About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism.
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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 →
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion
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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 →
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 →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://medium.com/s/story/the-confusion-is-the-point-6ab1d5a933aa" target="_blank" title="Social platforms will not provide clarity">Confustion Is the Point</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned" tarfox news has always been partisan. but has it become propaganda>The Making of the Fox News White House</a>
- Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/A new investigation into white supremacist groups in America – in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military>Documenting Hate: New American Nazis</a>
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Disdain of Educated & Artists, Enemy/Scapegoat, Human Rights Abuse, Media-Info Control, Obsession with Punishment, Powerful Nationalism, Rampant Sexism
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Tagged Bad Barrel, Christianist, Fascism - Here?
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(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 →
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Tagged Privateering, The Powell Memo
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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
- Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/something-stinks-when-exit-polls-and-official-counts-dont-match/" target="_blank" title="Media exit polls suggested in 2016 Democrats were going to win ...">Red-shift: Something stinks when exit polls and official counts don’t match</a>
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Tagged Bad Barrel
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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 →
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