Sunday, March 29, 2015

Random Political Thoughts

On one of my other blogs, The Amazing Morse, I have been posting random thoughts, and they seem to go over well. So I thought I'd post some random thoughts on politics here, items I thought more appropriate for here than there:

The free market is indifferent to democracy just as it is indifferent to the issues of slavery and child labor. It is only in government that democracy exists.

Do not shop at a store where you would not like to work.

The capitalist model presents the choice between mainstream news which tells us nothing and the right wing press which tells us how bad the mainstream media is.

If political ads cause people to turn off their TVs, then they have accomplished something worthwhile.

Forget for a moment all other indicators, economic, etc. If we look at the recent trends (say, the last 20 years) we can clearly see a shift in power. Consistently shifting from the common man to the elite few. Our vote cannot be trusted to us. Our political candidate must be shielded from even the softest of questions from real live people. And if a hard question is dealt a politician, the most banal answers can be given by the politician without the media calling them on it.
Our foreign policy must be conducted in secret by agencies and people beyond the reach of voters or public opinion. In short, the citizenry has been removed from the political process and with it any power that the populace had over their government. And where can freedom exist where there is no leverage or power? In the economic sphere, where we can individually compete against each other, or against giants such as Microsoft, General Motors or McDonald Douglas. Our best course here it to bow before these giants, to serve them that they may show favor on us.

If unions had the power some suggest they have, there never would have been a NAFTA, GAT, or any other free trade agreement, at least not in the forms they were written. In the years since they were instituted, wages have stagnated, and union power has fallen precipitously. But of course unions do not have that kind of power, even with the Democratic Party, as they have been behind most of those trade agreements.

The genius of the right wing media is that they have inoculated their audience against phrases such as “drunk the kool-aid”, “sheeple” and “useful idiots”.

Every major religion understands the concepts of charity, compassion and helping one’s fellow man. Every religion except capitalism, of course, which states that not only is greed a virtue rather than a vice, but that it is the only motivating factor we should trust. And to its god, the market, it would offer the sacrifice of human life. To curry its favor and avoid its wrath, we would evict widows from their homes, send children into factories, our young soldiers to war.

Too often we take for granted our freedoms, forgetting those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for them. So let us today thank the children of Sandy Hook who paid the price for our right to bear arms.

The political debate is neatly divided into two camps, the liberals and conservatives, and any attempt to speak from a different perspective makes you appear to whoever is listening as belonging to the other camp.

I don’t care about your politics so much as your commitment to facts.

The free market is nothing more than the transference of the law of the jungle to the human sphere.

The answer to job creation is simple: open up our borders so the increase in workers lowers the cost of labor, making it more affordable to hire workers. If this is not the answer you want to hear, then maybe we should be asking a different question.

As in a communist system, where most who live under it are not philosophically true communists, so too in a capitalist system most of the citizens are not capitalists. Most merely wish to live their lives and pursue their professions, whether it be teacher, electrician, etc. Most care more about family and friends, religion or passions, such as film, music, cars, what have you.


Being liberal has always been the fashionable choice of those in the media, but when push comes to shove, they know who writes their checks. 

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