Category Archives: Andy’s Other Thoughts

For those topics that pique my interest but dont’t fit the Single-party State categories.

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

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Andy Hailey

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The Darkness of Plagues – Dawn of Better Societies

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Andy Hailey

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 →

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How My Moral Values Guide My Politics

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Andy Hailey

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 →

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

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Andy Hailey

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 →

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

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Andy Hailey

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 →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.galvnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_ac423f7f-4655-52b2-bb33-59f232c1ed7b.html" target="_blank" title="Original, but word limited, version">Government should be for all the people</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2017/06/james_mcgill_buchanan_s_terrifying_vision_of_society_is_the_intellectual.html" target="_blank" title="The Future According to Koch">What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.</a>
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It’s All About Voters Who Are Angry at the Establishment.

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Andy Hailey

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 →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/29/brexit-and-the-democracy-myth/" target="_blank" title="Angry voters upset BREXIT vote and may upset US Elections">Brexit and the Democracy Myth</a>
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More Than Ever, Dems Need Progressive Independents to Win – Two Perspectives

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Andy Hailey

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 →

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

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Andy Hailey

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 →

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The New Socialism and Bernie Sanders, #FeelTheBern

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Andy Hailey

From Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, but what does that term mean?: There are essentially two types of socialists in modern Western democratic politics. Social democrats are effectively what the left is in nearly every Western European and North … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig’s “The USA is Lesterland” – But It Take More Than Spreading the Funding Influence

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Andy Hailey

Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim Please watch the video first.   Lessig ends by saying, “We have lost that Republic. All of us have to act to get it back.” I agree with that … Continue reading →

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