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RE: [CCDS Members] I was wrong. But about what?
We keep doing what we've been doing
and run for office to aid what we're doing. [note to Peace and Freedom central committee – speaks of our platform as a basis for campaigning]
Please decide to run for office. Many socialists communists Marxist anarchists running for office at the local level will give us a cross-talk conversation to make the fact appear, that we are a serviceable force – that we are many and are able. Find out now for what office you could file to run in 2018 – local, non-partisan – although you will claim at every turn , your position – socialist and more.
Nice capitalism … = socialism. Eco-socialism means socialism. As we watch our Owners try to grab the remaining fossil fuel for THeir profit it becomes crystal clear that the environment cannot survive in any form that we need it in the capitalist system.
Read the platform and pronounce It among neighbors and communities for the next two years as part of your campaign, as your positions. It feels good to do. It helps your neighbors. It affirms what they already think, what they want to think-believe. They're looking for political friends like you. Make yourself known. The electoral podium is a vestige – one of few that remains of some degree of democracy. Share your ideas of what to do – access news reports and media and actions where you can further people's efforts and display our positions. Write up a brief quarter page flyer about one point on our platform, one action in the community – with your ID on it for contact.
Run for office. Which offices will be open in two years where you live?
You can get heard – certainly more than you can when you don't run. Some of our backward people will tell you we need to run only professionals. Don't wait. It's not correct – that we need specially schooled-degreed people to run. You've been through 50 years of tutelage more or less already. You know a lot. You know more than enough to mount your campaign. And you learn as you run.
All the elected offices relate to planks in our platform. Getting on the ballot might not cost much where you live. Ask your local office of the County Registrar.
I can try to help you if you want.
Norma
a Marxist anarchist works to wither the state away as we overthrow capitalism, intercede to seize state power, simultaneously build our institutions that serve us, supplant our Owners' imperialist structures, see the process to end profit, all while defending our revolutionary gains with our troops/allies.
Norma
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Subject: [CCDS Members] I was wrong. But about what?
Ever since shortly after Donald Trump began to show strength in the polls with his Breitbart-style horseshit, racism, male supremacy, and completely incoherent, indeed comical, foreign and domestic policies, I thought, wrote and said: This guy is running to lose. I even imagined a conspiracy headed by a "deep game" of Bill Clinton to secretly promote a candidate against which Hillary, even with her mostly right-wing-contrived "baggage", could and should easily prevail. Not only prevail, but deliver a win in the Senate permitting at least protection of all the hard won gains the US working class SHOULD hold dear: Defense of Obamacare, medicare, medicaid and social security, union and collective bargaining rights, a modicum of justice in the appointment of judges including the supreme court, etc, etc, etc. Even upping the minimum wage nationally was perhaps in the cards, as well a significant investment in infrastructure including in hard hit coalfields.
The polls agreed. Every time he lowered the bar on raw appeals to his phony "anti-establishment", and garbage politics, focused on the grievances of white men, through targeting Latino, Black,Asian, immigrant and women voters for crude insults, the polls reported his support dropped precipitously.
But the polls were wrong. The country was actually much more like my state of West Virginia than anyone wanted to admit. And what is that like? That's like a state where the major source of middle class incomes, and the sole revenue model for state finances --- coal and natural gas -- is dying or moribund, but the coal industry has pinned blame for the state's poverty and lost happiness on Obama and Clinton. It now does not matter whether, or to what degree, there is any truth in the charge. The point is: lost opportunities, and lost hope, drove the current result. If you separate the results from that reality, there is no way out. That lousy reality, doubly lousy with the edge of hatreds directed at African Americans, immigrants and unions, has been building for a long time: over 40 years in fact.
What did I get wrong? That a Hillary led coalition could withstand a Trump campaign and leverage it to deal a critical blow against the austerity policies of the billionaire-led Republicans and their declared war on inclusive democratic governance.
What did Hillary get wrong? Lots of commentary coming on that, no doubt, and more data as well. But, my gut tells me that the political conversation when both Bernie and Hillary were debating raising wages, big investments in jobs, big investments in education, big investments in retraining, labor rights...was far superior to the "Trump is unfit to serve" messaging that dominated MOST of the campaign after the Democratic convention. A shorthand way of saying this is: She should have picked Bernie for VP if she -- or I -- really calculated the dynamics needed to WIN correctly.
What now? I do not know. I have no idea what Trump's real policy positions are, if he even has any. Most of his statements from "build a wall" forward are idiotic and impossible, and have no value beyond their entertainment, agitational origin. If he does not, then I am sure some very strong institutional actors will capture him fairly quickly. Which ones? Who knows?. But I am sure in their contention for control, they will do nothing to defend the American people against the economic and social chaos that has now been unleashed. A recession is now coming. The FED has exhausted its remedies in fighting the great financial crisis. No fiscal stimulus without raising taxes on the rich is possible. So the crap from Trump on jobs and "bring America Back" will end up the cruelest joke. We will see how all that horseshit stands when unemployment reaches 30%
Indeed, they can be relied upon to quickly resort to force and scapegoating to herd us toward hell.
Its time for the Higher Wages and Equality Party to take the field friends and comrades. Its also time to get much tougher and more prepared for a protracted and determined struggle that will reach into every home, be on the lips of every dinner conversation. Be on the watch for immediate aggressions against vulnerable American communities. Be prepared, as neighbors, to respond where state and public services fail. We are our own protection. Take care of each other. Its late,but everything comes next.
It's time to get going, but first, What is To Be Done?
cheers
John
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
I was wrong. But about what?
Ever since shortly after Donald Trump began to show strength in the polls with his Breitbart-style horseshit, racism, male supremacy, and completely incoherent, indeed comical, foreign and domestic policies, I thought, wrote and said: This guy is running to lose. I even imagined a conspiracy headed by a "deep game" of Bill Clinton to secretly promote a candidate against which Hillary, even with her mostly right-wing-contrived "baggage", could and should easily prevail. Not only prevail, but deliver a win in the Senate permitting at least protection of all the hard won gains the US working class SHOULD hold dear: Defense of Obamacare, medicare, medicaid and social security, union and collective bargaining rights, a modicum of justice in the appointment of judges including the supreme court, etc, etc, etc. Even upping the minimum wage nationally was perhaps in the cards, as well a significant investment in infrastructure including in hard hit coalfields.
The polls agreed. Every time he lowered the bar on raw appeals to his phony "anti-establishment", and garbage politics, focused on the grievances of white men, through targeting Latino, Black,Asian, immigrant and women voters for crude insults, the polls reported his support dropped precipitously.
But the polls were wrong. The country was actually much more like my state of West Virginia than anyone wanted to admit. And what is that like? That's like a state where the major source of middle class incomes, and the sole revenue model for state finances --- coal and natural gas -- is dying or moribund, but the coal industry has pinned blame for the state's poverty and lost happiness on Obama and Clinton. It now does not matter whether, or to what degree, there is any truth in the charge. The point is: lost opportunities, and lost hope, drove the current result. If you separate the results from that reality, there is no way out. That lousy reality, doubly lousy with the edge of hatreds directed at African Americans, immigrants and unions, has been building for a long time: over 40 years in fact.
What did I get wrong? That a Hillary led coalition could withstand a Trump campaign and leverage it to deal a critical blow against the austerity policies of the billionaire-led Republicans and their declared war on inclusive democratic governance.
What did Hillary get wrong? Lots of commentary coming on that, no doubt, and more data as well. But, my gut tells me that the political conversation when both Bernie and Hillary were debating raising wages, big investments in jobs, big investments in education, big investments in retraining, labor rights...was far superior to the "Trump is unfit to serve" messaging that dominated MOST of the campaign after the Democratic convention. A shorthand way of saying this is: She should have picked Bernie for VP if she -- or I -- really calculated the dynamics needed to WIN correctly.
What now? I do not know. I have no idea what Trump's real policy positions are, if he even has any. Most of his statements from "build a wall" forward are idiotic and impossible, and have no value beyond their entertainment, agitational origin. If he does not, then I am sure some very strong institutional actors will capture him fairly quickly. Which ones? Who knows?. But I am sure in their contention for control, they will do nothing to defend the American people against the economic and social chaos that has now been unleashed. A recession is now coming. The FED has exhausted its remedies in fighting the great financial crisis. No fiscal stimulus without raising taxes on the rich is possible. So the crap from Trump on jobs and "bring America Back" will end up the cruelest joke. We will see how all that horseshit stands when unemployment reaches 30%
Indeed, they can be relied upon to quickly resort to force and scapegoating to herd us toward hell.
Its time for the Higher Wages and Equality Party to take the field friends and comrades. Its also time to get much tougher and more prepared for a protracted and determined struggle that will reach into every home, be on the lips of every dinner conversation. Be on the watch for immediate aggressions against vulnerable American communities. Be prepared, as neighbors, to respond where state and public services fail. We are our own protection. Take care of each other. Its late,but everything comes next.
It's time to get going, but first, What is To Be Done?
cheers
John
John Case
Harpers Ferry, WV
Harpers Ferry, WV
The Winners and Losers Radio Show
7-9 AM Weekdays, Eastern Panhandle Independent Community (EPIC) Radio Stream,
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Check out Socialist Economics.
Check out The EPIC Radio website
EPIC Radio Podcasts:New Podcasts from EPIC Radio - Day after Trump
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Eastern Panhandle Independent Community (EPIC) Radio:Poetry Monday, Storytelling on EPIC Radio
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Monday, November 7, 2016
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Links for 10-11-16
// Economist's View
Economics Nobel 2016: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom - Cheap Talk Nobel Prize 2016 Part I: Bengt Holmstrom - A Fine Theorem Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström: Contract Theory - NobelPrize.org Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate - - Marginal Revolution Bengt Holmström, Nobel Laureate - Marginal Revolution The Performance Pay Nobel - Marginal Revolution An Economics Nobel for Examining Reality - Noah Smith The Power of Convictions - ProMarket China's SDR Distraction - Barry EichengreenThe case for an active fiscal policy - VoxEU Transformation of the US fiscal system in the 1930s - VoxEU Macro Musings Podcast: Claudio Borio - David Beckworth Machine Learning vs. Econometrics, II - No Hesitations A land built by economists? - The Enlightened Economist Clinton versus Trump on Financial Regulation - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz Why I'm relatively relaxed about robots - Bank Underground
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Strong across-the-board wage growth in 2015 for both bottom 90 percent and top 1.0 percent [feedly]
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Strong across-the-board wage growth in 2015 for both bottom 90 percent and top 1.0 percent
// Economic Policy Institute Blog
Annual inflation-adjusted earnings of the top 1.0 percent of wage earners grew 2.9 percent in 2015, and the top 0.1 percent's earnings grew 3.4 percent, according to our analysis of the latest Social Security Administration wage data. What is relatively unique about 2015 was that the 3.4 percent wage growth for the bottom 90 percent matched that of the top 0.1 percent. This strong wage growth for the bottom 90 percent reflects both the lull in inflation (up just 0.1 percent) and the failure of wage inequality to continue its growth in 2015. Annual wages of the bottom 90 percent now stand 3.5 percent above what they were pre-recession in 2007, with all of that growth essentially occurring in 2015. The top 1.0 percent's earnings have surpassed their previous high point, attained in 2007, by a mere 0.2 percent, recovering from the steep 15.6 percent fall during the financial crisis from 2007–09. High earners between the 90th and 99.9th percentile have seen the strongest growth since 2007, with earnings rising 7.7 percent. It's only the earnings of the top 0.1 percent that remain below 2007 levels (down 5.1 percent).
Wage inequality has grown tremendously over the longer-term period from 1979 through 2015. The annual earnings of the top 1.0 percent rose 156.7 percent from 1979 to 2015 while the very top 0.1 percent enjoyed earnings growth of 338.8 percent. In contrast, the bottom 90 percent of wage earners had annual earnings grow by just 16.7 percent over the 1979–2007 period and an additional 3.5 percent between 2007 and 2015 for a cumulative annual earnings growth of 20.7 percent over the thirty-six years from 1979 to 2015.
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