Our founders understood that democracy doesn’t work. Instead they opted for a constitutional republic, using the constitution to functionally block the worst aspects of democracy, and then the republic to whittle away the rest of the issues they had using representation rather than direct voting. The worst of the problems we face today are our own fault, by letting parties stand between ourselves and our representatives. The result is a situation where parties and the people behind the money that bribes them are represented rather than us by our vote. That wasn’t a problem when the parties also represented us, but, now that the corporations and the 1% that own them have had 50-60 years influencing legislation we find ourselves with a government that puts the wishes of profiteers above the people they were meant to serve. Today we have neither a democracy or a constitutional republic, just a bunch of money and power addicted thieves representing whatever it takes to use their power to keep the money flowing out of our hands and into theirs. Basically we have taxation without representation, and we all remember what will eventually come of that.

Any long term solution to incentivize politicians to represent people before party or power will require a separation of corporation and state.

Our representatives have been bribed by the 1% and no longer work for us. For their bribery the 1% has received tax breaks that we have to make up. So now we live in, and pay taxes to a country we have no say in the running of. Imagine that. Taxation without representation.

What would I do without false dilemma arguments. (we can pass gun laws or we can let people die) If you obey the law you don’t kill people. The law already exists making killing people and even yourself against the law, yet people still kill each other. What we are actually waiting for is enough people to wake up to the fact that the reasons people kill themselves and each other isn’t because we don’t have enough gun laws, it’s because of frustration, hate, and fear. Our society has moved in a direction where the people are feeling frustrated, fearful, and angry beyond their ability to think rationally. You can treat the symptoms and die of the disease, or you can address the disease and kill the problem. Your call.

It takes someone addicted to greed and power to think that pointing out someone addicted to greed and power is a revelation. 

Everyone is the hero in their own story and so don’t see the wrong in what they do, because it permeates their life and fogs their vision. 

Apply that thought to every addicted person you know. 

Now consider Elitism as an addiction. 

Welcome to the United States of America in the twenty first century. Home of the brave, land of the addicted.

I’m growing weary of the rich’s struggle to get richer interfering with the poor’s struggle to survive.

You can have all that and more. The price is your attention to the goals of the people you elect to represent you. Your vote is the key to a government that responds to your needs.

Stop voting for people that are more interested in their own wealth than your wellbeing.

Was on my way to Clinton from Springfield for a funeral. I was in my late 20’s so my hair was long and my beard was longer. I was in a suit, so I was probably feeling more presentable than I looked.

Up by the turn off to Lowry City I spotted three elderly women in a fairly new Cadillac staring at a flat tire. Gotta stop and help, right?

By the time I got turned around and parked behind them they were already back in their car. I walked up beside the driver’s window and asked her to roll it down. The first indication that I might not be as presentable as I’d thought was when all the doors lock as she rolls that window down, about half an inch. 
I told her that if she’d pop the latch on her trunk I’d change her tire. Ten minutes later, tire changed, jack and flat tire back in her trunk I look to the driver’s side window, still rolled down about half an inch and see a $20 blowing in the breeze. I walked up to the window and told her to keep her money, I said that next time it might be me on the side of the road needing help. This darling little old lady still holding the $20 out the window spoke the only words she’d said to me since I’d stopped. She looked me up and down and said, “Young man, you should probably take this $20, I wouldn’t stop.”

I have a new theory, one that better accounts for where Trump’s trickle down tax refund went, and a plan to use what I’ve learned to improve our economy and expand our middle class while still enriching that all important buyer of political votes, The 1%.

The 1% sucks.

Beautiful in it’s simplicity, I posit that the 1% leaches money from every other part of our economy. It therefore behooves us to place any money used as incentive, any tax breaks, investments, any and all tax derived funding as far from The 1% as possible, with the understanding that all of that money will wick towards the 1% like the seas move towards the moon, and the further from The 1% we start that money, the more use other parts of our economy will have of it before it, inevitably disappears into that abysmal black hole we call, The 1%.