Monday, November 25, 2019

Congressional Hearings in my Life...

I have watched Congressional Hearings since 1953. There were the Kefauver hearings on corruption. Then McCarthy hearings asserting everybody in the Pentagon and State Department and Hollywood were Communists. Then The Warren investigation came and I read it. Not very compelling either. Watergate was a blast just after finding out that Vietnam was an illegal war and the Harvard Boys got so many killed knowing they had no chance of winning the War. Reagan didn't remember anything about the Iran-Contra Affair but the hearings were good. The Republicans, after 8 years of investigation Impeached Bill Clinton for consensual oral sex; the impeachment was more obscene than Bill's actions. George Bush and Gore had hanging chads and the Supreme court ruled on a case it had no jurisdiction over, except when it says it has jurisdiction it does have the jurisdiction. But in no case before or after has the Supreme court ruled that it has jurisdiction over a State Supreme Courts Rulings over the state election processes. And we are all still looking for the "weapons of mass destruction". Now I've been through the Mueller Debacle and the Ukraine hearings. We will survive, but never be the same. We won't even be able to hold our heads up if and when we get to Heaven. Please dear God, deliver us from evil, and from our elected officials who do this evil, generation after generation.

Friday, November 1, 2019

Monarchy or Actual Democracy

Its a philosophical choice where the philosophies are pushing to the "extremes". 1. We must work together to accomplish decided goals and the whole country will prosper as a consequence. 2. We must raise ourselves up, work for ourselves and our loved ones, get as much as you can legally get and we will all rise up together and the country will prosper as a consequence." The extremes are now: 1. Every one's opinion counts equally, no one is superior, we are all in this together and to keep decision making power we must trust each other and follow the majority opinion. 2. There are superior people who must make decisions for all of us and to acquire and keep the power of decision making anything goes. It is Jefferson saying "man is wise enough to govern Himself and "Monarchists" are wrong while Hamilton says man is not wise enough to govern himself and must have the rich and powerful make decisions , Monarchists are right. There is no attempt to pull in from the extremes and "compromise" a little, or to find an Aristotelian middle. Kings and Princes make the laws or everyone votes directly on the laws. We have neither. I'm for the latter. See assocactualdemocracy.com.