The Stupid, It Berns II

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Top Five Things I Observed Attending Yesterday’s Bernie Rally in Denver

https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/aging-hippie-bernie-rally-somewhat-reminiscent-of-the-60s/

1) There was a strong presence of drugs.

2) There was a lot of sexual depravity.

3) There was a noticeable lack of racial diversity in attendance.

4) The rally was surprisingly low energy.

5) The whole rally was built on fear.

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My Walk on the Wild Side – Attending a Bernie Sanders Rally

By Brian C. Joondeph

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/my_walk_on_the_wild_side__attending_a_bernie_sanders_rally.html

The Bernie rally started off with some local officials whipping up the crowd, including one young woman with a high-pitched voice screeching unintelligibly, a metaphor for the Democrat party, made worse by the dismal acoustics in the convention center. Finally, Bernie, the man of the hour, took stage and launched into his standard stump speech.

Trump is a racist, sexist, homophobe. (So is Michael Bloomberg based on recent revelations, but Bernie hasn’t gone there, yet.) America is a racist country through and through, he told the raucous throngs. The solutions are the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. As predictable as sunrise and sunset.

It was indeed a walk on the wild side. As Lou Reed sang in the iconic song, “Everybody had to pay and pay. A hustle here and a hustle there.” Every one of Bernie’s proposals was a hustle. Everybody, not just the rich, has to pay and pay. Interestingly, four years ago, Bernie railed against millionaires and billionaires. Now that he is in the former category, he only mentions billionaires. Who of course aren’t “paying their fair share” of taxes.

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Hershey Squirt*

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/12/hersey-squirt.html

Social Solution...003*

'WELFARE'

I've been disparaging of Presidential candidate Andrew Yang.  I may have to retreat a bit on my analysis of his main platform, being a monthly check from the G.  I must admit I have not researched any of his positions.  I only came across the Wages for Housework movement in Britain, and that growing into the Universal Basic Income idea as it has become.  Just for breathing oxygen you get money.  It is a radical idea, and I will give Yang credit for the proposal. He can carry his own water, though.

My interest is in solutions, not poverty pimp-dom.  It has been increasingly apparent to me that people in this country don't want to work.  They simply want enough money to fulfill their needs. What does any large corporation - which the US Government is - do when they have too many employees?  before laying off and skedaddling to Mexico, that is.  Typically, they offer an early retirement package, or buy-out of the contract you signed when you started to work there.  This country has a large segment of the population that is raised generationally in social democratic welfare alphabet agencies.  They have never worked for a weekly pay check, nor are they ever going to.  On the other end of the spectrum, people have worked their entire productive years contributing into Social Security and feel entitled to remove ten times the amount they put in in their lifetimes.  Either end put together, these are the unproductive of society, pay stub deduction type, the non-fleeceable.  They don't want to work, they simply want money.

There is a movement in Congress now attempting to "reform" (bend over taxpayers) the Pension Benefit Guarantee Board or PBGB federal law bailout for private and institutional pensions.  Many corporations have used this to escape liabilities in bankruptcy, the Board paying a dime on a dollar from other plans doing well in this economy.  They want to expand the margin to much higher %.  If your plan is doing well, funded at 100%, your plan has to pay more into the Deadbeat Club. Chgo and IL have plans going down in flames and Jabba the Pritzker, the current Gov, wants to combine all state plans into one, the floating, nearly fully funded downstate plan has to take on the liability of City of Chicago,  Cook County, IL. Some city funds are funded at 30% or less.  Public funds are controlled by the City Treasurer and mayoral appointees.  State, county and city funds are run politically, the result being an example of pillage and greed on the backs of those doing the work.  I wonder how the tradesmen and laborers left hanging by the bankrupt City of Detroit are doing.  Good bye pension. Kaput.

ERISA  - Employee Retirement Income Security Act is the law, I think Nixon put it in, with some legal protection for private pension agreements and guidelines.  Of course, made way too intentionally complicated, but generally run by a Board of a company and worker or organization of employees.  Direct contribution like 401(c)3, or defined benefit, a Taft-Hartley plan of Industry and Trades Groups. Money is never defined clearly as a contribution or a deduction on wage package. Most T/H plans are in better, if not good shape.  The public plans are Biafra babies of the economy.

My point being after they destroy the current pension arrangement by tossing the lead life preserver of public institutional investors and their fiduciary liability on the private debt side.  Socialism at its finest.  The State caused the problem, the State solves the problem.  The only thing left is Social Security and the clamor will be to put the people screwed out of their contractually negotiated pension by the State, to be placed on another G payroll, at a fraction of the benefit.  'Downsized', if you will.  A life time monthly benefit for all the old, disabled and lazy.  If only: 1) they pay for their own health care 2) buy their own food 3) find affordable housing 4) find babysitters for their children.  They can secure a job without losing the benefit.  They are responsible for minor children, in every way, schooling included.

Starting in 2020, every child born will be given a stipend put into his or her Trust account. Upon reaching the 18th birthday without felonious behavior, a check will sent.  Accepting the buy out, using the money to start a career or travel, or drug induced coma, there will be no Unemployment Insurance, no food stamps, Aid to Dependent Mothers, SNAP, or any other social program sponsored by G for that person's lifetime.  As time goes on all those Welfare Agencies will dry up. The monthly stipend would continue until incompetence or death.

The Ham and Eggers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_and_Eggs_Movement) were a political party in California in the 30's.  Their constituency were mostly old gold miner types of Calaveras, Eldorado, and Placer counties.  Every registered voter got $30 a week, straight up.  What would that be today, as soon as I figure that up, I'll edit this post.  

A Universal Basic Income, with conditions of responsibility, is a radical thought.  With a little guaranteed bump in the budget, a person may quit that lousy job, leave that abusive spouse, might have the basics of a healthy life at hand.  It's a gamble that the joy of freedom will bloom.  

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/01/

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Left Roots

The Ideological Roots of Modern Socialists

By Allen Gindler

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/ideological_roots_of_modern_socialists.html

The modern left subscribes to the Bernsteinian idea of evolutionary socialism.  Most likely, leftists have no idea about the origin of this particular current of socialism and simply adhere to its provisions.  Evolutionary socialists work within the framework of the democratic state and seek to chop off pieces of capitalism through legislation undermining a free market and entrepreneurial initiatives.  The main effort is concentrated on wealth redistribution by all means and the promotion of a broad variety of social programs and state regulations.  Bernstein emphasizes a tendency to increase the role of ethics in the political struggle in modern society.  The Left has capitalized on this idea and portrayed itself continuously as the moral authority of humanity.  Its modus operandi is to politicize and moralize about any issues facing society.

The Left understands and appreciates the power of the state.  Leftists seek to solve all problems through state interventions.  Democrats support the growth of the state's influence, regulations, public property, and state generosity.  The Left either consciously or casually subscribed to the provisions of the theory of the totalitarian state developed by Italian fascists.  Modern leftists are, as a rule, atheists, yet they religiously believe in the power of the omnipresent and omnipotent state. (Highlight, EWS)  Intolerance of the Left to the opinions of its opponents is evidence of the adherence to the totalitarian state of mind, as well.

The Left creatively adopted the theory of the political myth developed by the French revolutionary Georges Sorel.  He was a theoretician of revolutionary syndicalism and national syndicalism and a progenitor of Italian fascism.  Moreover, again, it is doubtful that the majority of the Left has ever heard about Sorel's work.  However, Sorel's idea of myths as mobilizing and politicizing factors got transmitted from generation to generation of revolutionaries and reformers.  The vast majority of issues submitted for public discussion by the Left are political myths.  Some myths used to be a real thing, such as racial segregation, but in the modern setting, continuously playing a racial card is undoubtedly a political myth.  Evidently, the essential type of myths developed by the Left is the victimhood of the different strata of the population.  The leftist elites encourage the captivity of the people in the aureole of victimhood and link them to the wealth redistribution engine of the government.  Thereby, the elites generate a cohort of obedient electors, the whole purpose of whom is to guarantee the elites' coming to power.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/what_did_marx_and_engels_think_of_minorities.html
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"Ohio passed a bill outlawing abortion after detection of the fetal heartbeat. But not before an amendment was proposed by lawmaker Janine Boyd to exempt African American women from the new regulations. So, is Ms. Boyd some sort of retrograde racist/KKK type who managed to sneak onto the Ohio legislature and is now fighting to implement a covert white supremacist agenda? You might well think so, but as a matter of fact, Ms. Boyd is a progressive Democrat and an African American. So why would a black woman want fewer black babies just like the evil white supremacists presumably do? Why are their interests so closely aligned? I think it's because at its core, progressivism is a philosophy of death. Despite all of its high-minded rhetoric about human rights, equality, fairness, grrl power, and liberation from oppression (all of which, by the way, it pretty much stole from the Christian church), progressivism is really nothing more than a demonic suicidal death cult. That's all it ever is, and ever can be. And when there's nothing else left to murder, it will turn on itself. All progressives ever actually produce is death: dead cultures, dead countries, dead economies, dead higher education, dead races, dead children, dead babies, and a dead future. The ultimate purpose of progressivism is that we might have death, and that we might have it more abundantly." -OregonMuse, Ace of Spades

Bring Back 'dupe'*

Bring Back 'dupe'

Gary Allen puts it in his 1971 classic, None Dare call It Conspiracy: "...pressure from above and pressure from below... The pressure from above comes from secret, ostensibly respectable Comrades in the government and [elite Globalist] Establishment, forming, with the radicalized mobs in the streets below, a giant pincer around middle-class society. The street rioters are pawns, shills, puppets, and dupes for an oligarchy of elitist conspirators working above to turn America's limited government into an unlimited government with total control over our lives and property."

"The American middle class is being squeezed to death by a vise. In the streets we have avowed revolutionary groups... Virtually all members of these groups sincerely believe that they are fighting the Establishment. In reality they are an indispensable ally of the Establishment in fastening Socialism on all of us. The naive radicals think that under Socialism the 'people' will run everything. Actually, it will be a clique of Insiders in total control, consolidating and controlling all wealth. That is why these schoolboy Lenins and teenage Trotskys are allowed to roam free and are practically never arrested or prosecuted. They are protected. If the Establishment wanted the revolutionaries stopped, how long do you think they would be tolerated?"

(Trotsky/Bronstein in Rockefeller Center)

Debt Slaves 101

Professor Doom chimes in on the student loan scam:

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/

It really is demented how our country’s system creates money from nothing, and uses it to enslave, rather than help, the citizens. I sure look forward to a time when I’m not so alone in wondering why we have such an evil system.

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