Political Almanac The History of Politics

Political Almanac Chapter 2: The History of Politics

How Did This Start ?

Why We Invented Elected Officials
Elected Officials were invented because we assumed that some necessities, like roads, would not be built by volunteers using their own money. On the Frontier, Americans did this successfully until they got mad at “freeloaders”, who didn’t help. It has been “downhill” ever since. Over the years there were lots of things we wanted to force everybody else to pay for. Looking back, we could have done without most of those things. When we chartered the U.S., we did allow for elected “representative” government. We unfortunately neglected to identify whose welfare they would represent or just how they would do that.

What Did We Expect Them to Do
In the early years, we copied what others had done. We knew that if we were threatened we would need an Army, so we maintained a small Army. We based our Courts, Legislation and Executive political activities on much of what Europe had done. We limited what government would do and we went about our business of farming, ranching and trading. We were less restricted and taxed by government than were our European friends. On the Frontier, we farmed and traded without any government, so everybody had guns, similar to how it is now in our inner-cities. As we moved gentile Easterners to the West, we hired Sheriffs, Mayors, City Counsels, Judges and Tax Collectors. We built churches, recruited doctors, built jails and complained that the rowdy cowboys needed to stop drinking, shooting up the town and flaunting their loose morals, just like they do today in Los Angeles. We gradually expected government to get rid of the Indians and provide roads, bridges, clean water, sanitary sewer systems, a postal service, stage coaches, telegraph lines, railroads and eventually street lights. We also went along with Courts, Legislatures and Governors. Mostly, we wanted courts to protect our legal property rights, but the courts distracted themselves and have abandoned this entirely.

What Happened Next
Gradually, government took on a life of its own and wanted to establish public schools, particularly where there were no private or parochial schools, thereby allowing parents of private school students the opportunity to pay for the education of their neighbor’s children. Having been elected, Legislators became bored with roads, bridges, water and sewers. They also needed more emotional issues to make voters more emotional and less lucid, so they invented these issues like ‘River City Needs a Boys’ Band’. They decided to claim sovereignty over almost everything. They competed with each other to stretch their reach beyond anything they could actually have any affect on or afford to do. Early on they discovered they could make up scandals in which their opponents were allegedly involved and the free press would print this drivel. They promised the church ladies they would outlaw alcohol, dancing and card playing and they were elected.

When Did Ideology Start
By 1900, the chasm between business owners and workers, well publicized by novelists and intellectuals, had reached a new low. Karl Marx was widely read. Intellectuals and thugs joined together and produced the Russian Revolution to allow Communism to spread across the globe. Even the United States had a small but active Communist Party. In another intellectual camp, Margaret Sanger began a movement to limit the population growth of the great unwashed intellectual inferiors, who didn’t graduate from Ivy League schools. Our best trained thugs were with the Mafia and they took up the cause of labor and worked to organize labor unions using extortion, threats and intimidation. This witches brew of intellectuals and thugs became the Democratic Party, favoring redistribution of wealth, socialism, labor unions, free love, public schools with a pro-socialist agenda and abortion on demand. Everybody else who saw what they were doing and said: ‘Hey, that’s not right….or…’I don’t agree with that.. became Republicans. This culminated in 1932 when the WW-2 Bonus Marcher Veterans were routed from the Capitol after Congress refused to pay their promised bonus early. None of these folks were reelected. That locked in the final pillar of the Nanny State, which says: ‘Promise to transfer wealth to the poor all the time and actually do it when you can get away with it, and you will be reelected. This only works when most of the voters are poor, most of the time. This realization did crystallize the Democratic Party’s primary goal: to make all the voters poor, so they will vote for them.

How to Destroy the Global Economy
Our Regulations under the Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to make 42% of their loans to folks who had no money, credit, jobs, citizenship, or ability to repay the loans. This is a good start. Lenders rolled these bad loans into securities and sold them world-wide. In 2008 the global economy lost $50 trillion in equity and we were sinking fast. In 2008, our GDP was about $14.3 trillion. Our National Debt was over $10.9 trillion and growing, our unfunded liabilities total $55 trillion and our net worth was a negative $5 trillion and heading South. Our annual taxes took in $2.4 trillion a year. In 2010 Our GDP is projected to be about $15 trillion due to the infusion of $24 trillion printed dollars. Our unemployment is actually close to 30% and isn’t budging. Our Federal Budget ballooned to $3.9 trillion and our National Debt is planned to reach $20 trillion by 2020. If all those who are funding our debt decided not to, we would be insolvent and would either debase the dollar (hyperinflation) or cancel all entitlements. Everybody will be poor and would therefore only vote for Democrat candidates (How’s that gonna work out for us ? ).

The Tyranny of the Minority (taming the great free beast)
We in government have gone too far according to your average American cowboy. To tame the cowboy beast and distract him from complaining about the real horrendous things we’ve done, we have enacted a boat-load of laws and cultural movements designed to keep him in his place under the guise of protecting him from himself including: seat-belt laws, no driving with a beer, no big convertibles, required bicycle helmets, designer coffee and bottled water. We also went crazy protecting minorities, including everybody but the cowboys. You will recognize our government monuments to minorities by how much trouble they are and how few people really visit these sites. Our harassment campaign includes more handicapped parking spaces than necessary, HOV lanes with one or two cars in them, over-treatment of all diseases, under-crowded passenger trains, busses with one passenger, endless paperwork required to track hiring and treatment of “protected classes”, protecting employees from polygraphs, guaranteeing employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave, ensuring that everybody makes more money than the cowboys and ensuring freedom from religion for atheists and freedom to flame in public to gays. Dangerous criminals are set free by our courts based on overcrowding in our prisons. Criminals continue to terrorize citizens over the internet. Drug addicts are sent to prisons where they can continue to get drugs.

Where We Are Now
We politicians have now established our delusions as fact, that we can save everybody from everything, real and imagined, including things we’ve caused. Presidential political campaigns now cost $1 billion to $2 billion per year. Senate and Congressional campaigns cost $200,000 to $10 million. Unions contribute $500 million to $1 billion a year to Democrats. Liberal wealthy folks who purchase all their political favors contribute the rest Republican voters are totally disillusioned, so they don’t make campaign contributions. Contributors bribe Politicians when they want something. Politicians extort contributions from lobbyists when they need money.

We politicians are hired by these interest groups to promote the interests of our contributors. These interests can include preferential tax treatment, exclusive advantages like excluding national banks from usury laws and excluding derivative and hedge fund investors from being subject to gambling laws. These groups work to get their candidates elected by limiting the candidates to those they’ve chosen to hire. We Voters pretend that these candidates will work for us, but they don’t. The issues Politicians use to divide and conquer us include Culture War issues like abortion, gay rights, class warfare, transfer payments, open borders, out-of control judges, rampant immigration and freedom from religion.

Liberal Politicians are offering voters free health care, housing, food, condoms, education and pensions if they join unions. Those who disagree are called intolerant, racist, uneducated, ignorant, evil cavepersons. They encourage all voters to celebrate diversity by being tolerant, secular, gay, inclusive and environmental. The tools they use include laws and programs designed to fail, bullying, intimidation and name calling, totally fabricated problems like global warming, bribery and extortion, candidate control and debasing the currency,

Bullying the Federal Reserve has really worked out for us. We can easily debase the currency by printing more money and we’ve done so undetected at the rate of 4% per year for decades. In 1968 new cars were $2,000, now they’re $20,000. Houses were $30,000, now they same house is $300,000. Family health insurance was $600 a year, now it’s $12,000 a year; College tuition was $900 a year, now it’s $18,000 a year. Health Care and Education inflated 8% per year. A good family income was $10000 / year, now it takes $100000 / year. Most large purchases are 10 times higher than they were 40 years ago, except for health insurance and education; these are 20 times more expensive. The way to confirm changes in inflation is to look at the growth in the gross domestic product (GDP). It too has grown 4% per year for that past 40 years. (isn’t that interesting…) The purpose of announcing the GDP is to give us the illusion that we are making progress. Looking forward, because of the size of our debt and the diminishing value of our economic capability, we look forward to debasing the dollar at double the rate of the last 40 years. The voters will really need us then.