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%.

It’s not enough to just heal. We need closure. We need to know that those responsible are no longer in a position hurt us. We need to be assured that those that helped Trump are censured with the same prejudice they chose to use against us. We are desperately in need of representatives that represent our needs, and not just the smoke and mirrors of the hypocritically guilty. They are desperately trying to salve over their own part in their attempt to retain power at the expense of our democracy. The time for healing will come, but not before we cauterize the infection that made us sick in the first place. It’s the fear of that cleansing fire, that is behind the pleas of the guilty to dismiss all that, and get straight to the part where they start planning their next attempt to hold on to power without the work of earning it, or wielding it in the interest of those it was meant to benefit. First we clean the corruption out of the wound, then we can heal.

Superman doesn’t exist. No one is going to swoop down out of the sky and solve our problems. If you want a handle on the climate, you have to find that handle. If you want healthcare not controlled by greedy rich middlemen you have to take control of your nations healthcare program. If you want to put an end to government of, by and for the elitists you can’t just sit around and wait for superman to come clean up your government, you have to do it yourself.

In a very real way our forefathers gave us the way to be superman and fix all these things that are going wrong. If you want to be represented you have to walk away from the parties that have placed themselves between you and your representation. Those parties are bought and corrupt. The elitists that bought and corrupted them are the only ones being represented. If you want that fixed, it’s up to you. Superman is not going to fix it for you.

A democracy is accurately defined as three wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. Our founding fathers understood this failing of democracy all too well and chose to protect the minority by using a constitutionally restricted republic as their form of government. With a representative government confined to the dictates of the constitution a vibrant and changing people could, through their choice of representatives influence the flow and direction of their government in the broader strokes without allowing the majority to take advantage of the minority overmuch. If you analyze how the corporations and the 1% have maneuvered to thwart the intent of our fathers you can see that by controlling the parties and taking away the selection process of the people, they have taken control of the representatives of our government and used that control to provide for themselves rather than the people. The argument that ours is not a democracy but a democratically controlled republic restricted by a constitution is entirely accurate and what was intended. That we must take steps to regain the selection process of our representatives is obvious and imperative to the continuation of our republic.

The problem with problems is in the definition. Until you accurately define the problem, no solution you devise will ever even address it.

If you have been trained to give up the longer view as a voting American, you will think that the voting process in this Republic begins when you vote for a politician, selected by one of the two political parties.

The longer, correct view is when you choose candidates from your peers to represent you and your longer views. If you have been trained as a politician to give up the longer view, you will go along with other shortsighted people representing greed and profit at the expense of the correct longer view where greed is balanced against and takes a back seat to peoples needs and rights. Even a back seat to the need to protect our land, our planet.

If you have been trained as a 1%er your view begins and ends at the bottom line. There is no hope for you. You are ruined, and will ruin us, our children and the very planet we live on if it serves your god named greed.

An uncorrupted government would protect us and our planet from you and your greed. Our corrupt short sighted government will continue to allow us to be ruined.

Convince your peers to run against short sighted, greed driven, corrupt politicians. It is not too late to elect people that can see the longer view.

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While you stand idly by, pointing fingers left and right, the real purveyors of evil entrenched on both sides laugh in megalomaniacal glee at how easily you are distracted away from them and led by their propaganda to unwinnable fights of misdirection.

To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you can’t see the truth because it is occluded by your own hatred, your first inclination is to accuse those opposing your views of being haters. Do we, in reality hate Trump? Mostly no. Some with more personal reasons will hate him, to be sure, but, most of us just hated what he did and wanted to see to it he can do no more damage to the minorities, the poor, our education system, the air, water, earth, and anyone or anything else his greed and corruption came in contact with and proceeded to destroy for power and profit.

Hate him? Nah. I don’t hate those wasps trying to build a nest at the corner of my house either, but I’ll kill them and destroy their home just the same, not out of hatred, but just because their nature puts them in opposition to me and my family’s well being, and that isn’t going to happen on my watch.

One more thing, or message I have for his followers, I waited, and I saw. Then I made up my mind based on the facts. I helped remove him from office and hung around until I was sure him and his nest were not going to hurt anyone else. You don’t have to ever understand why, just know I did it for my family. Even the ones that would have just let him keep stinging us for another four years. I didn’t do it because I hate him, I did it because I love you, all of you. Even the ones that don’t like me much.

The problem with a government like ours, is that in allowing the freedom for it to be a representative government, we also have to build in the possibility for it to become corrupt. We as a nation tend to get caught up in our own affairs and stop paying attention to the people we elected to represent us. Over the course of this countries history we have gone to sleep at least two times before. When that happens, special interest groups move into our government and start changing it to better represent them.
At this time the corporations and super rich have gained control. They are being more clever and less scrupulous than they have ever been in the past and are dug in like a damned tick. Fortunately, also built into our form of government is the means of dislodging the usurpers. Unfortunately it takes a solid majority of our population to wake up and recognize the threat before we can boot them out. Like I said they are being more clever this time. They have dumbed down our education system by manipulating funding. They are masters of propaganda and own all the major media players in our system. Because of these two things most of our country is having trouble waking up to the problem.

If you worked every day for 40 years, including Saturdays and Sundays, you would have to make just under $68,500 a day to become a billionaire. There is no job that would provide that level of income without exploiting the earning potential of other people. When I tell you that there is no reason for any individual to have need of a thousand million dollars, I am also saying that there is no reason any individual should exploit other people’s earning potential just so they can acquire a thousand million dollars they they will have no use for. It is just as important that we set a minimum wage that deters exploitation of people earning potential, as it is that we set a maximum wage that deters the exploiters of people’s earning potential.