RE RE OLD STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WITH THE US POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEM

Some other remarks:

Having rejected the old European order, the colonists had little to fall back on, or build on, culturally, politically, or socially. Later European immigration in the later 18th and throughout the 19th Century further fragmented this original situation.

Having abandoned establishments of religion, and then been forced, by division, into a separation of church and state, they had not that deep aspect of Western civilization to refer to even.

So what was left of Western civilization at the founding?  Not much.

RE OLD STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WITH THE US POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEM

"Morgan's book shows what the lives of our new educated, moneyed elite are like, and it's far from clear to me that they are doing anyone much good--including, amazingly enough, themselves." DK

Several kinds of things occur to me, re a new moneyed elite doing anyone any good. 

Our system was based mainly on a British rural lower gentry ideal, a country ideal. It mimicked the rural lower gentry in England. 

The large coastal towns had large merchants, not looked upon favorably by other powerful rural or other town interests, as well as a few artisans and craftsmen and shop owners. Some light industry. Not much. 

A lot of religious and political unrest at all times.

Of course colonial Americans rejected both aristocracy, established church, and Crown.

They were left with little social, religious, or political hierarchy, really, after a certain point, and thus little social or political structure. 

Of course they had state, local, and federal representatives, which had started out composed of the best people, as the saying went. They had a property ownership requirement to vote. They didn't trust democracy, even, really. And why should they?

Barbara Tuchman said that the gentry, and the town brahmins, originally intended under the Constitution to govern, had already abandoned direct personal involvement in government as politicians by 1830, around the time of the accession of Jackson. 

SPEAKING OF BONOBOS

I know what happened to the book.

You know who you are....

RE KENNAN QUIGLEY STALIN HITLER

One really needs to read these closely, together, to get a more rounded view of how things tragically unfolded in the 20th Century.

In Russia And The West Under Lenin And Stalin, the role of the Western democracies in the rise of Hitler, while not omitted, is so glancingly dealt with that it requires Quigley's account in The Anglo-American Establishment, etc., to make more sense from all sides.

There was too great a tendency to blame Germany both for WWI and then even more for WWII, when the responsibility for this long development really lay elsewhere to a great extent. Kennan points out this glaring fact, but hardly elaborates on it, at least in this work. 

See his chapter 'The Rise Of Hitler', where he mainly discusses Stalin's machinations. 

This is just one of the areas where one needs to read Quigley's account to get more of the whole picture.

The tendency to blame Hitler, to call it Hitler's War was not limited to the uninformed; but even so well informed scholars as Michael Howard broadcast this image of the recent past, a situation so much the responsibility of just those leaders in the Milner Group from which post WWII intellectuals such as Sir Michael emerged. They needed to place the blame elsewhere than on themselves, where much of it rightfully lay.

FDR of course hated Germany, shared, along with Churchill, according to Kennan the view that Hitler was a replay of WWI Junker assertiveness, and thought he could make Stalin his friend. This was a horrific combination of FDR ideas.

Quigley, also, unfortunately,  it seems shared FDR's and Churchill's view of post WWI Germany as still a dangerous aggressor actuated by the same upper echelon forces that had run the WWI German war machine, and also a bunch of lower class bad Germans, too. See The A-A E, pb, p 233, 234.

Only Kennan seems to have seen the deep distinction between Hitler's Nazi Party, as a lower middle class movement, and the German aristocracy that was in power in WWI.

The deep distrust between England and France was downplayed since the conflict, but certainly Britain was perfectly willing to play off against each other any continental powers necessary. 

At this time, Britain viewed France (its hereditary enemy and rival) as peopled by almost as many bad Frenchmen as there were bad Germans in Germany, but no one remembers that. 

LIBERALISM LEFT RIGHT CENTER SYMPTOMS ALL THE SAME DISEASE

Political fragmentation.

RE DE WAAL CHIMPANZEE POLITICS BLITT NEEDED

Terms search: bonobos

Once again, I need Blitt for these topics the worst possible way.

TODAY'S GLOBALIST ENTREPRENEUR PARADIGM

Najim Laachraoui

RE FDR EISENHOWER PATTON MONTGOMERY SOVIETS

Patton, and perhaps Montgomery, wanted to play something like chess, both against their German field commander counterparts, and then wishfully against the Soviet ones.

Eisenhower was not even playing checkers. 

He was playing something more like dominoes.

WHY NOT QUOTE A KENNAN PASSAGE ON CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT

Think of it as a 'companion piece' with DK's post of Kennan on Eisenhower.... 

Eisenhower, after all, was a glorified puppet.

"Roosevelt and Churchill did not like the German resistance movement.  They did not understand it.  One is depressed to observe , in their respective wartime statements, the extent to which they both carried into the second World War all the prejudices of the first: how little they recognized the true lower-middle-class basis of the Nazi movement; how sure they both were that it was still the Prussian Junkers they were fighting -- and how seriously they misjudged this conservative class itself; how little they realized what resources of courage and idealism the sons and daughters of just these people, scourged by the consciousness of Hitler's degradation of their country, would succeed in producing out of their bewildered midst." Russia And The West, p. 367, 368.

WHAT DID PAUL REALIZE?

Wealthy gentiles were a lot more numerous than wealthy Jews.

PAUL REALIZED SOMETHING OTHER RADICAL JEWS DID NOT

Guess what it was?

THE EU

Has been just a very slow prod to the Asianization of all of Eurasia. 

A slow death of Western Civilization really. Not a consolidation and reassertion.

JOHN JESUS

Jesus was a wonder worker, John not.

Jesus taught in synagogues, John not.

Still, their ministries, or whatever they were, insurrections, insurgencies, out of power priestly and or Davidic Messianic royal uprisings, somehow ended up consolidated, under Jesus, after John's murder.

It seems that Jesus had a ministry down into Judea, at least according to John, perhaps even a synagogue, and Sanders gives this idea some credence.

That would explain the continuing presence of James, a Galilean, for decades, and other disciples, around Jerusalem, after Jesus' execution. 

They later summarily rejected Paul's call to accept gentiles. 

Who could blame them, back then?  

After all, it had not been any part of Jesus' message at all.

THE BOOP MENU

Escargot, your favorite....

JAMES THE JUST IN JERUSALEM

Jesus' older brother...killed, along with some others, by the Jerusalem high priest, in 62 CE, in the temporary absence of the Roman Procurator...this is one of those relatively few well known facts.

This is another important topic...regarding Jesus' ministry and its extent duration and nature.

Especially important also for discussions of Paul and the mission to the gentiles.

EUROZONE SO CALLED ECONOMY DEFLATION

Dead cat, no bounce.

CHRISTIE KASICH

Macaire Bertrand

THE VEXED QUESTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST

It seems likely that Jesus was a follower, then rival, then successor.

Nothing is certain.

There is a tradition that John was descended from Aaronid priests on both sides of his family.  That seems strange, given his ministry, but not impossible.

There must have been plenty of out of power priests in Palestine, and especially in the North, but the Aaronids were definitely in power both there and in Jerusalem.

Sanders points out that the Jewish aristocracy in Sepphoris very near Capernaum were solidly for Rome and against their own Jewish peasantry if it came to a revolt of the latter.

Antipas' one big faux pas was one incidentally involving the Baptist, re his taking his brother's wife Herodias as his own.

There are many important implications regarding Jesus flowing from this brief account in the gospels, and in Josephus.

DAUMIER TRUMP MACAIRE SANDERS BERTRAND

THANKS ED BOYLE FOR REFERRING THIS

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become

HISTORY OF ROME ORIGINS OF MEDIEVAL SERFDOM AND THINGS TO COME

'As the economy tries to heal......'

See Michael Grant, History Of Rome, hb. p. 444

These first so called serfs were desperate late West Roman Empire plebeian citizens, not slaves of which there were of course plenty everywhere as well, small farmers and those driven out of the cities, by dire circumstances, in search of food. 

They ended up tied hereditarily to the latifundia, later sealed by a deal cut between the Christian Roman Emperor of the West and the landed magnates.

When it hits the fan in the modern world, city dwellers and the rural poor are hardly in a position to even go into serfdom.

Think, for example, about how the US handled merely Katrina, which its own long standing negligence had allowed to happen in the first place.  

Think about it. Because Americans have always clung to their flawed principles, they have always had the government they deserve, and will continue to deserve.

NYT AS THE ECONOMY TRIES TO HEAL

Americans have been fed this Drew Pearson Fallacy bull for many decades now, since 1950 really.

They continue selling them the bull which they have trained them to like to hear.... think about that for a moment.

Terms search: smell the coffee, game over.

RE BARRY BLITT

In my judgment, he really needs to do a fat man cartoon with Christie, a la Chris Farley. 

It is de rigueur.

After all, he had Trump belly flop into a pool, and Trump is not that plump. He is not a plump Trump!

NEXT WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST JOSEPHUS AND GOSPELS

Sanders' account... He was killed because Antipas had been affronted by John, and because John posed a threat of insurrection. 

Josephus routinely deletes Jewish redemption and insurrection references, according to Sanders, so as not to annoy Rome... so we only see the tip of the iceberg in Josephus, really.

re PASSOVER UNLEAVENED BREAD AND JESUS

Sanders' account recounts synoptic gospel accounts. They say he went to Jerusalem only once, ever.

Only John says Jesus showed up more than once in Jerusalem for Passover. Then only two or three times.

Yet Sanders' Jesus' Last Week chapter tells about how all male Jews were supposed to go to Jerusalem every year of their lives.

So, I would say that Jesus had been to Jerusalem annually for perhaps at least half of his 34 years.

THE BOOP MENU

Bought a bag of pepper chips and thought of you.

CLASSIC POSTS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/re-truth-still-inconvenient-krugman-nyt.html

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/re-president-is-missing-nyt-krugman.html

SEE PRIOR POSTS TRUMP CHRISTIE CRUZ CARTOON WITCH

Crucible now again on Broadway. Current history.

TERMS SEARCH those in caption

FOR ALL YOU MILITARY BUFFS

https://www.facebook.com/rfertel/posts/10154062766359402

FRIEDMAN'S ACCOUNT IS ONE PARTLY ABOUT NORTH AND SOUTH

Israel and Judah. 

E and J, Elohim and Yahweh, Shiloh and Jerusalem, Mushite and Aaronid, etc., etc.

It is about rival hereditary priestly lines, descended mainly from Moses and Aaron, themselves ostensibly brothers, that extend, at least in memory and lineage, in or out of power,  for hundreds, and even thousands, of years.

RE FASCISM IS NOT OUR PROBLEM

Re Professor Kaiser's post in Time, a great article, yet I have to say that the Germans in the Weimar Republic, a so called democracy analogized by him to ours, did not think that fascism was their big problem, either. 

Most people there, and in the rest of Europe, including England, were more concerned about socialism, especially after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, than about Fascism.

The American left liberal anti Western imperialist, anti monarchist, pro globalist establishment actually liked the Russian Revolution, just as they had liked the French before it.

RE JESUS HISTORICAL FIGURE

I want to start some notes regarding connections between modern Jewish biblical scholarship and modern Christian biblical scholarship.

It seems to me that one can learn some things about the historical Jesus, which at least might turn out to be highly likely, by using modern Jewish biblical scholarship.

Unfortunately, I know nothing almost about Palestine history regarding those 400 years, 400 BCE and 4 CE, and very little about either Christian or Jewish biblical scholarship.

Further, it is almost too complicated for me to explain.  

So what I suggest is that anyone interested in this subject first read R E Friedman, Who Wrote The Bible?, and only then read, and read it into, E P Sanders' account, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, and then draw what implications occur to you from first having read Friedman.

Someone out there may see what I mean here. 

Certainly Sanders had been unwilling or unable to use the kind of material in Friedman's account to shed any light whatsoever on the historical Jesus. That fact, itself, may come as something of a shock.

RE PETHERICK

People love these posts.

I actually have an old Italian, or such, violin, with an old Gisalberti Parma label...

It looks nothing whatsoever like either a Gisalberti or  a Ballarini in Petherick's book, or a Del Jesu in that or any other book, for that matter.

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LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD DIAGRAM WHY DO I SHOW THIS?

Reading Friedman's and Sanders' books, together so to speak, certain possible implications jumped out at me.

They are implications which neither Jews nor Christians would be eager to acknowledge.

That makes them all the more attractive to me.

RE PETHERICK THE STRAD VOLUME XVI

Dilworth, Brompton's Book Of The Violin, calls Petherick's views bizarre. I agree with that.

Dilworth fails to address why, then, if it was so bizarre, The Strad, in 1906, devoted a full length, well illustrated, book to Petherick's views on Del Jesu and Giasalberti / Ballarini.

Petherick had just authored a book on Stradivari in 1900, two years before the Hills came out with their book on Stradivari. Pure coincidence?

Petherick was by then a respected and acknowledged string instruments expert, admitted to British courts as an expert witness on violin attributions, according to his cover page.

Who were his clients, as an expert witness? The Hills? Others of the violin trade? Who?

Was there no scholarly peer review back then to arrest this apparent scalawag? Who were his expert peers, anyway? 

The Hills did not touch the subject of Guarneri, in book form, until 1931, 25 years after Petherick's book. Why?

If one cannot believe him on Del Gesu, what about his views on The Repairing And Restoration Of Violins , or on Stradivari? Good questions, as these books are also in print.

CF PETHERICK POSTS BELOW GUARNERI STRADIVARI VIOLINS

Bein & Fushi, apparently, from what I read some years ago, began asserting, back in the 1980s, that it was unnecessary for them, or anyone deeply knowledgeable, to scrutinize the interior of a violin, in order to reach a decision or opinion regarding its maker. One could examine the exterior only to do this, if a brilliant enough connoisseur.

TERMS SEARCH

50 states

CLASSIC 2011 POST QUOTE RE AMERICA'S FACTORY AND BANKER

Here is a quote from The Coming Conflict With China: 


'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'

YESTERDAY NPR OR WNYC INTERVIEW POLITICAL EXPERT

Great explanation of bases of drift, undemocracy, and consternation at the Presidential election level.
Could have been one of my posts...

'153 decision makers... 50 states, etc.

'Republicans often winner take all state by state, 

'whereas Democrats mostly bleed on, alive, primary by primary, carrying the frontrunner down gradually as they go limping into the national convention...'

CLASSIC POST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-david-brooks-two-cultures-editorial.html

June 2020 addendum:

I criticize David Reich and Nicholas Wade, too, as well as Brooks and his adversaries. 

I really agree with none of them. 

But backed against bright scalding graffiti amid a flat hot intellectual wasteland, parched desert or rotting jungle, you turn and fight with what comes to hand.

Brooks: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/opinion/16brooks.html?hp

 New Republic:  https://newrepublic.com/article/79211/david-brooks-and-cultures

OK I CANNOT KEEP A SECRET

See E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, "Jesus' Last Week".  

Corpse impurity. It took a week to expunge....before Passover, and then Unleavened Bread.

Certainly Jesus and some or all of his disciples had it. Corpse impurity was everywhere.

RE EASTER WEEKEND

It was not just a weekend, or even a week, for most Jews in the time of Jesus.

Most Americans and Western Christians have no idea...oh well, who cares?

PETHERICK THE STRAD'S GUARNERI EXPERT 1906 VOLUME XVI

Petherick: Del Jesu's linings did not even go into the corner blocks.

Petherick: Sides did not wrap the end blocks in one piece.....

HORACE PETHERICK THE STRAD EXPERT ON GUARNERI 1900 EXPERT WITNESS

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RE DARIO D ATTILI FALLACY

http://www.guarnieri.com/labels.htm

The labels in the shoes....

D'Attili's tickets are legion in auction catalogues.

EU BRUSSELS DE FACTO CAPITOL

Say no more.

FAMILY VALUES

BRUSSELS ATTACKER BROTHERS

Islamist Mohammad toleration missionary work early heritage

Terms search google: Khalid bin Sufyan

HULK HOGAN GAWKER NEW LOW MEDIA PRESS MARKET BOTTOM FEEDERS

Hogan had tried to copyright what he was later compensated for under the tort laws, against first amendment defenses.

Terms search: Lorch, Drew Pearson Fallacy

THE 20TH CENTURY QUITE RIGHTLY RENAMED

THE BUNGLED CENTURY, for Western Civilization

OPEN LETTER TO MS MAZZUCATO

Re The Entrepreneurial State

Dear Ms Mazzucato:

Great book so far. My remarks are rather in the nature of intramural criticisms. I am a sort of neomercantilist, economic nationalist - Western civilizationalist. 

You are also a sort of neomercantilist nationalist, it seems to me, having read your book.

These ideas would have been most helpful to Western Nation States until, say, 1919, when they more or less partially turned away from the nation state concept, and also turned rather reluctantly from their Western Empires, toward larger, liberal, multinational, multicultural organizations, as a solution to their perceived problems.

It did not get any better for them after that, up to and through WWII,  and then its Cold War aftermath, and then down to the present day. 

It got worse.

One big problem, as in so many other fields, with your account, is that it is mainly about economic theory and history, although it touches other areas without really acknowledging doing so, eg industrial policy in developmental states. 

You throw up the hidebound contrast between the rigid US and USSR versus Japan, without placing it in a context of both Cold War Soviet preparedness efforts, and US booming the noncommunist world, as well as a defense umbrella for such as Japan.

It really is a failure to characterize the role of government in wider contexts, the very thing you criticize the private sector here for having done, in economics, once again, in isolation from other noneconomic insights.

And I should point out that I am not myself a fan of US foreign policy, trade financial or commercial policy,  or military policy, either before or after WWII. 

What you have in mind is really a sort of neomercantilism for a state in a position to embrace economic nationalism. That is the only way that nationalist entrepreneurial advantages you discuss might accrue to a given national taxpaying citizenry and its national companies.

Unfortunately with the advent of blind globalization in the latter 20th Century, that is a vanished ideal in the West. 

Countries like Japan, Asian Tigers, and later China, have succeeded with it only because they were allowed to by the West and at its expense.

As I have pointed out so often here before: 

Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. 

Your book is yet another testament to the failures I and others have described long ago. 

Terms search: trading places, trading american interests, Opening America's Market,  developmental state, Steingart, attacker state, Faux, Manufacturing Matters, Chalmers Johnson, MITI, van Wolferen, Steingart, bashing, competitiveness, Friedman LeBard, Michael Porter, Huntington, war for survival, rail to rail, Rodrik, Thurston, etc.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/re-where-we-turned-wrong-way.html

You discuss how the US government recently aggressively protected Apple's and others' intellectual property rights against foreign encroachment, under Fostering An Indigenous Sector...this I tend to doubt, having studied prior US trade policy in this area and others.

Further, neither the state, nor the private sector itself, has any interest in fostering an indigenous IT sector strictly within the territorial and national political confines of the US, and benefiting mainly only US taxpayers. 

The history, throughout the 20th Century, shows, to the contrary, that the US has seldom placed domestic economic and commercial interests above foreign policy and so called strategic interests.

Your critique of the idol of entrepreneurship is a bright spot in the narrative. It is always great to explode false myths where one can see them.

Figure 13, great stuff! 



http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/what-the-steve-jobs-movie-wont-tell-you-about-apples-success

I wouldn't let a billionaire American entrepreneur take out my garbage, not because he couldn't do it, but because I couldn't trust him.

One should not expect Trump to do anything like what he says on trade, perhaps even things you think you support, even if he happens to actually believe it and wants to. 

He can't: political structural problems hardly touched on in your book....

All the best
Boomerbuster

RE APPLE US FIGHT ETC ENCRYPTION ISSUE MARIANA MAZZUCATO BOOK IRONIES EVERYWHERE

See her current book, discussing the extent to which so called entrepreneurs like Apple have sucked critical R & D, which everybody here had paid for in taxes, out of gullible and weak western democracies like us for many decades.

This technology, and much else, privatized for Apple profits for example, at great taxpayer expense here, mostly ended up, knocked off, and often even gladly licensed for limited private profits, in Asia, which, after 1945, put institutions in place to capitalize on it, against its creators themselves over here.

In spite of her best intentions, and really great text so far, 

smell the coffee, game over for Western Civilization, pal!

She has great, not especially surprising, or technically new, ideas, that would have been useful to Western States in, say, 1900, some of which states' leaders also actually had known them in the 18th Century and before. 

Back then, they had been called mercantilism, but it had needed to be updated, not replaced with Smithism..

TRUMP CHRISTIE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM DANCE CARTOON

The usual characters.
Trump, in devil aspect, very tall, is dancing wildly, but holding the hand of Christie, also in transports of dancing frenzy, on a large round table in the middle of a cabaret setting, say in a casino. 


Christie can be in a hula skirt, etc., and in drag, perhaps. He is happy. He might also ape a plump La Goulue, Can Can, etc.

Daumier's midgets from prior posts, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, all very visible at intervals, below the table, struggling to keep the table up. They are its only legs. For this one they can be both plump and naked but loin cloths.

Midgets need to look vaguely Daumier esque from the 1840s, or shall I say Barry Blitt esque..... 



1880s Moulin Rouge decor, Toulouse-Lautrec touches here and there.

Philipon .

RE WHERE WE TURNED THE WRONG WAY PERMANENTLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION

See The Old European Order, subchapter 'Mercantilism, Empire, and their Enemies'.

Doyle really summarizes it very well. Hume, Smith, Physiocrats, Enlightenment, etc., ideology in historical context.
Of course, Doyle does not espouse my views here. You will have to look somewhere else for that.

FLAT FREE TRADE GLOBALISTS CARTOON TRUMP BROOKS FRIEDMAN BERNSTEIN ETC

Just imagine what this depicts.

Trump looking diabolical, but in a kilt and full highland attire, under a tree, is dancing a jig on a legless table top lying on the ground, in a forest glade, which represents visibly on its top the geography of the world.

Protruding, at intervals, around its visible periphery are the heads and perhaps a hand or two of Brooks, Friedman, Bernstein, etc, agonized expressions, their bodies squashed underneath the flat table.

A small sign, stuck in the ground nearby, says: 
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED


The caption: Flat Trade


Some of my cartoons may be a little too ' severe ' for Blitt, at least for the public face of Blitt; 

they are perhaps more Gahan Wilson like, so to speak.....

RE NYT ON TRADE, ANGRY VOTERS HAVE A POINT

What do I say about this?

POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WAKE UP INEQUALITY VITAL CENTER TRADE GLOBALIZATION

Our system did not work, well before gross income inequality!

Our system did not work well when we had a so called vital center, E J!

Our system did not work, well before trade and investment globalization!

CLASSIC

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/01/kennan-decline-of-bismarcks-european.html

TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO CARTOON VARIATION

Same as last cartoon, except Rubio's head, and perhaps a hand, protrude from Trump's mouth. 

He has devoured the remainder.

Christie lounging nearby in satanic raiment.

TRUMP CRUZ CARTOON

Cruz, as Grand Master, but still a midget, is seen, finally, somehow, putting a stake in the heart of devil Trump.

KREMLIN BEHIND TRUMP

One could see it coming. 

Huge, but no one over here is really aware of this, I guess.

Great stuff.

ARGENTINA CHINA FREE GLOBAL FISHING

FREE WAR

SAY AUSTRALIA OR SOMEONE ELSE BACKS OUT OF ENORMOUS CONTRACTS

What are the consequences:

Free trade, right?

I call it FREE WAR

RE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AGAIN AND AGAIN

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/american-working-class-history.html

Ragano asked Hoffa, in so many words (see the book), why he needed the Mafia.

Hoffa had told Ragano he needed the Mafia to counter the forces arrayed against his union.
 Take a guess what those forces were. That I can well understand.

Certainly, JFK, most liberals' idol was no friend of labor, although he certainly took them, and Hoffa, for a ride in the election.

"Ask not..."

Political structural problems.......

TRUMP MARINA EMINENT DOMAIN GILLIGAN'S ISLAND POOL PARTY CARTOON

Dressed as Thurston Howell III, the hag's dilapidated small motor cruiser half sinking nearby, he is physically throwing her from his yacht, high out above and thence into the marina drink, hungry sharks circling nearby below where she will splash.

Hers is called MINNOW, visible going down, his yacht THURSTON.

CARTOON CONCEPT WITCH AND WARLOCK CONFRONTATION IMAGINE

Just to start thinking about the general election......
Think Salem. 

Americans seldom think of a battle of witches, but it is hardly unprecedented.

TRUMP EMINENT DOMAIN CARTOON

He is very roughly dragging the old flea bitten hag from her hovel, and then from her wheel chair, toward the viewer.

High rise casino, and Federal Reserve Bank, in background at periphery.

She is biting his arm, hard.

Two bums are trying to get close to pommel him with protest signs as he goes.

A bull dozer has already started demolishing half the hovel, and is tipped up against the sorry dwelling in the image, near background.

Even Barry might grin at this.

US SUPPORTING SAUDIS IN YEMEN WAR

A quiet little side war in the graveyard of empires, the Middle East. 

How many other quiet little side wars are now going on, do you think?

AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY

...article by Edsall "summarized, once again, the economic changes that have devastated the American working class over the last 40 years.  Hourly wages adjusted for inflation have been nearly stagnant since 1964, and the middle class has shrunk.  The de-industiralization of the US--which has gone much further than in the major European countries--has devastated working class communities in states like Michigan and Ohio.  In a rational world, all this would have strengthened what is supposed to be our left wing party, the Democrats, and led to legislation which would have reversed some of these trends.  But this is not happening. Why?" DK

This is nothing new, really.

Just one of the difficulties has been that labor issues have not been uppermost, as they should have been, since labor unrest began. Even the Democratic Party normally mainly only paid lip service to this issue. There never was here a so called Labor Party, as there was in Britain, or anything like it.

There never was a preponderant lobby in Congress strong enough to overcome countervailing management interests there. Government, and very importantly, the police power,  were almost always mainly for management. 

The Supreme Court played a key part as well, for decades, in retarding labor oriented federal legislation. Child labor is a locus classicus apparently.

See "Labor History of the United States" Wikipedia article and component articles.

RE NYT THE ERA OF FREE TRADE MIGHT BE OVER

Jared Bernstein faux dream land (he is faking support for his whole title assertion, here).

See David Brooks: Mr more free trade, please.

The presidency on trade is a one trick pony.

Both Jared, and the NYT know this faux thesis is bull.

So why did they print it?

Because they know...

This is an especially egregious piece of Bernstein comparative advantage bull: 'Success in trade has much more to do with comparative advantage (who’s particularly productive making what goods), exchange rates and the quality of supply chains than with trade agreements.' 

INVESTORS ARE STILL

buying on ' corrections '.

CLASSIC POST EXPLAINS MOST OF THE BIG ISSUES

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-political-reform-not.html

Boop

Hey:
Maybe the funnier guy, in the small room, can lean on BB to do an illustration or two?
I know, he doesn't think they are that funny....
Fine. I am used to that......
All the best

RE DK REMARKS RE AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AND SCHOLARS the intellectual establishment here

We never really had one, an intellectual establishment, here.

What has passed for one, here, has semi systematically betrayed what has passed for Western civilizational culture, here, just as the free press, here, has also done, from the beginning, really.

CLASSIC POST 6 YEARS ON

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/06/civilizational-disadvantage.html

TRUMP ON TRADE

He sounds a lot like Steingart: The War For Wealth.

Steingart had said 'they begged me not to publish this'...something like that. Who were 'they', do you think?

The problem is even if he, Trump, were serious, he can't do anything like what he claims he can do.

Political structural problems, especially of the presidency itself; ideological blindness has been crucial in this decline leading to an even more important development, long term economic financial and industrial globalization militating against such a project of repatriating industry, etc. 

Game over, smell the coffee. We, not just the US, but the West, are done for, really. We have actually been done for since about 1945, frankly.You can kid yourself.

Terms search Steingart

THE MENU MONET'S TABLE

Ran across another copy...

Maybe I will say a few things, at some point, about this conjunction of fields of human endeavor, in Western civilization, in its time.

DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ABETTED BY FREE COLONIAL PRESS

No better place to look than the first 8 pages of Bailyn, Ideological Origins.

The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.

None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.

This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.

GLOBALIST UNICULTURALISM

It goes well beyond just multiculturalism...
see Huntington's views re multiculturalism.

Uniculturalist individuals, like many of us, have no allegiance to anything whatsoever, except that.

Think, something like, Leibniz ian monads.

DK VERY IMPORTANT PASSAGE

"The reasons, in my opinion, go back about half a century, and particularly to two bad decisions by the last New Dealer to occupy the White House, Lyndon Johnson.  The first, most catastrophic decision was the Vietnam War, which alienated the Boomer left from Johnson and to some extent from politics, and threw away the enormous Congressional majorities he had secured in 1964.  But the second was the redefinition of poverty as a minority problem, not a national one.  Ironically, the first target of Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964 was Appalachia, then as now the poorest region of the nation, and at that time, a Democratic stronghold.  But the problems of Appalachia have only gotten worse over the last 50 years, and it has become a Republican stronghold, now firmly in the pocket of Donald Trump.  The white southern working class has also abandoned the Democratic Party, convinced that Democrats care only about blacks, immigrants, women, and homosexuals.  Both Trump and Sanders voters know that their lot has been getting worse, and that neither major party seems to care very much about it.  Sadly, they are right.

"Since the mid-1970s, when the first prominent "new Democrat," Gary Hart, specifically repudiated the New Deal's approach to problems, the Democratic Party has increasingly been dominated by a wealthy establishment that focuses largely on social issues--women's rights, gay rights, and affirmative action--and cooperates with most of the most powerful economic interests in our society, led by Wall Street.  Going with the flow, Bill Clinton in the 1990s appointed Treasury secretaries from the big investment banks, repealed Glass-Steagall, and allowed the orgy of private borrowing that eventually led to the 2008 crash to begin.  Going with the flow,. as Thomas Piketty's book showed two years ago, means promoting increasing economic inequality. Such inequality is the natural result of the operation of the capitalist system and only government intervention can stop it.  Clinton went with the flow in other ways as well.  His crime bill was a key step towards mass incarceration, and his welfare bill left many Americans defenseless.  Urban poverty, as a new book about evictions has shown, has become much worse.   Meanwhile, the leadership of the black community, it seems, had focused on creating a black establishment, especially in politics.  The gerrymandered black districts that were created in most major urban areas became rotten boroughs, firmly under the control of perpetual incumbents, who remained a power within the Democratic Party but do not seem to have been able to do much for their constituents.  Both Bill and Hillary Clinton, obviously, have invested a great deal of time cultivating that establishment, and it has paid off.  Although younger black people have turned against their parents had flocked to Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton has nonetheless built up a large delegate lead with the help of black votes, especially in the South.  But most of those votes will be useless in the general election, where Democrats have no chance in the Deep South."

the menu

For Boop:
Got some pepper chips, for old time sake.

THE TRUMP MENU CARTOON

We show an Elizabethan royal table.  Seated facing the viewer at center is the Trump figure from the last two cartoons.
He is hungry. He has knife and fork in hand.
Before him is a large tray on a rustic board table, candelabra either side, other viands, etc. Votaries and acolytes at either side.

On the tray is a large capon, or a suckling pig, whatever. 

It is well browned.

He is even taking a large bite, perhaps.

Its hind quarter is branded CARSON.

Where is Barry Blitt when you need him?

NORTH CAROLINA VOTING NYT ARTICLE

Political structural problems....... perennial. 

TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO DEBATE PHILIPON CARTOON VARIATION

One might also show the Trump figure, facially, in profile, so that physiognomic cartoon skills could shine forth here too.

And why not give him a sinuous forked tail, extending out from the side opposite his face in profile?

IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL HUNTINGTON AMERICAN MULTICULTURALIST DEMOCRATIC GLOBALISM

Sam: This post is for you.

How many times have the core states in different civilizations joined in long term multiculturalist alliances with each other?

France, of course, had betrayed Western Civ with the Sultan, then later, of course with the Czar.....that was not "multiculturalism"...

American support for the Russian Revolution was multiculturalist, (and anti Western Civilizational), only from the American side (the Bolshiviki, of course knew better than to embrace American multiculturalist capitalism)!

The US alliance with the Soviets in WWII, another example perhaps.

Apart from these temporary alliances, and other short term aberrations, one can count the number of times on your ass: zero.

Nothing in The Clash,  "The Global Politics Of Civilizations" chapter seems to me to contradict this. 

Core states in other civilizations are not multiculturalists.

TERMS SEARCH

Daumier

RE ECB

What is the difference, really, big picture, for Europe, between .05 and .00?

It, Europe, is a beached whale, either way, really, amid booming globalization elsewhere, which it and us have singlehandedly promoted, for many decades now.

Smell the coffee. Western Civilization: game over.

American candidates talk big about turning America around, Trump talks especially about economic and commercial and industrial turn around here, trade, etc.

Guess what? 

Because of our prior policies of the past 60+ years, that is not possible, for a variety of reasons Trump is not called upon, because the other candidates don't want to touch it even though they have been told by their handlers that it is bull.

AN OLD CARTOON CONCEPT

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/09/re-china-japan-america-krugman-nyt.html

ONCE UPON A TIME I HAD TRIED LAMELY

to get Barry Blitt to look at my scripts, by referring to them in my posts and mentioning his name.

This is a guy who was ready to retire 5 years ago.

The reasons I had were that he does a great job with physiognomy, gesture, action, and color. 

He truly is the modern Daumier. google search: 

Barry Blitt Boomerbuster

TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO DEBATE PHILIPON CARTOON

We show a stage with three podiums in a triangle about 8 feet apart on each triangle side.
The large podium is nearest the viewer and facing away from the viewer directly toward the back of the stage; the other two very small ones are on either side, facing say 45 degrees from directly frontally, and turned partially toward the larger podium and partially toward the viewer.

At the central podium, with back to viewer, is a very tall figure in a black, floor length, robe, or better yet, wide collared silk cape. Long blond white reddish hair billows around the head. Long horns protrude from the sides of the head. Also, long pointed ears are visible through the hair.

At the tiny podiums, on either side facing half toward the viewer are two midget figures, one at each podium, in crude monks' cassocks, with crude rope belts and sandaled feet.

They can look something like two of the figures below, only clothed as rustic monks:




One can imagine different expressions on each of their faces, fear, awe, determination, courage, calm, etc.

The one on the left is Cruz.
The one on the right, Rubio, or vice versa, this doesn't matter.

They are both holding firmly, outstretched, at full arms length, in both hands, toward the tall figure confronting them, a large exorcist's cross.

-- Philipon --

MEGHAN HAS ACCUSED TRUMP OF BEING BASICALLY A CHANGELING

She opened another door to seeing Trump, as Cruz may have divined, as a warlock.

Classic manifestations of being a witch or warlock is the ability to change form at will, to be a changeling. 

Trump has long been accused of being a closet Democrat...for example. Crist is a locus classicus, now, of this change or mask.

RE MEGHAN VERSUS TRUMP

She accused Trump of changing his views back and forth, he answered sometime one has to change, based on changing circumstances, better information, emerging things, etc.

I can well understand that.... 

But we are going to pursue a different implication of that accusation of changing, a darker implication if you will, in light now of what Rubio now accuses Trump of being, a phony, as he also accuses Crist of having been: a phony governor.

WHAT IS A PHONY?

What does Rubio mean by phony?

RE CRIST DOES RUBIO MEAN A PHONY POLITICIAN

or a phony heterosexual?

Creative Loafing tried to out Crist, but was warned off publishing it.

RUBIO HAS ACCUSED TRUMP OF BEING A PHONY LIKE CRIST

This direction, of course has enormous possibilities for the lines of inquiry I have been following recently here.

We will unpack some implications of this direction in subsequent posts..........

EVEN IF BROOKS IS RIGHT ABOUT THE GREAT BETRAYER

Trump is the candidate that Americans most deserve.

Maybe Trump can do for the country, for the world, and for God, something like what Rick Scott has done just for little old Florida, a mere state.

Nevertheless, Trump would really queer the benevolent influence of his opponent, the naive, latin lover, young and restless, Cuba lover, Rubio, who, as Chris Farley Christie said, knows jack squat about governing anything larger than a small duplex, down here, given Rubio's really great, smart, hands off statesmanship on sacred, and largely constitutionally inviolable, small scale, peanuts, grass roots, average American private property rights here (the big boys behind the scenes pulling the strings on this marionette).

ONLY FOOLS FIGHT THOSE THEY DO NOT HAVE TO NORTH SOUTH KOREA US

Only fools.

Guess who is, and has long been, the fool in Asia?

Us.

RE SAMUEL GLOVER AND THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES

"That broader perspective is necessary if only because it's the best way to deflate the delusional bubbles of people like Clinton, Wolfowitz, et al. Iraq, Libya, Syria -- these societies didn't just pop into existence when they started showing up on CNN. They're the product of millennia of history, and that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa. Against that, our Beltway Caesars are going to set up suburbia with a few well-aimed bombing missions and a "moderate" "government" constructed from a gang of hotel exiles?!?!" SG

"...that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa..." SG

The Middle East, as Rufus Fears reiterated, has always been the graveyard of empires. 

A very dynamic graveyard, to paraphrase SG.

ROMNEY MORMON ANYONE BETTER THAN TRUMP POSSESSED

Romney will go with exorcist Cruz over devil Trump. 

He will go with anybody over Trump, apparently. 

Think about it. Trump must be a sort of devil to Romney. 

What is Cruz to him, a sort of angel?

Mormons like Romney would, of course, think that way.....

Smell the coffee...