"Big Brother"

 The news has been a conglomeration of confusion.  Significant occurrences have been a contagious President miraculously cured of Covid 19.  As the leader of the free world, although he does not act like this, Donald Trump is privy to the world's best health care.  Evidently they pooled their medical resources and uncovered a miracle cure.  A short helicopter ride away and a short hospital stay, a positive testing President of the United States belied normalcy and pronounced himself Covid free, non-contagious, and immune.  We know Trump is a pathological liar, so we readily cannot believe anything he says.  Unfortunately his supporters have not learned this yet.  Let them follow their ungracious leader into hell.  The point of contention is our President, in a close election with Joe Biden, continues to campaign staging rock concert styled rallies for which he himself or his campaign pays.  It is a formula not unlike a television production.  Rent several cranes and a P.A. system, hang some flags, play some popular music, and pay people to attend and wear MAGA hats and shirts.  (You get paid more if you wear the shirt)  A large number of attendees are being paid via ads in local Craigslist postings.  Most of these patrons shun mask wearing and any other social distancing.  Unsurprisingly out President has spread Covid 19 like the wild fires raging in California, a blue state not worthy of federal relief money.  In the midst of this raging pandemic, our President stated he would walk into the crowd and kiss his supporters on the lips.  This contemptuous statement is nothing more than normal Trump fodder.  He says outrageous, provocative, and inciting things on purpose, because they make him look knowledgeable.  Anyone that says such things could only have greater understanding than those in attendance.  This type of patronizing is what succors his supporters.  They think he must know more, and they are coerced into believing he has solutions for them on the horizon.  Anyone who pays attention and follows the news knows most of his promises are false and unrequited.  His promises remain empty, empty to the point that a raging pandemic is killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans.  His administration freely admitted they have no plans for Covid 19 mitigation.  In essence they are giving up saying, "What the fuck?"  If you can't beat them, join them.  Our president openly has abandoned a large part of his earned constituency.  I would guess he is down to about thirty-five percent.  If the rest of us die from Covid 19, it is our fault.  When faced with bankruptcy and ensuing debt, his supporters take a similar approach.  What do they have to lose except their lives.  The problem always has been, and it should be a well known and debated American principle, how do we handle such an event?  When a national health crisis infects America, how do we stay solvent?  My answer would be any of a number of important philosophical concepts that define American capitalism.  The nation, with the leadership of Washington, DC and our elected leaders, should have prepared in advance.  Instead our recent presidencies have put us more and more in debt.  Why is it the most powerful nation cannot operate in the black?  It is because we stopped trying.  Recent changes in leadership, instead of ensuring the security and well being of Americans, have instead taken advantage of us.  They have fleeced the American public out of their past prosperity.  Donald Trump is no different.  After emptying the economic world well of most of its available assets, he turned to the coffers of the American people.  I mean the money of American tax payers meant to provide security for us.  This money should now be available to us in a national health crisis.  Instead it is sitting overseas in foreign tax sheltered bank accounts. The reason why America is in crisis, is because no money is flowing through our economy.  Any shallow reflection of the American economy will show that a prosperous America is one in which money flows through the middle and lower classes.  It is not characterized by great fortunes won in the stock market by clever hedge fund operators.  It is money well earned by substantial, hard working, successful small businesses, something of which Donald Trump is unfamiliar.  It is about "all or nothing."  How America has succumbed to the "Get Rich Quick" scheme is a mystery, although it is not.  The same way our government has sold out the American people, so has capitalist America.  Always I have wondered why in American popular music there has to be a superstar.  Why cannot a music industry exist that is broad, diverse, and inclusive of many strata of monetary reward?  Not everyone desires palaces, golf clubs, and sky scrapers all over the world.  Some of us would be content living a normal middle class life growing soybeans and being able to trade them fairly around the world.  Instead Donald Trump must control everything choosing to pay off the small traders to be in control.  Isn't it more rewarding to be able to manufacture or grow a product of use and then sell it for a profit?  To all of those Republicans show shout "Socialist," they are in such denial that the socialists in the world are them.  Donald Trump is a socialist choosing to provide pay offs to the American people rather than allowing them to achieve economic independence by selling their own products.  Over sixty percent of the American population's wages are paid by our government including defense contractors, military members, and elected officials.  It is this faction sucking off the tit of Uncle Sam, and they are the first to shout "Socialism" in an attempt to disguise their take.  In fact these are communists, an ever growing group seeking their economic sustenance from our President.  In like fashion he continues to do all he knows how by paying them off.  This hypocrisy is at the root of the destruction of our democratic foundation.  Instead of seeking economic independence they would rather be part of a system the ensures the security of its members.  "Are you a party member?"  Simply the Cold War never ended, although Ronald Reagan broke down the Berlin Wall.  Vladimir Putin has other ideas, and they nothing to do with economic freedom.  They have to do with political oppression.  Try to remember the plight of communist citizens yearning for freedom.  This is where America is headed with Donald Trump as a Russian surrogate.  He admires Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea.  He sports the hairstyle of such a Communist leader, and yet like his other incendiary propaganda, it is so blatant, obvious, and egregious his supporters do not understand it.  Socialism is not the enemy of America.  It only is a system of government in which the means of production is publicly owned.  Most nations which have tried have not been able to manage such a large responsibility.  Inevitably a small contingency of power-seeking movers and shakers seize control and implement authoritarian rule.  The general populace is so immersed in their menial everyday lives, they have no ability or propensity to do anything about it.  Only in America where our freedoms are documented in our Constitution are we able to vocally protest such an egregious hostile take over.  It has been under this duress that the "Black Lives Matter" movement was necessitated.  Criminal members of America's police forces have been murdering black men.  This is not new, and this aberrant policy can be traced back to the LAPD.  It began here in attempt to quell the African American voice.  Most things of importance to American society, culture, and governance, all ready have happened.  In Donald Trump's presidency many of them openly have been disguised or removed.  Truly it is George Orwell's prediction of "Big Brother," and not the television show.