Why does Trump have any support at all? Fear and hatred.

I believe that the vast majority of voters in America are sane. That belief has had me wondering why Donald Trump is supported by people who otherwise would pass a sanity test.

By any rational measure, Trump is a lying, cheating, lazy, corrupt, ignorant, irreligious psychopath and traitor. His 40,000+ lies have been documented and refuted. 

He denies losing the last election despite 60+ lawsuits, several vote recounts, many of his own attorneys, and thousands of independent thinkers telling him otherwise.

He fomented an insurrection- an attempted coup that was more serious than the crime committed by traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed.

Trump has offered many different excuses for his inexcusable actions on Jan 6, 2021, as he has for other crimes he has committed.

He stole classified documents, denied he stole them, admitted he took them but claimed he was allowed to, and by a recent count, had more than 30 different excuses for what happened.

Recently, Trump refused to sign the Illinois pledge not to attempt to overthrow the United States government. Think about that.

He had to pay a $25 million fine for cheating thousands of students with his ‘Trump University” scam.

He had to pay a $2 million fine for cheating the government with his “Trump Foundation” scam.

He claimed global warming is a “Chinese hoax,” and he rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, he criticized Greta Thunberg as the “prophet of doom alarmist.” The year 2023 was the hottest on record. 2024 is predicted to be even hotter.

As a result, species are dying. We are giving our children a world in deep trouble.

He claimed COVID was “just the common cold” that would “go away.” He discouraged vaccination and masks while encouraging the use of useless hydroxychloroquine.

More than a million Americans died, many of them because they obeyed Trump. Because of him, people didn’t follow medical advice to vaccinate or to take COVID seriously and avoid large gatherings.

He was the ultimate nepotist, giving important political jobs to his inexperienced daughter and son-in-law.

Not only does he continue to deny the election results, but he threatens: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

He claims that as President, he can’t be prosecuted for any crime, even murder or assassinating a political opponent. That is the definition of a dictator. (Presumably, this means President Biden could have Trump killed, but Trump didn’t think of that.)

His online ravings are the work of a madman. No sane person would post anything like this, on Christmas, no less:

“Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith, the out of control Lunatic who just hired outside attorneys, fresh from the SWAMP (unprecedented!), to help him with his poorly executed WITCH HUNT against “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and “sick” as the THUGS we have inside our Country, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

He has posted many crazed screeds of similar ilk: Fear, hatred and lies.

After being convicted of defaming E. Jean Carroll, he began defaming her again — 70 times more on his Truth Social account.

There are 20 criteria for psychopathy. Trump passes all 20. 

Trump has expressed bigotry against people of color, non-Christians, gays, women, and immigrants.

The list could go on and on, far too long for this post.

The point is that Donald J. Trump not only is unfit to be President of the United States and unfit to hold any political office, but he even is unfit as a human being.

And it’s no secret. He doesn’t bother to hide his lack of fitness; instead, he boasts about it. 

Each time he is charged or convicted of some misdeed, he immediately goes online to use his shameful conduct as an example of his so=called “persecution” and as a ploy to ask his brainwashed followers for money.

Latest headline: Trump Makes New Court Filing Demanding the Election Crimes Case Against Him Be Dropped Because No One Told Him Overturning an Election Was a Crime (thereby admitting he tried to overturn the election.)  Think about it. The man who wants to be President claims as his defense, that he didn’t know that a coup is wrong.

The question is: Why does Trump have any followers at all?

I can understand the Republican Party. Long ago, they put party before country. They are no different from the Nazis who worshipped Hitler while knowing exactly what he was.

There is no crime Trump could commit — from murder to child molestation — that would turn the GOP away from him. For each crime, they immediately would blame the Democrats, Hillary, Biden, Hunter, and/or George Soros. 

Not that they believe their claims. Attacking is what Republicans do instead of governing. It is a party without morals or a plan for improving the lives of Americans. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are the epitome of today’s “do-nothing-but-attack-Democrats,” Republicanism.

And I can understand the right-wing media, Fox, Breitbart, and the toadies who work for them: Hannity, Bartiromo, Ingraham, et al. They are paid to support the psychopath. Money is a great motivator that soothes the conscience.

And, of course, Alex Jones et al. was fined a billion dollars for his lies. He and others “believe” Trump because it’s a lucrative gig. And there is Tucker Carlson, whose lies cost his former employer nearly a billion dollars.

Staying with the money theme, the rich believe Trump will be better for tax laws that benefit the rich. He already has demonstrated that. For the right-wing rich, favorable tax laws (for them) are all that matter.

But what about the rest, the proverbial “men in the street.” Why do they believe, and not just believe, but avidly idolize and adore this charlatan?

Something in the human psyche makes many of us crave a dictator.

The world is a dangerous, uncertain place. It’s beyond our control. We can die, young or old, slowly or suddenly.

We feel we need protection.

That is why we have dictators and religions. We will follow whoever or whatever says to us: “Here are the evils you will encounter, but I will protect you.”

The Ten Commandments listed the evils and said God would protect his followers, sometimes even providing a paradise for their afterlife. Despite surface appearances, religion has little to do with good and evil. Religion is a road to protection.

That is why an evil creature like Trump has support from white evangelicals. They have a persecution complex, and since God fails to protect them, Trump promises to do the job.

Trump tells his followers that the dangers are from Mexicans, blacks, yellows, reds, non-Christians, foreigners (except Putin and Kim), gays, women, and poor people.

Trump claims he will protect his frightened followers by building a high, impregnable wall for them to hide behind, by having his police kick down doors, and by deporting millions of non-citizens. 

He will deny birthright to born-in-America children of undocumented parents.

He will protect the fearful rich from the have-nots.

SUMMARY

Trump’s primary appeal is to fear and hatred. He is a hatemonger and a fear peddler. He claims that he and the white, Christian majority are under siege by dangerous Mexicans, blacks, reds, yellows, gays, women, liberals, “wokes,” foreigners, and the poor.

It is untrue, but facts are unnecessary when one is spreading fear and hatred, our most powerful emotions. 

Just as you cannot argue religion with a true believer, you cannot argue Trump with a MAGA. No amount of truth or logic will penetrate. MAGAs are willing to turn over their lives to an obvious scoundrel because, “after all, wasn’t Christ called a criminal?”

The best you can do is to keep telling the truth, again and again. You must keep reminding America of what Trump has said and done, so that the volume of MAGA lies doesn’t overwhelm sanity and decency

Eventually, even the most blockheaded come to their senses. Belatedly, the Germans, Italians, and Japanese learned this lesson during WWII. The Russians, not yet, but perhaps, when Putin dies, a reasonable person will take his place.

Trump is mentally and physically sick. Will his successor be another Hitler, another Trump? Or will that successor believe the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty? More importantly, will his followers believe those noble words?

Lately, decency has been missing from the right. Lincoln has been gone too long.

Will Republican voters continue to believe the lie that cruelty and hatred are signs of strength. Or will they conquer their fears. Will they learn that real strength comes from the kindness and honesty that helped America benefit from immigrants and minorities?

It’s a lesson we all need to embrace. 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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Who is on the wrong side of virtually every issue?

Are you a Republican or a Democrat? Or something else? Stop a moment and ask yourself, Why?

Are you what you are because it’s a family tradition? Or are there specific issues that move you? Interestingly, the nation seems almost evenly split between the two major parties, while the differences are profound.

My family historically voted Democrat, primarily because of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He created Social Security and maneuvered us out of the Great Recession (though by getting us into the Great War II).

His communication skills and the morals and strength of his wife, Eleanor, contributed to his aura of greatness.

After Harry S. Truman left office, and until perhaps a dozen years ago, I tended to vote Republican, possibly because I come from Chicago, where the Daleys (father and son) were so profoundly crooked. They were Democrats who ran the criminal Democrat machine.

More recently, because of Lyndon Johnson, who, if not for Viet Nam would be considered one of our greatest Presidents, I have leaned toward the Democrats. This is based on the issues.

Here are the issues as I  see them:

I. Donald Trump: He is the uncontested winner of the “worst President” competition. He is a psychopath, which seems to be an infectious disease. His sickness has infected every aspect of American life.

Here is a list of Trump’s symptoms from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Glibness. Superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, need for stimulation, proneness to boredom, pathological lying, conning/manipulation, lack of remorse, lack of guilt, shallow emotions (emotions felt in superficial and fleeting ways), callousness, lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, promiscuous sexual behavior, early behavior problems, lack of realistic, long-term goals, impulsivity, failure to accept responsibility, many short-term marital relationships, juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility.

Trump has all 20 of those symptoms. You can see the symptoms explained here.

The abject failure of the Republican party to recognize and deal with, rather than to defend this man’s actions and ravings, is the most crucial issue entering the next Presidential election.

Trump’s traitorous criminality came close to destroying American democracy, and the flag-waving GOP’s refusal to acknowledge it epitomizes the worst political party in recent memory.

II. Quality of people: In addition to Trump, the right-wing has assembled an astounding group of lying, bigoted, fence-straddling hate-mongering ignoramuses to represent conservatism. Think of the low-quality of such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Kristi Noem, Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Lauren Boehbert, Lindsey Graham, Brian Mast, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik, Paul Gosar, Andrew Clyde,

We continue with Breitbart, Newsmax, Fox News, and such lying rogues as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, and Maria Bartiromo.

We also should include Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, Stephen Miller, Mike Lindell, Michael Flynn, QAnon, and Steve Bannon.

And it’s only fitting that we end with Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, and Neil Gorsuch.

III. The election: Before the election, Trump already had planned to say the election was stolen if he lost. So he did.

Despite approximately 50 lawsuits, many in front of Republican-appointed judges, all of which determined the election was not stolen, Trump continues to make the same ridiculous claim. 

The Republican Party had two options. It could have agreed with the facts and, for the sake of democracy, moved on. Or it could have adopted and disseminated Trump’s Big Lie.

The GOP chose the latter in a wondrous display of cowardice and dishonesty. That solidified the GOP’s strong consideration for the “Worst Political Party in American History” award.

IV. The Clarence Thomas Saga: Speaking of the “worst in history,” the Supreme Court’s current iconoclastic leader, Clarence Thomas, certainly competes for the title.

“Uncle Tom” Thomas has spent his later years trying to demonstrate that he is not black. He disclaims his blackness aided him in any way, including the affirmative action laws that helped him get into Yale law school. He later denied that the degree he received there helped him.

He voted to overturn a rule that forbids prosecutors from using race as a factor in making peremptory challenges in jury selection, thus pleasing white bigots everywhere.

His nomination by President Bush to replace Thurgood Marshall, the only black on the Supreme Court, was aided by his being black.

The ABA rated Thomas as qualified, with one of the lowest levels of support for a Supreme Court nominee. Thomas’s record includes voting against affirmative action and abortion.

His wife is a QAnon white supremacist, while Thomas refuses to recuse from cases involving that way of thinking, improbably claiming he never discusses cases with her.

Thomas makes decisions based on “originalism and textualism” when it suits his right-wing biases. He ironically denies the existence of the first 13 words of the 2nd Amendment and gives AR-15 rights based on founders who had never heard of an AR-15.

Although, during his confirmation hearings, Thomas claimed, ” “Stare decisis (precedent) provides continuity to our system, it provides predictability, and in our process of case-by-case decision making, I think it is a fundamental and critical concept.

Nevertheless he proved to be a con artist (Anital Hill and others have testified to that, under oath) because he has voted to overturn precedent more often than any other Justice.

That includes voting to overturn the 50-year precedent of Roe v Wade.

Crooked Clarence’s accepting of massive gifts from litigants before the Court, under the “I didn’t know it was wrong,” demonstrates a contrived ignorance beyond belief for a judge in the nation’s highest court.

And have we mentioned Samuel Alito, who equals Thomas in personal duplicity but now has exceeded him in reverence for the rich?

V. The Supreme Court: It is a Court that follows the conservative opinion that a) if a law benefits the masses, and b) the Constitution doesn’t explicitly spell it out, get find a way to get rid of it, preferably by convoluted illogic.  

(a) Abortion: This procedure always is available to the rich, who easily can travel to any city, state, or even country that allows it. The poor cannot.

Abortion benefits the poor, who cannot afford another mouth to feed. It also helps those who can’t afford the best health care that would tend to the health risks of difficult or dangerous pregnancies.

Thus, the local availability of abortion helps widen the Gap between the rich and the poor and functionally makes the rich richer. As Gap Psychology reveals, widening the Gap is the only way the rich can become more affluent.

(b) Guns: Ignoring the first 13 words of the 2nd Amendment (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”) upon which America’s gun/death epidemic exists, the self-defined “originalist” Court ignores the original intent of the framers.

The right-wing explicitly ignores the words “well-regulated” and the word “militia” while missing the original meaning of the word “arms.”

Remember that AK-47s, AR-15s, and large magazines for bullets, even bullets themselves, were unknown when writing the Constitution. Blunderbusses and bayonets were the “arms”  mentioned in the 2nd Amendment. Honesty demands that originalists would not accept modern weapons. But this Supreme Court lacks honesty.

The conservatives also ignore the original purpose of the  2nd Amendment:

(The Constitution’s) most influential framer was James Madison. In Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote how the militia could keep a federal army in check: “A standing army … would be opposed [by] militia.”

He argued that State governments “would be able to repel the danger” of a federal army, “It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.”

He contrasted the federal government of the United States to the European kingdoms, which he described as “afraid to trust the people with arms”, and assured that “the existence of subordinate governments forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition”. 

Thus, for the education of the Court’s phony “originalists,” the fundamental purpose of the 14th  Amendment was for a well-regulated militia to keep the federal army in check.

Today, there is no militia, well-regulated or otherwise, and in any event, such a militia no longer could keep the U.S. military in check. And original “arms” do not include today’s current weapons.

Finally, high-powered rifles with large magazines are not good self-defense weapons but are more appropriate for mowing down large groups of people, as they have been doing with increasing regularity.

The conservative Court’s reasonings logically could apply to the individual ownership of machine guns, bazookas, hand grenades, and even poison gas, all of which have the same relevance to the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment’s “arms” as do AR-15s and AK-47s

(C)Money in politics The constitution does not mention that a well-financed candidate has an advantage over an equally qualified but less financed opponent. 

As always, the conservatives take the side of the rich and equate spending money with free speech. Thus a conservative Court gave us Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which says that money is speech, and since the rich have more money, they have more right to more speech than the poor.

VI. Global warming is human-made: Here, as usual, Trumpism rules the GOP. Some of what Trump, parroted by his GOP toadies, said:

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

“Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee – I’m in Los Angeles, and it’s freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

“This winter is brutal. . . .Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by scientists [who] are having a lot of fun.”

“Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don’t believe it $$$$!”

“When I hear Obama saying climate change is the No. 1 problem, it is just madness.”

After Trump denied repeatedly saying climate change is a hoax, Kellyanne Conway clarified his position: “He has said that he believes [climate change] is naturally occurring and is not all man-made.”

Virtually every accredited climate scientist disagrees with Trump and Kellyanne. Human-made carbon dioxide is warming the world, which will lead to an existential disaster. The GOP will be known as the party that helped destroy humankind and the rest of the living world.

Trump selected Scott Pruit to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, the same Scott Pruitt who repeatedly sued the agency to prevent it from doing its job. It was like selecting the proverbial fox to guard the henhouse.

Finally, as with all things the GOP favors, global warming adversely affects the poor more than the rich. In addition to the rich having better air conditioning, the “heat island” effect in areas where parklands don’t exist is significantly more significant than the heating in more wide-open floral spaces common to estates.

VII. Guns: The GOP, the party of the rich, favors massive gun ownership for one crucial reason and perhaps several less critical ones.

Who is being killed by guns, the rich or the poor? The answer is clear. Widespread, easy access to firearms is killing and maiming the poor and middle classes, leaving the rich relatively unscathed. This death by violence widens the income, wealth, and power Gap between the rich and the rest.

Gap Psychology dictates that the only way the rich can become more prosperous is to widen the Gap between them and those below them. This is accomplished by gaining more for themselves and ensuring those below lose more.

Gun killings have shattered many poorer neighborhoods and lives, thus widening the Gap.

The rich have guns to protect themselves from the poor. The poor have guns to protect themselves from their neighbors.

VIII. Federal Benefits: The primary benefits for the middle and the poor are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, “Obamacare,” and the various anti-poverty initiatives — school lunch programs, the Child Tax Credit, The American Rescue Plan, etc., all of which are resisted by the GOP.

By contrast, the GOP has favored increased deductions for charitable donations, business expenses for personal benefit, tax-loss manipulations (which is how Trump managed to pay virtually no taxes for ten years),  lower tax rates on capital gains, and numerous tax laws that allow the wealthiest  Americans to pay no taxes at all.

Meanwhile, the GOP falsely claims the benefits paid to middle-class and poor Americans are running short of dollars and need to be cut. That is why you’ve seen all the crocodile tears regarding  Social Security, Medicare, etc., running short of money. It’s a lie fostered by the rich.

IX. Dreamers:  Per Brave:

The term “DREAMer” refers to young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children who have lived and gone to school here and often identify as American.

They are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which is not designed as a path to permanent residency or citizenship. The recipients of DACA are young people who have grown up as Americans, identify themselves as Americans, and many speak only English and have no memory of or connection with the country where they were born.

Under current immigration law, most of these young people had no way to gain legal residency even though they had lived in the U.S. most of their lives.

Many Dreamers say they didn’t know they were unauthorized immigrants until they were teenagers, often when they discovered they couldn’t join their peers in getting a driver’s license or filling out financial aid forms for college because they didn’t have Social Security numbers.

The xenophobic, anti-poor, pro-rich GOP opposes citizenship for dreamers.

X. Gays: The GOP spreads the false narrative that being gay is evil, and being exposed to gay people somehow taints straight children and encourages them to “decide” to be gay. The GOP accuses gay people of “grooming” straight people to be gay. 

It is a lie. One cannot be “groomed” to be gay.

According to “Kids Health,” :

Being straight, gay, or bisexual is not something a person can choose or change. People don’t choose their sexual orientation any more than they choose their height or eye color. It is estimated that about 10% of people are gay.

Gay people are represented in all walks of life, across all nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, and in all social and economic groups.

No one fully understands what determines a person’s sexual orientation, but various biological and genetic factors likely explain it.

Medical experts and organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Psychological Association (APA) view sexual orientation as part of someone’s nature.

Being gay is also not considered a mental disorder or abnormality.

The GOP’s anti-gay posture is no more defensible as an anti-black or anti-tall belief. It is ignorant bigotry, pure and simple.

XI. “Woke”: The GOP is anti-“Woke,” which has become a cornerstone of Ron DeSantis’s Presidential aspirations. 

Although most Republicans claim to hate “woke,” most have no idea what it is. Their hatred begins with their ignorance.

From Wikipedia: Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English, meaning “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.”Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism.

The GOP denies racial prejudice, discrimination, and social inequalities such as sexism exist and if they exist, they are meaningless, or their discussion is harmful.

Denying that social inequalities exist and refusing to warn our children about them grooms children to be haters and perpetuates the bigotry that still curses America. Sadly, that’s the GOP’s whole purpose.

By training children to be tomorrow’s bigots, today’s bigots retain control over society. Their fears and hatreds are shared. The notion that a black or gay or Jew might enter the neighborhood is an anathema to the insular right wing.

Denying the past is how never to learn from it, and is the method of the dictator.

XII. Book “Burning”: The Nazis did it. It has a long history in America, too.

Remember that the GOP criticized the left wing for its supposed “cancel culture.” But the Republicans have taken cancel culture to a new high in American history.

Among the books that have been banned by Republican censors are: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger; The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, Ulysses, by James Joyce, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, 1984, by George Orwell, Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Animal Farm, by George Orwell and many others. 

Generally, a book is banned because a parent doesn’t want their child to read it. The parent harbors the false belief that if children don’t see swearing or pornography or read about communism, socialism, nazism, liberalism, and other “isms,” their little minds won’t be contaminated as they grow up.

The opposite is true. Understanding the sin, rather than experiencing it from their ignoble peers, can prevent absorbing the sin.

The GOP, notably Gov. Ron DeSantis, banned books that are “woke.” Teachers even are fired for talking about “woke.” The GOP wrongly believes ignorance is a good sin preventative.

Even the bible was smarter than that, for the bible explained sin in excruciating detail, while explaining why it was wrong.

XIII COVID: It has become a Trump/GOP loyalty test to deny the seriousness of COVID and the usefulness of anti-covid vaccines and masks.

Trump continued to claim COVID would “just go away” into 2020, when he caught the disease and was treated at Walter Reed Hospital in October 2020.

He received the COVID vaccination and other treatments and was released on October 10, 2020.

He said, “I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good!

“Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge.”

Amazingly, even knowing firsthand the contagiousness of COVID, Trump continued to hold mass, maskless campaign events, at which hundreds of people caught COVID, many dying. 

Here is how one man, Donald Trump, managed to kill three hundred thousand Americans. On a related note, the GOP votes the death penalty for killing one American.

More than three hundred thousand Americans died because they refused to become vaccinated. They effectively committed suicide, possibly the largest suicide pact in world history.

Many more caught COVID because they refused to wear masks, though Trump was vaccinated and, for a short time, wore a mask.Trump seen wearing face mask in public for first time - CBS News

NPR reported people living in counties that voted for then-President Trump in the 2020 election were three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who lived in counties that voted for President Biden.

XIX. Student Debt”: As you read this section, remember that the U.S. government is Monetarily Sovereign, meaning it never can run short of dollars. Even if the federal government collected $0 taxes, it could afford to spend forever.

Thus, there never is a reason to lend dollars. The federal government has no need for returned dollars.

In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement began. The protest against income inequality, the wealthy, and their financial institutions, led by activists “representing 99 percent of Americans,” soon led to the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, which directed its ire at the country’s skyrocketing tuition costs and debt-fueled higher education system.

When student debt surpassed $1 trillion in April 2012, the Debt Collective, a debtor union, called for abolishing all student debt and implementing free college.

Calls to abolish all student debt resurfaced amid myriad legal challenges representing victims of predatory for-profit colleges, catching the attention and support of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Packaging people with debt that schools knew or should have known would be unrepayable began to look predatory.

Only about half of borrowers were in repayment in 2019. A quarter — or more than 10 million people — were in delinquency or default, and the rest had applied for temporary relief for struggling borrowers, including deferments or forbearances.

The right-wing side of the Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden’s plan that would have forgiven up to $20,000 worth of student loan debt per borrower in a 6-3 decision1.

The majority opinion was delivered by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted against the student loan forgiveness plan. Conservative Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett voted with Roberts.

All earlier had pledged their reverence for precedent.

XX. Obamacare: The common name for the Affordable Care  Act, is intended to make healthcare insurance more affordable for everyone by lowering costs for those who can’t afford them. The plan mandated that insurance companies include ten necessary benefits and paid the states to expand Medicaid coverage.

Twelve states rejected the plan; all GOP-dominated: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Their citizen continued to suffer from a lack of health care insurance. Before the ACA, insurance companies could exclude people with pre-existing conditions.

The GOP made several attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

The first attempt was in 2017 when Republicans tried to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare by spring. The House released an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill called the American Health Care Act in March 20171. However, intraparty opposition quickly mounted, with some conservatives calling it “Obamacare 2.0.”

After winning control of the presidency, Senate, and House in the 2016 elections, Republicans attempted multiple times to repeal ACA but were unsuccessful.

XXI: Affirmative action is a policy or a set of procedures that aims to improve the educational or employment opportunities of certain demographic groups historically discriminated against or underrepresented in society.

It gives limited preference to qualified groups based on criteria such as race, gender, ethnic origin, disability, and age.

A 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in critical states, “sharp declines” in the workplace followed for Asian women, Black women, and Hispanic men.

When the University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995, the number of Black and Latino students accepted by Berkeley and UCLA was cut by nearly half by 1998, the first year affected by the ban. 

There is theory, and there is reality. The theory is that all people should be treated equally. The reality is that certain groups never have been treated equally, and this unequal treatment of young children impacts them throughout their lives.

Affirmative action is a later attempt to undo the effects of early unfair treatment.

The Supreme Court decided 6-3 and 6-2 that race-conscious admission policies of the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution, effectively ending affirmative action in higher education through a decision that will reverberate across campuses nationwide.

The rulings fell along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for both cases, and Justice Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh wrote concurring opinions. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has ties to Harvard and recused herself in that case but wrote a dissent in the North Carolina case. 

The ruling is the latest from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority that has upended decades of precedent, including overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. 

XXII. Conspiracy theories. No political party in history has been as enamored with idiotic conspiracy theories as has then GOP.

It begins with the obvious criminality of Donald Trump to which the Republican MAGAs haven blindfolded themselves. He  spouts so many lies that to support him you first must turn off your brain and be amenable to accepting the latest idiocy, whether it agrees with, or contradicts the previous idiocy.

Here excerpts from a wonderful article the explains the mental coma in which Trump followers live.

Hunter Biden “whistleblower” exposed as a fugitive and accused spy — but MAGA won’t budge
By Amanda Marcotte

In May, Rep. James Comer (rhymes with “coma”), R-Ky had admitted that his supposed “whistleblower” had gone missing.

(Earlier), Comer crowed that “the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant” should “feel like fools right now,” because “a credible witness that the FBI flew all the way to Brussels to interview” was a-coming.

On Monday, the truth came out. Cormer’s supposed “informant,” Gal Luft, is not preparing his dramatic exposé of the Bidens. No, he’s actually on the run from the law, having been charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) with illegal arms dealing and being a Chinese spy.

Of course, this egg on his face will not slow Comer down. Conspiracy theories are closed loop systems. When conflicting facts are presented, the conspiracist immediately declares not only are the facts fake,  but the fakery is further “proof” of the conspiracy.

One could see this happening in real time the second the federal authorities announced the charges against Luft on Twitter.

The contagion of conspiracy theories | The Seattle Times

MAGA diehards, declared with confidence that Luft is an innocent man being framed by the deep state. Not one of these people could pick Luft out of a lineup or could say anything about his life prior to this moment. Yet the invention of a new conspiracy theory about Luft’s arrest was not just automatic, it seemed as mindless as breathing.

It’s highly unlikely that either Comer or Mace believes their own B.S. Indeed, Comer joked earlier this year to New York Times reporters about how he is just making it up as he goes along.

“You know, the customer’s always right,” Mr. Comer said wryly, of his approach.

That’s the reason it’s so easy for not just Comer, but the entire GOP base, to reflexively roll up these charges into the ever-expanding conspiracy theory. Most of them don’t believe any of this crap.

Conspiracy theorists often contradict themselves in frankly comical ways:

As social psych researcher, Karen Douglas found that “the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered.” The more they “believed that Osama bin Laden was already dead when US special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive.”

Throughout and since 2020, conspiracy theorists have said that Covid is at the same time a nonexistent hoax, a bug no more dangerous than the flu, and a deadly Chinese bioweapon. It didn’t matter to them that these things can’t be true at the same time.

For Comer and other MAGA Republicans, the actual belief is straightforward: They wish to destroy the legitimately elected president and replace him with Donald Trump, a wannabe fascist who attempted a coup.

With the Hunter Biden conspiracies, the most obvious aspect is that it’s impossible for anyone, even those who made it up, to follow what exactly is being alleged here.

According to a purported IRS whistleblower, U.S. Attorney David Weiss had been turned down when he requested special counsel status….

But now, Trump appointee Weiss, has stated unambiguously that none of these claims are true. He never requested to become special counsel and he was never blocked from bringing any charges or investigating aspects of the Hunter Biden case.

If you’re going cross-eyed trying to keep up, that’s the point of this ever-more-deranged GOP conspiracy theory: (make it impossible) to figure out what the hell Republicans are talking about in the first place.

This is all by design. If a conspiracy theory is easy to follow, it’s also easy to see its flaws. But if it’s so complicated that even efforts at straightforward debunking are bewildering, it’s hard to argue against it.

The vast majority of Trump’s crimes are simple enough to explain: Stealing classified documents. Tax fraud. Sexual assault. Attempting to steal an election. But the sheer number of Trump crimes is mind-boggling.

What the average Trump voter needs in order to justify themselves is a claim that “both sides” are corrupt. With so much Trump criminality to distract from, the lies about the Bidens need to be overwhelming.

Not that it’s a hard task to keep making crap up. After all, nothing Republicans say about Biden needs to make sense. It just needs to be noisy.

Sadly for the MAGA zombies, this all came to early, and will be forgotten by election time, so they will need to come up with even more brain-dead theories they can take with them to the polls.

Finally, if you enjoy farce, fiction, and fairy tales, you’ll love reading some of these astounding MAGA-believed flights of imagination: 20 Conspiracy Theories Trump Has Pushed Before and During His Presidency

SUMMARY

I believe the Republican Party, in concert with its Supreme Court political hacks, has worked on the wrong side of every important issue facing America.

I believe that the GOP is a party of bigots, voting against those who are not born white-supremacist, Christian, Americans and who are not wealthy.

As befits such a party, it has appointed to the Supreme Court a cadre of political hacks who vote a false, lockstep, “originalism” (but only when it supports the conservative, white-supremacist view) and ignores the reality of the pain their vote will cause.

Despite billing itself as “the party of law and order” and the party of religion, the GOP, in my opinion, is overstocked with lawbreakers from its top to its bottom.

As the “party of religion,” the GOP talks the talk but does not walk the walk. What religion is so callous as to deny support for the poor and besieged minorities while bending the knee to the rich?

The religion supported by the GOP is the one with Donald Trump as its God, a belief that omits then denies the rights of all other religions, agnostics, or atheists.

 

 

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Fear and loathing, and denial in America.

Hatred, i.e. loathing, along with its companion, fear — you cannot hate without fear — is the strongest emotion humans have. Evolution has made it the emotion that most often precipitates an immediate, thoughtless, violent reaction. Hate/fear is the emotion that moves us and saves us when a predator attacks. Donald Trump repeatedly taps into white people’s hate/fear of non-white, non-Christian, non-America-born people with his support for white supremacists, his talk of Mexican “rapists,” Muslim terrorists, Christmas elimination, and most recently, Critical Race Theory (CRT). He has convinced a large segment of the white Christian population that despite having most of the power, most of the money, and most of the votes, they are under dire threat from minorities. Trump is, in every sense of the phrase, a hate monger.  Bigotry and racism are the children of hate/fear.
Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behavior—from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”) per a former employee of Trump’s Castle. Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of “birtherism,” the false charge that the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country.
Bigotry and racism are common in America and in every other nation. They are human failings. But we never should feel acceptance for these twin horrors. We should oppose them wherever and whenever we can, else they devour us. Today, they debilitate our nation. They weaken us. They remove potential producers and consumers from the economy. Chest thumping and flag-waving do not make America great. The Trump followers who attempted a coup in Washington waved dozens of American flags. They were traitors to America. Greatness comes from how we treat the least powerful among us. Ask any thinking person, and they will tell you they oppose bigotry and racism. Even Donald Trump claims that. But they merely deny the obvious. One would have to be totally uninformed not to know that blacks and Latinos in America — and to a lesser extent, other minorities — receive unfavorable treatment by the law. Those who argue against that truth are insincere. For them, no amount of fact will undo their prejudices. Children are not born bigoted. They must learn it. They must learn it from their parents and extended family, and they must learn it from their friends. “Learn” is the operative word. The only cure for learning is re-learning. To cure bigotry, children must be taught the evils of bigotry. They must be shown the meaning and the implications of bigotry. Where can this learning take place? Clearly, not in their homes, because that either is where they learned bigotry in the first place, or for whatever reason, their homes have failed to provide anti-bigotry learning. Now, we have the Republican party, the party of white supremacists, and Trumpism, claiming the teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) is racist. Their hypocrisy is not to be surpassed. CRT is not an accusation as the Trumpers claim. CRT is a revelation of reality. It is a reality that bigots fear.
Critical race theory is a study in academia based on the concepts of systemic and institutional racism. Systemic racism refers to how the government has discriminated against Black, Indigenous and other people of color through unjust policies concerning housing, employment, criminal justice, education and more. From the conception of slavery in America, to the Jim Crow laws that segregated Black people, to the disproportionate criminalization and brutality against Black Americans, racism and white supremacy have persevered in the U.S. through law. Even if some discriminatory laws or policies are no longer in effect, they can still impact families for generations. “From who lives where to the disproportionate consequences of COVID,” Crenshaw said, “these are all current ways in which racial disparities are produced.”
Only a bigot or a fool could deny that the law in America too often has supported racism. Slavery once was legal. Blacks were not counted as full, legal humans for voting purposes. “Separate but equal” was enshrined in the law. Racial gerrymandering has grown nationally, especially in the south. Today, the Republicans are doing everything they can to reduce black voting. Police brutality against blacks is commonplace. Drug laws emphasize drugs most often used by blacks. Can any honest, thinking person deny it? Yet the white population is being told that educating our children about the true history of these laws constitutes a threat to white America. CRT constitutes a threat only to ignorance and systemic bigotry. By fomenting hatred and fear, Trump has gained millions of votes among the ignorant and the frightened. The GOP is following his lead. From the 11/6/21 Chicago Tribune:
The GOP is supercharging a message over race and education that helped catapult Republican Glenn Youngkin to a win in Virginia’s governor’s race Tuesday. (By Thomas Beaumont, Aaron Morrison and Will Weissert Associated Press) Republicans plan to forcefully oppose race and diversity curricula — tapping into a surge of parental frustration about public schools — as a core piece of their strategy in the 2022 midterm elections, a coordinated effort to supercharge a message that mobilized right-leaning voters in Virginia this week and which Democrats dismiss as race-baiting. Coming out of Tuesday’s elections, in which Republican Glenn Youngkin won the governor’s office after aligning with conservative parent groups, the GOP signaled that it saw the fight over teaching about racism as a political winner. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, chairman of the conservative House Study Committee, issued a memo suggesting “Republicans can and must become the party of parents.”
“Party of parents” is a euphemism for “First scare ’em then pretend to protect ’em.”  Those “parent groups” who voted Republican are the same parent groups who taught their kids to be bigots. The home and the neighborhood are the primary places where bigotry is learned.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced support for a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” opposing the teaching of “critical race theory,” an academic framework about systemic racism that has become a catch-all phrase for teaching about race in U.S. history. “Parents are angry at what they view as inappropriate social engineering in schools and an unresponsive bureaucracy,” said Phil Cox, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association. Democrats were wrestling with how to counter that message. Some dismissed it, saying it won’t have much appeal beyond the GOP’s most conservative base.  They pointed to Republicans’ use of the “defund the police” slogan to hammer Democrats and try to alarm white, suburban voters after the demonstrations against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd.
The Democrats and Republicans have widely different agendas. The Democrats speak of improving healthcare, expanding Social Security, defending voting rights, and lifting people from poverty.

The GOP Fascist Party Of No Ideas preaches “change nothing,” fear everything, anti-vaxing, cut taxes on the rich, and hatred of immigrants and non-Christians.

This is the fascist party that denies global warming, refuses to take action against air and water pollution, tries to eliminate health care and other benefits for the poor, fights against plans for clean, renewable energy, but instead aids the use of coal, and tries to hinder electricity-producing “windmills.”

This is the fascist party that ignores species extinction in favor of immediate business profits, and fights against a minimum wage, and paid family and medical leave.

We are caught in a battle between compassion and fear, and sadly, but predictably, fear now is winning elections. The electorate has changed from “us” to “me only,” and from planning for the future, to “now-only.” Evolution has not rewarded compassion with the same urgency as hatred and fear. We don’t have a powerful, knee-jerk, instant reaction to morality as we do to terror. Decency simply is not as strong a survival motivator as loathing. And the immediate present always is more powerful than the future of the human Perhaps, part of the problem may be that whites understand the pain the law has inflicted on blacks, and now fear that the blacks will retaliate. Who better to understand the effects of hatred than fearful haters? My own fear is that as the white voters lose population dominance, white fear will grow, and increasingly, the laws will be twisted to countenance racism. Our right-wing Supreme Court, together with right-wing lower courts and a right-wing Congress, will need only a right-wing President to make the transformation complete. America will indeed become a bigoted racist nation, not just ideologically, but legally. The Statue of Liberty will be a cruel joke. And we will have no way to return. Rodger Malcolm Mitchell Monetary Sovereignty Twitter: @rodgermitchell Search #monetarysovereignty Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

The most important problems in economics involve:
  1. Monetary Sovereignty describes money creation and destruction.
  2. Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics. Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:
  1. Eliminate FICA
  2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
  3. Social Security for all
  4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
  5. Salary for attending school
  6. Eliminate federal taxes on business
  7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually. 
  8. Tax the very rich (the “.1%”) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
  9. Federal ownership of all banks
  10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9% 
The Ten Steps will grow the economy and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

Hitler redux

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Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

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If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, you probably are too young to remember or have read about World War II:

‘I will bomb your f*cking location’: Muslims face violent threats as Trump urges ban on mosques

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of last week’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.

Trump renewed his call Monday morning to shut down mosques or at least place them under surveillance.

“You’re going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” less than a month after telling Fox Business that “absolutely” shut down U.S. mosques to defeat Islamic State militants.

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Better yet, Trump, how about making them wear yellow armbands, then load them into boxcars and ship them to Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Oh, that’s been done? Maybe to Trump Towers?

“From what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City, and I understand our mayor totally cut that out, he totally cut it out,” Trump added, apparently referring to New York’s controversial racial and religious profiling investigation — which was discontinued after it resulted zero arrests or leads.

Here’s what the nation’s leading hate-monger brings. The roaches come out of the woodwork:

Police are investigating several threats made over the weekend against Muslim houses of worship.

A caller left a threatening voice mail message that referred to the massacre about 7 p.m. Friday at the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg, Florida — which canceled Sunday school over safety concerns.

“This act in France is the last straw,” the caller warned. “You’re going to f*cking die.”

“I personally have a militia that’s going to come down to your Islamic Society of Pinellas County and firebomb you, shoot whoever’s there on sight in the head,” the caller added. “I don’t care if they’re f*cking 2 years old or 100.”

In case you ever wondered how an entire nation — Germany — went mad with hatred, here is your answer:

Arsonists in Canada deliberately targeted a mosque Saturday night, investigators said. The fire caused about $80,000 in damage to the only mosque in Peterborough, Ontario, about half an hour after around 70 members were inside celebrating a birth.

“Mothers with little kids were there,” said Kenzu Abdella, president of the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association.

And then the Hitler wanna-be digs even deeper:

Donald Trump calls for ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald J. Trump called for a total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, upping the ante of previous calls to profile Muslims and spy on mosques in the wake of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

Mr. Trump cited polls that show at least some sympathy in the Muslim community for jihadists, including a Center for Security Policy survey that revealed 25 percent of Muslims agreed that violence against Americans was justified as part of a global jihad.

“Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

“Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine,” he continued.

The Center for Security Policy is a right-wing propaganda arm, whose data are, shall we say, suspect. But if Trump wants to know where the hatred comes from, he has only to listen to any of his speeches.

The man clearly is the most disgusting creature to run for President of the United States. By appealing to the most stupid and hate-obsessed among us, he has shamed America. Perhaps that is his way to “Make American Great Again,” by being as unAmerican as possible.

When Trump mentioned the idea at a rally here Monday night on board the USS Yorktown, he drew loud cheers from a massive crowd.

Again, I ask, who the heck are those people who made him the leading Republican?

Trump is evil, but sadly, he represents right-wing thought. Undoubtedly, there are loads of Republicans who will tell you, “He’s right.”

The polls tell that story.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions come only after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

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