A Critique Of Modern Day American Politics

The Democrat-Republican debate has been controversial and has been heated as elections were upon us. However, before we attempt to find societal solutions through government. We must evaluate whether the system of the structure itself is functioning as it should. We must fix this system, before we elect political pundits to go represent us under this paradigm.

A government is a structure enacted to facilitate the development of a society, or as the American founding fathers simplified it; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We call government workers civil servants, because government is put in place primarily to serve its people. This way we can measure a government's efficiency in its capability to serve the people.

Thomas Jefferson reiterated the dangers of consolidating power under a central government. He warned of factions, self interested groups with political mobility and capital that would exploit government funds for self interested benefits at the expense of the public interest. In modern day terminology, we refer to this practice, as lobbying. The consequence is that it makes the structure of government parasitical to the people, instead of supportive. The government is fighting to maintain its interests, rather than the interest of the people.

Due to the influx of media such as T.V. which is passive information, as opposed to if he or she was reading a book or newspaper. These "programmes" we watch, allow for mass programming ironically, and propaganda dictates elections election winners. Perception is everything and media can shape a public's perception of a candidate based on the information they choose to share. So aspiring political incumbents, if they are to have a chance in Congress, have to appeal to popular media sensationalism and lobbying to consolidate funding for campaigns.

This is essentially the flaw with the bi-partisan two party system. An honest politician with the interest of the people in mind is unlikely to be voted for. Simply because their interests is in actually helping the people, would conflict financial interests of the media, and multiple other entities with financial interests in mind.

The reason is that lobbying entails financial compensation to politicians in exchange for political favors. Which manifest as bail outs to only a certain number of companies, subsidies and what is refered to us as "pork". Unrelated government funded projects to individuals hidden in the jargon of legislative paperwork. The bills passed in modern day times are generally lengthy, unnecessarily complex, with hidden lobbying agendas. Only lawyers and a few legislators actually take the time to decipher the content of these bills, essentially American people are expected to follow laws they are not even aware of, and are persecuted for not following them. The legal profession, has essentially become a profession of finding loopholes in the legislation.

The two party system is essentially perpetuating the parasitical nature of government. It is essentially "Frankenstein" a monster. A structure created to serve the people, but has ran amok and is instead serving itself. For a candidate to be nominated for either Republican or Democrat primaries, there are lots of strings attached. Some of these people mean well, but the political spotlight comes at the cost of compromising values, morals, and ideals; not only for the media and their interests, but also lobbyists who are funding their campaigns. Surprisingly they are indebted to other party members and if a piece of legislation has to be passed, it has to be passed or compromised drastically, with under the table negotiations and deals.

The government is not being held accountable for its actions, by the people because the people supposed to represent us are in Washington rather than local areas. The only real solution is localizing government, to the state, and municipal localities to maximize accountability, and to vote for third party root-movement candidates, who do not have lobbyist ties.

Turning Adversity Into Opportunity; Within Political Upheaval.

We will elaborate first, on what we can do within the system, to counter the fascist tendancies and executive power grab. Using the constitutional mechanisms that limit power and the other branches of government to limit deleterious political actions. Second we will encounter what we can do, outside the system to protect our wealth and our liberties. Using the political instability to benefit, regular American people and investors.

Let us see what the system can do within the system. Judges must counter the executive

Legislative branch, make sure things are lawful, by reviewing the legality of laws through the mechanism of judicial review; where the supreme Court and other courts can determine the legality of laws, based on their constitutionality. Only problem is that this will take years, and the problems must be encountered within the trials that address them. 

This is especially useful by making sure that those deported get due process of law, if murderers and rapists, can get the right to an attorney and due process of law; there is absolutely no reason as to why, those being deported cannot have a fair day in court to determine as to whether it is lawful, for them to be deported and be separated from their families. This is not to say that border crossings should be legal, as fentanyl kills one person within the United States every fourteen minutes, the raw materials are shipped from China, processed in Mexico, then shipped through our borders. 

This is a precarious situation, and the executive branch should be allowed to stop this, but within a legal framework and granting people due process, so that legal citizens will not be deported, as a political plot against those criticizing the government for one, cutting jobs and making social security and veterans affairs, less efficient in providing services to those who paid for it, there entire lives and serving and getting wounded for the nation.  The executive branch, should be  limited with their executive orders, the executive branch is not supposed to make laws, but only enforce them.

Also, this is an opportunity for the people to use town halls to address their grievances amongst their elected government officials in town halls. Also, colleges should stand up against the government using denial of college funding against those who are standing up against the situation in Palestine. It is not wrong to have the free speech, to just say that innocent people should not be bombed or killed.

People must realize, that this will affect research into debilitating diseases and new technologies within universities. The truth is that, every dollar invested research in medicine and technology, has a double fold return in the future. So the government cutting investment in research within colleges is not a good idea.Instead of consumerism, perhaps people could learn to be more financially disciplined as prices go up. Refusal to buy expensive products, ultimately will force those prices to go down. 

The government should not be allowed to use denying college funding as a mechanism against free speech. That should be illegal. Federal college funding should not be used as a tool, against free speech, by denying those who are against the injustified war being waged by Israel on Palestinian civilians. Protests should not be vilified by denying funding to colleges against these monstrosity occuring.

Using adversity as opportunity for growth.Use this as a mechanism of awakening, as to how the rich and congress use subsidies and insider trading in stock market to enrich themselves; this however is an opportunity for regular people to get a share in the stock market while the prices are still cheap. Also an opportunity for the people to voice their grievances against a Congress stifled with lobbying and cooperate interests. It has literally become democracy for sell to the highest bidder, it is obvious and unfortunate.

America's global dominance is on the decline unfortunately, imperialist bullying with trade wars, has made the world more economically secure by seeking partners within their own regions, and making them less reliant on American businesses. A strong dollar is making American goods less affordable with their exports, and other countries receiprical tariffs.

 Forcing foreign countries to invest, within their own markets and a safe way is investing in gold and antique art, to maintain value and the value increases with inflation, protecting you against inflation and high tarrifs. A savings account is loosing money with inflation. Invest in real estate and more stable assets. With a weaker economy, stocks are cheap to buy, once this tarrriffs end, the stable Businesses will recover. This the best opportunity to buy stocks, while they are cheap. However one, must be aware that every investment has a risk within it.

What we can do outside the system? Protections exist against this, people are rising up against this, nationwide people have stood up against unlawful acts such as D.O.D.G.E. Although I agree that the government is wasteful. It is important to understand that only Congress has the power to create an agency, usually after a law has been passed, and the agency is created to enforce it. That power is not within the executive branch and also the moral decadence of that fact, the Elon Musk bought his position in the government, by giving millions to Trumps campaign. 

They went as far as turn the Whitehouse into an advertising agency for Tesla. People were upset because they did not vote for Elon Musk, and also conflict of interest, the government regulates the car industry and now we have someone within the industry, with the power of firing the people that regulate him. 

The extent of the rich in politics is obvious people have woken up,  create protests against the corporate oligarchy, tariffs shouldn't last long,.the higher prices will reduce consumer confidence, the federal reserve might lower its interest rate, perhaps some deals may succeed, the stock market is in shambles but only represents 10 percent of rich people and the top of the economy. 

The decline in stocks is an opportunity for regular people to get into real real estate, while prices are low and to buy stocks while they are cheap. Facilitating an opportunity for everybody to acquire partial ownership of businesses buying stocks, while they are cheap and profiting when they recover. 

With higher prices in groceries, people should turn their backyards into gardens, those with more than enough should sell at local markets, this creates self sufficiency, better health and also jobs. People should move more towards self sufficiency and that would coincide with green technology, decentralize electricity as a massive amount of electricity used is derived from using coal. A move towards a more independent citizenry, coincides with renewable green technology. 

However the technocrats that own the social media, now have control over what information people can see on their sites. Facebook has created revolutions that toppled governments, so social media can be a useful tool to pass information, however the algorithm rarely favors unbiased truth, that may not be in their favor.

In conclusion, we are living in a time of unprecedented political change in a dizzying race; no one knows what will come next. Nonetheless we need to be prepared, so we can maintain our peace in the middle of all of this political upheaval, and turn the adversity into opportunity.

The Dangerous Demise Of U.S China Relations.

The trade war, has accounted for a tumultuous time in our history. The stock market declined significantly, and is still in a state of limbo. As neither head of states nor, investors do not know what to expect from these trade wars. It is difficult to see how the tarrifs could be reciprocal, regardless Americans are getting federal jobs slushed, the veterans affairs is slashed, among many other critical administrators who are seeing both their budgets and employees slushed

I get it, the D.O.G.E. whatever it is, because only congress has the power to create agencies and administrations. It by definition, does not get any of its power constitutionally, and neither does the executive branch have the power, to arbitrarily create agencies. It is rather ironic, that Elon Musk who is supposedly taking a chainsaw to the waste in government; has been himself a big recipient of large government payments for space-x and subsidies for Tesla. As a matter of fact most billionaires, become billionaires because of the government.

Besides that, America has initiated a trade war with China. Needless to say it is a little too late. What China practices is controlled capitalism, meaning the state is in charge and in control of businesses and are ultimately the deciding factor, as to whether they will pivot this company to success or not. China having a large population without jobs, and the government investing extensively in manufacturing and creating deals with Western countries. Have let their human rights abuses go unchecked. From unfair wages, to horrible working conditions.

As Americans our original instinct, would be to leave the job, and find something that pays better. Whereas the Chinese create millions of graduates, thousands of them send to the United States for education for a reason. Now in China there is a massive influx of individuals with education, a large chunk of them getting education abroad.

This comes down to whether you believe intellectual property is justified. Unlike other libertarians I believe in intellectual property, some maybe against it, stating it doesnt take capital to create information, therefore all information should be open source. However it takes money to research, and resilience to persevere with a new product, until it gets public recognition, and the brand is trusted enough to gain the profits they aspire to. Them stealing intellectual property allows them to profit of what American companies are making, by making it a cheaper price but at the expense of American profits. One of the consequences of outsourcing jobs, is that the people learn how to make the product, and can make the products, outside the company.

With all these graduates coming from America. This has supercharged the stealing of intellectual property, of which the Chinese government has secretly funded or turned a blind eye to. This is not just a problem that happened, the American people caused it on themselves by moving manufacturing to China, to exploit the lack of human rights and meager working conditions, perpetrated and kept hidden by the C.C.P. at some point the American oligarchs chose profit over human rights, cause it makes more money.

Thus the companies that chose not to outsource their labor overseas, lost out on the competition as they could not compete paying fair American wages. Now, women who you used to take care of households entered the market, and then minorities that weren't allowed to work, were released to the market. Though both of those things are a good thing, everything comes at a cost.

The sudden influx of minorities and women to the work force, created more demand than supply of jobs, but technology was increasing productivity and the wages increased along with productivivity. With the sudden influx of all these workers, wages could stay stagnant while prices increased with persistent inflation. Our manufacturing jobs all gone to China,.America has come to rely heavily on finance and the service sector.

Most of what we use from iPhones, to androids, to computers are made in China. In sweatshops and avenues they cannot make that much. Trump relented on the tariffs on electronics, whereas China's tariffs stand and have cancelled a multimillion dollar deal with Boeing for their planes.

This is not a good idea because the chinese own large chunks of united states bonds, and debt. If they dump these, it will cause problems with financing the federal government. It seems to me that this government has bitten of more than they can chew. America no longer has the leverage that it use to.

While America was busy implementing their policies by forces, the Chinese were building infrastructure in Africa and Asia, and joined the BRICS alliances. Since Trump trade wars more than half the population of the planet are a part of the BRICS countries. Our push to have the United States dollar as the global reserve currency by force, has pushed other countries to join BRICS use their own currencies or currencies with large stable countries within the organization.

I understand Trumps frustration the C.C.P is not playing by fair free trade rules. Trump can't have his cake and eat it too, we cannot have a strong dollar and strong exports simultaneously, this will always result in a trade deficit. As the American consumer can afford more, with little currency, but it will take lots of capital for people to afford American goods,because the wages and high prices for resources are included in the price,.plus a strong currency, makes it harder for the world to afford American goods. 

China has participated in currency manipulation, to keep their exports affordable and sometimes the government will fascilitate dumping of products for cheap in countries economies, to run the domestic companies broke. The price of cheap commodities, is the loss of domestic jobs, and a further dependence on China. With the Belton road initiative, china created the infrastructure for trade with developing countries that have resources needed for near future technologies.

China now processes more than 80 percent of all the Earth's rare earth, and is exporting most of its goods to Asia and Africa, not the United States. Some have stated that seventy percent of what is in Walmart, is made in China or has parts made in China. Trump had to make an exception to technology as most of our phones,.and computers are made in China.

Protectionist policies won't bring back manufacturing, maybe a few companies getting government favors, will bring back it's manufacturing to America, but most will not, and the tariffs will move more jobs to India, where labor is cheaper. It seems that America is frantically struggling to hold on to its position as the global hegemony.

Unfortunately times are changing and we are witnessing the slow collapse of an empire. We need China way more than they need us. Our own manufacturing is done in China. They know how to make our own products for cheaper, we cannot compete at those prices. Our greed for profits moved all our manufacturing to China, and the tarriffs will only serve to make everything more expensive,.and pushes China and other countries away from the dollar and towards the BRICS nations. The West depends too much on China, to have leverage in trade wars. This will not end well for us, it's already crushing the stock market.

This seems less than a strategy, than America frantically struggling to maintain its global super power position. However the Chinese economy is now larger than our own, or is in the process of surpassing it. China posses nuclear submarines capable of hitting the United States, and has been doing military drills around Taiwan.

Taiwan, makes the chips we use for our computers. Though china does not yet posses the possibility Taiwan does, they want to annex it back to mainland China, so they can posses the technology; control United States access to badly needed chips, silicon valley badly requires, and trade routes between Asia and China which is largely facilitated by the Taiwan straight.

The United States has bases in Japan and south Korea, and has vowed to protect Taiwanese democracy, and has patrolled multiple air craft careers and other sea vessels in the Taiwan straight to deter Chinese attempts at Taiwan. However the tariffs have weakened American soft power in Asia, and the tariffs have pushed counties suck as Vietnam, to side with China,as they are now a more stable and reliable trading partner and ally. 

The tariffs have created global uncertainity as they are not recipripricol but are unilateral nonetheless. The United States has more money, therefore they buy more than everyone else, therefore trade deficits are inevitable, a tarrif because we need them more than they need us. Only hurts the American consumer, and China is no longer dependent on American imports, so the United States will suffer more from the tarrrifs than China will, with its Belton road initiative, facilitating greator global trade, than it doea with the United States.

The United States has isolated itself from its allies. Will make products more expensive from the consumers, and it will take years, even if somehow American labor will become cheaper, and will attract those companies back; which is highly unlikely. The tariffs will not compensate for the tax cuts to the rich, and if it seems that it is, it's only because the sales tax will be higher for the rest of us.

These protectionist policies will only serve the oligarchs, and it is doubtful that the tarrrifs will be successful, as they are already cutting back. Because of lobbying the rich control the government and 10 percent of them, own 90 percent of the stocks. So they are not happy with the stock prices dropping so low, concessions will have to be made.

 As the stocks drop, will we witness another large transfer of wealth to the top 1 percent, who own more than the bottom 50 percent own more, as they have the capital to buy cheap stocks and once the tariff fiasco is over, will profit millions as the market corrects itself and millions will have lost their I.R.S. We are witnessing the collapse of the Chinese American relations, and a war might be provoked over Taiwan.