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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
CONTENTS:
Pg 1:
INTRODUCTION
Pg 1: UGLY (Usurp,
Greedy, Lackluster and Yearning for attention 24/7)
Pg 2 :MOURNING FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS
Pg 2: MOURNING FOR ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS AND FELLOW
MAMMALS
Pg 2: PEWHASOP.org: Protect Environment
& general Welfare & Health And Safety Of
Public
Pg 4: GoPP.global: People’s Party
and PIE (Public Informational/Educational) Platform
Pg 5: MEETING BASIC RIGHTS AND HUMAN NEEDS
Pg 6: PUBLIC
CONTINUALLY AWAITING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Pg 9: LOOK BACK IN HISTORY AT MOVIES THAT
MIMIC REALITY THEN AND NOW
INTRODUCTION:
You can
decide for yourself, but as portrayed herein and elsewhere on affiliated web
sites, The Good, the Bad and Ugly are PACATO, CRIMe plants and UGLY (Usurp, Greedy, Lackluster
and Yearning for attn 24/7),
respectively. PACATO is representing several affiliated web sites under
CommonGoodUnited.org, including PEWHASOP.org (discussed herein), youREAPwhatVFGBVTMJVFRCDX
yousow.org (REAP, Reality Environmental Action Proponents), People’s Party
Platform (GoPP.global: also discussed herein) and UGLY.network.
PACATO
(PACATO.org) are the good principled people who believe character (minimum
Character 101) is important, and they seek out allies to collaborate with for
the betterment of Humanity and the Planet.
The CRIMe
plants (youREAPwhatyousow.org) are the “leaky” Chemically Real Intensive
Manufacturing establishments who freely and illegally pollute the planet and it
citizens for the maximization of profits at the expense and detriment to the
health & safety and welfare of the public.
UGLY (Usurp, Greedy, Lackluster and Yearning
for attention 24/7)
What the UGLY acronym stands for as
previously given was unanimously agreed upon based on POTUS “It”. More on this:
- The “U” is
self explanatory, and pertains to how “It” got to be POTUS in the first place (Usurping via Russian collusion,
etc.), and our only hope of getting rid of “It” is for a candidate to beat “It”
in 2020, or for the U.S. Congress to perform its duty to the U.S. citizens by impeaching
and convicting “it” for his many misdeeds. For “It”, “U” also stands for Ubiquitous, Uninspiring and just plain “UGLY right down to the bone” for this empty shell of a human
being.
- Besides “Greed”, the “G” also stands for Glorified, which “It” fully
expects now and is accustomed to before he stole the presidency as a “Reality
TV” celebrity, while living a life then (and now) devoid of reality and human
feelings. In “Its” Glibness,
“It” continually insults:
- whole races, nations/nationals and religions
(e.g., broad international U.S. Muslim ban; calling sovereign nations “sh_thole
countries” related to U.S. policy on immigration );
- those with disabilities and other
abnormalities;
- those with a physical appearance that does
not meet UGLY.org’s limited unqualified qualifications criteria;
- those with an intelligence that does meet
UGLY.org’s limited unqualified qualifications criteria;
- foreign nationals fleeing severe homeland
persecution and deprivation by separating families as a part of policy strategy
to discourage those desperate individuals and their families from seeking
asylum;
- denigrating and
downgrading war heroes, when alive and after death (Sen. McCain); etc.
- The “L” is
self explanatory as evidenced by the many basic human qualities “It” Lacks as displayed constantly in
a Loud and Ludicrous manner as displayed by
the “U”, “G”, “L” and “Y”.
- The “Y” is
for constantly Yearning for 24/7
attention and Glorification,
which “It” expected during “Its” Reality TV years, which hasn’t changed much
since “It” became POTUS.
- “Y” for the
color Yellow, associated with
cowards and a typical bully, and also the color of the UGLY.org logo which is
translucent, with little substance.
MOURNING FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS: We mourn and grieve for the tens of millions
people migrating all over the globe, some dying by drowning or starvation, and
getting separated from or losing their family members, as they strive just to survive
and perhaps have a better life. We mourn the Chinese people engulfed in manmade
pollution, making their air unbreathable and the water resources they depend on
for drinking water laden with cancerous chemicals, which is a foretelling of
what is to come here in the U.S. if leaky CRIMe plants are not held accountable
and allowed to continue operating without needed environmental safeguards;
which in effect, is continuously and insidiously degrading the quality of our
natural water resources, and in particular the quality of our public water
supply sources, like Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes, that together with
Grand Rapids-MI-Metro/W MI, State of Michigan, U.S. Midwest/ Great Lakes
Region, represent the REAP designated “Poster Community”, “Poster State”, “Poster
U.S. Region” and “Poster World Nation” for an all out effort by concerned citizens
to uncover, prosecute, demand corrective action/remediation of a century-long
world/U.S. problem with leaky CRIMe plants.
MOURNING FOR ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS AND FELLOW
MAMMALS: We mourn the flora and fauna
being stripped from the earth or dying or becoming extinct in the path of
feeding the large appetite of the greedy and just for basic human subsistence
for world population, especially all the fellow FL mammals and aquatic life
passing in the blue/green and red tides of the after year – the breach was
prevented by the government officials/breachers at Lake Okeechobee, and the
deluge and drowning did not occur, but a zillion deaths of God’s creatures did.
W MI fears the day the century old dams in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, will be
torn down to unleash river toxins to the Big Lake/Lake Michigan.
PEWHASOP.org:
Protect Environment & general Welfare & Health And Safety Of Public
GoPP.global,
or the People’s Party and its associated Public Information/Educational
(PIE) Platform was originally conceived as the PEWHASOP (“pew has op”), but was
changed to GoPP (“Go People’s Party” for simplification and ease of memory
purposes, and also because the People’s Party name was more appropriate.
Nonetheless, it is still worth going over the aspects of the original name
because of the very pertinent points that were made. Incidentally, the
applicable website is called PEWHASOP.org.
People often
associate “pew” with the Pew Research Center which is a nonpartisan
fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends
shaping the world – it oftentimes can be a good resource for politicians and political
parties to get a sense of the public’s current concerns about government and
its leaders, and the everyday issues concerning citizens over a period of time.
Without taking policy positions, Pew Research
Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content
analysis and other data-driven social science research. Besides the latter, others
commonly associate the word “pew”
with church. With all that is going today, many get comfort in going to their place of worship wherever and whatever it
happens to be, where they sit in that pew
if provided, or kneel, stand or sit on the ground; whatever is customary or
suitable for the individual. Being at a place of worship gives citizens an
opportunity to join their body, mind, and spirit along with their fellow human compatriots
and seek out that which is “good for the betterment of humanity and the planet”
The “has” in PEWHASOP, reminds us what “has” been the fundamental basis for the centralized
governmental structure of the United States since it first declared its
fundamental foundation, the U.S. Constitution.
It makes us long for what has
been our roots in the USA, and a majority of us want to see it made whole
again. Therefore, we shall all resolve as “has” been done in the past, that
those who have perished in the past defending his/her country, shall not have
died in vain, and we stand together and vow that this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom once again going back to its core values as framed
under the constitution, of having a government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE,
AND FOR THE PEOPLE, which forever shall be our motto and our commitment forthwith
so that we shall not perish from our blessed earth.”
So going
back to PEWHASOP, we shall “operate”
(abbreviated as “Op” or
“Ops”) by this basic and simple core constitutional principle, and in
conjunction with this guiding principle, we, the men and women of this nation shall
join WITH OUR ALLIES FROM NEAR AND
AFAR (primary mission of PACATO) to “operate” foremost in a fashion fiscally and advantageous to
our citizens in a manner that PROTECTS
THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE GENERAL WELFARE AND HEALTH & SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC.
This is a high moral and ethical standard obligated by many professionals, such
as engineers, attorneys, doctors and others (including PUBLIC OFFICIALS) who swear to an oath to comply with this basic
principle, and those who lead and operate
the government shall do no less, as they are obligated by law to do so.
Our citizens
should be able to conduct their daily routines wherever they happen to be
knowing that the environment around them is being protected, preserved and
restored as needed, and that their surroundings in the public sphere and work
place are such that their general welfare and health & safety has the
needed safeguards to allow them to live in peace and harmony with their
environment and their fellow men and women, and that their health & safety
and general subsistence is there (including shelter) to allow them to survive
and enjoy a reasonable amount of happiness and pleasure in their lives while
minimizing any avoidable pain and suffering. These are all simple and basic
principles based on the MUTUAL “RESPECT”
AND LOVE OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AND THE ONE AND ONLY PLANET THAT WE
PRESENTLY OCCUPY. We are a People’s Party, and we are not a party devoted to the aggrandizement and
maximization of the wealth of a small percentage (1 %) of our population at the detriment of the overall
general welfare and health & safety of the public. We do not oppose the entrepreneurial
spirit, which is a necessary fabric of our economy, but we simply advocate AGAINST THE CORPORATE STRATEGY OF
MINIMIZING AND INADEQUATELY FUNDING BOTTOM-LINE CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS
associated with PROTECTING
the environment and WORKER HEALTH
& SAFETY and the general welfare and health & safety of the
public at the detriment to the workers and public to maximize profits and personal/individual/corporate
wealth of the few. WE ARE DEVOTED TO
THE PEOPLE and not the corporate mentality to minimize operating and
capital costs while letting the environment and the internal pride, respect, comfort and survival of the human
race to be cast out to fend on their own against the forces of the capitalistic
society and modernization and technical advancement of society moving rapidly
towards an abundance of artificial intelligence and a consequential world of
impoverished and depressed human beings suffering physically and mentally as
the number of multi-millionaires and billionaires continues to grow.
GoPP.global: People’s Party and PIE (Public
Informational/Educational) Platform
So going
back to GoPP and the People’s Party and PIE (Public Informational/Educational) Platform,
recognize that clearly things are definitely “out of whack” to the extreme as
never before seen in modern society. Priorities have to change in favor of the
“common good of humanity and the planet”, with all its flora and fauna or we
are all doomed – or at least our children and children’s children will be
destined for pain and suffering and possible extinction. And do not count on Mars or the outer space
exploration to save us all (at best, it will be saving a small group of billionaires),
and for God’s sake have some empathy for the most desperate and vulnerable
members of society who do not know from day to day whether they will have food
or water and shelter to survive.
Animals and
plant life on land and in the sea are in severe stress in many places and in
many ways (from global warming, pollution from chemicals, plastics, etc.), and
species extinction rates are on the uptick. Animal habitats are dwindling and
are becoming more and more inhabitable by many of our highly stress fellow
mammals and on down the chain to coral reefs, etc. Seeking sole isolation and preservation in
disregard to the “whole” is not the answer, and totally disregards the common
good of humanity and the planet, and is a solution that a soulless, shallow and
hollow “It”/”excuse for a human being” would selfishly devise for the sole
purpose of sole survival and living an extravagant and gluttonous life style.
So, please join your friends, family, neighbors and others and start taking an
active stance and role participating in the process in a civil and law abiding
manner by taking measures that will have a “real” and lasting impact on
reversing this terrible human life and planet destruction path we are presently
on as we keep sliding towards the edge of the abyss.
Check out and look at the goals and objectives of REAP
(Reality Environmental Action Proponents) and do as it suggests. REAP will help
you through the process if needed of coming up with a plan of action and hiring
the environmental consultants and testing & sampling firms you will need to
complete necessary sampling and testing of soils and groundwater surrounding a
CRIMe (Chemically Real Intensive Mfg establishment) plant if you suspect they
may be polluting the area. You need to do this if you think your neighborhood
and community and environment is going unnoticed because you are in a
neighborhood served by centralized public water, and consequently almost always
receives little or no attention by public environmental and public health
officials because your area has low priority because private individual domestic
wells are not being polluted because the area does not depend on this type of
water supply. So please, get with other neighbors in community (in a PACATO fashion)
and organize and implement a contamination investigation involving sampling and
testing of suspected contaminated soils, groundwater and surface water (open
ditches and creeks, etc.) for your own sake and also for the “community as a
whole” because the steady pollution from these CRIMe plants is degrading the
quality of our natural water resources, including our public water supply
sources, like Lake Michigan, and the whole Great Lakes system.
Also check
out PACATO.org, and do as suggested, and form alliances with other individuals,
neighborhood associations, nonprofit/nongovernmental advocacy organizations
(NGOs), etc., to take more control of the destiny of yourself and your loved
ones, rather than simply waiting for local, state and federal government
officials to guard over you and come running to the rescue. You simply have to
recognize that publicly elected officials have a lot on their plate, including their
re-election (generally #1 priority and is often “all” consuming), and
priorities may not always be directed at the general welfare and health &
safety of your particular neighborhood and community. You, as a local citizen
in your area, know your needs better than any outsider or public official who
is assigned to numerous communities; and if you shove data in front of them
that clearly demonstrates that those CRIMe plants near you have caused chemical
contamination and are leaking like sieves, that cannot just walk away from it
and ignore it, because that would be a clear UNLAWFUL BREACH OF PUBLIC DUTY if they did (= CRIME).
Also look at
GoPP.global (People’s Party and Public Informational/educational Platform as
related public concerns in general and the 2020 and other elections), which is
a new public educational/informational organization whose primary purpose is to
work for the betterment and common good of humanity and the planet. That’s the
underlying principle of PP. Everything else related to PP stems from that.
Let’s face it, if you have a lousy or declining environment, than life is not
all that good for humans or the critters, and plant life; and which for the
latter, we humans and many of the critters depend on for a food source. So
therefore, a high priority should be given to make sure the environment does
not go to hell, and then concentrate on what we humans need to live a
reasonably safe, healthy and content life; which just is not possible if your environment
is continually degrading.
So besides
advocating and fulfilling the goal of protecting/preserving and restoring (as
needed) the environment, recognize that there is another underlying principle
of PP, which is the protection and preservation (and restoration as needed) of
the general welfare and health & safety of the public. Unfortunately,
profiteers are not going to do this for us on their own without a little
prodding or encouragement. Who is being referred to here are, for example, BIG
PHARMA, BIG AG, BIG PETROCHEMICAL, BIG OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers,
like automotive, etc.) and hundreds of thousands of other different
manufacturing sectors and businesses, which are all fine and good and are needed
to advance society in some respects, including the modernization of
technologies and new products, etc., that primarily occurs due to the demand of
fulfilling human creature comforts, including cures of major diseases and
building safer and more efficient products, etc. But we do not need, nor do we
desire an aristocrat to achieve the latter, but rather we desire to have a
centralized control center to manage and assist all these pieces to this
worldly puzzle so the parts fit together with as few disfigured/sharp edges as
possible (i.e., as applicable to humans just as much or more than for the
inanimate parts – wouldn’t you think??).
MEETING BASIC
RIGHTS AND HUMAN NEEDS
So to the
crux of the matter, PP advocates for achieving harmony and protection over
society by taking measures to assure that the general welfare and health &
safety of the public is watched out for by achieving, for example, the
following in an overall effort to fulfill this end objective (this is part of a
draft initial PIE platform- Public Informational/Educational – which is
evolving and will be modified and expanded as comments and suggestions from PP members/supporters
come in on GoPP.global). Through the PIE Platform, PP will elaborate and define
in detail what exactly these following items consist of in terms of areas and
demographics affected, and what problems exist and what are the potential
solutions to address these problems/situations and challenges :
1. Subsistence and shelter is a basic human
right – i.e., all people have a basic right to daily food, water and shelter.
2. All people have a basic right to health
(physical and mental), medical, dental and vision care as needed, and perhaps
this may be best achieved by a single payer system subsidized on an individual
and as needed basis for all.
3. We should all have the basic right to have
daily safe drinking water and sanitary wastewater and solid waste disposal
services wherever we are, whether at home, work, or elsewhere. The latter need
should be obvious to everyone, because if you don’t do garbage, etc. virtually
everywhere (esp. densely populated areas) you will have piles of waste, etc.
all over the place, which makes for very unhealthy and unpleasant living
conditions.
4. We should all have the basic right to general
public safety and security, which means having government provided public
safety/police services and fire and emergency protection services should be
available to everyone, which means that there has to be adequate staffing and
facilities/equipment to achieve this in an equal and effective manner,
including having adequate community public security lighting, neighborhood
police patrols, etc.
5. Social Security (SS) and Medicare (MC) for
older citizens and the disabled should be funded forever in this nation (don’t
kid yourself in thinking that there are not too many conservative politicians out
there that would take all that away from you without public notice at a drop of
a hat).
PUBLIC CONTINUALLY AWAITING
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Our public
infrastructure needs to be adequately upgraded and expanded in states and
communities across the nation using the recommendations and guidance put forth
annually by a comprehensive nationwide evaluation/report published by the ASCE
(American Society of Civil Engineers). PP will outline and discuss the pros and cons not
only of SS and MC, but also privatization of various public infrastructure, and
fully explain to the public what the potential impacts may be of the private
sector taking over these systems in their ownership or operation because of the
predictability of what profiteers will do under these circumstances, which is
often scalp off bottom-line expenses related to public health & safety to
increase profits at the detriment to the public, while at the same time jacking
up the consumer/citizen fees for a less adequate and less safe service. In the
past few decades, government funding has been more for the very visible
infrastructure improvements, such as capital funding for highway projects (new
and expanded highways, etc.), which is all good and needed in most cases; but
the selection of these more visible capital public projects is often politically
motivated, and at the same time, these same politicians advocating for
transportation funding, have neglected the invisible public capital improvement
projects that are needed, such as potable drinking water systems, wastewater
systems and stormwater drainage systems buried below the ground that have
become severely deteriorated, and have even collapsed in some communities
requiring that major roads be shut down for emergency repairs. Examples of some
of these infrastructure improvements needed are as follows (If all these
projects are done and funded, many citizens will have opportunities to work):
1. Public
transportation systems, including airports, roadway and highway systems
(including replacement of many unsafe bridges), pedestrian sidewalks/trails,
bike lanes/trails, high speed and light rail systems for intra- and
inter-community public transportation systems (big metro areas), and bus
depots, bus lanes, etc. for other communities.
2. Wastewater
collection, transmission, treatment/reclamation/water reuse systems for
all communities based on population density and suitability and availability of
land space to achieve individual on-site treatment and disposal (septic tank
systems); however, PP discourages the latter in favor of having land use
planning requirements that better lends itself to having centralized public
utility services in new developments (i.e., water, wastewater and stormwater)
because septic tank systems have proven to be unreliable due to property owner
maintenance neglect, etc., and consequently, these systems typically contribute
to pollution of natural water resources no matter where they are. PP advocates
that the government provide funding to replace failing septic tank systems
located in neighborhoods across the nation that are multiple decades old, and
typically have site conditions unsuitable for onsite disposal, and are causing
unchecked major pollution to natural water resources.
3. Public
drinking water supply, treatment, storage and distribution systems in
communities needed to supply safe drinking water to its citizens for all
communities across the nation based on population density and the need for such
systems due to the inadequacy or contamination of individual private domestic
well systems; such systems to be used to fulfill multiple water demands in
communities, such as that of residential, commercial and industrial
development, and fire protection, lawn irrigation systems, process and cooling water,
etc. PP will advocate for communities to have “integrated water systems” to the extent technologically
feasible, and that there be government funding for such systems, whereby
communities reuse treated stormwater and wastewater for non-potable/nondrinking
water purposes, such as landscape irrigation, industrial/commercial process and
cooling water, flushing of toilets, etc.; and whereby there shall be funding
for water capture and conservation
measures to be employed by communities, such as collecting rainwater to be used
for multiple purposes, such as landscape irrigation, and the design and
construction of green technology/infrastructure systems, to be installed and
utilized to store and treat rainfall runoff, such as rain gardens, pervious
pavement, etc.
4. Stormwater
conveyance, storage and treatment systems, including the aforementioned
items, as well as building major infrastructure systems for the purpose of separating
combined stormwater and sanitary wastewater systems where they exist, which
cause tremendous pollution to natural water resources due to combined system
overflows which occur regularly during periods of heavy precipitation. And the
repair/replacement/refurbishment of all the public water, wastewater and
stormwater infrastructure systems where so badly needed across the nation, especially
in older, large metropolitan areas.
5. Judicial
correctional systems – updating, expansions, modifications and
replacements where needed of facilities, with heavy emphasis on rehabilitation
and decreasing recidivism.
NOTE: As
said earlier, due to the obvious conflict of interests, and the likelihood that
there would be mismanagement due to operation and maintenance cost shaving and
increases in citizen service fees to maximize profits, the prior mentioned public infrastructure systems should not
be privatized, but should remain publicly owned, managed and operated; and
where they have been privatized, it should be reversed. The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency needs to be restored to a truly environmental (not a
corporate) protective agency and the U.S. needs to recommit to the Paris Global
Climate Change Initiative.
6. National
energy grid system – Expand,
modify and improve in all aspects, with special emphasis on the decreased use
of fossil fuels, and the increased
use of renewable energy sources (wind, solar, etc.).
7. Public
lands and parks, including government owned national forests, coastal and
riverine areas, and parks and monuments, should remain public, and the
ownership and rights (mineral rights, etc.) should not be transferred or given
to profiteers to exploit these lands for the purpose of individual or corporate
financial gain at the expense and detriment to the public; and where this has
been done in the past, it should be reversed back to public rights, ownership,
management and operation. Additional public lands shall be purchased in the
general public interest and for the
preservation of the nation’s natural features, and for the protection and
preservation of animal and plant species habitats, including forests,
historical monuments, and animal wildlife refuge areas. Government funding
shall be given to interconnecting these public habitats across the nation, so
animal wildlife may freely and naturally migrate. The government should
severely limit and restrict the giving away of mineral rights to private
corporate operators on publicly owned and protected lands, such as the
petrochemical industry building such infrastructure on these lands, and
allowing such corporations to install facilities across, under and over Native
American Reservations in disregard to their well being and native historical customs
(burial grounds, etc.) and general nationwide significance.
The U.S.
Diplomatic agency needs to be restored and brought back to its full staffing
capacity to allow diplomatic relations and communications to occur with nations
across the globe; especially with our closest democratic allies in NATO,
etc. We understand we cannot serve all
nations and people across the globe as we serve our own nation and citizens,
but nevertheless, we should always attempt to be good global neighbors/partners.
Which highlights again, that we have to fulfill the basic human needs and rights
of our nation’s citizens as previously set forth. If American corporations are
outsourcing all labor and supply contracts abroad, and all they are doing here
is transferring money back and forth and counting their profits, they have to
understand that the human able bodied population sitting here in the USA have
to be taken care of, and they cannot sit back as well-to-do (wealthy = 1%) citizens and/or
corporations and allow other citizens to be deprived of their basic human needs
and rights (food, water, shelter, etc.) because these citizens are unable to find
work, and thus, a means to support themselves and their loved ones. If our
nation can help facilitate philanthropy in other nations in need, we should do
so; and in some cases, we should also give direct foreign financial aid if it
is in our nation’s overall best interest. And on the other extreme, we should
not assist aristocratic, authoritarian/oligarchy type nations, and when they
commit acts against humanity or against the sovereignty of our nation or
others, we should retaliate as a minimum by imposing significant economic
sanctions against them and strictly implement and enforce them until there is
long-term demonstration of reform.
This is not
the final PP PIE (Public Informational/Educational) Platform, but it is a
beginning. There is much more to add, and certainly it will need revisions as
more members of the PP participate in this process. The platform needs to spell
out in detail how we are strong advocates of equal rights for all, regardless
of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religious beliefs, etc.; and we should
act on taking real steps to resolve the migration issue, especially for the
Dreamers; yet on the other hand, we also need to recognize the need to protect
our borders and allow foreign migration and the granting of asylum on a limited
and controlled basis. And we are strong advocates of women’s reproductive
rights; and strong advocates for gun control and safety and the limiting and
control of assault type weapons. So
please join in and help the People’s Party and the People’s Party PIE Platform.
And please pass the word about GoPP.global so public awareness and knowledge
spreads on these many vitally important issues, and so there is maximum public
participation in the process, so the public can go forward and be highly
informed when speaking to publicly elected and appointed officials whether
directly or in a public forum, and most importantly when casting votes on
candidates and public proposals, amendments, etc.
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LOOK BACK IN HISTORY AT MOVIES THAT MIMIC
REALITY THEN AND NOW
“You got to
believe Bolie!!”; “The Big Tall Wish”
episode, 1960, CBS, Twilight Zone,
Rod Serling. Commentary and script lines: About young boy (son of boxer’s
lady friend) encouraging his older boxer friend near the end of his boxing
career to believe he can win that one big last fight that came in the twilight
of his career. “If you don’t believe that ONE BIG WISH it likely will not come
true!”. “I guess the trouble is ….
There’s not enough people around to believe….”; “You got to believe Bolie….”.
“The Day the
Earth Stood Still”; 1951, 20th
Century Fox, Harry Bates. “Commentary
and script lines: About humanoid alien visitors, Klaatu and his side kick
robot, Gort, who came to earth to give the President a message during the peak
years of nuclear arsenal proliferation that would affect all of humanity. The
gift they gave POTUS was a message that simply said “to study life on the other
planets”. The earthlings were not that
receptive to these aliens, who eventually packed up and got ready to depart
back to their home planet, at which time they told POTUS just before departing
as they were closing the spaceship’s hatches: “Join us and LIVE IN PEACE, or
pursue your present course and FACE OBLITERATION”.
And then…. “The
Day the Earth Stood Crazy“; 2016, FTF (Facebook-Twitter-FOX);
GOP/RNC. “Commentary and script
lines: About Real Estate magnate, “It”, who had become a Reality TV “It”, and
thereafter got nominated by the GOP/RNC as the party’s presidential nominee, which
was then followed by foreign (Russian) manipulation of the USA election process
through sophisticated high tech means, which was very conducive and effective
means to convey to large swaths of the voting public through the Facebook
platform via a lot of propaganda. “It” was the preferred candidate, and the
RNC/GOP pronounced that “Its” competitor was a criminal and should be locked
up; which was quickly received and reinforced by the “Fair and Balanced” FOX TV
Network, which was quickly assigned as the number one advocate and surrogate
for “It” up to and during the primary and general election, and thereafter to
the present day, as “It” now serves gleefully as the Reality TV POTUS while dealing
with gigantic national and international matters far exceeding “Its” limited
capacity/capabilities. The aliens have now arrived again and gave POTUS “It” a message
stating “You are not going to get elevated to King or dictator, and instead,
you will be impeached and disgraced the world over, and the GOP/RNC will become
extinct as minorities and women rise in power and influence in U.S. and the
world as they work with allies from near and afar to create a more peaceful and
sustainable world for the betterment of humanity and our Dear Earth”
… And then
remember the quote from the 1976 film: “We’re
as mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!” Network;
1976; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; United Artists; Paddy Chayefsky. Remember that
movie? This fictional story is about a
major TV network news anchorman, Howard Beale, who comes unhinged when he finds
out that he is slated to be fired in a couple of weeks. After Beale finds out
he is a “short timer” at the network, he goes on a tirade during a live
broadcast and tells the audience that he will be committing suicide live on TV
the next week. Not surprisingly, after that episode, Beale’s boss, the
president of the network news was going to fire Beale, but before he could, the
network news ratings skyrocketed after Beale’s outburst and the upper echelon
brass of the network then chose to exploit Beale’s antics rather than pulling
him off the air. While the latter is going on, some internal politicking and
staff envy begins to percolate, and then Beale’s boss gets approached by one of
Beale’s highly ambitious competitors who wants to see less attention given to
Beale’s nightly news program so the top brass (with Beale’s boss’s urging)
could devote more time reviewing and hopefully approving the special program
she had in the making. In the meantime Beale’s new broadcasts are getting more
and more outrageous, and Beale’s boss starts having an affair with Beale’s
network co-worker who is aspiring to take over the limelight from Beale with
her new program. Things continue to get more complicated and convoluted, as
Beale’s boss and his envious competitor get married, and Beale gets moved from
the evening news hour over to a special news commentary program, where his
rants escalate to the point that Beale is leading a live audience in a chant
during the program shouting out “We’re as
mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!” Beale then finds out that the network board
of directors decided to sell the network to a Saudi Arabian conglomerate, after
which he goes on air during his program shouting his opposition to the deal.
The network corporate brass then start getting nervous that Beale’s ranting on
the program is going to kill the deal, which they desperately needed because
they were in financial straits. Matters even get worse for the network when
Beale’s boss convinces him to end his populist messages and switch over to an
“evangel” which included preaching sermons on dehumanization of society, which
his television audience found depressing and so they stop watching him, and the
network ratings then began to plummet.
At this point the network decides that the only solution to escape the
dilemma they were in and pending financial doom was to hire a band of
terrorists who were featured in an earlier docudrama series to shoot and kill
Beale during one of his live broadcasts, which is what they did. After Beale’s
live assassination broadcast on the network as viewed by tens of millions of
people, the earlier docudrama series about the terrorists began airing again,
and as the network was broadcasting the story of Beale’s untimely death, a
voiceover during the program proclaims the film to be “the story of Howard
Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy
ratings”. SO WHAT’S THE LESSON TO LEARN FROM THIS STORY AS WE ARE SHOUTING OUT
OUR WINDOWS THAT “WE’RE AS MAD AS HELL,
AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”?? LET’S JUST HOPE THAT POTUS “It” IS NOT
SUCCESSFUL AT ENDING “Its” DILEMMA AND LOUSY POLL RATINGS BY SENDING THE TROOPS
(military, police and Bikers for POTUS
“It”) IN AN AGGRESSIVE FASHION AFTER US PATRIOTIC PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO
ARE MERELY WALKING, SINGING, CHANTING AND DOING THE PUPPET DANCE WHILE WEARING
OUR “RUSSIAN NEFARIOUS COLLUSION” T-SHIRTS AND CAPS.
FINAL NOTE
ON THE real RNC/GOP: They chose POTUS “It” through their nomination process and
it was inevitable that eventually this poor excuse for a USA political party
was going to choose an authoritarian oligarch.
The RNC/GOP HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE OF HAVING A
GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE. The RNC/GOP has repeatedly demonstrated
to us over many decades that they want a government that is of, by and for the
corporations and the one percenters, which is an UGLY self centered/self
serving network of corporate owners and their loyal allies of elected and
appointed public officials and hard working/highly compensated lobbyist, who
interchange between these three positions on a regular basis. The RNC/GOP owns
POTUS “It” who exemplifies the primary principle driving the RNC/GOP: “THE END
JUSTIFIES THE MEANS”. You could say that
the choosing of POTUS “It” by the RNC/GOP who nominated “It” and the eventual
corrupt, manipulated and Russian colluded process that got “It” elected was the
MEANS; and you can also say “It’s” the END, BECAUSE THIS WILL SURELY BE THE END
OF THE RNC/GOP (get them micro-chipped), and what this party and the 30 to 35%
of supporters of POTUS “It” will call themselves in the future is anyone’s
guess, but likely it will be the NEW CONFEDERATES, which will surely be fine
with Sen. Graham.
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