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America Is So Ideologically Fraught

If you dip into American political history you are confronted with a whole bunch of surprising anomalies. America is so ideologically fraught and vulnerable to domestic propaganda. The riven polarising state of politics in America today is not as unusual as some commentators make out. Perhaps, it is more a reflection on the general ignorance about America’s past that we get this emphasis today. Political leaders have been lying to and manipulating their citizens for the life of the nation. Trump’s lies are legion but they are nothing new in the political framework of the United States. Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com

American Political Parties & Their Origins

For instance if we begin with the Democratic Party, this was, back in the 19C, the southern slaver’s political party. This half of America saw the economic future of the country as dependent upon enslavement of African Americans or blacks as they called them back then. There were, also, northern democrats and this half of the union did not run on the economic model of slavery. Abraham Lincoln formed the newly established Republican Party in the 1850’s. Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Many of us know about the Civil War (1861-65) and the notion that Lincoln freed the slaves. “The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.” - (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war)   The reality is that white men were and are always more interested in their own present and future. Heather Cox Richardson, the historian, tells us that Lincoln primarily formed the Republican Party to free economic opportunity for poorer ordinary Americans. The Democratic Party favoured the larger oligarchical concerns of wealthy plantation owners in the south and factory owners in the north. It was a case of who and what would drive America. The confederate democrat politicians were willing to dissolve the union and fight for a different future for their states. 625, 000 Americans died as a result of the Civil War. Photo by Clement Eastwood on Pexels.com

American Stories & Slaveries Role In Them

Interesting bon mots are revealed in American history. Davey Crocket and the Alamo is a celebrated western frontier story of great sacrifice for liberty and the American way. In reality, this was another episode involving the right to enslave people. The Spanish and later the Mexican state had outlawed slavery in 1829. The territory known as Texas was seen by southern slavers as a great place to expand into. Thus, you have the great American hero fighting to liberate Texas from Mexican rule in large part because settlers wanted to use  enslaved labour on their properties. Of course, not just African slaves were enslaved by Americans, as the Indigenous Indians were enslaved and traded, especially in the west. America as an entity was being fought over between those who saw slavery as their economic model for success and those who did not. The rapidly expanding west was in the southern camp when it came to exploiting slave labour for profit. Photo by Gotta Be Worth It on Pexels.com The South Won The War, Well, It’s Aftermath Anyway Cox Richardson reckons that the south really defeated the north after the Civil War politically if you examine the facts. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865; and his vice president Andrew Johnson was a democrat. Johnson became the president. “Once in office, Johnson focused on quickly restoring the Southern states to the Union. He granted amnesty to most former Confederates and allowed the rebel states to elect new governments. These governments, which often included ex-Confederate officials, soon enacted black codes, measures designed to control and repress the recently freed slave population. “ - (https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/andrew-johnson) Photo by Aaron Kittredge on Pexels.com Free But Not Welcomed Or Embraced The freed African slaves had no rights in many states and could not give evidence in courts of law, along with Indigenous Indians, Chinese, Mexicans and anyone else white Americans did not consider worthy. The land of the free was only such for white men from the right ethnic backgrounds. This state of affairs was the same in Australia and most other new world colonial nations and territories. This is why killing Aboriginals and these ‘so-called’ lesser races was hardly ever prosecuted and punished. Settlers wanted their lands and they would do whatever it takes to grab and hold onto them. Federally from 1865 African American men were granted rights but the southern and western states legislated laws to prevent them from gaining equal freedoms to white American men. The black codes were brought in to trap this large labour pool into slavery via peonage. This would ensure around some 800, 000 African Americans were caught up in justice programmes designed to exploit their free labour right up until around 1942. The Ku Klux Klan would emerge during restoration in the south. The white sheets they wore were originally employed to create the effect that they were ghosts of confederate soldiers risen to take revenge on blacks and black lovers. Lynching African Americans would become popular in the southern states. President Trump Postlaunch Remarks (NHQ202005300037) by NASA HQ PHOTO is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 The GOP’s Journey From Lincoln To Big Business Politically, the Republican Party would soon become beholden to big business and the Lincoln vision would fade from view. Chattel slavery may have been outlawed across America but African Americans were not universally welcomed by whites. Racism and apartheid remained rife across the land. There were Republican Party leaders campaigning against any economic redistribution of wealth to African Americans. It is striking that when slaves are freed and slavery outlawed across the globe more efforts are made to recompense slave owners than to economically help those recently enslaved. Gee, white people are special, aren’t they? Property ownership and business are still, today, more highly valued than things like human rights and equality. America’s Fear Of Socialism The American susceptibility to fear mongering around the dangers of socialism is a core theme that runs through the country over many decades. Even, during the New Deal period instigated by FDR and continued on by republican Dwight Eisenhower there is plenty of pushback about the creation of the welfare state. Robert Taft and Joe McCarthy make life very difficult for many over the journey. The accusations about communists and treasonous behaviour are like a kind of madness. Obviously, Arthur Miller saw the parallels with the witch trials in Salem back in the 17C. Perhaps, it is a puritan thing running deep in the veins of Americans. What makes this kind of thing easy to facilitate, however, are the lax laws around facts and truth in politics. Telling lies and making mischief with mistruths remains a serious problem in America for the media and society as a whole. America is so ideologically fraught that it has always been like a powder keg waiting to explode. Now, with their 400, 000 000 guns in circulation around the nation and weekly massacres of school children and other innocents it is a sorry state of affairs. One million guns are registered and the rest are unregistered. Heaven help the police forces. Social anxiety must hover around the edges of life everywhere. Harvesting in the 1950s by Evelyn Simak is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 The New Deal Crazy ideas and attitudes get handed down intergenerationally. Children grow up listening to their parents bang on about stuff. Lies are told, believed and spread. The Republican Party with Hoover at the helm as president ushered in the Great Depression via their margin lending on stock market trading and lots of dodgy dealing by traders more generally. Despite this Coolidge laid the blame at the feet of the American people. You get this repeatedly in America, the rich and powerful apportioning blame upon ordinary folk. The economy crashed and the policies of the GOP were manifestly inadequate. It was time for a New Deal. Targeted fiscal spending invested in the American people and paved the way for greater prosperity for the many rather than just the few. Neoliberalism It seems we are back here again after 30 years of Neoliberalism and monetary policy. Inflation is hanging around and it is supply side inflation – so not particularly amenable to raising interest rates. There is a housing crisis everywhere in America, Europe, and Australia. Governments stopped building social housing because neoliberal economists assured them that the market would take care of everything. Well, it didn’t and we do not have enough affordable housing for workers. The neoliberal order has made a small coterie very rich and the vast majority of people worse off than their parent’s generation.  The trickle down effect hasn’t happened and high inflation has sent wages and incomes backward in a big way. Lots of us cannot afford to live in our own countries anymore – this is a huge failing of governments. Overseeing the massive expansion to the wealth divide between haves and have nots is not what governments want to be remembered for. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Trump & Fascism On the political front we are seeing the rise of autocratic political movements and fascism. Donald Trump is sounding more like a fascist every day on the hustings in his bid to be re-elected in 2024. The GOP has become home to right wing extremism in a big way. Big bold lies are told every day. White supremacists are giving themselves elbow room once again. Governor Ron DeSantis (GOP) in Florida is banning books and African American studies in colleges and schools in his state. The conservative anti-wokester does not want white people to be encumbered by any guilty feelings about their past, it seems. Few Good Guys In Government So, to sum it all up. You have a timeline where the democrats were the party of the slavers back in the 19C. The GOP were briefly the good guys at the time of Abraham Lincoln, but this did not last long. Very soon, in the late 1870’s they became the party of big business screwing the little folk. The Northern Trust and JP Morgan were running the country behind the scenes. McKinley was their guy in the white house for years. Teddy Roosevelt, the media tart, started breaking up the trusts. Woodrow Wilson the southern democrat continued that on. Rough-Riders, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, U.S.V by Library of Congress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Rough Riders In Cuba You know those rough riders invading Cuba treated their horses so poorly that they all drowned getting off the boat. Therefore, they didn’t have any horses in their battles with the Spanish – it was all a media re-creation when they got back to the States. The lies in American public life are legion. They Shoot Presidents Don’t They? Therefore, this fluctuation between the two main political parties in the US representing the odious, the greedy, and the downright terrible continues through the 19C and the 20C. There are minor breakouts of sunshine where the GOP or the democrats will do the right thing by more Americans but these only ever last for short periods. Shooting and killing presidents is an increasingly popular pastime for disgruntled stake holders too. Abraham Lincoln was truly one of the very few great and good presidents. Perhaps, his legacy has been aided by his truncated term in office and assassination. JFK, similarly, is remembered with rose coloured glasses, probably, because of the same reasons. There are a couple more presidents who were assassinated in the later 19C, but they have not been so fondly remembered. Garfield and McKinley. The Communism Boogie Man This boogie man of American politics, communism, is wielded out during campaigns for the presidency repeatedly. The strange definition of it given by radical conservatives is so broad as to be all encompassing of the left and the centre. America is so ideologically fraught that Truman and Eisenhower, both conservative presidents from opposing political parties, were accused of running administrations sympathetic to communism by hard right wing GOP politicians during the 20C. Robert Taft, McCarthy, and William Buckley Jnr were unwavering in their attacks on the government of the day. The intolerance by these demagogues over the liberal consensus was remarkable for its extreme ideological nature. This belief that American business should be free of all government regulation is absurd in its extremity. The sanctity of making money is given an almost religious pre-eminence by these people. Indeed, God was brought into the fight against communism on a regular and frequent basis. A belief in an invisible supernatural entity becomes essential to the definition of being a true American. Atheism is communism by just another name, according to the rules of the political game. Photo by Sawyer Sutton on Pexels.com Trump & Roy Cohn Trump has a connection to these folk via Joe McCarthy’s lawyer, Roy Cohn, who was some sort of mentor for a while. Apparently, Trump admired Cohn’s brutalism in the way he went after witnesses on the stand in the anti-communist senate enquiries in the 1950’s. Lives were destroyed to satisfy political appetites for bloodletting in the game of power. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©MidasWord Read the full article

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The anti-Semitic rhetoric coming from the base of the Democratic Party is not new.

The anti-Semitic rhetoric coming from the base of the Democratic Party is not new. In 2021 they removed a $1 billion clause that would restock the Iron Dome. This is a military system whose sole purpose is to DEFEND! Hamas is a “globally reviled terrorist organization” and Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.

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Were it not for the astonishing Iron Dome missile defense system, the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group would have been able to reduce Israel’s residential areas to rubble in recent years, rendering much of the country unliveable.

In this past May’s 11-day conflict alone, an estimated 1,500 rockets fired from Gaza were heading directly into Israeli civilian neighborhoods. In excess of 1,400 of them were knocked out of the sky by Iron Dome interceptors. In the little more than a decade since the system was first rushed into service, it has stopped thousands of the terror groups’ indiscriminate rocket launches from killing and maiming Israelis, with an intercept rate somewhere between 85 and 90 percent.

Hamas works feverishly to outwit Iron Dome — altering the range of its rockets, modifying their warheads, attempting to overwhelm the system with multiple launches, and, most recently, by utilizing drones to carry its warheads across the border.

Each of the dozen or so Iron Dome batteries reportedly deployed by Israel costs upwards of $50 million, and each interceptor rocket costs $20,000-$100,000. The Gaza rockets they stop, by contrast, range in cost from hundreds of dollars to the low thousands.

But, on Tuesday, with their political power magnified by the gulf between US Democrats and Republicans on almost everything, a small group of “progressive” Democratic legislators held their party hostage and secured the removal of a clause providing $1 billion in supplementary funding for Iron Dome from a critical US government-funding bill.

This is a military system whose sole purpose and capability is defensive.

It keeps people alive despite terrorists’ best attempts to kill them. It is the vital first line of defense against the war crime of indiscriminate rocket fire directed at civilians.

Iron Dome’s principal deployment, moreover, has been facing a territory, Gaza, in which Israel has no military or civilian presence — having withdrawn to international acclaim in 2005 — an enclave that is ruled by a globally reviled terrorist organization.

It would also be crucial in any war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror army with far greater rocket and missile capabilities than Hamas and the shared goal of destroying Israel.

But the very readiness, the cynical scheming to target Iron Dome, of all things, is despicable and unforgivable. It shows that, for some legislators, obsessed by a loathing for a small state in a toxic region, absolutely no avenue is off-limits when it comes to harming Israel and rendering its people vulnerable to their would-be killers.

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Leo Joseph Ryan Jr.

Today, a quick search unveiled that Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. was a member of the Democratic Party, the same courageous senator who tragically lost his life in the Jonestown tragedy. His legacy in American history is a poignant reminder of the dedication of public servants. #LeoJosephRyanJr #DemocraticParty #AmericanHistory #PublicService #JonestownTragedy

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2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Today, I write to express my enthusiastic support for Robert Kennedy Jr. as a candidate in the upcoming Democratic Party presidential primaries. In a time when our nation stands at a crossroads, we need a leader who embodies the progressive values we hold dear and possesses the vision and determination to bring about meaningful change. Robert Kennedy Jr. is that leader.

I firmly believe that Kennedy's unique qualities and commitment to specific conservative values make him an exceptional choice for America's nation's highest office. I genuinely believe that you have lost trust in Jo Biden. Robert F. Kennedy is your man!

Kennedy's unwavering commitment to social justice and environmental sustainability aligns perfectly with the principles at the core of the Democratic Party. Throughout his career, he has tirelessly fought for equality, working to address the systemic issues that perpetuate injustice in our society. His passion for ensuring equal rights, opportunity, and dignity for all Americans is an inspiration to us all.

Furthermore, Kennedy's extensive environmental advocacy showcases his deep understanding of the urgent need to combat climate change and protect our planet. He recognizes that safeguarding our environment is not only crucial for the health and well-being of current and future generations but also an opportunity for economic growth and job creation through sustainable industries. His forward-thinking approach to addressing climate change is a testament to his ability to balance environmental concerns with the realities of our economy.

Kennedy's dedication to healthcare reform is equally commendable. He understands that access to affordable, quality healthcare is a fundamental right that should be available to every American. His advocacy for transparent healthcare systems, affordable prescription medications, and improved mental health services demonstrates his commitment to ensuring that no one is left behind in our pursuit of a healthier society.

Moreover, Kennedy's leadership style emphasizes the power of unity and collaboration. He has a proven ability to bring diverse stakeholders together, encouraging dialogue and finding common ground to achieve shared goals. In an era of heightened division and polarization, Kennedy's inclusive approach is precisely what our nation needs to heal wounds, bridge divides, and forge a path towards a more united and prosperous future.

As we enter the Democratic Party primaries, it is vital to consider candidates who embody our values and possess the experience and determination to enact meaningful change. Robert Kennedy Jr.'s track record, his unwavering commitment to progress, and his ability to inspire hope and unite people make him a truly transformative candidate.

I am merely an observer and conservative from the United Kingdom. I urge Democrats to rally behind Robert Kennedy Jr. in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Unite behind a leader who has consistently fought for social justice, environmental sustainability, and accessible healthcare. You can create a future that embodies the principles and values you all hold dear, ensuring a better tomorrow for all Americans.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein, the long-serving Democratic senator from California, has announced her intention to return to the Senate following a brief medical leave. The decision comes after weeks of speculation about the senator’s health and her ability to continue serving in her role. Feinstein, who has represented California in the Senate since 1992, took medical leave in early May, leading to…