or to make a show of doing something when they have actually accomplished nothing at all they present programs policies and legislation to make some zippo grand improvement in our lives and in reality waste billions of dollars and accomplish nothing this is been going on most of my adult life for over fifty years and i expected not to notice i say this you can't make a s purse from a sow's ear over the past decade in particular our national leaders are so locked into party agendas our leaders always want us to believe we can all have silk purses a chicken in every pot except for vegetarians our national leaders are so locked into party agendas they're less useful than ever before the party agendas are party propaganda both democrat and republican and the result is always the same we are told the pig we have before us is a silkworm our leaders attempt to alter reality by declaring over and over again this bloated pig is not really a pig at all is a lovely little worm which will provide silky threads for all citizens this behavior is called truth by proclamation this kind of truth has little to do with actual truth and nothing to do with improving our lives in any way such proclamations or attempts to create an alternate reality in which political leaders are free to pursue whatever agenda makes the most money that is makes the most money for themselves and more importantly for their campaign contributors we have the best democracy money can buy we the people three hundred sixty million of us are supposed to get with the program signed on to the new alternate reality we're supposed to believe whatever we are told and not have any independent thoughts of our own and make no independent choices and keep our mouths shut when any actual reality comes into conflict with the alternate reality when there is a heroin epidemic or a homelessness crisis our leaders would like us to believe those things just snuck up on them we never saw that coming those can't be part of our reality where did those things come from we'll take care of it all forced to live with leaders of government and leaders of corporations mostly born and bred one percenters who expect all of us to do what we are told all of the time and not be pointing out any of  discrepancies between alternate reality and the actual reality in which we live our supreme court and our congress manipulate reality strengthening the rights of corporations diminishing the rights of individuals and always looking to those one percenters who pay for the campaigns and keep our capitalist democracy right on track in eight hundred sixteen thomas jefferson made an interesting comment he said the majority oppressing an individual is guilty of a crime abuses its strength and by acting on the law strength breaks up the foundations of society and sometime earlier i think in eighteen zero eight he you noticed the cheap trick of slim majority votes he said great innovations great changes should not be forced by a slender majority in those comments thomas jefferson was describing exactly what we have now major legislation passed on slim margins and the majority vote of congress oppressing individuals and the majority vote of the supreme court oppressing individuals and lifting up the corporations and in consequence all those things are destroying our society our current political leaders do not seem to think much or care much about long term consequences the inventors of our democracy believed in the will of the majority the freely cast votes of the majority they believed in the will of the majority because they believed well informed people with good intentions will usually pass laws which benefit the majority of citizens well that kind of democracy is not possible in our current set up in the set up of alternate realities the leaders of our political parties and their deep pocket supporters they are those are the people who decide what's best for the rest of us our ability to be well informed is severely limited by the volume of lies we are told we have few sources of accurate information we don't know who to trust it's almost impossible to know who to trust on top of this when we do have elected leaders with good intentions who honestly want to help who want to slee want to make a difference those good intentions and all their good will find little voice in the rig system they're pushed around by the leaders of their political parties and if they ignore the demands of those leaders well they aren't going to have much chance for reelection not all of them are oblivious to the needs of the suffering of the rest of the humanity some billionaires set deliberate goals to solve this or that huge problem but none of those efforts solve the root cause of all the huge problems the root cause which i call economic slavery making a g m o graeme or a super vaccine or or feeding two million people for six months does not remove economic slavery the economic slavery under which those desperately poor people live in fact most all people leastways in the entire world live under some form of economic slavery millions of people tens of millions of people in the united states are high paid slaves so well paid in fact they rarely notice the extent of their slavery no one in power no one with great wealth has stepped up to the microphone to say yes we have created a planet of economic slaves we have done this deliberately that system of economic slavery is barbaric and obsolete and needs to be modified six billion people six billion workers worldwide should not be forced into bondage for the specific purpose of making five thousand or six thousand individual people multi billionaires that seems to be the goal of capitalist democracy and capitalism in general that is a self destructive way to run a civilization it might look rosy and wonderful to the five thousand or six thousand multi billionaires but for the rest of us it means we have little freedom for our entire lifetimes our freedom only extends as far as our bank accounts all the isms we have created over the past five hundred years have gathered followers and become political powers with the intent of telling all the little people all the voters all the workers we have a magic social kool aid we've just invented it if you drink this kool aid we will all create a utopia a utopia for ourselves a utopia for our children and a utopia for our grandchildren well we all know what happens when we drink the kool aid our magical isms created and still create millions of dead bodies millions of refugees trying to get into europe and into the united states just trying to survive our magical isms including consumer capitalism and capitalist democracy have all failed china has been the most successful nation in recent years in bringing millions of people out of poverty but this is caused other giant problems and tighter to tella tearing control facial recognition software on street corners and of course more dead bodies the one percenters in charge of governments and the one percenters in charge of major corporations have not yet understood they are beating a dead horse they are beating a dead horse the isms are a dead horse isms under which we live are all forms of economic slavery and economic slavery is inherently self destructive economic slavery is an obsolete idea an obsolete way to run human civilization and an obsolete way to run the economics of our pla six billion people need tangible results results which will last a thousand years not for a few hundred years a thousand years and the goal of our civilization needs to be larger than the creation of five thousand or six thousand new shiny multi billionaires that goal leads to complete economic collapse in the lives of most people what i propose is a new way of doing things and since we're so fond of isms i will call it self reliant capitalism let's imagine a new way of creating a distributing everything we need here in the united states let's imagine a way of life which could last a thousand years and offer more freedom for more people than any of our ever did or ever could unlike our previous isms self reliant capitalism would require no military revolution no violence and no dead bodies this is i'm who require both the one percenters and the millions of non wealthy citizens to act in their own self interest if both the wealthy and the non wealthy of the united states use their imaginations and work together both groups motivated by self interest both groups with a clear idea of the end results the tangible results then at last we could create a self sustaining civilization which requires no slaves and requires no authoritarian control this is not a utopia this is a rational compromise to create a better way of life for everyone even the one percenters will be pleased with the end results suffer like capitalism would require the one percenters to stop investing in multinational corporations to stop investing billions into plans for world domination and world economic control over whatever product or service they deliver those billions of dollars would be invested in rural america invested in hundreds of small towns across america the first goal would be to create businesses in those small towns to make each town and each county economically self reliant that is most all the products and services used by people in those towns and those communities would be produced and available right there within a fifty mile radius of the town local would local sawmill local furniture maker local furniture store cars and trucks will still need to be produced elsewhere to be canonically affordable but those vehicles can be adapted for local use as in making the cars and trucks able to run on ethanol which can be produce locally or able to run on electric batteries which could be produced locally likewise it would be inefficient for any small town or county to make laptops laptops could be made elsewhere again being adapted so local users would be entirely suffer live this design change would make all products suffer alliance allowing local businesses to sell and service those products without reference to higher authority to centralized government as in corporate government this design change would make all the difference the idea of centralized control over products and services would become obsolete no corporation would ever again need to spend billions of dollars to keep an edge over its competitors products would be designed specifically to boost local economies ninety percent of all cash in communities would stay and communities the large corporations will no longer function as giant sucking machines moving cash from local economies into corporate bank accounts far away from the people who earn that cash in return the one percenters the investors and the corporations who create the newly designed suffer elia products and services and support the creation of local businesses and local economies those wealthy benefactors of suffer like capitalism will take their five percent right off the top the businesses they build in local towns will be owned by local people but five percent of the profits from those businesses will forever flow back to the investors what could be more pleasing to a multi billionaire investor that a five percent return for ever and this set up in this suffer lie it up to listen economic activity and commerce is decentralized creating millions of new jobs and millions of new opportunities for low income and middle income families so they can move to rural america an opportunity for millions of people to create better ways of life and burdened by the stress and expense of living in or near major cities the decentral of commerce the decentralization of manufacturing the decentralization of capitalism these are the things which will allow the united states of america to survive for a thousand years and all other democracies to survive for a thousand years without this change democracies will continue to decay into various forms of oligarchy like the one we