WHAT'S REALLY EXPECTED?

Expected of American November Elections? Other than polish? Statistics. Extravagant wagering with stakes so high it's surprising more isn't heard of The Vegas Line. A straight-forward jaded view would be integrity's veneer requires that much polish?

Just one nut to crack. Votes in various jurisdictions, somewhere in the vicinity of roughly half "The American People." Nuance either rare or made up to cover the margins. Business? Obviously. Opportunity? Our modern-day conundrum money controls politics? Contradicts the fact politics were always financial. Politics is money and can't but be the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed in its' abstract interpretation of competitive freedom. Creating theoretically superhuman corporate Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission individuals?

Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com, is even retiring leaving the issue as one legacy. 

Rich guys dueling over power? Ring a bell? Since democracy's birth, or perhaps even time's beginning, political machinations have been satirized to our hearts' content with intermintent results. Look. Everything's financial or nothing. Why capitalism's theoretically socialism and the philosophical divide over economic theory in American politics is flawed. Don't let communism near us. Boo. Don't let history's ghosts taunt. It's all economics. Universities, the Fire Department, et. al. etc. Social institutions. Beware of knot-headism. 

True. Government's under pressure not to lighten up and we seem farther away from the planet ever calming down.

Nonetheless, however much American prosperity is due to individual independence. The country's broader commercial prosperity was organized through government assistance. President Eisenhower created the National Highway System. America was always the most successful socialist country in the world until others took leads in the gaps. 

Once upon a time, America's private enterprise even justified stifling Child Day-Care during the Depression. Everyone's supposed to have broadened and evolved since then. This one-size-fits-all macro-economic symbolism from when tyrants ruled the planet is a manipulation of the public's consciousness. We criticize leaders all over the world for that.

Capitalism is socialism. President Obama no more socialist than a glass of fresh water. Wrestle that analogy folks.

The American commie political façade cheats a voting public deemed just not mature enough if both major American political parties can simply stand for or against economic theories that in their broadness have no specific use today? Government handouts? Phooey. Government, private enterprise, both can tyrannize and monopolize. 

Are the differences just hype? 

1. It's just so obvious no one's erasing socialist aspects of capitalist economies. When socialism doesn't work that's capital mistakes. If politicians can't stop being phony? Promising irrelevant panaceas? Some pollution is good for us? No wonder there's so much money in crafting public points-of-view, and the ease with which the damaged symbolism is served that Americans keep buying.

The dual-party horse-race is marvelous imagery. Adored for its' seeming benign authenticity. Carnival. I prefer non-partisanship even when choosing sides. Though, since mainstream analysis glossed over this, I'll conclude mentioning Kentucky would have seemed foolish to vote themselves out of Senate Seniority as South Dakota had axing Senator Tom Daschle in 2004.

Soapbox View Tis The Political Season Of “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” May 9, 2012 

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Grapple with infinity when we can't command mortality? It's not funny these war statistics were always true. Destruction of the person within. Mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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A Note For Veteran's Day, Nov. 11, 2014

Everyone can be proud of military service. But Americans should remember. If the creation of fanatics is a problem, the U. S. should be more responsible sending the message nationalism means everything. Results speak for themselves. Beneath all the bluster we condone the excuse all over the world where blind patriotism is indoctrinated as rationale, ... .

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Entertainment's News? 

Won't, don't and didn't drink. But there were memories leaving the bar. Parking lot adventures. Cars, sky focused buzz. Society's most communal place for gathering separately. Meaning don't talk to strangers. Watch out for drunks. Don't drink and drive. Imagine trains everywhere. Well, we didn't. So don't drink and drive. When the robots take over everyone will drink all they want.

There was a time bars were life's center. The country's Founding Fathers convened there ironing out discussions. A tradition worthy of respect. Still, I don't drink but didn't leave and sat on the brick planter of small palms by the entrance. Watching kids pass as young adults. 

Political celebrities don't meet in bars anymore. Doubtful their prestige dips lower than dining where alcohol isn't served to avoid the stigma of mixing with average citizens. Though they'll eat anywhere when it's a campaign, one imagines that should hold true for the rest of the year raising money. But you just know it's more regal than that. A high price on stage perpetually.   

I thought some election season. Forget message. It's always as if no one knows what to think without hype. 

Then the patrol cop pulled through reminding me no one's allowed to "loiter outside bars anymore" either. As if we ever were? 

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To reiterate, 

GLOBALIZATION'S CARPETBAGGERS? 

The preceding Soapbox View.  

No hard look at your legacy, Mr. President?
Smug cloaked imperialism?

Russian Troops in Ukraine 

It's official. Yesterday, November 12th. So, Mr. President? Listen, echoing in the wilderness. "There'll always be an asterisk * Reclaimed Soviet Territory." 

Sure, grin, Mr. President. But this business rehabilitating Soviet honor is a loose canon and you're just one of the dudes pulling the trigger.

If you could only get out of yourself a bit, Mr. President. Here, read this.

Yes it could help if more hypocritical walls came down. For instance the smoke and mirrored West's finger pointed at Putin State cronyism reflexively deflects our own close business associated politics? It is reality. 

My point for understanding as the Veteran's Day Note above suggests, is staunch American nationalism's innocent naiveness excuses President Putin's hysterical patriotism. It's time everyone learned "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" are better than manipulative celebrations. 

Because essentially politics requires a shorthand to influence people and Russia's successfully spun imagery of a positive return to Soviet tactics. Boggling the mind, the man burning files in East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell is now adjusting for old grudges. Seriously. Many have written your legacy won't catch up. You had, have, to be tough? Idiots can do tough. Do better. 

To nitpick, your childhood karate friend competitively! controls Russia's textbook market. The New York Times, November 1st, Putin's Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks by Jo Becker and Steven Lee Myers.

True. Why wouldn't authoritarianism Mach II be hype? Plus nothing happens without well thought out conspiracies can excuse most anything. No one's saved the environment making personal calls on their house phone.  

Who knows? Semi-benevolent despotism is the best anyone expects? Control requires a delicate authoritarianism? Democratic or not? The case the world over. Why Americans are at the throats of the American Court System every day defining fine lines in justice. Maybe there's no way out of the world's messy intrigues? Because there's really nothing to replace ambition's congestion churning out the desperate at phenomenal rates. Children who were probably just never read to by their parents. Given that most critical head start.

Is free competition a hoax? President Putin? No matter how twisted no one runs from history.

TIME TO DEAL FROM A NEW DECK 

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For many months this item was transferred to the next essay. So why not now? We're either fixing the Criminal Enterprise System or not? I don't necessarily excuse prostitution. But, for objectiveness sake, if curious, take a gander at these takes from this 1970s police precinct tv sitcom satire. 

The Barney Miller Harlot Reel

Governing The Criminal Enterprise System is taxing. Strenuous. Downright serious. But compromises such as legal gambling offset many citizens' criminalization. Granted the world seems more clearly black and white when we can make moral judgements. But judge-mentalism shouldn't rule?

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For Black 47, the Pipes Are Calling 

Black 47 retires.

The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2014

Ham, the drummer left, dispatched my first day at Elite Couriers and the trombonist behind him wailed. I lived around the corner and saw them play both Paddy Reilly's. I vote St. Patrick's reunions.

To political cacophony?

The Soapbox View Satirical Twist pursues Twin Legacies

Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone? CMF

Tis The Political Season Of “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE”

May 9, 2012 & November 2 - 16, 2015 Draft Below - .......

  Long termed Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana loses a Republican primary as predicted by polls. North Carolina votes sixty-one to thirty-nine percent in favor of intolerance of homosexual equality. But the day after his loss if you go to Senator Lugar’s website, there was no mention of the election as if his loss never happened and our Gay population will not quit as you probably don’t need a web link to confirm.

  What’s evident is our political process is virtually infinite. No one can claim to have made a final decision for everyone else. Which is why politicians abuse the expression “the American people” to only associate themselves with winning.

  The phrase has a strong ironic appeal for our diverse disagreeing population though its questionable to assume anyone knows what Americans will think because we are independent. Which is why those in the political business know not to strongly identify with actual ideas that could be interpreted as wrong at one time or another, and avoided at all costs during an election campaign as documented in Michael Lewis’ book Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House.

  Despite every politician’s possible claim to have read John F. Kennedy’s book, Profiles In Courage, concerning politicians who took an historical stand contrary to the majority’s opinion. But in fact all our election cycles clarify our opinions are crafted to suit an interest as money talks is the only prevailing position worth taking. Hence negative advertising is the only kind worth financing, and arguing without listening our current political debates’ legacy. 

The Washington Post 12/04/2012 

Lugar trips were no junkets, Obama recalls By Al Kamen

The Lugar Center YouTube

Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy

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Then revolution will just be commercialized?

THE SOAPBOX VIEW NEWS ESSAYS

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  November 3, 2014 - This pseudo-essay didn't flesh out themes further. Hopefully that comes with practice.

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November 2 - 16, 2015

Tis The Political Season Of 

“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” 

5/9/12 concluded

..., and arguing without listening our current political debates’ legacy.  

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  Sounds apropos the publicity from last month's Boulder, Colorado, 10/28, Republican Presidential Debate? Where candidates' whining stage antics were sold, fait accompli, to THE AMERICAN PEOPLE as an issue of clarity, worth rectifying. Not persistently, redundant, harping and patronizing fiscal conservative purity. But staying on message for the Gipper. Don't nobody mess with the collection plate. Democrats are professional politicians who stay in office to collect corrupt skim. While Republicans divvy up before going in. Sure. Patriots don't even want, or care for, even the façade of a traditionally exuberant press intervening with, or tracking patronal political machinations. Using antagonistic questions patently disloyal to team politics when America's been bred for the glossiest entertainment? 

  "Gotcha journalism." Still. Guessing? As sins go. Way short of over-simplifying America's brand? A country too sensitive to believe the insensitive truth. Bamboozled's a standard. Adherence a trend.

  We should hold our breaths Michael Beschloss uncovers further label smudging of the presidential mirror in his next Sunday Business essay for The New York Times? This time rendering the polishing of Ike. 
  Or deeper yet? The rest of us question the belief Russia's not following Western Intellectual Economic advice thats led to more ruthlessly influenced spheres. When face it. Russians saw what worked, not make believe. Nothing could be done when chess game was over before it had, even, supposedly, begun. 

  Well then, anyway. Cat's out of the bag, huh? Political rhetoric is sold as pure game. Look at the ease with which, professed, non-political lifer Ben Carson was credited reiterating club-speak. Candidate Carson was quoted, basically, saying, "disseminating the affirmation of the candidates" is proper moderator conduct for specific parties' debates. Stalin grins in his grave? Turn off the music. Illusions have been put to rest. THE GREAT AMERICAN INFOMMERCIAL cut from the Jargon's News template. Not what's actually happening or worth investigation or clarification. But outright easiest method of influence? An appearance of the winning slant. Ta da!

Propaganda For Everyone!

  Read in Will Rogers' voice. Is the constant ethics conflict perpetual without change? Cause there're signs seeing numbers all day means it's all you see. Congress fundraising most nearly all year. Beyond me why politics isn't just a written off business expense all over the place, entire world? Wherever appropriate nowhere. Whether bribery, graft, collusion, conspiracy, or even conniving self-serving litigation, it's all money flowing through portals far from life's belittled scroungers. Safe and secure. Reality. That's actually more problems to face, that aren't. Because pompous platitudes can't solve this planet's ethics crisis because ethics are only followed in a pinch. When leverage doesn't work and down-home pled-for sympathy the last recourse. Religion a refuge for violence because sloganeering rules the world. No?

  It just follows when one ridiculousness becomes another.

George W. Bush Should Please Apologize

We All Face Escalating Antagonism's Results

Paris' Importance To Peace Cannot Be Understated

  Admit it's unlikely Allah/God would admit to telling any of us monsters anything people claim. Ba dump bump. Hatreds are condensed to cover billions of people prejudices don't apply to. Ironic? Holy Books condemn usurping God/Allah's judgement. While humans rationalize we're greatest, when its possible we're not even the Creator's most advanced scum. Since scientists are convinced there's more out there than even we can see? 

BUT BE CLEAR. 

  There aren't really alternatives here. Politics as much as cold hard economic fact is reality. As is conscience which, when everyone affords one, makes everything honky-dory. 

DON'T BE ANYONE'S SYCOPHANT

  Speaking of countering propaganda. How about the concept that friendship with Law Enforcement means enforcing a broad American Criminal Class/Citizenry with no shared responsibility for the Criminal Enterprise System's creation. Because politics are polls to know how much discrimination can be gotten away with? But plain damned time to be civilized and not this godawful ruthless mess.

JUSTICE FOR THE PLANT(WEED) IN AMERICA'S REDNECK STATES?  

  Culturally Immoral Nonsense not to weed out the Criminal Enterprise System. Anyone in the Law Enforcement business could tell you. No matter what a bad intoxicant may influence. That's nothing compared to when the chemicals within us are ego-driven to express superiority and when real damage occurs. Governors Gateway of New York and New Jersey, who are coincidentally having a tunnel, no doubt temporarily, named in their honors? Governors, any thoughts besides repeating bad laws teach citizens respect for authority when the opposite occurred and America should want this historically diagnosed remnant of jingoistic prejudice righted? Until America admits what's wrong, how's the rest of the world supposed to admit anything? Stern punishment may be an answer but the American Prison System's really cruel and inhuman. Everything weighed, prisoners aren't the only problem with the prison system yet they're held responsible for what's wrong. Man. Punishment is supposed to suck but we still haven't evolved from our predator roots. How's a world to improve that doesn't? That clings to tradition making believe morality's worth all this stress. When its obsessiveness obviously produced a mess.   

CLEAN SLATE?

  It's probably not generally realized President Putin's writing history? But every time the reasonable excuse of righteous sovereignty and protecting Russians in other countries comes up, that even though it's not fair to Russians in those places, now, who grew up there. Reality is it is the result of corrupt Moscow domination planting Russians over the entire Soviet Union. That however unfortunate it is, and not those Russians' faults. By not being a staple of objective, duo-faceted, reporting. The fact becomes lesser known till not general knowledge at all. No matter how many different places facts are recorded, the truth isn't quite in the business of controlling people's minds. Now is it? 
  Perhaps smug public arrogance reaches a, quite easily kicked out from under, soapbox. As an entirely inadequate defense, worthy of derisive sneer. The tradition has me hooked and novel prepared my hopping on. Anticipating however corroboration comes. Or:

ON REFLECTION

Wrong if there's evidence.

  Sunday morning, 11/9/15. The song For What It's Worth was used by Will Shortz the puzzle master for The New York Times on a Corporation For Public Corporate Broadcasting entity, NPR. National Public Radio. Asked during the Sunday Puzzle segment was the answer Buffalo Springfield that the NPR host, contestant and Mr. Shortz acknowledged was before their times to remember. A seminal song in the history of American protest but before their time. A pop tune? Yet much in American history before all our times is relentlessly indoctrinated into us ad nauseam. For the purpose of forgetting a thorougher understanding of history? Because indoctrination superseding education is authoritarianism and beware of that and reality's tough signals to grasp. 

  Endless revenge. Cornered Outlooks. Logic. That's what's needed to take hold and not swung all-over-the-place because we don't really know exactly what logic is half-the-time when politically no one admits anything. The problem of not admitting mistakes is why nothing's solved. A façade too profitable to address in terms of ethical failures? 

  Well. In The New York Times Book Review, Paul Collier, professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford University, finished a, snicker, scathing review of David Rieff's The Reproach Of Hunger reproaching the book's missing - "an opportunity to wrestle with how such stale ideologies contribute to the persistence of hunger." Grasped point? Politics faced? Eh? Political wonder? Oh. 

Stop Being Anyone's Sycophant

  Leading back to this speculation's original topic, symbolism. My mother, to sound convincing, could have told me about November 10th's Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Republican debaters, as well as of myself. That "sitting on your laurels" is the deeper threat to integrity one shouldn't want but expect? Ooo, they're so confident. If they wanted they could whip up gloss on a fire hydrant. And have. But gag me with a totalitarian whip. Fixing requires admitting responsibility for error and that's what's politically unreasonable. Anything pitched the public's smudge-able and capably pasted over? Why kids in the Middle East revengefully execute jihad against a world that had nothing to do with them but revenge. Insane. Learned at another confused generation's knees? Blah, blah, blah. Build more walls. Antagonize into infinity. Which none of us would see so business as usual, right-o. 
  While Putin's criticized, World Leaders continue perfecting their learning Leverage 101 too. Push when shoved. Vladimir Putin, sir? The world's on your shoulders. But not what you think you see around you. Because truly, the future will value The Glory of Nations as second to the honor of individuals. Get your hands dirty for Russia, Mr. Aristocrat who's in jeopardy of equation with history's perpetual succession of Oblomovs. Taking off your shirt's a photo-op. We all deserve better. Especially you, Comrade Putin. You're not fixing what's better left done. Justice would negate crime not ensure its prosperity. Facing history is doing much more than just what's convenient. Law and Order is not Authoritarian nonsense, or at least it shouldn't be. Eh America? 
  Expect a world where sense makes no sense. When the constant mystery's why money's not circulating. Rational minimum wages. While recognizing value, the significance is manipulating money's the only short term solution available. The hope minimum wage ever means that? Honestly appears to be fool's gold. And the penny's insignificance is the evidence. Look. People so smart a lot's solved with a lot of money. While destroying the heart of surviving with a little that's pretend aristocracy's fuel for belief in ruthless strength. If it can't even be intellectually questioned that inflation's a con? Something's hiding the truth. 
  Politically? Andy Griffith's Sheriff Taylor ruling Mayberry is the dream. But what keeps turning up is the actor's more accurate portrayal, Lonesome Rhodes? The realistically crass part of our ruthlessly political souls? 

  Politicians disseminate whatever sticks. So prone to miss broad appraisals? Perhaps when advisors take a long lunch? Transfixed by soup and façade? Considering ethics aren't incentive. Money can't but does disappear in tight circulation. Shrewd or schmucks. Whatever floats ethical boats? But capitalism is socialism. So obviously, a lot screwed up. Time upright meant upright, not revenge. Except no one admits knowing nothing. Uh huh. Geniuses? Ah-men.

CMF

Wonder why today's 

tomorrow's myth?

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Every Major Military Strike Has Advance Warning?

War Tard

Still The Precipice, Again?

Is there literally no one safe in their own homes who doesn't know war is an easy way out for enemies to have not to compromise? The real game of life. Push and shove and now in Syria's case what do they mean, jumping line? Feigning having little idea that the use of chemical weapons betrays this advantageous strategy shared by nations whereby wealth is military hardware distribution that has nothing to do with preventing acts of destruction since we're all, after all, so mature, smart and civilized? 

But crackpots released the gas? And why did idiots believe it was just the right stuff to have lying around waiting to be cracked open? Because enemies don't compromise? That's the deal? Death and zealotry define us, win, lose or draw? Spelled out the facts aren't so cute, huh? While we're all just standing in virtual awe of the absolute power of corruption.

Yet everyone's expected to be intelligent with the dangerous toys only used for honorable wars that, guess what, is the problem to begin with as honor is in the defense, not the war. Signals are crossed then, if ends justify lethal means? 

So it would be nice if referees just stepped in between and said, "stop fighting. The cycle of revenge has to end." 

But that's comic book superhero mythology. Where ultimate warriors of objectivity just drop in on warring neighbors and beat everyone up that needs destroying. However ridiculous, the cycle of revenge be damned. Uh huh. That life exists under the ultimate might of military right is reality. As is the problem also of Syria's Assad thinking like everyone else that he's not just a pawn too?

ALL ANYONE CAN SAY IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE?

 Justice Is Not Revenge  

No not Pontoon. Pawn too. Soapbox View 

President Putin, The Last Word?

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Are Politics Just Standing On Our Acrobatic Heads?

Politics are essentially mental calisthenics that don't take actual Einsteins to figure out how much shrewd ruthlessness is rewarded above all else? Only paling in comparison to the indignity life is by being both bought and sold out for no other reason than the same ole song and dance my friend? 

Turns out that the staunchly labelled and well tailored liberal Bill Moyers, who conservatives wanted whitewashed as a poison inside Public Television where William F. Buckley, Jr. planted the Conservative Firing Line flag a generation back, continues enacting his revenge on the political game on his show, Moyers & Company. For instance this past week, except for his closing editorial, Mr. Moyers  interviewed Mark Leibovich of The New York Times Magazine, for the entire show, about Mr. Leibovich's book This Town.  

Their discussion cut to the nitty-gritty basics of how Washington D. C. is finally the place to grow rich for the reasonably young and successful entrepreneurs this country is already supposed to be thriving on. Now.

"all it's about is bein here"

On the other hand this literary review episode actually copies an April 27, 2012 Moyers & Co. softball presentation of the tainted money in politics issue with the writer of Eddie Murphy's The Distinguished Gentleman, Marty Kaplan of The Norman Lear Center. *            Solutions?

* Both Moyers and Leibovich had huge grins during the distinguished film satire's rendering on their episode.

"Son the system ain't perfect. The fleas come with the dog."

And you know what they say about sleeping dogs? You let 'em lie.

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We Know What's Happening?

There's not much to be confused about. Money is a simple enough system. Yet corruption is just the surface of what the real problems are with power that generally makes people seem outright mean. Our generation has learned to make a lot of money mean a lot and a little not enough. But it takes money to accomplish anything and that's for the best. Cut to the chase,

Then Corruption For Everyone Is The Real Test? *

The Soapbox View Satirical Twist in pursuit of the Twin Legacies

Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone?

* Russia's Kremlin is used here to represent the entire world's Institutions of Authority. Merely historical coincidence this ideal structure is so intricately beautiful.