Sunday, October 06, 2013
enemies
Seldom in history have so few done so much damage to so many, for so long - USA 2013 villains
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, Mr Churchill, 1940 heroes
Vandals, huns, Nazi, Communists, White slave owners and Jim crow racist, and --
It was Mr. Gingrich who pioneered the political dysfunction we still live with. His inflammatory rhetoric provided a model for the grandstanding guerrilla warfare of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. And his actions — particularly his move to shut down the government in 1995 and 1996 — undermined popular trust and ushered in the present political era of confrontation and obstruction.
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party.”
The Enemies List
Today痴 battle about the ACA (Obama care) starts with the new deal and FDR in the 1930's. The Republicans suffered electoral disaster with the great depression that put them out of national power for 50 years until Nixon and Reagan. The conservatives hated the liberal, socialist, welfare state with a passion in organizations such as the liberty league, the John Birch society and other right wing political advocacy groups that supports anti-communism, limited government, a constitutional republic and personal freedom, the KKK, and 鍍raditional values・god and country.
In the 1950's the conservative movement morphed into an anti-communism crusade with senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the witch hunt became viral and promoted the career of many right wing activist including Richard Nixon. When LBJ supported the civil rights acts the 都outhern strategy・combined white resistance to integration with 都ocial values・of fundamentals and catholic Christians into the modern Republican party we have today. Vietnam highlighted the 鍍hem・long haired hippies vs. the silent majority of god fearing 鄭mericans my country right or wrong・ The cultural wars were highlighted by Pat Buchanan Culture War Speech Finale on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO2wzdOCqr8
He is still at it. https://www.google.com/search?q=john+birch+society&rlz=1C1CHMO_enID535ID535&oq=John+burch&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.9303j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espvd=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=122&newwindow=1&q=pat+buchanan+articles
All of this recent history got wrapped into the ACA and the TEA party. One can hope that this too will pass.
Seldom in history have so few done so much damage to so many, for so long
These are the enemies of the open society – Popper was talking about soviet communism now gone but the enemies of the modern world live on..
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862) Lincoln
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper.
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity they take to mystery cults and myths. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
People undergoing a serious paradigm shift suffer from delusions and hear voices of the white buffalo. This was the state of native Americans after the plagues, wars lost, their gods in disarray and in retreat from the invading aliens.
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party – are in tribal traditions of fundamentalism; Tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs which are the LAW as handed down from their law-bearers, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, see Pat Buchanan Culture Wars.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
A deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on how it is done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring a happy ending into the tale, or as a comedic device.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862) A. Lincoln
So how does this end? The votes to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling are there, and always have been: every Democrat in the House would vote for the necessary measures, and so would enough Republicans. The problem is that G.O.P. leaders, fearing the wrath of the radicals, haven’t been willing to allow such votes. What would change their minds?
During the general strike in UK during the depression of the 1930's Churchill rejected the idea of negotiations with the strike leaders as non-negotiation was critical to saving a constitutional electoral system. If the government gave into blackmail the system would no longer be one where elections decided who rules but power went to the street, unions, mob passions; as happens in France, and to passionate minorities as in the House of Representatives.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Perhaps the years of ambition and accommodation in a party that’s imprisoned by its own ideology had emptied Boehner out to the point where the thing he gave up as the price of leadership was his own ability to say no. Perhaps being the Republican leader had begun to rot him from the inside.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2013/10/darkness-in-washington.html
In Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” based on the Soviet purges of the thirties, the old Bolshevik Rubashov is arrested and interrogated by younger, more hardline, more brutal party members. After months in prison, Rubashov confesses to crimes against the revolution—crimes that he never committed. Why? George Orwell, in his essay on Koestler, provides the answer, and it isn’t the self-interested one, that is, to stop the torture:
Rubashov ultimately confesses because he cannot find in his own mind any reason for not doing so. Justice and objective truth have long ceased to have any meaning for him. For decades he has been simply the creature of the Party, and what the Party now demands is that he shall confess to non-existent crimes…What is there, what code, what loyalty, what notion of good and evil, for the sake of which he can defy the Party and endure further torment? He is not only alone, he is also hollow.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II,
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862)
The failure to understand and deal with what is going on is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognized the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianism of the 20th century.[7]
Ironically, considering who got us into our economic mess, the most plausible answer is that Wall Street will come to the rescue — that the big money will tell Republican leaders that they have to put an end to the nonsense.
But what if even the plutocrats lack the power to rein in the radicals? In that case, Mr. Obama will either let default happen or find some way of defying the blackmailers, trading a financial crisis for a constitutional crisis.
This all sounds crazy, because it is. But the craziness, ultimately, resides not in the situation but in the minds of our politicians and the people who vote for them. Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/krugman-rebels-without-a-clue.html?hp
As Tocqueville wrote long before Bush v. Gore, every big issue in America ends up sooner or later before the Supreme Court. Let’s face it: that’s where this issue has to go.
Why haven’t creditors sued years ago? Bondholders, defense contractors, states that live from federal paycheck to paycheck, all could have sued to challenge the debt ceiling and their right to be paid what they are owed, even if default had not occurred. The debt ceiling amounts to what’s known as an “anticipatory repudiation of a contractual obligation.” How does a doctor know if he or she should perform surgery on an over 65 Medicare patient if the government says that it reserves the right not to pay?
It is true that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment is pretty powerful: “The validity of the public debt authorized by law … shall not be questioned.” Aside from that provision, Congress simply does not have the authority to default under the Constitution’s Article I, which enumerates its powers. Default deprives citizens of property, i.e., contractual rights to payment.
The issues raised by the White-House involve future sale of treasury bonds if there is a legal question about the authority under which they were issued. Any cloud over US full faith and credit should be avoided. Alexander Hamilton's decision to pay in full notes used in the war (land certificates) in place of hard cash established the credit of the new republic. It would be a shame to mess it up now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Validity_of_public_debt
Section 4 confirmed the legitimacy of all U.S. public debt appropriated by the Congress. It also confirmed that neither the United States nor any state would pay for the loss of slaves or debts that had been incurred by the Confederacy. For example, during the Civil War several British and French banks had lent large sums of money to the Confederacy to support its war against the Union.[152] In Perry v. United States (1935), the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 4 voiding a United States bond "went beyond the congressional power."[153]
The debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 raised the question of what powers Section 4 gives to the President, an issue that remains unsettled.[154] Some, such as legal scholar Garrett Epps, fiscal expert Bruce Bartlett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, have argued that a debt ceiling may be unconstitutional and therefore void as long as it interferes with the duty of the government to pay interest on outstanding bonds and to make payments owed to pensioners (that is, Social Security recipients).[155][156] Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the President unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/02/can-obama-ignore-the-debt-ceiling/creditors-power-exceeds-the-presidents-on-the-debt-limit
The ruling classes need to promote rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate CR cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem. Who cares about the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner doing such a lousy and thankless job, almost anyone might do a better job, giving in to terrorist encourages terrorism.
We, this nation of ours, need quickly to create a brains trust with Haley Barbour, the former governor of Mississippi who previously led the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, a former Republican chairman, Pete Wehner, a former George W. Bush aide and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, Governor Haslam of Tennessee, Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire —. Mr. Bush cited the accomplishments of three Republican governors and potential presidential candidates — Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey — who he said were offering “a more positive, hopeful, optimistic message.”
These leaders with their contacts with the chamber of commerce, business round-table, main line Republicans, democratic activist and main line elected officials, political and marketing consultants, non-profit foundations, the Rockefeller, Pew, DuPont Sloan, Ford, family foundations - to targets and promote with money and organization rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate it cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem.
Death and Rebirth of Seneca The story of Paradigm, gestalt death and rebirth
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis,
While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity.[8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behavior but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterizing the metropolitan mental stance.[10]
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
Clark Clifford was a lawyer-lobbyist, like the handful of men who preceeded him in the field or were his peers (Tommy "the Cork" Corcoran, Abe Fortas, James Rowe), and like the thousands of men and women who have since flourished on K Street. These formed the brains trust or kitchen cabinet working with inside and outside groups to form compromises that can work. The core of the first Roosevelt brain trust consisted of a group of Columbia law professors (Moley, Tugwell, and Berle). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal (1933). Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists. (list below of brain trust)
The core of the second Roosevelt brain trust sprang from men associated with the Harvard law school (Cohen, Corcoran, and Frankfurter). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the Second New Deal (1935–1936).
The capture of the House of Representatives by a pathological tribal cabal that has over powered a weak leadership, now threatens the national welfare. The question of who if anyone rules, is there a functional ruling class that can impose order on the wing nuts.
In practice this means a focus on the 60 members in congress that are the immediate cause of a clear and present danger to the welfare of the nation. The ways used to deal with a dangerous domestic enemy involve the actualization of social power by the ruling elites.
The new deal formed irregular committees to push programs and ward off enemies. A small group spearheaded social security, another the secret war against Germany.
Clark Clifford: The Rise of a Reputation
By Marjorie Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
The climax of Clifford's service to Truman came with the hairsbreadth victory of 1948. Clifford was widely perceived as the author of Truman's impossible, come-from-behind win, including the grueling "whistle-stop" train tour. After it, he decided to leave the White House and strike out on his own.
All power in Washington ultimately flows from politics. Thus his role in the 1948 election, observes another Democratic lawyer, "launched him into the absolute most upper echelons of the Washington power scene. And he knew how to handle that. He knew how to get there, and he knew what it took to stay there. ... He knew what he could be, and he became it."
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world and the source of its success.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, it failed to find a publisher in the United States and was first printed in London by Routledge in 1945. The work criticises theories of teleological historicism in which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws, and indicts as totalitarian Plato, Hegel and Marx for relying on historicism to underpin their political philosophies[citation needed]. It was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.[1]
However,“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”the dream-time is to open gates on the old brain, which is as animals think – we can call id passions to survive, reproduce and multiply. Id,ego and super-egoare the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] Thesuper-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2]Civilization and its discontents –causing Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoi.
Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts, and spirits.
What is to be done?
http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1
We need a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. When we re-examines the coming disaster we remember Lincoln,
In light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through and a reflection on the challenges that confront it. It will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.
https://sites.google.com/site/colorcodedpath/
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
https://sites.google.com/site/bobbysvillasbali/
https://sites.google.com/site/synergyebook1995/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/consciousness
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
A little ahead of the news:
We are seeing another Kabuki musical theater, a classical Japanese dance-drama being acted out in today's congressional and wing nut politics. Kabuki theater is known for the symbolization of its drama by actors with elaborate stage characters, makeup and costumes of the stylized performers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-bgSFJiKc
Really Kabuki is more than an analogy, but a realistic presentation of moral conflict with its psychodrama or melodrama of strong human emotions.
Kabuki is often referred to as superficial, phony, and out of date. None of this is true, it is deeply meaningful, and ahead of the times. The failure to understand is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
Where have all the moderates gone, sometime dreaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Leadership_Council#Board_members
RLCC describes its supporters and candidates as practical, "traditional Republicans"[3], in the manner of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. RLCC's strategy is heavily focused on achieving long-term electoral gains for moderate Republicans for legislative, congressional, and other high offices by building a strong bench of moderate Republicans elected to local offices in the bluest parts of California.
http://www.gop.gov/republicans/leadership
The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan, an unsuccessful challenger to incumbent President George H.W. Bush, gave a controversial address which has become known as the "culture war" speech.
The great GOP leadership turnaround
By Dana Milbank,September 18, 2013
As House Republican backbenchers hurtle toward a government shutdown and a default on the national debt, their leaders remain in charge in title only.
Founding members of the CRG included financier Lewis M. Eisenberg, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Representative Susan Molinari (NY-14), Representative Richard A. Zimmer (NJ-12), Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, and Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland. The organization departed notably from the Republican Party platform by including a pro-choice position on abortion in its "guiding principles."
In 1997, the organization renamed the Republican Leadership Council in a nod to its Democratic counterpart, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. The RLC dropped its embattled stance on abortion in favor of a neutral affirmation of the importance of "protecting individual rights" and "promoting strong families." Governor John Engler of Michigan and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, Republicans who favored a pro-life position, were recruited to model a more inclusive position on the issue of abortion. Financier Henry Kravis and John A. Moran, former Kansas Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, 1996 campaign finance chairman, were named as the organization's co-chairs.
The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior? Soc Rel are social-biology relations;
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millenniumis a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
First New Deal[edit]
Adolf Berle - original Brain Trust Hugh S. Johnson
Raymond Moley - original Brain Trust (Moley broke with Roosevelt and became a sharp critic of the New Deal from the right) Basil O'Connor Rexford Tugwell - original Brain Trust
Frances Perkins Harry Hopkins Harold L. Ickes Louis Brandeis
James Warburg - original Brain Trust[citation needed] Second New Deal[edit]
Benjamin V. Cohen - 2nd New Deal Thomas Gardiner Corcoran - 2nd New Deal
Felix Frankfurter - 2nd New Deal Other Advisers[edit] Louis Howe
Paul M. O'Leary[3] George Peek Charles William Taussig Robert F. Wagner
F. Palmer Weber See also[edit] Kitchen Cabinet
https://sites.google.com/site/practiceofenlightenment/
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
https://sites.google.com/site/colorcodedpath/
https://sites.google.com/site/synergyebook1995/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/consciousness
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
https://bobbysvillasbali.com/synergynet
https://bobbysvillasbali.com/synergynet/wiredbrain
https://bobbysvillasbali.com/synergynet/workshop
http://bobbysvillasbali.com/colorcodedpath
http://bobbysvillasbali.com/synergy-page-from-1997.html
http://bobbysvillasbali.com/wiredbrain.html
http://bobbysvillasbali.com/
https://bobbysvillasbali.com/old home
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, Mr Churchill, 1940 heroes
Vandals, huns, Nazi, Communists, White slave owners and Jim crow racist, and --
It was Mr. Gingrich who pioneered the political dysfunction we still live with. His inflammatory rhetoric provided a model for the grandstanding guerrilla warfare of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. And his actions — particularly his move to shut down the government in 1995 and 1996 — undermined popular trust and ushered in the present political era of confrontation and obstruction.
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party.”
The Enemies List
Today痴 battle about the ACA (Obama care) starts with the new deal and FDR in the 1930's. The Republicans suffered electoral disaster with the great depression that put them out of national power for 50 years until Nixon and Reagan. The conservatives hated the liberal, socialist, welfare state with a passion in organizations such as the liberty league, the John Birch society and other right wing political advocacy groups that supports anti-communism, limited government, a constitutional republic and personal freedom, the KKK, and 鍍raditional values・god and country.
In the 1950's the conservative movement morphed into an anti-communism crusade with senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the witch hunt became viral and promoted the career of many right wing activist including Richard Nixon. When LBJ supported the civil rights acts the 都outhern strategy・combined white resistance to integration with 都ocial values・of fundamentals and catholic Christians into the modern Republican party we have today. Vietnam highlighted the 鍍hem・long haired hippies vs. the silent majority of god fearing 鄭mericans my country right or wrong・ The cultural wars were highlighted by Pat Buchanan Culture War Speech Finale on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO2wzdOCqr8
He is still at it. https://www.google.com/search?q=john+birch+society&rlz=1C1CHMO_enID535ID535&oq=John+burch&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.9303j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espvd=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=122&newwindow=1&q=pat+buchanan+articles
All of this recent history got wrapped into the ACA and the TEA party. One can hope that this too will pass.
Seldom in history have so few done so much damage to so many, for so long
These are the enemies of the open society – Popper was talking about soviet communism now gone but the enemies of the modern world live on..
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862) Lincoln
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper.
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity they take to mystery cults and myths. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
People undergoing a serious paradigm shift suffer from delusions and hear voices of the white buffalo. This was the state of native Americans after the plagues, wars lost, their gods in disarray and in retreat from the invading aliens.
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party – are in tribal traditions of fundamentalism; Tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs which are the LAW as handed down from their law-bearers, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, see Pat Buchanan Culture Wars.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
A deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on how it is done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring a happy ending into the tale, or as a comedic device.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862) A. Lincoln
So how does this end? The votes to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling are there, and always have been: every Democrat in the House would vote for the necessary measures, and so would enough Republicans. The problem is that G.O.P. leaders, fearing the wrath of the radicals, haven’t been willing to allow such votes. What would change their minds?
During the general strike in UK during the depression of the 1930's Churchill rejected the idea of negotiations with the strike leaders as non-negotiation was critical to saving a constitutional electoral system. If the government gave into blackmail the system would no longer be one where elections decided who rules but power went to the street, unions, mob passions; as happens in France, and to passionate minorities as in the House of Representatives.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Perhaps the years of ambition and accommodation in a party that’s imprisoned by its own ideology had emptied Boehner out to the point where the thing he gave up as the price of leadership was his own ability to say no. Perhaps being the Republican leader had begun to rot him from the inside.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2013/10/darkness-in-washington.html
In Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” based on the Soviet purges of the thirties, the old Bolshevik Rubashov is arrested and interrogated by younger, more hardline, more brutal party members. After months in prison, Rubashov confesses to crimes against the revolution—crimes that he never committed. Why? George Orwell, in his essay on Koestler, provides the answer, and it isn’t the self-interested one, that is, to stop the torture:
Rubashov ultimately confesses because he cannot find in his own mind any reason for not doing so. Justice and objective truth have long ceased to have any meaning for him. For decades he has been simply the creature of the Party, and what the Party now demands is that he shall confess to non-existent crimes…What is there, what code, what loyalty, what notion of good and evil, for the sake of which he can defy the Party and endure further torment? He is not only alone, he is also hollow.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II,
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862)
The failure to understand and deal with what is going on is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognized the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianism of the 20th century.[7]
Ironically, considering who got us into our economic mess, the most plausible answer is that Wall Street will come to the rescue — that the big money will tell Republican leaders that they have to put an end to the nonsense.
But what if even the plutocrats lack the power to rein in the radicals? In that case, Mr. Obama will either let default happen or find some way of defying the blackmailers, trading a financial crisis for a constitutional crisis.
This all sounds crazy, because it is. But the craziness, ultimately, resides not in the situation but in the minds of our politicians and the people who vote for them. Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/krugman-rebels-without-a-clue.html?hp
As Tocqueville wrote long before Bush v. Gore, every big issue in America ends up sooner or later before the Supreme Court. Let’s face it: that’s where this issue has to go.
Why haven’t creditors sued years ago? Bondholders, defense contractors, states that live from federal paycheck to paycheck, all could have sued to challenge the debt ceiling and their right to be paid what they are owed, even if default had not occurred. The debt ceiling amounts to what’s known as an “anticipatory repudiation of a contractual obligation.” How does a doctor know if he or she should perform surgery on an over 65 Medicare patient if the government says that it reserves the right not to pay?
It is true that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment is pretty powerful: “The validity of the public debt authorized by law … shall not be questioned.” Aside from that provision, Congress simply does not have the authority to default under the Constitution’s Article I, which enumerates its powers. Default deprives citizens of property, i.e., contractual rights to payment.
The issues raised by the White-House involve future sale of treasury bonds if there is a legal question about the authority under which they were issued. Any cloud over US full faith and credit should be avoided. Alexander Hamilton's decision to pay in full notes used in the war (land certificates) in place of hard cash established the credit of the new republic. It would be a shame to mess it up now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Validity_of_public_debt
Section 4 confirmed the legitimacy of all U.S. public debt appropriated by the Congress. It also confirmed that neither the United States nor any state would pay for the loss of slaves or debts that had been incurred by the Confederacy. For example, during the Civil War several British and French banks had lent large sums of money to the Confederacy to support its war against the Union.[152] In Perry v. United States (1935), the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 4 voiding a United States bond "went beyond the congressional power."[153]
The debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 raised the question of what powers Section 4 gives to the President, an issue that remains unsettled.[154] Some, such as legal scholar Garrett Epps, fiscal expert Bruce Bartlett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, have argued that a debt ceiling may be unconstitutional and therefore void as long as it interferes with the duty of the government to pay interest on outstanding bonds and to make payments owed to pensioners (that is, Social Security recipients).[155][156] Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the President unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/02/can-obama-ignore-the-debt-ceiling/creditors-power-exceeds-the-presidents-on-the-debt-limit
The ruling classes need to promote rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate CR cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem. Who cares about the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner doing such a lousy and thankless job, almost anyone might do a better job, giving in to terrorist encourages terrorism.
We, this nation of ours, need quickly to create a brains trust with Haley Barbour, the former governor of Mississippi who previously led the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, a former Republican chairman, Pete Wehner, a former George W. Bush aide and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, Governor Haslam of Tennessee, Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire —. Mr. Bush cited the accomplishments of three Republican governors and potential presidential candidates — Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey — who he said were offering “a more positive, hopeful, optimistic message.”
These leaders with their contacts with the chamber of commerce, business round-table, main line Republicans, democratic activist and main line elected officials, political and marketing consultants, non-profit foundations, the Rockefeller, Pew, DuPont Sloan, Ford, family foundations - to targets and promote with money and organization rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate it cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem.
Death and Rebirth of Seneca The story of Paradigm, gestalt death and rebirth
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis,
While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity.[8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behavior but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterizing the metropolitan mental stance.[10]
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
Clark Clifford was a lawyer-lobbyist, like the handful of men who preceeded him in the field or were his peers (Tommy "the Cork" Corcoran, Abe Fortas, James Rowe), and like the thousands of men and women who have since flourished on K Street. These formed the brains trust or kitchen cabinet working with inside and outside groups to form compromises that can work. The core of the first Roosevelt brain trust consisted of a group of Columbia law professors (Moley, Tugwell, and Berle). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal (1933). Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists. (list below of brain trust)
The core of the second Roosevelt brain trust sprang from men associated with the Harvard law school (Cohen, Corcoran, and Frankfurter). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the Second New Deal (1935–1936).
The capture of the House of Representatives by a pathological tribal cabal that has over powered a weak leadership, now threatens the national welfare. The question of who if anyone rules, is there a functional ruling class that can impose order on the wing nuts.
In practice this means a focus on the 60 members in congress that are the immediate cause of a clear and present danger to the welfare of the nation. The ways used to deal with a dangerous domestic enemy involve the actualization of social power by the ruling elites.
The new deal formed irregular committees to push programs and ward off enemies. A small group spearheaded social security, another the secret war against Germany.
Clark Clifford: The Rise of a Reputation
By Marjorie Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
The climax of Clifford's service to Truman came with the hairsbreadth victory of 1948. Clifford was widely perceived as the author of Truman's impossible, come-from-behind win, including the grueling "whistle-stop" train tour. After it, he decided to leave the White House and strike out on his own.
All power in Washington ultimately flows from politics. Thus his role in the 1948 election, observes another Democratic lawyer, "launched him into the absolute most upper echelons of the Washington power scene. And he knew how to handle that. He knew how to get there, and he knew what it took to stay there. ... He knew what he could be, and he became it."
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world and the source of its success.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, it failed to find a publisher in the United States and was first printed in London by Routledge in 1945. The work criticises theories of teleological historicism in which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws, and indicts as totalitarian Plato, Hegel and Marx for relying on historicism to underpin their political philosophies[citation needed]. It was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.[1]
However,“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”the dream-time is to open gates on the old brain, which is as animals think – we can call id passions to survive, reproduce and multiply. Id,ego and super-egoare the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] Thesuper-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2]Civilization and its discontents –causing Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoi.
Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts, and spirits.
What is to be done?
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We need a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. When we re-examines the coming disaster we remember Lincoln,
In light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through and a reflection on the challenges that confront it. It will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.
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A little ahead of the news:
We are seeing another Kabuki musical theater, a classical Japanese dance-drama being acted out in today's congressional and wing nut politics. Kabuki theater is known for the symbolization of its drama by actors with elaborate stage characters, makeup and costumes of the stylized performers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-bgSFJiKc
Really Kabuki is more than an analogy, but a realistic presentation of moral conflict with its psychodrama or melodrama of strong human emotions.
Kabuki is often referred to as superficial, phony, and out of date. None of this is true, it is deeply meaningful, and ahead of the times. The failure to understand is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
Where have all the moderates gone, sometime dreaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Leadership_Council#Board_members
RLCC describes its supporters and candidates as practical, "traditional Republicans"[3], in the manner of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. RLCC's strategy is heavily focused on achieving long-term electoral gains for moderate Republicans for legislative, congressional, and other high offices by building a strong bench of moderate Republicans elected to local offices in the bluest parts of California.
http://www.gop.gov/republicans/leadership
The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan, an unsuccessful challenger to incumbent President George H.W. Bush, gave a controversial address which has become known as the "culture war" speech.
The great GOP leadership turnaround
By Dana Milbank,September 18, 2013
As House Republican backbenchers hurtle toward a government shutdown and a default on the national debt, their leaders remain in charge in title only.
Founding members of the CRG included financier Lewis M. Eisenberg, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Representative Susan Molinari (NY-14), Representative Richard A. Zimmer (NJ-12), Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, and Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland. The organization departed notably from the Republican Party platform by including a pro-choice position on abortion in its "guiding principles."
In 1997, the organization renamed the Republican Leadership Council in a nod to its Democratic counterpart, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. The RLC dropped its embattled stance on abortion in favor of a neutral affirmation of the importance of "protecting individual rights" and "promoting strong families." Governor John Engler of Michigan and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, Republicans who favored a pro-life position, were recruited to model a more inclusive position on the issue of abortion. Financier Henry Kravis and John A. Moran, former Kansas Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, 1996 campaign finance chairman, were named as the organization's co-chairs.
The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior? Soc Rel are social-biology relations;
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millenniumis a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
First New Deal[edit]
Adolf Berle - original Brain Trust Hugh S. Johnson
Raymond Moley - original Brain Trust (Moley broke with Roosevelt and became a sharp critic of the New Deal from the right) Basil O'Connor Rexford Tugwell - original Brain Trust
Frances Perkins Harry Hopkins Harold L. Ickes Louis Brandeis
James Warburg - original Brain Trust[citation needed] Second New Deal[edit]
Benjamin V. Cohen - 2nd New Deal Thomas Gardiner Corcoran - 2nd New Deal
Felix Frankfurter - 2nd New Deal Other Advisers[edit] Louis Howe
Paul M. O'Leary[3] George Peek Charles William Taussig Robert F. Wagner
F. Palmer Weber See also[edit] Kitchen Cabinet
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