LETTER: The local paper was gracious and ran my submission quickly. They did a few edits and made it into nine paragraphs. I present here the original copy sent to the paper with two correction. One, beachhead, I have a tendency to make that two words. The other was quid pro quo does not need capitalized as I had, had it. There title was It failed. Rose Garden Tyranny: Our national bicameral system of governance has failed. The inability of Congress to function is not a reflection of the masses’ total polarity on the issues. This is a manufactured conception whipped to fevered pitches by such “news” outlets as MSNBC and Fox News. Tools of multinational corporations and the uber rich who have bought or stole control of global governments, with the exception of a few rogue nations and some break away countries in South America. Neo-liberalism is the correct terminology for what many in this country perceives as the neo-con movement. Its current beachhead formed when Milton Friedman’s Chicago School of Economic Thought was unleashed during the Reagan Administration. South American countries were the test subjects for this global economic quest. I wrote many letters during this time against the invasive actions of our country toward nations with duly elected governments. Suffice it to say, the end result of our nation’s foreign policy was using the IMF and World Bank to leverage control of other nations’ resources. To explain the entire process would take multiple essays. The deregulation under President George W. Bush, simply expedited the power of the controlling fiscal elites, helping to bring home the neo-liberals agenda to the United States. They are now working diligently toward controlling all aspects of society. They have already destroyed a viable middle class and make no mistake about it. They seek to privatize all public services from Social Security to fire and police protection, education, water and trash collection, you name it. I’ll add here that all administrations since President Reagan’s have worked toward accomplishing this control, including President Obama’s. After all the President’s political viewpoints compared to the 1970s would make him slightly right of a moderate republican. I myself am considerably left of today’s progressives on many issues. Speaking with conservatives lately, mostly Christian social conservatives, I have found common denominators as to the problems facing our nation on the secular front. If we the people are going to take back our nation, the Christian right and the progressive left will need to unite to format a new party. This is no small task and it starts with conversations about the problems of our nation, that common ground. They will also have to learn to address more inflammatory issues capitulating through compromise by appeasements to their more extreme members, a quid pro quo over the long run. The neo-liberalism that has the world in its grasp is not a free-market economy. It suppresses competition and hinders job growth for starters. In the free market economy the founders created, men of wealth and power would hold office for a couple to three terms: a gentlemanly pursuit, viewed as a duty to repay the nation for their success, promoting the general well being of all. They understood the concept of duty toward community, the lost art of compromise and civil debate, more of less. The disenfranchised right and left can either meet in the middle, or continue to be left on the fringes, as the divide of neo-liberalism forges the new feudalism of globalization, where mammon rules and ecological destruction rolls along.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:26:02 +0000
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