Mr. Hartman is essentially correct; but both political parties in the US have identified the same issue: Focus on destroying voters' trust in either government as a whole, or in specific programs. The money-rich people, their think tanks and their media have used deep and persistent psychological warfare advertising since the 1980s to er…
Mr. Hartman is essentially correct; but both political parties in the US have identified the same issue: Focus on destroying voters' trust in either government as a whole, or in specific programs. The money-rich people, their think tanks and their media have used deep and persistent psychological warfare advertising since the 1980s to erode our confidence in our own government-and voters have essentially allowed themselves to be spoon-fed a gradual adjustment in their support for programs and taxation approaches that built the world's best middle class in the 1946-80 period in America. The Democratic president, Mr. Clinton, sweet-talked all the democratic voters to allow Congress to abolish all the banking safeguards that were put in place after the Big Crash of 1929 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation). Voters and Congress have allowed the global healthcare clearing house to be co-opted by Bill & Melinda Gates' foundation, and now WHO is quietly doing the groundwork for implementing a one-size-fits everyone with IHR (International Health Regulations) that will implement global requirements for so-called vaccination passports. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cf719764-03e4-4011-9605-d16b110d2c43). The Trust that most voters had for the medical system and the basic vaccination system has been significantly undermined by the pharmaceutical industry' 'mis-labeling' of the Covid vaccines as ' vaccines' when none of them prevented re-infection or prevented spreading of the virus. Somewhere between 30-50% of adult US voters rely primarily on alternative healthcare practitioners and their non-prescription preventive approach; and this block of voters, circa 50 - 80 million careful people in America, lost Trust in our nation's medical system-as it has been directed by very passionate liberal leaders and Mr. Biden during 2020-22. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cf719764-03e4-4011-9605-d16b110d2c43.
Bottom line: It's a clever mess we have, but, again, we have to find enough voters to swing the US back to the common sense tax policies and regulations that were in place prior to 1980 and Mr. Reagan, and we probably need to enact a complete prohibition on allowing the pharmaceutical companies to use advertising to brainwash people and our doctors.
Mr. Hartman's Citation:
That element so essential to the functioning of government is: trust.
Trust, at the end of the day, is the only currency governments can trade in. Trust is so critical it largely defines the stability of a nation’s money.
Even a government’s use of force, over the long term, requires trust or it will be fought back against with force, as we saw in the American Revolution and have seen repeatedly around the world in the centuries since.
Trust is the single most important thing any government has; it is truly what makes a nation viable.
Its essential importance to a functioning society is what makes trust the thing enemies of democracies always target first
Mr. Hartman is essentially correct; but both political parties in the US have identified the same issue: Focus on destroying voters' trust in either government as a whole, or in specific programs. The money-rich people, their think tanks and their media have used deep and persistent psychological warfare advertising since the 1980s to erode our confidence in our own government-and voters have essentially allowed themselves to be spoon-fed a gradual adjustment in their support for programs and taxation approaches that built the world's best middle class in the 1946-80 period in America. The Democratic president, Mr. Clinton, sweet-talked all the democratic voters to allow Congress to abolish all the banking safeguards that were put in place after the Big Crash of 1929 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation). Voters and Congress have allowed the global healthcare clearing house to be co-opted by Bill & Melinda Gates' foundation, and now WHO is quietly doing the groundwork for implementing a one-size-fits everyone with IHR (International Health Regulations) that will implement global requirements for so-called vaccination passports. (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cf719764-03e4-4011-9605-d16b110d2c43). The Trust that most voters had for the medical system and the basic vaccination system has been significantly undermined by the pharmaceutical industry' 'mis-labeling' of the Covid vaccines as ' vaccines' when none of them prevented re-infection or prevented spreading of the virus. Somewhere between 30-50% of adult US voters rely primarily on alternative healthcare practitioners and their non-prescription preventive approach; and this block of voters, circa 50 - 80 million careful people in America, lost Trust in our nation's medical system-as it has been directed by very passionate liberal leaders and Mr. Biden during 2020-22. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cf719764-03e4-4011-9605-d16b110d2c43.
Mr. Hartman paints the Republican party and the mega-billionaires club as the primary causative factors of our loss of trust in many powerful government programs, but that is only a partial explanation. In all fairness, the Democratic Party has slowly lost touch with its voter base, except the most radical factions, and the breaking of the trust many of us have had for this party has allowed the Republican Party to govern by default. This allows Mr. Bezos to NOT pay any taxes https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/bezos-praises-manchin-blocking-bidens-corporate-tax-hike?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_text) and median pay of CEOs to hit $14 million https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/median-pay-top-ceos-hits-record-147-million-workers-strike-over-starvation-wages?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=TOP+NEWS%3A+Kagan+Pens+Scathing+Dissent+as+Supreme+Court+Kills+Another+Campaign+Finance+Rule&utm_campaign=TOPS+NEWS%3A+Fri++5%2F14%2F22&vgo_ee=q3r6Xnz%2FS%2BXDOeHrOmr83g%2FJHormkOXX2LMVbgAiCEk%3D
Bottom line: It's a clever mess we have, but, again, we have to find enough voters to swing the US back to the common sense tax policies and regulations that were in place prior to 1980 and Mr. Reagan, and we probably need to enact a complete prohibition on allowing the pharmaceutical companies to use advertising to brainwash people and our doctors.
Mr. Hartman's Citation:
That element so essential to the functioning of government is: trust.
Trust, at the end of the day, is the only currency governments can trade in. Trust is so critical it largely defines the stability of a nation’s money.
Even a government’s use of force, over the long term, requires trust or it will be fought back against with force, as we saw in the American Revolution and have seen repeatedly around the world in the centuries since.
Trust is the single most important thing any government has; it is truly what makes a nation viable.
Its essential importance to a functioning society is what makes trust the thing enemies of democracies always target first