Monday, 23 January 2017
TRUMP DOES SOMETHING I AGREE WITH HE PULLED OUT OF THE TPP.
I must say that I support President Trump's pulling out of the TPP. This is an important move. And he should get some credit for doing it.
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Thursday, 5 January 2017
RUSSIAN HACKING
RUSSIAN
HACKING
Accusations
of Russian hacking of the American 2016 presidential election are a hot topic
in the news. Americans are divided on whether these accusations are true. Some
on the left reject the accusations out of hand. Some on the right, mainly Trump
supporters, dismiss the accusations out of hand as “excuses.” The hacking
allegations are not implausible. Here’s why.
Given
the fact that the USA intervened in the Russian elections of the 1990’s, to say
that the Russians hacked the U.S. election is not an implausible claim. At the
moment we simply cannot say one way or the other, if they did, until we see the
actual evidence. VP Biden swore there would be revenge for the hacking. The billion
ruble hack of the Russian Central Bank, I believe, was that revenge. If the
Dems were not hacked by Russia, then why go on television and say we are going
to hack you back?
The
establishment does not want to get too deep into woods on this issue. They want
to attack Trump’s legitimacy without bringing into question the legitimacy of
the whole system. When one examines the legitimacy of the system, if we posit
that the President is a representative elected by all of the voting age people,
then it becomes apparent there has never been a legitimate president.
The
legitimacy of the whole American Electoral System is in question. Why is there
not a direct democratic vote for President? Why are machines capable of being
hacked being used at all?
Half
of the voting age population in America does not even come out to vote. This
fact alone undermines the very principle of representative government. Our
representation is not representative of all the voting age population and no
effective reforms are being taken to increase voter turnout.
Then
there are the gerrymandered congressional districts designed to keep
conservatives in office. And there are the various barriers erected to keep
people from even coming to the polls. There is no national voting holiday.
Ex-convicts who are mostly poor have been disenfranchised. America is far from
being a functional representative democracy. No one in the media will even
point it out.
No
one in the media is asking these questions.
The
following reforms would be prudent:
1.
Amend
the constitution making voting a right.
2.
Amend
the constitution abolishing the Electoral College.
3.
Amend
the constitution to make election days a holiday.
4.
Amend
the constitution to end the disenfranchisement of convicts which effects the
poor and working class.
5.
Amend
the constitution to ban voting machines. Hand counted paper ballots will be the
preferred method.
6.
Amend
the constitution to end gerrymandering.
7.
Amend
the constitution giving voters a tax refund for going to the polls and voting.
Trump
by deciding to live in an ill protected in Manhattan penthouse apartment is
making himself an easy target for a foreign decapitation attack utilizing a
suitcase nuclear weapon. His hubris is legion and will give the Russians parity
something they have never had in their dealings with America.
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