laid out in this memo has: been funded by the likes of Koch, Coors, Olin, Bradley, Scaife, and others; has constructed a … Continue reading

Posted in Politics   |   Tagged   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post

It’s past time for a broad-based political revolution to reverse decades of damage to America

I participated in a recent poll by MoveOn.org and they sent me a follow-up survey to understand why I chose Bernie Sanders for MoveOn to endorse. Here is part of my survey feedback: —————————— I’m a leader in the Texas … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Intrusion   |   Leave a comment   |   Email This Post Email This Post