OK, looking back; if Liberal economics led to unhealthy and unproductive outcomes (except for the elite few) and Progressive economics worked until all the regulators (and legislators) in charge of keeping the would be New Robber Barons were bribed and assimilated into the current Big Tech augmented Fascist System -- then reversing and revealing the scope of all the corruption, deception, larceny and theft becomes a communications problem. How did the original progressives first enter into their fight with the Monopoly Capitol Cartels?
Muckraking Journalism and Socialist community organizing. We don't need to reinvent our whole economic system right away but we do need to recruit, diffuse divisive hyperpolarized rhetoric and communicate ideas that can get past the surveillance and suppression algorithms to unite and rally around independent ideas and themes that restore a vision of the common good.
If we could find a way to greatly weaken the federal government and return most, but probably not all, governing power to the states, perhaps that would help restore the Constitution which in my view is what needs to happen. That document should be able to withstand almost any assault, unless of course citizens reject it out of hand.
How about DECENTRALIZATION as our society's new organizing thesis, Dr. Rogers? The simple logic behind this is that, if power is decentralized, no one can amass too much of it.
What if the globalists have had their tyranny? The eco-grift has had its green Marshall Plan? The corporate-genocide complex has committed undeniable crimes? They say it wasn't enough and they want to have at it again. They've already had it, though. It's come and gone.
Capitalism is not the problem, globalism and the government colluding with big businesses to continue their globalist agenda is the problem. Free trade policies have to be in the best interest of the people for BOTH countries and not simply the corporations. Otherwise you end up with what we have now: mass immigration brought to you by careless free trade policies which exploited cheap labor and simeotaneously monopolized economies of the third world rendering them stagnant or worse. In addition, let's all stop conflating an Ivy League education with a superior ability to make decisions for 365million citizens and all the other countries in the world. Our credentialist society that places education above actual inteligence and more importantly: a sound moral character and an unwavering dedication to the people who you are elected to serve. Nearly every member in congress has an advanced degee—yet look where we are. These highly credentialed individuals with glowing resumes on both sides of the political spectrum have only proven that education has little impact on one's ability to lead and act in the best interests of others.
I tried to dm you here but it said I had to pay to do so :( Care to extend a paid membership to your old friend tara? tara is poor but would love to talk to toby more! ;)
Key to any new paradigm is decentralizing everything, resulting in no way to amass control of wealth and power for as we know power corrupts. So I suggest disaggregating— no more big government or big corporations small is beautiful. Not sure how we get to that end point.
Perhaps there was a clear-toned, unifying message emerging from the murkiness when RFK Jr urged us to rally around this thought: that we act based on our love for our children more than the orchestrated division and hatred we find ourselves in. Last Friday, he said, “Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.”
I trust his instincts and integrity, as well as his agility in responding to the ever-changing current situation. I think this is pertinent to this discussion, because what may appear as a confusing blurring of the conventional lines might be leading to a welcome and healthy paradigm shift. With that in mind, I'd like to share what I see are the reasons RFK is doing what he's doing, in order to keep his most fervently-held goals alive, the foremost of which is saving children.
There's another long-game goal involved – please read on.
I encourage everyone to listen to this interview he did with Dr Phil for context:
As readers here know, the mainstream media is mistakenly saying RFK Jr gave up and is not in the race. But RFK hasn't pulled out of the election, he has just suspended his campaign and will still be on most state ballots. He explains the reasons in various places, such as the interview above.
This interview also reveals that after relentless legal warfare attacks by the DNC to try to keep him off the ballot in state after state, draining his funds and keeping him in the courtroom instead of campaigning, and numerous other dastardly, un-democratic DNC tactics, he and his team analyzed the situation and discovered that he could inadvertently be helping to elect Harris, who has no interest in RFK Jr's causes or those of the majority of Americans. Trump, on the other hand, is aligned on the most existential issues: ending the endless wars of choice, stopping the government-run censorship and surveillance regime, and reversing the chronic disease epidemic of children and adults which is now costing us five times the military budget and causing untold disability and death, especially concerning American children who are the sickest children on Earth.
So, RFK was forced to switch gears, but he hasn't given up.
It's clear that he wants to achieve what his uncle and father set out to do and unify the country to tackle the existential issues. It's clear that the current Democratic party has abandoned its former values and now promotes war, surveillance, censorship, industrial monopolies, mandates, and authoritarianism, and a Harris administration would be more of the same in all these ways.
Here's what RFK Jr is suggesting:
In battleground swing states, a vote for Trump is needed to keep RFK on the path to achieving his vitally important goals regarding children's health, war and censorship. So, vote for Trump in battleground swing states. In all-blue or all-red states, where your vote won't make a difference in the outcome, VOTE KENNEDY. This will help achieve many things if Kennedy gets 5% of the popular vote nationwide, including a viable independent party, in the next election and future elections, and this will bring much-needed public funding, recognition, visibility, debate access, etc.
This is the other long-game prospect. If he gets 5% of the popular vote, there will be a seismic shift away from the two-party, Uniparty duopoly. This would be a major milestone for independent politics, and a critical step toward sustaining this movement for years to come. Such funding would be transformative, clearing many of the organizational and financial obstacles designed to suppress independent campaigns and sustain the stranglehold of Washington insiders. Furthermore, if Harris or Trump fail to get 270 electoral votes, Kennedy could still be in the running and end up in the White House.
I'm choosing to keep the faith and trust his wisdom and judgement in striving for the best possible outcome in this difficult situation, in the decade he feels he has left to be effective.
UPDATE: NEW INFO FROM RFK Jr – he emphasized this week that rapidly increasing censorship and totalitarianism, which is suddenly sweeping the globe, represents the biggest threat, for if we lose free speech, all other goals evaporate. (See Jenna McCarthy's latest post for a list of examples of this rapidly-increasing menace to humanity and life as we know it. https://jennasside.rocks/p/rfk-jr-wants-everyone-to-vote-for)
RFK Jr released a statement Sep 5 urging EVERYONE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP as the best and only way now to advance RFK's goals and their shared goals of restoring our children's and nation's health and ending the forever wars and censorship. Trump needs a landslide victory in both the popular vote AND the Electoral College in order for it to not be contested and challenged. A close vote would be disastrous.
Please trust RFK Jr's instincts, integrity, and ability to see the big, big picture, as well as his agility in responding to the ever-changing current situation. We must be agile as well and let go of our initial hopes for how this campaign should go.
Keep in mind that the mainstream media has been biased for a long time, manipulating our opinions and thoughts and suppressing important truths. If we realize that this bias was strong regarding the pandemic, we ought to also realize it's been biased regarding President Trump during his first administration. Let's ask ourselves how much of our opinion about him has been shaped by media manipulation.
The DNC and its masters sabotaged RFK and his campaign at every turn, but we must unify and show that we are stronger. A wholly new, unprecedented alliance has emerged with three former democrats – Trump, Kennedy, Gabbard – and we'd better join them en masse to save us from going over a totalitarian cliff. They need our active support, before it's too late. As RFK has said, no-one ever complied their way out of totalitarianism, and throughout history, those who censored were never the good guys. Do what you can to spread the word to vote Trump.
Just so long as the LOVE is a strong form of just love. As haters have being doing a large amount of damaged to people who essentially love them already.
So embarrassing. Toby, I apologize for my post below. I had previously listened to an audio by heather cox richardson, an avid democrat and found myself responding to your article as if you were her.
Charley, thanks for your comments and pointing out your accident confusing Toby with HCRichardson. These things happen.
Also, just so you and everyone else knows, it is possible to edit a Substack comment we've made by clicking on the three little dots. I've done this a few times! Alternatively, you can reply to your own comment and it will appear right below that comment.
Casey and Calley means clearly articulate our state of health, the role of food and farming and influences of the pharmaceutical industry on our regulatory agencies, legacy media and doctors' education.
Toby, regarding your hypothesis, "The fundamental tension of this moment is that there is no organizing thesis for society anymore." I understand your point and it is well taken. I invite you to consider that there is a very real organizing thesis at work, namely health. The universe is organized and governed by laws which, like the laws of physics and biochemistry, work inexorably for the healing of mankind. The epidemic of sicknesses infecting our nation are evidence of our ignorance of these universal laws and refusal to live in harmony with them.
Bobby Kennedy is championing a non-violent revolution in healthcare that is focused on the health of our children. Bobby understands well that our children's health is being destroyed by the inferior diet they are fed which is a product of our industries of agriculture and food processing. The crimes of these industries are supported by expensive science, falsely promoted by our media, medical education, doctors, insurance companies and our regulatory agencies.
I am confident that you recognize that this is true and that our children's health is impossible as long as we continue to feed them processed foods which contain metabolic poisons.
When we examine what candidates actually support better health through better food we find Bobby Kennedy to be the leader here. Trump has acknowledged his alignment with Bobby's ideas. How about you, Toby. Can you, as a democrat and Harris supporter also align yourself with our children's health as our deeper organizing principle for society. I know this is your desire just as it is mine and all Americans.
OK, looking back; if Liberal economics led to unhealthy and unproductive outcomes (except for the elite few) and Progressive economics worked until all the regulators (and legislators) in charge of keeping the would be New Robber Barons were bribed and assimilated into the current Big Tech augmented Fascist System -- then reversing and revealing the scope of all the corruption, deception, larceny and theft becomes a communications problem. How did the original progressives first enter into their fight with the Monopoly Capitol Cartels?
Muckraking Journalism and Socialist community organizing. We don't need to reinvent our whole economic system right away but we do need to recruit, diffuse divisive hyperpolarized rhetoric and communicate ideas that can get past the surveillance and suppression algorithms to unite and rally around independent ideas and themes that restore a vision of the common good.
If we could find a way to greatly weaken the federal government and return most, but probably not all, governing power to the states, perhaps that would help restore the Constitution which in my view is what needs to happen. That document should be able to withstand almost any assault, unless of course citizens reject it out of hand.
The all day everyday part is true, yet I can't find anyone offline who can handle talking about anything of importance beyond 5 minutes.
https://victoriaarand.substack.com/p/petition-to-stop-atlas-shrugging-092?r=25xhde
How about DECENTRALIZATION as our society's new organizing thesis, Dr. Rogers? The simple logic behind this is that, if power is decentralized, no one can amass too much of it.
What if the globalists have had their tyranny? The eco-grift has had its green Marshall Plan? The corporate-genocide complex has committed undeniable crimes? They say it wasn't enough and they want to have at it again. They've already had it, though. It's come and gone.
You believed the Robber Baron shtick but not the Branch Covidian schtick? That's a new one.
Absolutely love your analysis and perspective. Thank you.
Capitalism is not the problem, globalism and the government colluding with big businesses to continue their globalist agenda is the problem. Free trade policies have to be in the best interest of the people for BOTH countries and not simply the corporations. Otherwise you end up with what we have now: mass immigration brought to you by careless free trade policies which exploited cheap labor and simeotaneously monopolized economies of the third world rendering them stagnant or worse. In addition, let's all stop conflating an Ivy League education with a superior ability to make decisions for 365million citizens and all the other countries in the world. Our credentialist society that places education above actual inteligence and more importantly: a sound moral character and an unwavering dedication to the people who you are elected to serve. Nearly every member in congress has an advanced degee—yet look where we are. These highly credentialed individuals with glowing resumes on both sides of the political spectrum have only proven that education has little impact on one's ability to lead and act in the best interests of others.
I tried to dm you here but it said I had to pay to do so :( Care to extend a paid membership to your old friend tara? tara is poor but would love to talk to toby more! ;)
Key to any new paradigm is decentralizing everything, resulting in no way to amass control of wealth and power for as we know power corrupts. So I suggest disaggregating— no more big government or big corporations small is beautiful. Not sure how we get to that end point.
Completely agree with you Tom! Please see my comment above. Please also see the following:
https://victoriaarand.substack.com/p/petition-to-stop-atlas-shrugging-092?r=25xhde
I intend to post about decentralization in the near future.
~ ~ ~ SEE UPDATE BELOW THIS COMMENT ~ ~ ~
Perhaps there was a clear-toned, unifying message emerging from the murkiness when RFK Jr urged us to rally around this thought: that we act based on our love for our children more than the orchestrated division and hatred we find ourselves in. Last Friday, he said, “Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.”
I trust his instincts and integrity, as well as his agility in responding to the ever-changing current situation. I think this is pertinent to this discussion, because what may appear as a confusing blurring of the conventional lines might be leading to a welcome and healthy paradigm shift. With that in mind, I'd like to share what I see are the reasons RFK is doing what he's doing, in order to keep his most fervently-held goals alive, the foremost of which is saving children.
There's another long-game goal involved – please read on.
I encourage everyone to listen to this interview he did with Dr Phil for context:
https://x.com/DrPhil/status/1828848142713766099
As readers here know, the mainstream media is mistakenly saying RFK Jr gave up and is not in the race. But RFK hasn't pulled out of the election, he has just suspended his campaign and will still be on most state ballots. He explains the reasons in various places, such as the interview above.
This interview also reveals that after relentless legal warfare attacks by the DNC to try to keep him off the ballot in state after state, draining his funds and keeping him in the courtroom instead of campaigning, and numerous other dastardly, un-democratic DNC tactics, he and his team analyzed the situation and discovered that he could inadvertently be helping to elect Harris, who has no interest in RFK Jr's causes or those of the majority of Americans. Trump, on the other hand, is aligned on the most existential issues: ending the endless wars of choice, stopping the government-run censorship and surveillance regime, and reversing the chronic disease epidemic of children and adults which is now costing us five times the military budget and causing untold disability and death, especially concerning American children who are the sickest children on Earth.
So, RFK was forced to switch gears, but he hasn't given up.
It's clear that he wants to achieve what his uncle and father set out to do and unify the country to tackle the existential issues. It's clear that the current Democratic party has abandoned its former values and now promotes war, surveillance, censorship, industrial monopolies, mandates, and authoritarianism, and a Harris administration would be more of the same in all these ways.
Here's what RFK Jr is suggesting:
In battleground swing states, a vote for Trump is needed to keep RFK on the path to achieving his vitally important goals regarding children's health, war and censorship. So, vote for Trump in battleground swing states. In all-blue or all-red states, where your vote won't make a difference in the outcome, VOTE KENNEDY. This will help achieve many things if Kennedy gets 5% of the popular vote nationwide, including a viable independent party, in the next election and future elections, and this will bring much-needed public funding, recognition, visibility, debate access, etc.
This is the other long-game prospect. If he gets 5% of the popular vote, there will be a seismic shift away from the two-party, Uniparty duopoly. This would be a major milestone for independent politics, and a critical step toward sustaining this movement for years to come. Such funding would be transformative, clearing many of the organizational and financial obstacles designed to suppress independent campaigns and sustain the stranglehold of Washington insiders. Furthermore, if Harris or Trump fail to get 270 electoral votes, Kennedy could still be in the running and end up in the White House.
I'm choosing to keep the faith and trust his wisdom and judgement in striving for the best possible outcome in this difficult situation, in the decade he feels he has left to be effective.
UPDATE: NEW INFO FROM RFK Jr – he emphasized this week that rapidly increasing censorship and totalitarianism, which is suddenly sweeping the globe, represents the biggest threat, for if we lose free speech, all other goals evaporate. (See Jenna McCarthy's latest post for a list of examples of this rapidly-increasing menace to humanity and life as we know it. https://jennasside.rocks/p/rfk-jr-wants-everyone-to-vote-for)
RFK Jr released a statement Sep 5 urging EVERYONE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP as the best and only way now to advance RFK's goals and their shared goals of restoring our children's and nation's health and ending the forever wars and censorship. Trump needs a landslide victory in both the popular vote AND the Electoral College in order for it to not be contested and challenged. A close vote would be disastrous.
Please trust RFK Jr's instincts, integrity, and ability to see the big, big picture, as well as his agility in responding to the ever-changing current situation. We must be agile as well and let go of our initial hopes for how this campaign should go.
Keep in mind that the mainstream media has been biased for a long time, manipulating our opinions and thoughts and suppressing important truths. If we realize that this bias was strong regarding the pandemic, we ought to also realize it's been biased regarding President Trump during his first administration. Let's ask ourselves how much of our opinion about him has been shaped by media manipulation.
The DNC and its masters sabotaged RFK and his campaign at every turn, but we must unify and show that we are stronger. A wholly new, unprecedented alliance has emerged with three former democrats – Trump, Kennedy, Gabbard – and we'd better join them en masse to save us from going over a totalitarian cliff. They need our active support, before it's too late. As RFK has said, no-one ever complied their way out of totalitarianism, and throughout history, those who censored were never the good guys. Do what you can to spread the word to vote Trump.
Just so long as the LOVE is a strong form of just love. As haters have being doing a large amount of damaged to people who essentially love them already.
So embarrassing. Toby, I apologize for my post below. I had previously listened to an audio by heather cox richardson, an avid democrat and found myself responding to your article as if you were her.
Charley, thanks for your comments and pointing out your accident confusing Toby with HCRichardson. These things happen.
Also, just so you and everyone else knows, it is possible to edit a Substack comment we've made by clicking on the three little dots. I've done this a few times! Alternatively, you can reply to your own comment and it will appear right below that comment.
Casey and Calley means clearly articulate our state of health, the role of food and farming and influences of the pharmaceutical industry on our regulatory agencies, legacy media and doctors' education.
Not to be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUH4Co2wE-I
Toby, regarding your hypothesis, "The fundamental tension of this moment is that there is no organizing thesis for society anymore." I understand your point and it is well taken. I invite you to consider that there is a very real organizing thesis at work, namely health. The universe is organized and governed by laws which, like the laws of physics and biochemistry, work inexorably for the healing of mankind. The epidemic of sicknesses infecting our nation are evidence of our ignorance of these universal laws and refusal to live in harmony with them.
Bobby Kennedy is championing a non-violent revolution in healthcare that is focused on the health of our children. Bobby understands well that our children's health is being destroyed by the inferior diet they are fed which is a product of our industries of agriculture and food processing. The crimes of these industries are supported by expensive science, falsely promoted by our media, medical education, doctors, insurance companies and our regulatory agencies.
I am confident that you recognize that this is true and that our children's health is impossible as long as we continue to feed them processed foods which contain metabolic poisons.
When we examine what candidates actually support better health through better food we find Bobby Kennedy to be the leader here. Trump has acknowledged his alignment with Bobby's ideas. How about you, Toby. Can you, as a democrat and Harris supporter also align yourself with our children's health as our deeper organizing principle for society. I know this is your desire just as it is mine and all Americans.
I look forward to your response.
Thanks for your clarification above, Charley!
Hello Toby and all. Please see/share our research and help us improve it if you can. Thank you!
https://michaelatkinson.substack.com/
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