The Road To The End: Why have Republicans abandoned America? Why are they promoting our planet Earth’s end? Why are they destroying our historic democracy? Why are their souls so eager to bend? How is it Republicans no longer care for any others? How are they not now fomenting upheaval How can they lie, cheat, steal, and even kill? How is this not the definition of evil? When did they abandon any and all honor? When did they learn such cruelty to defend? When are they finally going to discover That they are barreling down the road to the end?

"White Supremacy" Is ALL ABOUT WHITE INFERIORITY

What part of dumber, enthusiastically ignorant, bullying, dishonest, lazy, afraid AND violent (therefore gun crazy), murderously racist, misogynistic, nationalist yet ANTI-AMERICAN-DEMOCRACY, Anti-Law-and-Order and endlessly, desperately needing to blame all "others" strikes ANYONE.. ANYWHERE.. IN ANY WAY as “supremacy”???? AND THESE WHITE INFERIORS ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS inasmuch as they aren't Native Americans. Mustn't they ALL HATE THEMSELVES and need to get out of this country which THEY AND THEY ALONE INSIST HAS TO HATE IMMIGRANTS?

Republicans are: ANTI-LIFE; ANTI-GOD; ANTI-AMERICA! THEY HAVE LOST THEIR SOULS!!

ANTI-LIFE: 1) Republican Healthcare will deprive over 30 million people of Healthcare which will: Cause the deaths of thousands of Americans each year and deprive ½ of the births in America of all medical help; 2) Republicans are anti-welfare!! They want the children born but won't help keep them alive; 3) Republicans want any kind of gun available to ANYONE – however criminal or mentally unstable, with no registration or evaluation; and 4) Republicans are adamantly PRO-WAR. But as with being pro-birth but not pro-life, they do not want to take care of our veterans!  And ABOVE ALL they are ready, willing, and spending a fortune on destroying the Planet Earth.

ANTI-GOD: 1) Lying is one of the Republican fundamentals although we are not allowed by God to “bear false witness”(9th Commandment); 2) Republicans abuse aliens even though we were ordered in the Bible to: treat the alien as one of our own because we were aliens in the land of Egypt (Leviticus: 19:34) AND EVERY PERSON IN AMERICA'S ANCESTORS EXCEPT NATIVE AMERICANS CAME AS AN IMMIGRANT 3) Do no murder – but the fight against the control of gun sales, and the willingness to sell military weapons to foreign countries, to civilians even insane ones, and the stealing of healthcare and Medicaid are tantamount to murder. 4) From its beginning to its end the Bible demands that those who “have” must take care of those who have not. This is the thing that the Republicans TRY HARDEST NOT TO DO - (ANTI-WELFARE/SOCIAL SECURITY; PRO HUGE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH...); 5) Republicans consistently deny the reality of Climate Change and support all Earth-damaging works which is tantamount to the destruction of God’s creation. 6) Love of money – the other Republican fundamental – is specifically named as "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL" in the Bible.

ANTI-AMERICA: 1) Republicans are PRO-TORTURE even though THE HEAD of Army Intelligence has warned us that torture NEVER PRODUCES RELIABLE INFORMATION ...AND is dangerous for our troops and for our country; 2) Republicans are hiding in every way they can Russia’s interference in our last election because they benefitted from it and because they will have to remove the Republican President when it is exposed, and because they assume the Russians will now help Republicans to be elected. So rather than investigating the extent of the Russian interference and making an effort to prevent it in the future, they are instead trying to eliminate anything/agency which has the ability to expose the extent of the Russian 2016/7interference. 3) They try in every way possible to deny the right to vote to anyone who is likely to vote against them. They will not defend American Democracy. 4) Republicans are risking everything good about America by supporting an INSANE, very dangerous President (TRUMP) so that they can stack the courts with right wing judges and play to Trump's dumbed-down base for re-election. HAVE THEY LOST THEIR SOULS??????It is terrifyingly as if most Republicans have sold their souls. I will pray that God can forgive them even though I am profoundly troubled by how I feel about them.

Global Warming - Why Aren't We Doing Something REAL About It and NOW???

Do we all - ESPECIALLY THE BAD GUYS - really believe that SOMEONE ELSE will surely fix the Global Warming damage, and, of course, that it can be fixed? HUH???? How does that work? AND for how long will there still be time to fix the planet? What about our grandchildren? The Koch brothers must hate their grandchildren since they are so willing to burn up their planet...

Why aren’t the coastal countries of the world building many huge desalinization plants near their coasts – necessarily powered by renewable energy due to the danger of storms from climate change – and building national water delivery grids - like the REA electric grid of the depression era - to deliver water inland? These desalinization plants would: provide water for their country's ever more parched interior lands; lower the level of the oceans; and help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by allowing the growth of many more plants. Alone this addresses these three of the most severe and immediate of The Global Warming problems AND ADDITIONALLY provides vast employment opportunities, benefits to their food industries, lower prices for food, and stimulation for their economies.

Speaking parochially... ??Why isn't every state in America obliging its residents to recycle everything as does Maryland, which even makes money off of the results - to the benefit of its taxpayers and to the considerable lessening of its trash-disposal problem??

How to Pay For THE BIG FIX
Obviously this "fix" should be paid for by the fossil-fuel-industry profiteers. If, however, they are unwilling to do so, then they and their families (and their beloved money) must be exiled from the planet Earth, which they are so willingly destroying. They need only pay for their transportation to whatever other planet they choose.


IT IS GUARANTEED THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS DO NOT REALLY WANT TO SAVE THE EARTH. If they did, they would unite and work together as one organization, which would make them successful. Instead they all fund-raise far more than they try to help the environment. So we know that what they care most about is funding themselves. In fact they almost certainly DO NOT WANT TO FIX THE EARTH because then they would have to go out of business. WOW, what a conundrum... ESPECIALLY as they will go out of business when our planet dies but in the meantime they'll have all those funds they raised...

For REAL DEMOCRACY

Hey, Fellow Americans, in order for America to remain a Democracy, you’re going to have to give up your fantasies and your alternate universe and your propensity to blame and hate “others" and to be afraid. Not only Democracy but any kind of real life is demanding and requires a lots of attention, honesty, courage, self-restraint, and a willingness to pay for it from each of us. Real Democracy requires an educated population (Jefferson: The "Nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be") and we have - thanks to the Republicans - been deliberately dumbing down America. See other blog. Real Democracy requires still more - that you do your share and cooperate and compromise and take care of others and be fair and tell the truth about life. And, above all, Real Democracy requires you ALWAYS TO VOTE - ALWAYS!!! and to be as well educated and informed as you possibly can and to keep at it. The Fox News / Republicanism / TeaParty lies and fantasies and ugliness need to be left behind and in a hurry too. It’s time to grow up because time is running out for America, and when our Democracy goes, so will your guns. The folks taking them away won't want you to have any weapons! Time is also running out for your planet - you know, where your children and grand children will have to live ...IF THEY CAN...

American Cultural Hegemony

So How Have America's Richest Republicans managed to make the white NOT-RICH want what Is ruinous for them, for America, and for the World? Ahhh… welcome to our Republican-orchestrated "cultural hegemony" - America's COGNITIVE HOLOCAUST.

Because Republicanism has NOT ONE solution for anything (i.e., NONE of its fundamentals works...), Republicans can neither win elections on the merits nor ever tell the truth. For an absurd example of a fake fundamental beside the most obvious one of running for office when you supposedly don't believe in government....???, there is this other one: if "limited government" works, then why did we abandon the Articles of Confederation - the epitome of limited government, which we abandoned in the 1700's when we were a tiny country? And if it didn't work then, how could "limited government" conceivably work now that we are so much bigger, and the world is so much more complicated?

This complete lack of workable fundamentals means that for a Republican to be elected to anything Two Things are necessary: 1) a gullible, malleable, mentally and morally diminished electorate ready to blame anyone or anything else other than Republicanism for everything, and 2) candidates willing to tell any lie. The willingness to lie has come slowly - even John McCain couldn't bring himself to lie about Obama's character, but most Republicans are on board now most of the time (witness Mitt Romney). There was a time way back in the 50's when Republicans, like Ike, were decent, caring people who didn't have to lie all the time ...but no more.

Developing a gullible, fearful, ready-to-hate electorate is the end to which Republicans have devoted themselves both legally and illegally for decades now. It’s taken almost 40 years (coincident with the founding of A.L.E.C. though the germs were sown by the Nixon uglies), but the Republican campaign of disinformation and distortion and against pubic education - its campaign to make as many Americans as ignorant, afraid, and eager to hate as they can - seems to have worked on an alarmingly large number of not-well-off WHITE folks. [They have, of course, also worked tirelessly and in every venue to deny as many non-Republicans the right to vote as they possibly can and to try to scare away eligible voters if they are likely to vote Democratic, but their efforts to limit the right to vote are a different Republicans-Against-Democracy story than the "cultural hegemony" one, and this tactic has been used by the Democrats as well.]

The result of these many decades of working everywhere to achieve their dumb-down/fear-up/hate-up goals is that some astonishing percentage of NOT RICH WHITES are now glad to believe that what actually is of benefit-ONLY-to-the-super-rich (the folks behind the campaign) and ONLY for the short run even for the super-rich, is, nonetheless, what they, the non-rich, should want. The fooled - the mentally and morally disfigured - live in an alternate universe where they can't hear the truth, can't see what is in front of their eyes, can't suffer enough from Republican malfeasance to reject Republicanism. They can be told any number of impossibly contradictory - some of them unimaginably ugly - lies and readily accept each new one in its turn and also go to sometimes terrible extremes in defense of what is truly evil and disastrous for themselves, for America, and for our planet - for which they HAVE NEVER, EVER, we admit, been willing to take care in spite of REQUIRING ITS WELL BEING IN ORDER TO LIVE. Hmmm.. The Koch Brothers must really hate their grandchildren to go on destroying their Planet Earth, right??

The culturally-hegemoned now really seem to believe that America doesn't need taxes (never referred to as "tax revenue" because that has implications). This is a something-for-nothing fantasy which they maintain would work so long as America didn't HAVE TO spend anything on education or research or health services or social security or unemployment insurance or public services or regulation or safety protections or investment in America or on environmental protection or on veterans or good armor for our soldiers, or DEBT REPAYMENT, etc. And all this non-governance they think will be far better for America. They do believe that America will always need wild amounts of defense spending (most of which doesn't go to our defense, just to our defense contractors) which will be paid for ...somehow... (hint: with borrowed money, which need never be repaid...?). In this magical world: as long as there are lots of guns and weapons systems and prisons (for our minorities ...not for the rich), no taxes, no abortions, no birth control, nor any hispanics or Muslims (or Native- or African-Americans?), and so long as there is no regulation nor any debt repayment requirement, America will be the way it was meant to be. Their America needn't protect its people - especially not the babies after they're born - or animals or land or water resources - only its borders and unborn babies. It gets to use any weapons whenever, wherever, and on whomever it pleases and imprison anyone it wants in secret prisons and torture its prisoners and keep them forever locked up, and can spy on anyone it wants, and needn't cooperate with any other country or help anyone including our own veterans, nor pay back any of its debt nor the interest on this Reagan-Bushes debt, which keeps accumulating and adding to the debt. This America, even if entirely owned by other countries because of its borrowing and despised by the rest of the World, will be the best country.

So… Dear Fearful, TeaPartying, fantasizing, ignorant, foolish, deaf and blind folks who Hate So Readily and are so deeply racist and so easily made afraid, and so equally The Lying, Thieving, Rapacious, Murderous, Heartless, Amazingly-Astoundingly-Inconceivably-Unimaginably SHORT-SIGHTED Rich, here are just a couple of little things wrong with your understanding of anything:

1. We have to invest in our "enterprise," i.e. America, to compete successfully in the World (Hint… ECONOMICS 101). We have to invest in our people and our industries and America's infrastructure if we want to have a big economy and beat the rest of the World. We can't stay on top with a dumb and unhealthy population and without high-level investment in our infrastructure and industries, without regulation, and without conserving our resources and using our Defense money carefully ---ECONOMICS 101 ... ECONOMICS 101 ... ECONOMICS 101. If we don't invest and regulate, we fall ever further behind - the American pie will keep getting smaller. There is no magic to be had anywhere. There really isn't another universe. We won't be the richest country in our World or be the most powerful, and we certainly won't be safe. We are already alarmingly behind in educational achievement (COMPLETELY INTENTIONALLY - a republican campaign since the late 70's) and healthcare and investment in America and are falling ever further behind. We are also incredibly in debt (largest debt since WWII), and debt - contrary to dumb-down-dogma - HAS TO BE REPAID and WITH INTEREST on interest on interest on interest on interest on interest...

2. "Tax and spend" works; "Borrow and spend" doesn't - never has and never will. For example, the 8 years of the Clinton "tax and spend" administration created 22 million jobs, brought America its longest running economic boom in its history, and produced three Government surpluses. Do you remember that the President you thought was so magically wonderful, Reagan, raised taxes TEN TIMES during his eight years in office? Borrowing and spending (now the only Republican way) is guaranteed to fail. Under the much lower taxes especially for the rich borrow-and-spend 8 years of the W. Bush administration, no jobs were created. The economy ended up with the 2nd worst financial crisis in its history, the second largest deficit in its history (2nd only to WWII), two (or more) unwon wars, and a collapsed housing and construction market. The rich got MUCH richer, and everyone else stagnated. People's homes lost much of their value. The American middle class is disappearing, and they did all this by selling America to other countries (hint... a dangerous thing to do).

3. Our “War on Terrorism” is the OPPOSITE, as follows:
** It isn't a real war, and it isn't winning anything anywhere, BUT it is making us fanatical enemies world-wide. In other words it is fermenting, not combatting terrorism.
** We are actively supporting terrorism with our GUN policies. Republicans vigorously promote and Democrats are afraid to campaign against unlimited, unregulated gun and ammunition sales in America which supply has been proven to be used by terrorists of all sorts. We are therefore willingly aiding and abetting terrorism and demonstrably not at war with it where gun supplies are concerned. The NRA is spending a forturne and fighting tirelessly for there to be WAR-WORTHY GUNS and AMMO for terrorists and gangs and drug runners and our own home-grown mass-murderers. And this kind of pro-terrorism is what Republicans aggressively support.
** The so-called "war on terrorism" has been conducted by incompetent, particularly cowardly and sadistic amateurs who invent tactics as they go along and who resolutely ignore military wisdom and the lessons of history (ask Dick Cheney - these are his specialty, ESPECIALLY THE COWARDLY PART!).
** It is inconceivably ANTI-INFORMATION. This is so the leadership can continue to lie to everyone. They don't bother to concern themselves with whether or not they have the right information. The Bush administration deliberately dismantled the organization started for the sole purpose of building the long, long overdue Intel data warehouse - frantically called for by the Institute for Defense Analysis because we are so far behind other countries in this fundamental Intelligence requirement.
** It HAS to keep us afraid which surely makes us less able to defend ourselves.
** The Republicans' selling us to other countries is deeply dangerous and much costlier than paying as you go, and:
** Ruining our economy and our infrastructure and our people is making us ever weaker and smaller.

4. As for your hatred/fear of aliens (read: Hispanics) and feelings of urgency about getting rid of them, note just a couple of little details: First of all, WE WERE ALL ALIENS WHEN WE CAME HERE, except our native Americans. Secondly, "they" (the "aliens") do all the work that our big, fat white boys won't do, which keeps the price of our agricultural and other products way down (all those things you eat and use). Thirdly, the Hispanic peoples in America are part native American and part Spanish, both of which peoples have been in this country way, way, way, way, way longer than any of you "white" folks. Native Americans have been here for 20,000 years. The Spanish came more than 100 years before a single one of you showed up, "Whitey." You, therefore, need to get out of THEIR country. They sooooooo were here first.

5. Democracy is: "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people". Republicanism is opposed to each of these parts. It is not possible to be against any of them and be pro-Democracy. Republicanism is entirely anti-Democracy. ...So... have I stated this in enough ways and simply enough that you - the cognitively diminished - have been able to understand?

6. If our Democracy fails, whoever the new rulers are WILL NOT ALLOW ANY OF YOU TO KEEP YOUR GUNS since these guns might be used against them. By the way has anyone ever pointed out to you that you are NOT "pro-life" if you are pro-gun or pro-war or pro-execution or pro-torture or anti-universal health care or anti-welfare?

7. There will be no schools or roads or bridges or healthcare or security or protected retirement or clean water or safety or travel for any but the ultra-rich and no clean-air for anyone (clean-air can't be bought for some - only for all).

8. Civil Rights will be non-existent, which sounds OK until your civil rights (such as the right to possess arms) are the ones being violated. You can scream for help then, but there won't be anyone left to help you.

9. The ultra-rich will be – just as they are in any “banana Republic” – very, very, very, very few in number because the American economy, which had heretofore made so many people rich, will have collapsed and never again work they way it used to. Almost all of you greedy, think-you’re-going-to-be-on-top folks will be down at the bottom too. Almost everyone will be poor and have to work all the time, and no matter how hard one tries, almost everyone will always be poor. There will be no more of that "better life" to dream about and no time for all those fantasies you now waste your soul and so much time and energy and money on - especially not the "get rich" one!

10. The rest of the World will forget about us except to wonder why America betrayed every one of its principles and gave up its freedom and its place on top so willingly, and why it doesn't care if it ruins itself or the World. They will understand, of course, why America has gotten so dumb because they have been watching it happen and have long since been taking advantage of it.

11. America will no longer be safe, so at last, FINALLY FOR GOOD REASON (always before it was Republican BS), you can really be afraid. In fact you probably ought to be EXTRA afraid knowing that you, the gullible, ignorant, hating, ugly racist cowards, and, you, the deceiving, thieving, greedy, heartless rich, did this to America. The rest of America will almost certainly be very angry with you for what you have done to our country, and you won't have a single friend or admirer anywhere else on Earth either.

11. Remember that EVERY FINANCIAL AND SAFETY CRISIS in the last 150 years has been the result of Republican greed, immorality, and de-regulation (The Great Depression – Hoover; Watergate - Nixon; The Savings & Loan Scandal; the massively expensive, completely failed defensive system "Star Wars," and Iran Contra - Reagan; The Great Recession, 9/11, the unnecessary Katrina flooding of New Orleans and their complete lack of response, the BIG BROTHER spying on Americans, torture, secret prisons -- Bush-Cheney horrors all, etc.). Republicans also cannot win wars - even with all our weapons -- except against tiny countries, like Grenada.

12. If America manages somehow to survive this latest hideously short-sighted, anti-everything-good-about-America Republican campaign, we will forever be telling the correct story about it and about "you" in our histories, just as we still tell the story of all those other Republican disasters. Something as stupid and ugly and greedy as this will, of course, be tried again and again and again and again for as long as our American Democracy survives and you Republicans are provided with those freedoms which make your ugliness and stupidity and greed so potent. If, however, we lose our democracy and our safety and our prosperity, which may eventually happen under efforts like yours, then the correct history will not get written, but then you will not know how to read anyway, nor will you have time to do it. Either way the Republicans who caused this will never accept any blame for it. They never have. Still we all have to meet Our Maker and accept the blame due each of us so I wouldn't be one of you rich, killer-liar, callous, visionless, so short-sighted, mindlessly greedy cheaters or you eager-to-hurt-others, so in-need-of-people-to-hate, excessively-fearful dummies either - not for any amount of your worshipped money or opportunities to hate.

The Dumbing Down of America

By far the biggest story, the defining one in fact, of the last 40 or so years is the Republican (A.L.E.C.) orchestrated “dumbing down of America,” and the American "mainstream media" has not only not investigated or reported on this monumental American disaster, it has colluded in it.

None of the mainstreamers has ever undertaken in any of these ongoing decades to investigate the decline in funding for public education - terrible teacher salaries, no investment in school buildings and supplies except the replacing of good textbooks with disinforming ones and at the same time the huge amounts of money spent in endless attacks: on public education in general and on teachers' unions, and on course content in particular (e.g., on government / Democracy / THE URGENT NECESSITY THAT EVERY ONE VOTE AND BE INFORMED); on universities, in which attacks they have largely succeeded by making American college and graduate education the most expensive on Earth; on real research and real research institutions; on grants; and, of course, on broadcast and print media, including Public Television which though under right wing attack is nonetheless, like the Mainstreamers, not observing these degradations. Then there is the ever rising cost of college education and the CONCOMITANT LACK of available, affordable money to pay for it, one of our Nation's biggest scandals that has, until Elizabeth Warren's campaign to help, been ignored by the Mainstreamers.

The mainstreamers have not brought before the public the decline in U.S. world educational ranking (3rd in 1979; nearing 38th now, a change which could not possibly be accidental) or that there are no longer enough qualified American students who can afford it to fill our graduate schools thus reducing the quality of the education - for lack of revenue. Nor has the media ever even mentioned - let alone investigated - the rightwing's own massive investment and involvement in disinformation: their pretend news; the ugly, anti-scientific, falsified research; phony research organizations and grants; their anti-democracy activities; and their endless hate-, fear-, and WAR-mongering. The MM has until the Trump era virtually ignored the massive scandal of the Rupert Murdoch enterprises' malpractices both in Great Britain and here. However they are finally dealing with it appropriately - calling lies lies and liars liars.

And not only have they not been following all these huge stories, the mainstreamers have themselves: quit telling the whole truth; been reporting rumors as truth; increasingly given voice to their own rightwing liars; ignored the grotesque and even dangerous fabrications of the right, or pretended that the rightwing lies were somehow balanced by what was said on the left (...What left? ...What fabrications? ..."Justifiable" lies? ...Dangerous lies that can be ignored???). And then there is the incredible malfeasance of the New York Times with regard to the crimes being committed by Israel against the Palestinians.

This collusion of the mainstream media in this attack on America is stunning given their supposed "free media" ethic, their supposed commitment to real news, their supposed mastery of business and the importance of an educated labor force for America's competitiveness, the need for well educated police, the need for well-informed, believing people to defend Democracy, the still fresh infamy of their complicity in the run-up to the Iraq War (re-invented for each new military excursion) and PREEMINENTLY that these organizations will be the first to go once our Democracy is lost. Even their dominant "corporate" (read rightwing/immoral) point of view, won't convince America's now thoroughly, aggressively ignorant that any but the most rightwing media aren’t “LIBERAL” because this has been a staple of the dumb-down campaign.

At least with the advent of the Trump era attack on our Democracy, the MM with the NOTABLE EXCEPTION OF Facetime and Twitter> has started investigating and printing the truth about what the pro-Russia Republican teams are involved in. But the Mainstream Media has to study in depth this Dumbing Down campaign and then demand National solutions in order to join with Thomas Jefferson -- BTW America's number one anti-big-government patriot -- who nonetheless reminded all of us that "The Nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be."