Canada Votes, or Not: Did America just wake up ?

Friday, August 29, 2008

Did America just wake up ?

Watching the Democratic Convention last night I re-examined my anti-Americanism. Usually consumed by the arrogance of power & unable to differentiate between what educator SA O'Neill distinguished as Freedom Not License, the US often believes they are 'free' to do what they want to whomever they want. The neo-con nightmare first arose out of right wing losses in WW2, but the revival of neo-fascism in the US was endorsed in the last two elections & echoed in Canada; small-minded, mean-spirited, cold-hearted corporate capitalism, gulag republicanism & heretical fundamentalist Christianity may now be history. Somebody say amen.

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Anonymous said...: Right on the mark Jerry - the Straussian neo-con right-wing politics and evangelical Christianity have led both Americans and Canadians further astray from discourse, self-reflection, enlightenment and truth.

However, until the something is done to reform the corporate controlled media chronosphere which regulates our rightful access to information, we still have our work cut out for us to salvage democracy from the elites.; August 29, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Jerry Prager said...: I'm not sure what you mean by Straussian -Levy (whom I haven't read)and the implications of chronosphere I can grasp through implications of time and now and historyical moment arrived, but I differ from the Democrats in thatI have no faith in the Middle Class, they are the Levellers that Mike Harris Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher tapped into, I am a Digger, the Levellers betrayed the Diggers in the time of Cromwell, they betrayed us in Reagan's America, Thatcher's England, Harris's Ontario and Stephen Harper's Bush League version of Canada. I do not have faith in the middle class, I do not have in people, that is nt theologically sound, it is like having faith in moonlight without understanding that moonlight is actually just reflected sunlight, and while the setting and rising of the sun every day might give me confidence to assume that light will spiral through through my days, I do not have faith in sunlight, I do not burden sunlight with my need for it to be true, in fact all my burdens of proof are relieved by grace. Grace and love are the only things I trust when they materialize out of the mystical into the actual. I have faith only in love's gracious ways through my days. I don't trust anyone really, I don't need to in order to love them, for my love is moonlight, and was born in the sun.; August 29, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Jerry Prager said...: Or so vino would be veritas and not much of a reviser tonight.; August 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Ah, sorry I wasn't referring to Claude Levi-Strauss, but to the father of neo-conservatism, Leo Strauss, whose top PhD was Allan Bloom. Bloom's top PhD student was Paul Wolfowitz. He influenced the whole neo-con chain from Irving Kristol Right on down to David Frum.

Strauss was also a professor at (guess where) - University of Chicago, home of other some people whose narrow minded ideas have contributed to our current economic and environmental voes, such as Milton Friedman.

You have a very good point though, that the lineage of this Imperialism goes back to Cromwell.; August 29, 2008 at 11:21 PM

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A Glossary of Canadian Politics by Me

Anarchist, a libertarian who wants as little government or state as conceivable, as little corporate/industrial organization as possible, as few community institutions as necessary, essentially preferring to be left alone to the company of others, or not, as they see fit, individually.

Bureaucrats, state administrators and employees.

Collectivist, a communitarian system of state ownership in which all decisions in socio-economic matters are made by the state for the good of the whole.

Communist, essentially a communitarian system, in which rationally planned production causes capitalism to unknowingly create its own successor. The politics of communism are both pragmatic and ideological in differing degrees depending on the nation and the governing style of its leadership, the goal being to aid the emergence of post-capitalist socio-economics.

Communitarian, someone who believes that community values govern individuals and the economy.

Commonwealth, a communitarian system in which charters from the Crown are used to control private ownership of national lands in order to provide free-hold commoner-citizens equal rights as governing classes in regards to accessing bounty from common food & water lands.
Cooperative Commonwealth, a system in which
non-landed commoner-citizens also have access to the bounty of the nation.

Conservative, a communitarian traditionalist who seeks to preserve the status quo of the past, in every stage of political evolution. In economics, one who supports the power of the holders of the status quo to regulate business in the best interests of the status quo holders.

Democrat, someone who believes that political and economic freedom is achieved and maintained by egalitarian government with the aid of a responsible state.

Government, temporary overseers of a given State in charge of establishing and overseeing the implementation of policy.

Green, a social movement, more than a political one, rooted in transforming consumer/producer paradigms before we kill ourselves off. In politics, it is rooted in the essential biological reality of symbiosis, in which bio-regional-localism and planetary necessities are weighed as mutual benefits for both individuals and communities.

Liberal, a libertarian who uses government to establish equity for individuals from social groups excluded from the commonwealth. In economics, one who generally supports a mixed economy in which competing interests are balanced through regulation, with a preference for laissez-faire capitalism.

Libertarian, someone who believes that an individual's freedom should seldom be limited by a community or a political-economy.

Progressive, a believer in humanity's ability to save itself through technology. Can be liberal or conservative in practice.

Republican, a system devised by Plato in which a succession of guardian classes govern society, a succession that is necessitated by the compromised integrity of the guardians whose pursuit of private property and profit make them unfit to govern. The initial guardians are warrior philosophers who own nothing, their phase decays into a timarchy, which rules as the military and the priests, followed by the rule of oligarchs, which is an alliance of police and business; leading to consumer democracy, in which everyone is pursuing property and profit at such frenzied rates that the final stage of republicanism is reached, the rise of a popular tyrant who restores law and order with force.

Social Democrat, a communitarian who believes that responsible government is the best means of achieving social equality and economic stability.

Socialist, a communitarian who believes that the state is the best means to ensure social equality and economic stability.

State, the ongoing overseer of government administration.

Tory, from Irish history, a supporter of the divine right of Kings to rule, and by extension in modern times, a believer in the divine rights of ruling classes to rule.

Just a start.

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