Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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Vickie, don't pay attention to the ^children^
Authoritarianism -- now and throughout history -- has been a construct of the wealthy-class.
Wealthy-class politics -- now and throughout history -- is always discussed as right-wing politics.
This is why the rest of the working-class people in the other, better countries throughout the developed world are either laughing in amusement or crying in terror: they wonder how working-class Americans could be so ignorant as to allow themselves to be governed by TWO wealthy-class right-wing parties.
Ignorant traitors to the working-class, like Hugh, are why the working-class people in the other, better countries throughout the developed world are laughing in amazement and crying in mourning for the American-experiment.
Hugh, and the duped rubes like Hugh, have been dumbed-down and tricked into thinking that the Democrats and Repubs are very different -- and there is a difference between the leadership of the parties and the voters who subscribe to leadership's facade of a two-party duopoly which a really single-party monopoly -- but the leadership of both parties are members of the wealthy-class.
Do you really think Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Boot-edge-edge, and Kamala Harris are NOT working-class leftists? They are wealthy-class right-wingers who have track records of harming working-class people.
The Republic-party apparatus is (presently) the dominant wealthy-class party. Republicans champion the policies which benefit the wealthy-class, and in turn, those wealthy-class people donate to their campaigns and political action committees.
The Democrat-party apparatus is (presently) the pretend working-class party. Democrats pretend to champion the working class. But since the same wealthy-class which funds the Republican's campaigns also funds the Democrat's campaigns.
The funds for these campaigns are essentially legalized-bribery. In other countries, campaign funding is much more regulated, in an effort to keep elections fair instead of influenced by bribes from the wealthy-class.
The American campaign-finance system allows the wealthy-class to turn the Democrat-party apparatus into a paid-opposition party, meaning that Democrat-party leadership only pretends to fight against the wealthy-class Republicans. When, in reality, the leadership of the Democrat-party apparatus is actually on the side of the wealthy-class because the Democrat-party leadership is also wealthy themselves.
Dumbed-down Hugh and the working-class people like him are akin to other working-class traitors throughout history who helped to sabotage the working-class at the behest of the wealthy-class. They are akin to the Brown Shirts and Nazi soldiers who went along with the wealthy-class to get along with the wealthy-class.
P.S. Try to think of it this way.
The working-class is the majority of the population.
The wealthy-class is the minority of the population.
Democracies are the political systems that favor majority-rule, and, ideally, in a better democracy, more people would be allowed to vote on more things, instead of just representatives and certain government officials.
Republics are the political systems that favor minority-rule, and historically, in Republics, fewer people are allowed to vote on fewer things, because representatives vote for most everything, even if those representatives are elected by a majority.
Democracies are difficult to corrupt because the wealthy-class can't bribe all the voters.
Republics are easy to corrupt because the wealthy-class only has to bribe the representatives and a few stupid members of the working-class, such as Hugh.
Democracies benefit the working-class majority.
Republics benefit the wealthy-class minority.
America is NOT a working-class democracy of majority-rule.
America is a wealthy-class republic of minority-mob-rule.
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In short; we already have "term limits" -- "elections" is what they are called.
But we would certainly be better served by aligning our election and campaign finance laws with the rest of the developed countries in the world.
In other, better countries, American versions of elections, campaigns, and governing would result in prison for many candidates and politicians.
In some of the lesser-developed countries, they even have elections that are more secure than America. Some of those lesser-developed countries also have a greater level of democracy by allowing more people, or all people, within the borders to vote.
Also, we could create laws against lobbying and the revolving door, both of which are utilized by the minority-class of wealthy-employers as a means to repress, suppress and oppress the majority-class of poor-employees.
A recent candidate from West Virginia, named Richard Ojeda, proposed the use of body-cams for lobbyists and legislators. I would be down with that, it would make it easier to decide which politicians needed to have their terms limited in the next election.
The implementation of "term-limits" legislation, without adequate anti-corruption legislation, would most definitely work in the favor of the minority wealthy-class to the detriment of the majority working-class.
Imagine if Bernie Sanders would have only gotten a limited amount of time in office, instead of the four decades he's had. In the last 10 years, Bernie has exposed a great deal of the corrupt policies and practices which have perpetuated the infiltration of government by the wealthy-class, resulting in exasperated inequality and the defeatism of the working-class.
Without Bernie's longevity, the current position of the Overton-window, and the nature of public discourse, would not likely encapsulate the condition of the employee-class majority and the suffering which we are enduring at the hands of the employer-class majority.
That being said; could Bernie do better? Yes. In fact, in some of the other, better democracies, Bernie would be considered a moderate.
But, without the political-clout that Bernie has accumulated throughout 38 years in elected office, it's possible, and likely, that none of the current elected-representatives, who are now following Bernie's lead, would have had the ability nor the platform to step up and start speaking truth to power, exposing the wealthy-class corruption which has co-opted the American government, as Bernie has.
But, because politics in America has been dragged so far to the political right-wing by the wealthy and the employer-class, Bernie is labeled a "radical-leftist" by American political standards. However, in an international and historical context, Bernie would be considered a moderate, and possibly slightly right-leaning.
If the American employee-class majority wants to have a chance against the employer-class minority -- if the majority wants to catch back up with the rest of the developed world -- America needs another 38 years of Bernie Sanders-style of rhetoric to combat the last 100+ years of right-wing extremist rhetoric.
It's going to take more than one Bernie Sanders to drag this country back from the inequity and inequality which has been entrenched by right-wing extremist policies and practices that have been promoted by the wealthy employer-class minority.
I guess that wasn't short, but term limits are not the answer.
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The Democrat-Party AND Republic-Party are both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The economic goals of the leadership in both parties are the same economic goals as the wealthy-class campaign donors. When you learn to accept that, you'll start to see why the Democrat-party appears so useless and feckless.
The Repubs are fashioned to be the dominant party the Dems are fashioned to be the theatrical opposition.
When the wealthy-class Repubs are in power, they always move the country and policies toward the political right-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Then, when the wealthy-class Dems are in power, they always stop the country and polices from moving toward the political left-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because left-wing politics are working-class politics.
The leadership of both American political parties is made up of wealthy-class millionaires who are selected by wealthy-class billionaires. They are all right-wingers. From McConnell to Schumer and McCarthy to Pelosi, they are all right-wingers. Reagan, Bush Sr. & Jr., Bill & Hillary Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden, are all wealthy-class right-wingers.
But working-class Americans are ignorant. They've been made ignorant on purpose by the wealthy-class. Which is why you think the Democrats just don't know how to play tough. The Democrats are playing tough, but they are playing WITH the wealthy-class Republicans and THEY are playing against YOU.
Biden is acting the way he is acting because he's paid by wealthy-class right-wingers to act this way. Biden benefits from the same wealthy-class, right-wing politics as the wealthy-class right-wingers. Because Biden IS a wealthy-class right-winger.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here. But it seems like you may already realize that.
Good day.
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@SclountDraxxer -- I don't 100% agree with you, but it's accurate enough to where I won't offer resistance (wink wink), beyond this amendment to your analogy:
I think the citizen-voters built the gun, and they built the gun with the materials they had access to.
The Republicans and Democrats both controlled the access points to the materials that were available to the citizen-voters.
Then, the Republican-leadership steered the car while the Democrat-leadership pushed the gas pedal.
Then the Republican-leadership held the gun while the Democrat-leadership pulled the trigger.
The jury of citizen-voters were lied to. The judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers, comprised of political-party leadership, all committed the crime.
If both parties' leadership were a car full of minorities or poor people, they would be spending the better part of a life-sentence in the for-profit, prison-industrial-complex being exploited for their labor.
Both parties are complicit.
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@adamwhittaker9620 The caller has a point which he is unable to make succinctly and coherently.
Living under all of the oppressive policies of economic austerity -- policies which are currently propped up and perpetuated by the leadership of both political parties, as both parties are funded by the same class of wealthy owners, financiers, and investors -- it is not surprising that a layman wouldn't be able to adequately and directly identify the sources of their oppression.
The fact that the caller is unable to do this is completely understandable when you come to realize that no average person who works 40-80 hours per week while consuming corporate media can do this.
Considering Thom understands all of the details regarding the SCOTUS decisions of Buckley v. Valeo of 1976, First National Bank of Boston v. Belotti of 1978, McConnell v. FEC of 2003, Citizens United v. FEC of 2010, and McCutcheon v. FEC of 2014, it is baffling to me how Thom is unable to see that the Democrats have simply taken advantage of the legalized-bribery that was advanced by right-wing, economically-Capitalist politics.
Thom's Democratic party of the past is now simply the Democrat party, and Thom wants his party back. Too bad, so sad. That party is gone, and Thom is too old to move on. The Democrat Party of the last 50 years has gotten into bed with the Republic Party of the last 100+ years.
The leadership of the Democrats has become a paid-opposition: The Democrat leadership acts like they are opposing economically-Capitalist austerity-politics of the right-wing, and the wealthy-class continues to fund the political campaigns of the Democrat party's leadership.
It sounds like the caller is trying to blame Democrats AND Republicans. It sounds like Thom, as per usual, only wants to blame Republicans. The positive things Thom claims about Democrats are from a bygone era. Now, most Democrats are merely the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Both parties are pro-war to the extent that they both vote to allocate more than half of public spending on the Military-Industrial Complex.
Both parties are pro-caging of humans, then exploiting those humans for their labor, rather than spending public dollars to uplift the downtrodden communities where crimes of necessity are most likely to occur.
Both parties are pro-wealthy and anti-poor, legislating in favor of the wealthy and legislating against the poor to the extent of throwing poor people into the afore-mentioned cages.
Both parties are pro-big businesses and anti-small businesses, legislating in favor of big businesses, knowing full-well that smaller businesses are unable to take advantage of the benefits which are legislatively designed to help big businesses.
Both parties have voted to bail out industries that should have been allowed to fail and make way for newer, better businesses. In fact, after the bailouts which benefited auto manufacturers and big banks, the legislators from both parties passed laws that gave powers to the Federal Reserve and the Dept. of the Treasury to simply "bailout" any corporation or industry without going through Congress. This was a favor to corporations and big businesses, and another nail in the coffin of accountability and transparency in governing.
Both parties have voted to defund and destandardize public schools and deregulate private schools, sabotaging public schools in favor of private schools. The wealthy-class wants to dumb-down the citizens, because the wealthy know that stupid people make better slaves. While upper-class kids go to over-funded private schools, where they are coddled to become resource-hoarders, labor-manipulators, human-exploiters, and demanding-sociopaths, lower-class kids go to defunded and destandardized public schools where they are cultivated to become self-deprecating good-soldiers, obedient-slaves, and, if unlucky, subservient-prisoners.
The rest of the developed world's citizens are laughing, wondering how a country so rich in resources and wealth can also be so rich in morons.
The rest of the developed world's citizens are baffled at how America can be so full of idiots who have been reduced to choosing between two economically right-wing and socially-authoritarian political parties -- in any of the other, better countries in the world, the Republic and Democrat parties would be the same political party or members of a coalition government.
I could go on.
Now, to answer your question.
The rural American has but a few reasons to vote for candidates within the Republic party; they lie better, they cheat better, they pillage better, they fearmonger and hatemonger better, they supremacist better, they blame the sorrows and doldrums of rural-America on anyone but the rural-Americans, they project better, and they the repel empathy, sympathy, pity, and remorse better. It is for these reasons that a majority of rural Americans choose not to vote for Democrats -- that, and Democrats are paid to be a weak opposition.
Ultimately, what Republicans do better than Democrats to earn the votes of rural people is, they play on the fears of a soon-to-be white minority -- a white minority who are fearful that the coming-majority will treat the white people in the same manner that white people have treated others in the minority position.
It took a long time for chattel-slaves in America to gain a modicum of freedom and, in many ways, they are still not free. Some of the descendants of that slavery are still unable to explain all of the intricacies of that enslavement and how its effects remain today.
It may take a long time for American debt and wage-slaves to gain a modicum of freedom, or to even see how they are not free. Some of those who are presently living under this bondage are unable to see it, and some who see it are unable to explain it.
What Thom is doing isn't helping, and this is supposed to be his job.
The caller is trying.
Frankly, what you're trying to do isn't immediately clear. You're not making your point very succinctly and coherently, either.
Maybe you're too busy wage-slaving, just like the caller.
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Well, presuming that your inquiry is honest, I'll try to answer it for you. "Why is everything so partisan in the us?" Answer: Because the US political system is a sham, a farce, a theater, and worse. The US has legalized bribery, and bribery is illegal in other, better western countries.
The US has two major political parties. Both of those parties are bought and owned by the wealthy-class right-wingers who have bribed the politicians. Those wealthy-class right-wingers have used their wealth to purchase politicians and infiltrate the government.
Those same wealthy-class right-wingers also use their wealth to create propaganda. Those wealthy-class right-wingers use the media corporations they own to pump that propaganda into the eyes and ears of the working-class.
The right-wing propaganda says that the Republicans are the right-wing party, and Democrats are the left-wing party. But it is a lie. Both American political parties are right-wing political parties. The wealthy-class knows this, but the working-class doesn't.
The propaganda is designed to drive a wedge between working-class Republicans and working-class Democrats, and it works, which is why you see everything as hyper-partisan. But the working-class is too ignorant to see the ruse.
So, while the working-class people fight against each other over the red-team versus blue-team fiasco, the wealthy-class right-wingers are working together behind the scenes to maintain their addictions and the power they have over the working-class.
America's working-class is leaps and bounds behind the other, better western countries, because in those other, better western countries, they actually have multiple political parties, and some of those parties are actually left-wing.
Between the bribery, the propaganda, and the corruption by the wealthy-class, the US is barely a country. If the US didn't have nukes, it would be another tin-pot dictatorship. Kind of like what countries turn into after the US gets involved in them.
Again, to answer your question: Everything in the US seems hyper-partisan due to the purposeful designs of corrupt, wealthy-class right-wingers who are trying to maintain their power and addictions.
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@ianperfitt -- Well said. I agree with you.
I was being a bit sarcastic, which I suppose didn't come across as sarcasm.
They want us elbowing side-to-side, or worse, at the people who are most like us, and with whom we have the most in common.
They want us kicking down, or worse, at the people who are the least fortunate, and whom we are more probable to end up like.
They, absolutely, do not want us directing our collective energy toward them -- the perpetrators and perpetuators of a system whereby a few people have so much while so many people have so little -- because they know if we can unite, then their grift will be finished.
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Republican and Democratic party leadership; the same coin, but different sides. They have the same corporate and tribal wealthy-class agenda, but with differing levels of subtlety.
Republican and Democratic party membership; same coin, and mostly the same side. They have the same communal and familial lower-class agenda, but with varying levels of ignorance.
The only real difference is that some of the most ignorant folks in the lower-class have been fooled into believing that they are only temporarily-displaced members of the wealthy-class. They are ignorant enough to believe that if they do the bidding, and obey the orders of the wealthy-class, then someday the wealthy-class will allow them into their club.
The wealthy-class political leadership loves these ignorant lower-class conservatives. These wealthy-class intellectual-brutes build their fortunes and empires on the backs of lower-class ignorant-brawns.
As has been the case throughout history, the wealthy-class uses their money as a means to relegate the lower-class into positions of ignorance.
An example of this is; the deprivation of education, which was imposed by the wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class Africans during the time of more-direct slavery.
Another example is; the defunding and destabilization of public education, which has been imposed by wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class since the creation of the New Deal right up until the present.
The lower-class whites have never been equal with the wealthy-class whites when it comes to the accessibility of high-quality education. The lower-class whites are closer to blacks when it comes to socioeconomic class-status than they have ever been to wealthy-class whites. This was true during slavery and it is still true in the present.
The lesser-educated lower-class, which consists of all races, make up the societal-majority. The better-educated wealthy-class, which consists disproportionately of whites, make up the societal minority.
But because of the manipulative abilities of those who are better educated over those who are under-educated -- because of the power which can be bought through the manipulation of money and information -- the wealthy-class minority maintains their power over the lower-class majority.
The wealthy-class uses its wealth to influence public policy in their favor. They use their influence over public policy to arrange that public policy in a way that manipulates the mass of people into masses of influenced-ignorance.
If a person is ignorant enough, then that person can be easily influenced and persuaded into further denigrating, debilitating, or destructive states of mind and action. Those states of mind and action often progress as follows: Ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, and genocide. Each level relies on the previous level.
If a person can be rendered ignorant, then a person can be broken mentally, emotionally, and physically.
If a person is ignorant then they can be fooled into being afraid of other people.
If a person is afraid enough, then they can be coerced into anger toward the people whom they have been fooled into fearing.
If a person is angry enough, then they can be compelled to hate the people whom they have been coerced into anger toward.
If a person is hateful enough, then they can be provoked into violence against the people whom they have been compelled to hate.
If a person is violent enough, then they can be forced into murdering the people whom they have been provoked into violence toward.
If a person is murderous enough -- broken enough -- then they will have no problem committing genocide upon the people whom they are ignorant and fearful of, angry at, hateful toward, and violent against.
Because of this progression of digression, the wealthy-class has been enslaving the lower-class in various ways throughout all of history.
The wealthy-class Republican leadership imposes ignorance upon the lower-class to control them, while the wealthy-class Democratic leadership provides a faux-opposition. Then, every few generations, the parties switch sides and change roles right under the noses of the ignorant lower-class.
For example, in the past, the Republicans have espoused 'liberal' ideology and the Democrats have espoused 'conservative' ideology. But both parties have always been most dedicated to the sustainment of the wealthy-class, white-patriarchal hierarchy.
But the more-ignorant 'conservative' members of the lower-class majority are always the easily compliant aggressors, while the less-ignorant "liberal" members are passively resistant victims.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to scroll Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to search for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to search Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to research for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to repeat and regurgitate, but they aren't smart enough to be discreet and separate.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to say the intended quiet parts aloud, but not smart enough to realize it makes them appear less-endowed.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to follow, but they're so far behind that they think they're leading.
The intelligent, wealthy-class political leadership love these ignorant, lower-class conservatives because they are so ignorant that they can be convinced turn against the people who are most like them.
The wealthy-class, with a few memes, can convince ignorant-conservatives into kicking down at the least-fortunate and elbowing side-to-side at those who are most akin to themselves, rather than punching up at the wealthy-class who are the perpetrators of the misinformation which divides us and the perpetrators of the inequality which oppresses us.
Combine all of that with the following facts:
1. The wealthy-class of both political parties have been dragging the Overton window to the right-wing for the last one hundred years, and drastically so over the last 50 years, essentially turning Democratic leadership into Republicans and Republican leadership into fascists.
2. In any of the other developed countries -- countries where there are multiple political parties on the political left and right -- where the citizens have actual freedom of political choice, those countries would have Republicans in Democrats either in the same political party or part of a coalition government.
3. In some of those other developed countries, the disparities in the U.S. election system -- from the campaign finance laws to the voter suppression tactics -- would have the wealthy-class leadership imprisoned.
4. The similarities between present-day America, the empires of old, and the Third Reich -- coupled with the discontent which America has sewn around the world -- are too numerous to count.
Anyone with a comprehension of socioeconomic politics in international and historical contexts has got to be able to see that this America-aggression is bound to come to a head sooner than later.
My only fear is that, much like other countries which have become the brunt of international retaliation, the ignorant lower-class of all proclaimed political persuasions within America will be the ones left holding the metaphorical bag while the intelligent wealthy-class sneak out the proverbial backdoor.
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Wealthy-class right-wingers have bought and bribed both American political parties. They own and control both parties. This kid is not equipped to comprehend or deal with that.
The right-wing Democrat party will do the same thing to this kid that the right-wing Republic party did to Madison Cawthorn.
Maybe they won't do him as dirty as they did Cawthorn, but there are plenty of ways for wealthy-class right-wingers to get what they want.
They could do the same thing to this kid as they have done to "The Squad" -- silence him. Or they could do the same thing they have done to Kyrsten Sinema -- bribe him. Those are adults, and they have succumbed to corruption.
But even if the wealthy-class right-wingers who control both parties weren't as corrupt as they are, I still wouldn't want this kid, or any kid, controlling anything. We don't need kid-brains. We need adult-brains.
And considering the 100-year assault on education by the wealthy-class right-wingers and how successful that assault has been at dumbing-down Americans, I would prefer the voting age be increased to the age when neurological and psychological experts say the human brain is at peak development -- 25-years-old.
No children with underdeveloped brains should be allowed in positions of control over other people's lives -- no cops, teachers, managers, or military should be under 25 years old.
Pre-developed brains have plenty of work to do in observing, learning, and helping to carry out the democratic will of the people with developed-brains who have already observed, learned, and helped.
Of all the supposed adult-brains who are currently elected to Republic or Democrat parties, I wouldn't follow any of them into ankle-deep water (maybe Bernie). But I'm certainly not going to follow any child-brains either, no matter how well rehearsed their speeches are.
Long story short: I don't want any of the addict-brains from the wealthy-class minority, nor any of the vulnerable undeveloped-brains from the working-class majority, to run for any of the public-offices that dictate the policies which control our lives.
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@dannywindham3295 -- Correct.
The directive for the government to spend money comes from Congress, and the Executive Branch carries out that directive.
The money, which the Legislature directs the Executive to spend, doesn't have to come directly, nor strictly, from taxation. The money, which the Legislature directs the Executive to spend, can be newly-printed.
In our ever-increasing state of technocracy, the money can be created, and then digitally deposited into bank accounts, by a few strokes of a keyboard.
The first part has been this way for centuries, the second part for scores, and the last part for decades.
As for the original comment; sure, trees do have something to do with all of this. But the people who usually spout the kind of foolishness in the original comment are the kinds of people who have no problems with deregulating the capitalists who utilize trees for profit-making endeavors, nor do they tend to care about science, logic, reason, the less-fortunate in society -- I could go on, but you get the idea.
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@dannywindham3295 -- Sir, I don't mean to be snide, but I agreed with you. I mean, I literally wrote "correct" in regards to what you said.
Maybe you didn't accurately read what I wrote, or maybe I didn't communicate it well, but some of the things I wrote are basic tenets of MMT. I'll reiterate those things below.
1. Government expenditures do not need to come from taxation -- not directly, nor explicitly.
2. The physical money used for government expenditures can be printed by the Dept. of Treasury or released into circulation by the Federal Reserve.
3. The electronic money used for government expenditures can be created by simply increasing the amount of money in government bank accounts by using a keyboard at the Federal Reserve or the Dept. of Treasury.
3a. The electronically-created money can be electronically transferred from government bank accounts directly into the bank accounts of businesses or citizens, which immediately puts the money from government expenditures into the economy.
Disclosure: I am not an expert in economics, but I did study economics extensively at University.
Lastly, my advice to anyone else who reads this would be the following: Go to the Youtube search bar and search for lectures and interviews by Stephanie Kelton for more, better information on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Also, I would recommend searching for interviews and lectures by Michael Hudson for more information on restorative economics, economic equality, and economic justice.
Good day to all.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
Thom is as equally as bad at messaging as the Democrat party leadership, but the Democrat party leadership is paid to be bad at it. They are paid-opposition, funded by the wealthy-class. The question is, rhetorically, if Thom is bad at it on accident, or on purpose.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here.
Good day.
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Your statement is exactly the kind of evidence needed to justify why undeveloped child-brains shouldn't be able to run for the elected-offices which create the policies affecting people's lives.
Couple your ignorant statement with all of the other evidence presented by the Madison-Cawthorn's of the world and a strong case is made as to why people shouldn't be able to hold elected-office until at least 25 years old, and probably shouldn't be until 30-years-old.
As a 19-year-old yourself, your job should be to keep your body as healthy as possible to promote healthy brain development, thus increasing your learning capacity. Thus enriching your abilities to observe, report, reflect, reason, and react, not only in local contexts but international contexts, not only in present contexts but historical contexts, as well.
No substance consumption or abuse.
No owning high-powered or high-capacity firearms.
No operating vehicles over a given size.
And probably a plethora of other restrictions that could be set to preserve human-life and mitigate natural-resources.
This means no holding positions of power or authority over anyone.
No making decisions that affect the lives of the more-vulnerable and least-fortunate.
This means no holding national-offices before 30 years old, after the brain has reached its stage of peak development.
If local municipalities want to entrust their communities to the under-developed child-brains, then that could be decided by the adult-brains in a given municipality.
But, if the larger-constituencies at the state or federal level have to come in and save local municipalities because the adult-brains let the child-brains screw everything up, then those local municipalities shall revert to the standard of adult-brains being responsible for holding positions of elected-office.
I'm not ageist, nor am I ableist, racist, or sexist -- I have zero problem electing people younger or more disabled than I am, nor people of a different race, sex, or gender than I.
But I absolutely DO have a problem being governed by underdeveloped child-brains.
This country has been screwed up since its inception, and it is because of the underdeveloped child-brains of wealthy-class addicts who funded the exploration, raping, pillaging, and genocide on this land.
The wealthy-class addicts who funded these atrocities in the past are the same wealthy-class who control America in the present.
The corrupt wealthy-class that has controlled governments throughout history is the same wealthy-class that controls America in the present.
The working-class people of America and the world are already screwed up enough, and it is because of the child-brains.
The child-brained addicts of the wealthy-class minority have co-opted the child-brained, working-class dupes into voting for two right-wing political parties that are both bought, owned, funded, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Whether a person is 19-years old or 100-year-old, anyone in the working-class who claims loyalty to either of those two wealthy-class political parties is a dupe who enables the oppression of themselves, their friends, families, neighbors, and communities.
At 19, you're less likely and able to comprehend these things.
At 19, you're more susceptible to being duped and co-opted into assisting the wealthy-class.
I'm not voting for that.
At 19, the best thing you can do, if you're really interested in the policies that affect people's lives, is to educate yourself on the international and historical contexts of socioeconomic struggle, oppression, and liberation.
It is going to take a LONG time to undo the propagandist-indoctrination of the working-class that has been perpetuated by the wealthy-class.
It is going to take a LONG time to sober up the working-class people who strive to be like the wealthy-class addicts.
It is going to take a LONG time to teach and ingrain the class-consciousness and working-class solidarity that exists in other, better parts of the world.
Your job is to learn about these things.
But for the love of majority-rule and democracy, STOP blaming your fellow working-class mates from the previous generation who have been rendered incapable of noticing their own oppression and unable to identify the wealthy-class causes of that oppression.
Your working-class mates are under the control of the same wealthy-class addicts and addictions as you are.
STOP kicking-down and elbowing side-to-side at the working-class people who are most like you.
START punching up.
There are COUNTLESS working-class champions from previous generations who are already punching up, and have been doing so since before you were a couple of gametes.
Just because you don't know about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up, that doesn't equate to everything being left up to your generation.
You not knowing about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up makes you ignorant
The ignorance that accompanies your child-brain is why you shouldn't be able to hold elected-office.
But I love that you care.
I'm getting to be an old man.
I know what happens to the working-class when they have no class-consciousness or class-solidarity.
It's happening in America right before our eyes, with the most modern case-study beginning in the Roaring 1920s right up until today.
I know about the Red-Scare and Red-Lining. I'm getting to the point where I won't be able to run from future iterations of those things. History doesn't repeat itself (that's physically impossible), but history rhymes, and is cyclical.
If something isn't done to stop the wealthy-class, America is destined for similar fates to The Roman Empire and The Third Reich. But before those wealthy-class debacles were defeated, the working-class suffered, and the most-vulnerable and least-fortunate suffered the most.
I'm not voting for anyone who doesn't understand these things.
I would rather vote for no one and accept my fate than vote for the ignorant or the impressionable who can be co-opted into sealing my fate.
As I said, I love that you care. But so do I care. You're not alone.
I care about you and about other strangers too -- particularly the most-vulnerable and the least-fortunate.
I promise, my intent isn't to discourse but to encourage and edify you.
If you made it this far, I commend you.
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Thom still believes that the values of the old "Democratic" party are prioritized by the leadership of the party in the present.
It's either that or Thom is in on the act and he's playing dumb.
Thom fully understands the SCOTUS decisions, from over the past 70 years, which have allowed the wealthy-class capitalists to corrupt the campaign finance and election systems while consequently co-opting the politicians to do the bidding of that wealthy-class.
He's talked about those SCOTUS decisions repeatedly throughout the years (even though he only mentions a specific set of decisions while ignoring others). Yet, somehow, he only calls out the corruption of the Republic-party.
So, it's one of a few possible things.
One: Thom sincerely believes that the current capitalist-leadership of the Democrat-party is the same as the leadership, with the same ideals,as when Thom was growing up (in the 60s and 70s). And, so, Thom says the ignorant-sounding things he says at times.
Two: Thom knows that the capitalists who fund the Republic-party are the same capitalists who fund the Democrat-party. He knows that the Democrat-party is nothing more than a paid-opposition whose main goal is to seem as though they are fighting against the Republic-party. But, Thom pretends not to know.
Three: The first two sentences from number two above, but instead of pretending not to know that both parties are corrupt and working in tandem, what we are seeing is Thom treading lightly. Rather than blatantly calling out the mutual corruption of both parties, he merely presents it. Maybe he does this to maintain access to Democrat-party politicians. Maybe he does it to coddle potential or current viewers. Maybe he does it to placate capitalist Youtube executives.
Whether it's one, two, or three, my retort is; "BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!! GET OFF THE STAGE!!!"
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