obfuscation: addendum

just another line of evidence that they are all in the same ideological faction with different routes to the same destination ( the preservation and expansion of the prerogatives of wealth ) this is from an article in today's n y times that inadvertently ( they are the mouthpiece of the east coast elite ifestyle class ) highlights the sameness...sometimes facts leak through.

obfuscation

i got a letter from my friend joe biden the other day

( he calls me “friend” in the body of the letter, how could i doubt him? nancy Pelosi called me friend in a letter a while back as well…friendly group politicians )..i get these from both sides of the aisle…by mail, email, and old tom cotton loves to send me texts whining about “ obstructionist democrats” as if that low life wasn’t doing some “obstructing” of his own over in whoretown…and there is a consistent theme in them all…they are asking for money…and, basically, through a medium of scripted fearmongering…in both letters the democrats needed cash to “hold and expand our majorities” that will allow the continued passage of “historic legislation” for the benefit of “everyday americans”…tom cotton, on the other hand, wants to regain control of congress to stop the drift towards “socialism” being engendered by the biden cadre…the urgency of these messages is intended to wring out as much cash from my personal coffers as possible with the threat of the demise of “historic legislation” or some weak-kneed socialist bureaucracy instead of the vaunted American “individualism” ( mythologizing bunch, politicians )…richard henry lee was from virginia ( first cousin once removed to robert e. lee )…possibly a slave owner ( the family business was tobacco ) and probably pro-slavery/states rights ( i have not researched either of those so chalk them up to supposition…i don’t really know for a fact just yet ) none of which negates the validity of this lee quote…”it is natural for men who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure to tell us now is the crisis, now is the critical moment which must be seized or all is lost”…he was reacting to the fearmongering surrounding the proposed adoption of the constitution...at the moment i am reacting to the still prominent component of fearmongering in politics here from the local to the national…these people claim public service however i am forced to wonder how much “everyday americans” benefit from their “historic legislation” in proportion to the real constituents ( read corporations and the wealthy elite ) they actually represent and fear and division are the tools they use relentlessly to achieve their agendas…the system is “rigged”…in favor of wealth it seems…

another question…how can it be that the law requires i list my occupation and name of my employer should i make political donations of $200 or more in a calendar year? my current employment ( such as it is ) is “at will”…so are my political views ( and committments ) liable to be communicated to my employer to sap that “will” to continue my employment ( oddly all anyone in management would have to do is mine this blog…my political views are manifest in it and, while readership seems limited, it is public )

…and, finally, even the cost of a forever stamp would help the cause along…it would be refreshing if they were honest about the exact nature of the “cause”…unfortunately that is obscured by fear and obfuscation.

lifestyle class grifters?

this is a sotheby's international realty advertisement from today's lifestyle class's philosophical and economic mouthpiece, the new york times...$107,797,000 worth of realesrate with a"price on request" ( we will be getting to that ) that may push the total value up considerably...the connecticut and new york properties may be, if this is not a bubble, reasonably safe investments for those of wealthy means...the arizona "home" may be imperiled by its location west of the 100th meridian and an increasing dearth of water in the colorado river basin...

the santa cruz california location has essentially the same issue as the arizona estate while the lower lake plot has a double threat of lack of water and the wildfires that have burned in the area...toasted home...landslides...cranky wildlife...a raft of possible issues and at $18,000,000 i would be inclined to say "not interested"...there's one in the bahamas...who knows how long they will be above water...and on the subject of sea level rise...

that "price upon request" could be a blind...bluffton is located on the may river across a channel from hilton head island and, if you bother to look around, you find that a lot of hilton head and bluffton are projected to be underwater as sea levels rise...someone may be looking to unload before the fossil fuel debt comes due along the eastern seaboard...another "no thanks"...lots of contingency in life and our footing as a species, let alone an ecomically viable nation, is considerably more tenuous than most people think...or care to realize...the "free market" and techno-optimist propagandists have been playing us all along...shaky realestate investments are just another part of the optimism induced blinders.

let me remind you...

...that these people are not now, nor have they ever been, neutral representatives of "the people's interests"...it has been a year since the overt signal for the suspension of the constitution ( in itself anomalous since politicians are diligently working on the state level to redistrict voting towards the limited franchise of the original, profoundly lockean, document in an effort to render the amended inclusion of the lesser kind moot) or civil war (to suppose that impossible would be to be hopelessly mired in the “good citizenship” of high school civics…there has already been a civil war…and a “war to end all wars” for that matter…tolerance for “the other” would seem to be a utopian viewpoint) and what has been done about it? seems much ineffective posturing and outright obstructionism (which is engendering a second successive failed presidency…the doubly vaccinated and singularly boostered donny was no treat) in a congressional behavioral sump full to the brim with narcissistic whores producing little result as the perpetrators and their legislative allies seek to smear the facts into unrecognizability…mid-terms are approaching, and while i cannot see them ameliorating the zoo/circus/freakshow nature of the above congressional sump, they could provide and index of how far the gerrymandering has shifted voting results to the right…which would be a line of inference about 2024… the outline for the seizure of power through the electoral process (a contested win, a declaration of emergency, president for life) has a long and well-studied history which usually does not end well for the dictator ( think caligula or maybe hitler…stalin is the only one i can think of who died in bed…even then it seems medical attention had been withheld until it was far too late)…while talk of that possibility (or , again, civil war…i read an article in which a “leading general” stated that in the event of a disputed election the military might splinter with some following “lawful orders” and others following “a trumpian loser”…shades of lee’s loyalty to virginia)

grows the canadians are beginning to ponder a response to an american reich…that is a long border…still…this is all supposition…lots of contingency in life and human cognition cannot grasp all the variables…the polity in the u. s. has been this divided before on a number of occasions…and, in fact, has been so since the get-go…”but a new phenomenon has made its way into the house since Friday. pierce butler, from carolina, has taken his seat and flames like a meteor.” willam maclay’s journal of the first congress 8 june 1789…”butler flamed away, and threatened a dissolution of the union with regard to his state, as sure as god was in his firmament.” same source 11 june 1789…state’s rights have always been a source of contention with the center yet the nation has survived although not unchanged…so change will continue to come…and not necessarily civil war or a trumpian dictatorship (although one would have to perceive donny as a readily controlled mouthpiece while some cheney-like “grey blur” holds the real levers of power in the background…in politics no one does things alone…there is always help)…if either of those events does come to pass however my thoughts are, no matter who prevails nationally,

the big winners will be vlad the impaler and xi dada jinping (who, incidentally, will become the 21st century’s first undead up there with the original vlad, ho, and mao)…something for the entire political spectrum to ponder…wondering if they have the intellectual elasticity to manage that.