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AN essay - today's socialists, tomorrow's conservativeS
Stable accessible government institutions, with leaders elected in fair elections, not bought, not profiting from privilege, serving the interests of “We The People”, is a desire and goal of all Americans, citizen and non-citizen.
Following the American Civil War political leadership stepped aside giving the captains of industry and finance political leadership. The cycle repeated with progressive leadership taking hold again in the early 20th Century again replaced by today’s captains of industry and finance. History is not linear but cyclical.
In the years before the American Civil War, our country witnessed inspirational leadership as seen in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, John Adams and his son John Quincy, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln and many more on all levels of leadership. Young, bold and daring, these leaders were driven by principle, love of country, not ideology.
The years following the Civil War saw leadership pass from men of greatness to men of wealth and greed focusing not on their country but themselves.
With the rise of what became known as the Robber Barons of the last half of the 19th century, men and women alike stepped forward arguing for schooling of children, care for workers injured on the job, laws saying children under 12 are to have their hours regulated in the mines and elsewhere, urban and government reform, the ones in wheelchairs are no less equal than those walking on two legs, the veteran having lost his hearing, and much more, due to the roar of the cannons, and worse, should receive special consideration. Progressive thinking flourished not based on ideology, but simply on what was seen right by the laws of common sense, by people possessing good values and character.
These advocates, labeled socialists, communists, and worse, of their day are still alive today, arguing for universal health care, fair tax laws, removal of corporate money from elections, affordable and decent housing, respect for the worker but called the same as the ones calling for children under 12 not to work in the mines. That is socialists, communists, scum and worse.
Of this cyclical dynamic, the tyrants of industry and finance do their evil thing. Americans, citizen and non-citizen, involuntarily live under the “Iron heel… of corporate domination” to use the words of President Glover Cleveland (1888).
Time to return to leadership seen in the early 19th century. Young and bold leadership is emerging from the bottom, moving to the top of the social and political world. One such leader is Daniel Lurie, Mayor of San Francisco. Called by the Washington Post as San Francisco’s quiet radical, Mayor Lurie recently cut “The ribbon of a locally owned grocery store in North Beach, a neighborhood that has been without a full-service store since the Safeway closed in 2023.”
There is no radical talk heard from this mayor just his words, “I think it is radical for an elected official to think about his or her city and just stay focused on that…in San Francisco…we didn’t keep our eye on the ball...If we do that, if we do the basics of government for the people…they’re going to do the rest.”
Since 2024, the year of Mayor Lurie’s election, those living in tents in San Francisco has fallen by 85% with the level of unsheltered people down 22% from 2024 to 2026. Mayor Lurie says his city’s CEOs are to be treated as, “A part of the city”, unlike that said by Mayor Katie Wilson of Seattle to her city’s CEOs- “Bye”.
When President Franklin Roosevelt was asked whether his New Deal policies made him a socialist, he replied, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”
Mayor Lurie speaks of being true to our values, that is the value of taking care of each other. Taking your neighbor as he comes not as desired and render to him aid. Sounds not like socialism, communism but old fashion values put forward in the Testaments, Old and New, and the Qur’an.
Time it is to move on with new leaders knowing their ideas, labeled crazy, are tomorrow’s conservative ways of thinking giving rising to new ideas with today’s new leaders becoming tomorrow’s old guard facing tomorrow’s new leaders.
WE ALL WANT TO LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE...
the streets are safe, where we can go out into the neighborhood, to the park, to the store without fear. A community where we send our children out to play knowing they will come home safely, where our children go to school without police patrolling the hallways.
We all want to live a life as lived as once a child in a community where schools educate with the best teachers, the best books, the best technology.
We all want to live in a community where our work is meaningful with pay sufficient to care for family with no need to pay the rent, the electric bill, water bill, food bill with a credit card or a government handout. We all want a job where we are respected.
We all want to live in a community with decent affordable housing with a faith making sense, that speaks to us.
Each of us respect family, freedom, kindness, integrity, democracy, seeing these foundational beliefs as the core of happiness.
These foundational beliefs translate into a shared belief in clean air and water, quality education, protection of privacy, real and affordable health care. Consumer protection, including banning excessive prices on the necessities to live, is of these beliefs.
Ensuring our leaders are elected by you and me in fair elections not bought by the few with assurances our leaders serve the interests of We the People not using their privilege to profit themselves is our common quest.
But the above is elusive mandating a thinking that the credit card (the slippery lender), the government handout, corruption defining our lives, are to be avoided through an economic system in which you are respected as a human being and as a worker, assuring fair and adequate wages, the very physical foundation of the spiritual foundation necessary for the happy life.
A thinking uniting us, not dividing us, keeping us strong with the few becoming weaker and the many stronger is our common quest. A faith grounded in our neighbor mandating love for children, spouses, parents, friends, is to be extended to love for our community.
A thinking this is mandating this faith is not to be kept in a box hidden away in the closet taken out when convenient.
This faith is to be manifested in citizenship where the concern is not to be charitable but to establish rules giving us a world where charity is no longer needed.
A thinking that seeks a community where The Five Pillars of Man, that is the Physical, Intellect, Emotional, Spiritual and Love, are honored in belief and deed giving us the American values long cherished as foundational to personal independence and self-reliance.
Assuring a fair chance for all regardless of background and beliefs, succeeding in an economy based not on public ownership but private ownership and a free market is key. As is moving about in freedom from an arbitrary control denying personal choice, free will, living a life meaningful with real participation as citizens in our government institutions.
Essential is the grasping of this desired world achieved through the blossoming of The Five Pillars, in particular The Spiritual Pillar.
THE FLOWERS LIGHT UP THE WORLD, WE SHOULD TOO
WAR NEVER ENDS
We live in an impersonal world where we are covertly constructed to live a life ignoring our roots, our heritages, to fear God, where our worth is measured by what is here today and gone tomorrow, the impermanent. Unhappiness is pushed aside by politicians (the vulgar) and their pimp bosses, saying our enemy is the alien, the immigrant, those different in appearance and thought, walking among us.
“Wars are sought to satisfy the dirty hunger of the rich for more dollars”, said Henry Ford. Those who question this statement are labeled un-American, traitors, communists, socialist, radicals, scum who need to be sent to a penal colony in Guam as one former senator suggested.
The citizen loses interest in politics as politics has no room for him. His vote is of no consequence. His voice is not heard. His concerns are not important.
At the end of the day, it is the elite/rich who corruptly finds room in politics. The one not there sees his taxes raised, his quality of life diminished while the elite/rich find their taxes cut pushing up profit busily working to break up and divide the American people, (citizen and non-citizen) along religious, racial, sexual and political lines.
The elite/rich are the creditor class to whom the people, the debtor class, owe everything they have and a lot more they do not have. At the table of politics, the elite/rich sits, their servants wait on them. One has a voice heard. The other has no voice.
The world, of the people, workers, citizens, has become one of sterility and emptiness under a night sky of falling stars giving us a world of little if any light and meaning. Even death lacks meaning in a world where the soul of man is furnished in the best ways of the here and now, hiding their within.
Our world is one characterized by corruption, materialism and cultural vulgarity. There is lacking a human spirit to feed upon giving us dull citizenship with no imagination once important to the development of this country. In this absence of fire in the hearts of our youth, concern for the hungry children is wanting in the worse way. The world is no longer relevant to happiness.
Politics is the work of deception and lies by the politicians (the vulgar) of the elite/rich. Once told we cannot vote for the man who kisses the ring of the pope. Today told cannot vote for the man who respects the alien, the immigrant, and the one who worships and loves differently.
At the same time the elite/rich and their politicians (the vulgar) in their servitude cannot live without you embracing their dreams sold to you through easy credit fed by their advertisers.
The church is a business seeking tax exemptions with little focus on the hereafter. Occupied by false prophets surrendering the concept of the Shepherd gives us sheep wandering alone in the desert.
Alleged leaders of the polity speak of admiration for the US Constitution but not reading it, not teaching it, not living it. Leaders of the pulpit and government are peopled not by men and women of moral conviction but heretics losing a grip on reality, ignoring their duty to virtue.
We grew up to discover God as presented by the clergy is dead. That people breathe death, not life, with a secularization embraced by the clergy destroying religion. Playing golf on the sabbath says far more about us than just playing golf.
Little interest in the hereafter is expressed on any level of living. Emphasis is on the present. Giving the people football, beer, drugs and gambling making them easy to control is in the interest of the elite/rich and their politicians (the vulgar) in servitude.
Men and women no longer dream of owning their lives, their destiny. We live in a world where it is either too much science, no God versus too much God, no science.
Rise Up. Stand Up. Have the courage of Mohammed, of Christ, of Joshua. Remember the courage of the mother of Vietnam joining the mothers of Virginia Tech understanding that which transcends oceans.
Make a world reflecting the better angels in each of us. Walk away from patriotism. Walk away from the clergy. Walk away from the ways presented to you by the hypocrites and embrace the ways of our children who show the way forward in their total faith and dependence on their fathers and mothers, a thought seen in that all of humanity has a father and mother.
The elite/rich live as cannibals, eat each other, living on the labor of the people, the workers, workers, you and me. Their immoral way is the way of lies put forward through bought and sold politicians (the vulgar), telling you, with the approval of the clergy, you need to change your ways.
No, it is they who need to change. It is they who need to step down.
Obsessed we are with stories of the elite/rich, but no obsession is there for the children going hungry in our country. People not heard of, with no voice, the intruders into their lives are not seen, not spoken about. Not true concerning the elite/rich.
DREAMS NO MORE, BASEBALL NO MORE
“Rivers do not drink their own water, trees do not eat their own fruit, the Sun does not shine on itself, flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other, no matter how difficult it is…Life is good when you are happy but much better when others are happy because of you.” Pope Francis.
For many, success is difficult to measure in a constant struggle chasing material goals. People who are cherished receive less love. Life becomes a game where the goal is not to lose. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
THE PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED
The Problem being addressed in this project is simply this. That human life will never achieve true happiness, life’s full potential, until its intellectual and spiritual faculties (Pillars) are allowed to blossom as the pillars of the flower blossom in the Spring reaching the flower’s full potential. That human life will never see its potency into actuality because the intellectual and spiritual faculties of man are endlessly beaten down by a system of one group enslaving and controlling all others.
This is the continuing battle, as old as the hills, between the few and the many, the rich and the poor, the know it all and the rest of us, the bosses and the workers. For thousands of years this battle has gone in favor of the few, the rich, the elite intellectuals, the bosses. Time for this battle to go in favor of the many, the poor, the workers, the true producers of our nation’s wealth. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
THE PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE
IT NEEDS TO BE STATED RIGHT UP FRONT THAT THE PEOPLE WORKING IN THIS COURTHOUSE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, ARE DEDICATED, HONEST AND HARD-WORKING. FROM THE JUDGE IN CHARGE TO THE MAN CLEANING UP AFTER THE HOMELESS, EACH IS IMPORTANT AND TO BE RESPECTED. WITH THIS STATEMENT, LET US BEGIN.
The courthouse, the subject of this essay, located in a major East Coast city of the United States, is of considerable size, thousands of square feet, multiple floors, the size of a long city block. CLICK THE PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE
THE AMERICAN DREAM ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK
Ethan and Patricia, our young couple living in Baltimore, among America’s best, have among their focus contributing to the betterment of their country. As American citizens they honor duty to virtue with an intention never to lose this virtue.
They do not reject the American Dream. This dream is not dead. The dream of their parents lives on in them. They embrace it. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
WORKING 280 HOURS A MONTH AND EXPENSES NOT PAID
Ethan and Patricia, with Ethan working 40 hours and Patricia 30 hours each week, have a total household income, before taxes and deductions, of $5,795.00 per month.
Ethan and Patricia use their employer’s health insurance plan with a deduction of $193.50 to $365.70 payable bi-weekly with no coverage for dental/vision care.
After payment of taxes and deductions, Ethan and Patricia bring home monthly the sum of $4,685.00 representing 19% of their income going to taxes and health insurance. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON ETHAN AND PATRICIA
LIFE ROUGH WHEN PATICIA BECOMES PREGNANT
Coming home from work with joy in her heart, Patricia shared with Ethan the joyful news of their pregnancy making their dream of family about to be made real. Questions though arose of how to make this work at her job and within their income. Their combined incomes were insufficient to pay the current bills so how will child-care issues be addressed CLICK PREGNANCY
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POVERTY, AMERICA’S INDUSTRY
IT NEEDS TO BE STATED RIGHT UP FRONT, THAT THE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE SUBJECT OF THIS ESSAY, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, ARE DEDICATED, HONEST AND HARD WORKING. FROM THE JUDGE IN CHARGE TO THE MAN CLEANING UP AFTER THE HOMELESS, EACH IS IMPORTANT AND TO BE RESPECTED. WITH THIS STATEMENT, LET US BEGIN.
This chapter serves as a description of a project, entitled “Poverty, America’s Industry”, based on the premise that the leading industries in the United States are not limited to the steel industry, the oil industry, the technology industry, the munition industry and the like. The poverty industry is to be included in this group. CLICK HERE TO POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
