Distortions, Contradictions, and Antagonisms: Political-Economy and Private Jets

Has it only taken 232 odd years of distortions, contadictions and antagonisms for the reality of revolution to be lost on the American mind?

Listening to resentment and gripes, swirling as legitimate debate surrounding the antangonistic definitions of govermental bail-outs as economic polity. The question is : is it lost on the status-quo narrarive that Revolutions are the result of distortions run amuck, contraditions unresolved and unpacified antagonisms?

This state of Political-Economy affairs is an affont , an insult, a ridiculous kowtow to mediocrity!

Unions being blamed for capital being hoarded?

Whether or not CEO's flew on private jets as points of Politica-Economy analysis?

And the audacity of Congressmen, grandstanding, criticizing the auto industry for mismanagement at the expense of their very own govermental-oversight incompetence, the default and criminal malfeasance.

229 years ago "Let them eat cake" was also an expression of distortions, contradictions and antagonisms.

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George Will, David Brooks, Intellectual-Liberalism and What is a Job

Why is there so much cynicism from the "right". The George Wills and David Brooks of Conservative Intellectual-Liberalism on the question of what is a job and the relationship of a job to the economy.

Robert Kutter Author of "Obama's Challenge" on ABC's 11/23/08; "This Week With George Stephanopoulos". Found himself on the receiving end of George Wills anecdotal deviations and the naive ravings of David Brooks, that the economy of personal relationships somehow supersedes the actuality of value as economy real.

David Brooks, to paraphrase, went as far to state a job and it's production of value was economically irrelevant.

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Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell: A Review

Whether it is an aphorism, adage or maxim, the phrase "The devil is in the details" anticipated Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers. But as such things go Malcolm Gladwell's labor in Outliers is another addition to the ubiquitous exercise of preaching to the choir.

Outliers is the classic eureka or light bulb moment made public, a nerdish reflection on the human condition as if after millennia of human empiricism, critical-thought has now matured and it's face is Malcolm Gladwell with it's expression the book Outliers.

Outliers postulates, human success is a result of ones environmental situation. To quote Gladwell..."It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't" [Outliers]

Didn't Hillary Clinton premise her ideological struggle with the Phillistines of the Republican Party on "It takes a village to raise a child"? So where has Malcolm Gladwell been hasn't Materialism, dialectical historical materialism already accounted for this intellectualism Outliers presents?

It takes an extraordinary display of arrogance, a presumption of sorts that subjective discovery accounts for existential-dialectics and with Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell is at home with, I think therefore I am.

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Rick Sanchez, CNN, Twitter and Reinvention of the Wheel

Is Rick Sanchez and his Twittering nonsense on CNN's 3 p.m. slot enlightening or is it compounding and in fact enabling the dumbing and distortion inherent in American Political-Economy?

If Rick Sanchez was practical in the business of acquiring the nature of Political-Economic facts he would be establishing a threshold of already recognized and unrefuted sets of facts from which discussions proceed.

For example, listening to the nonsense spouted in Rick Sanchez's Twitters, which are amazing re-discovery's and reinventions of the wheel. One has to wonder how long American Democratic-Republicanism can tolerate and sustain this unfathomable ignorance!

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Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Turncoat Joe Lieberman

Concerning the Turncoat and traditions Joe Lieberman , Barack Obama is being presumptuous and idealistic. He is wrong to instruct Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to let bygones be bygones.

Joe Lieberman is politically inconsistent and an opportunistic fraud. Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic caucus are correct in wanting to punish him.

The most Barack Obama should do in the Joe Lieberman question is pacify Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats by allowing the logical conclusion of the Lieberman-spectacle.

An expenditure of Obama political-capital at this juncture is impetuous.

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Neal Boortz, The United Auto Workers Union and American Political-Economy

That bowl of squirmy delusions on top of Neal Boortz shoulders caused him to proclaim the United Auto Workers Union was to blame for the manufacturing dysfunction and economic default of the auto industry.

The question isn't who is Neal Boortz instead it is the barricade hurrah of what is Neal Boortz. Neal Boortz a relic requiem, a geriatric affection of the effeminate wing of the anarchic idealism of Libertarianism.

The Neal Boortz's of American Political-Economy and it's "trickle this and trickle that" distortions thrash around in that swampy-morass of intellectual-liberalism, functionaries of facts they cowardly dare not confront.

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Obama, Southern Votes and Reaganomics

The only statement made by those pockets of Southern-Votes who came out in force against Obama, during Obama's historical triumph is: Reactionary hold outs and racist-romantics still beyond the pale, populate American economic backwoods.

The 2008 U.S. Presidential elections and Obama's win has exposed the historical charade of Republican-Conservatism as ever being progressive.

Lastly it hammered the final nail in the Reaganomics coffin and it's Evangelical-Christian legacy of Anti-Abortion and Gay-Bashing as being social-nurturing ideals.

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Whoopi Goldberg's Cat and "The View"

On 11/o6/o8; and the lighter side of things. Whoopi Goldburg's cat, Oliver Hoyt Goldburg, wrote a letter to President-Elect Barack Obama. Plugging why the Obama's should get a cat and intellectualizing why feline apathy should grace the Whitehouse hallways.

But then how different from the eccentric Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" is a cat and "The View's" cattish exchanges.

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American Political-Economy, Barack Obama and Practice

If President-Elect Barack Obama represents the new ideal of American Political-Economy then the American people must realize it's practice.

In the non-ideology ideal of American Politics and it's hodgepodge practice where resentment and intolerance is it's operative. Apathy and functional-illiteracy has been the historical medium.

For there to be practical dividends of Obama politics there has to be a redefinition of what it means to participate politically in America. There has to be a quantum-transcendence in grass-roots advocacy as it practices the substance of the engagement of the marginalized.

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Apropos, The Next Phase and Value

Apropos Readers. After 120+ post, commentary and analysis. The 2008 U.S. Presidential race has concluded with Apropos The Blog of Political-Economy doing it's share in expanding American open Political discourse. This completes a phase.

The next phase in this practice is narrowing the focus. American Political-Economy is at a mature stage. Derivative Speculation has accelerated it's dynamic on Value-Speculation and the recent Global Market Manipulations underlines it. Apropos The Blog, will focus on presenting Analysis, stressing the primary default-critique of Value inherent in the neo-colonial paradigm of value.

This is the next phrase , readers.

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Political-Illiteracy, Barbara West and Marxist Critique

What is this 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign pointing out? It is revealing and exposing an extent of Political-Illiteracy that is obscene. From the nomination primaries to the Presidential campaigns the operative has been exploiting the common, Political-Illiteracy and ignorance.

The most recent display of this is Barbara West the Anchor at WFTV of Orlando, Florida and her "from each according to their ability to each according to their needs" quote. As if a contextual skew of Marxist critique is valid indictment of The Obama-Biden Democratic Platform.

The moral of the boy who cried wolf one too many times shouldn't be lost on Barbara West because the Red banner of Marxism still drips.

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John McCain and American Slavery

John McCain (Photo credit: Image Editor)

Why did John McCain and his campaign characterize and describe the descendants of his ancestors Slave-holding ways as being the result of "Family, Love and Compassion"? Are we to suppose John McCain the Republican Presidential candidate is defending American Slavery as being Loving and Compassionate?

John McCain's Mississippi ancestors were Slaveholders, beneficiaries of American Slavery. The descendants of those Slaves, those Black McCain's are going about their own experience of the American Political-Economy.

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American Political-Economy, The Specter of fraud and the Voting Process

One would like to think that the 21st century order of business for American Political-Economy after the travesty and fiasco of the 2000 Presidential election and the specter of fraud which clouded Ohio's role in it's 2004 version, would be a commitment to the Democratic and the voting process by simplifying it.

Instead what we have is a pathetic nod to the poll tax ethos and the backwardness of 18th century thought which would limit voting rights to the White Male Gentry. With this insistence on using Voting Machines without a verifiable trail of the act.

It is not surprising that the "Progressive" states of Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are operatives in the Hoodwink and Nod game of Governmental Voter Suppression. Hold outs in upgrading their voting process to accountability.

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Law , Speculative-Order, Conceptual Justice and Criminal Deviance by Veterans

An Experiment in Law, Speculative-Order and Conceptual Justice has been running quietly in Buffalo, New York since January 2008. It is a program intended to present a dialectical recognition to the nature of criminal deviance. The program specifically focuses on criminal deviance by veterans.

I have a problem with the "Pass" being given veterans who run afoul of civil-laws. Which is at the heart of the program. The supposition is criminal deviance by veterans is mitigated by their battle-field experiences.
Isn't this one of the aspects of Fascism?

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