Public/Private Partnership Or Democratic Socialism?
By: Jean Hhricik
Tags: Jill Stein, Media, Health, Government, Bernie Sanders

Public/Private Partnership Or Democratic Socialism?

Disclaimer — -The following isn’t a news report. This is opinion developed from many sources, some of which are included for clarity, transparency, and rebuttal, and is the Free Speech that shares ideas.

Public/Private Partnership Or Democratic Socialism?…

Privatized health care in America uses as an excuse against a 1-Payer Government run system of health care delivery, the number of private-sector jobs that will be lost when the public has saner, simpler, more efficient and cheaper systems from which to benefit. To begin with, the privatization by centralized corporations of our food-delivery system, has resulted in deviant nutrition for the public. Not only are individuals in 2019 more prone to disease related to poor nutrition, but the profiteering corporate food processing industry hands the diseased public over to the privatized health care system to further exploit — —

https://www.treehugger.com/health/us-dietary-guidelines-cater-less-half-its-population.html?utm_source=TreeHugger+Newsletters&utm_campaign=63e76b9e11-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_16_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_32de41485d-63e76b9e11-243798097

PETITION — -Brain development of children is sabotaged in the age of pesticides on their food — —

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/chlorpyrifos-school-lunch?t=5&akid=32482%2E2842878%2Ex9lFl3 — Here’s a scary and dangerous fact: Millions of school children in the United States could unknowingly be ingesting a brain-harming toxic pesticide just by eating seemingly safe school lunches.

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To continue build-out of infrastructure by politicians, that threatens human health, must be challenged — — LETTER TO SIGN, if one wishes — -https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/act/williams-pipeline — Williams Energy Company wants to build a 23-mile-long fracked gas pipeline through New York Harbor. Construction of the pipeline would stir up seabed contaminants, endanger marine life and beachgoers, and lock New York into decades of fossil fuels at a time when we desperately need to transition to renewable energy.

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The public requires information to participate mindfully in their own self-governance, in keeping with a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.

Received from www.berniesanders.com----In 2018 health care CEOs made more the $1 billion. That is not a typo. How much would they spend to protect the current system that has made them wildly rich while Americans get sick? How much would their companies spend to protect their billions in profits?

A new group called Partnership for America’s Health Care Future has begun to spend millions of dollars attacking our campaign and the very idea that health care is a right. This group’s members aren’t patients, consumers or people impacted by our current health care system — they are insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying group.

— — — — -end of berniesanders Presidential campaign message — — contribute if you wish to be part of the solution — —

Bernie Sanders promotes a return to a system more closely attuned to a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic. In contrast, we are watching Capitalist Party D&R enforcing a government that is “run like a business”; and are now urging use of taxpayer money to create a privatized infrastructure system. The so-called public/private partnership scheme seems to envision the public contribution of cash and private contribution as profiteering.

Private/public partnerships were discussed this morning on c-span. https://www.c-span.org/video/?460366-4/washington-journal-casey-dinges-discuss-infrastructure-priorities-funding — One is interested that the callers appear to be quite informed as to the bait-and-switch perpetrated by those Capitalist Party R&D politicians who are “running government like a business”, that has transferred the wealth of the nation from the 100% to the 1%.

The caller at approximately 9:25AM articulated the view that will be paraphrased quite personally as… “like the US government isn’t sufficiently owned by big-money interests”….please access the c-span playback to hear the actual phrase from the caller.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?460366-3/washington-journal-melanie-zanona-steve-nelson-preview-week-ahead-washington — caller at approximately 8:42AM — paraphrase — -Time to impeach. Putin has a hold of Trump that won’t allow him to step down. (One wouldn’t be surprised if the same hold reached into the Senate, one opines).

Caller at approximately 8:46AM — paraphrase — -We don’t hear about the Emoluments Clause, only about Russia.

— -Great point. The Emoluments Clause is also known as The Nobility Clause — --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause —

Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.[9]

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This is open to interpretation. In 2019, it seems silly to quake before the title of princess, king, baron, or duke. In fact, the very designation would be an embarrassment to the holder. But a tiered system of justice is evident in every walk of life in the US, that is an aristocracy. Partnership between government and private enterprise can be suspected to be such a creation of an elite. That private commercial interests are abusing the government of We The People, to enrich themselves, cronies, and family, seems to be the 21st Century version of that which The Founders were concerned, and that motivated The Nobility Clause in the first place. That the public is sheepish on this subject, surely proves the above phrase on the topic of The Nobility Clause that includes “and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor”.

Manifestation of privilege could be felt in the 2016 DNC campaign rigging to promote a capitalist candidate Clinton, and since that time the presumption that “Bernie Sanders voters” didn’t fall in line with this presumption, is surely indicative of an elitism that betrays the right of 1-person-1-vote without coercion from capitalist hierarchical Establishment. In other words, totalitarianism is growing. Perhaps Establishment is attempting to reinforce “the inquiring into the character of the possessor”.

Further indications of elitism among capitalistic hierarchical Establishment was the excuses from some of the people denigrating Bernie Sanders supporters, while excusing Obama who has cashed in on his stint as a public servant. One heard as the excuse for unbecoming behavior for a statesman, “everybody else does it, why shouldn’t he?”

This brings us to the Trump phenomenon. The D branch of the Capitalist Party D&R are outraged that a character such as Trump is running our nation. So where was law enforcement over the last 40 or 50 years, when the ostensible careers of the Trumps played its magic in the business world? The Trump crew is only the tip of the iceberg of privilege.

Corruption couldn’t continue without the active compliance by the Administrative, Judicial, and Legislative branches of our government. Meanwhile, offenders of justice were sniffing out crime in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. This seems another indication of totalitarianism and silencing of the voices of those who should express “the inquiring into the character of the possessor”

One concludes the same characters and players who profit from the imperialism of using American troops to protect the big-money interests of oligarchs around the world, are working their game in the US by rolling out the private/public partnerships. This seems to be “running government like a business”, that feels too similar to organized crime, and is incongruous with a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.

One suggests the public/private partnership model is capitalism on steroids, with commercial fingers in the US Treasury. The antidote may be democratic socialism, with the same synchronization between government and private interests, but with the public (100%) benefiting in the person of private interests, rather than a transfer of taxpayer money from the public (100%) to the private corporations (1%). In other words, why shouldn’t the general public profit from the infrastructure build out for which they will pay, rather than funnel the profits to Wall St. players?

Before setting anything in place, that will be as cumbersome as is the American privatized health care system to dismantle, even when it has become the albatross around the neck of the public, we need a lengthy and informed discussion, including the voice of the public.

One would imagine the voice of the public to be represented by Representatives of The People. But due to corruption, Representatives of The People are promoting the interests of the 1%.

One suggests considering voting for democratic (small d) socialism public promotion, in our elections.

One is not surprised the Green Party is gaining ground worldwide — --http://bright-green.org/2019/05/05/the-best-local-election-results-in-history-uk-green-news-round-up-week-18/ — The Green Party is the Party of democratic socialism. This Party isn’t pro-capitalism, and gets the majority of contributions from individuals. Corporate-owned mainstream media will censor good news, or any news for that matter, about political Parties outside of the 1-Party Capitalist Party Democrat&Republican. One may say all of Trump, Obama, and Clinton have more in common with each other than with the US public, or any local-community public around the globe; and local-community public around the globe and the US public have similar interests. The work of the Capitalist Party R&D is to distract the public away from the public interests, and into the fold of capitalistic hierarchy.

This is a reason many people voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Primary, and Jill Stein in the 2016 general Presidential election.

Capitalistic hierarchical Establishment will once again attempt to convince the public that the public is only too glad to pay $387 for a bottle of diabetic medicine. It’s the advertising of the middleman — — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fx8DY4dLI — The alternative is a vote for Bernie Sanders, the democratic (small d) socialist, who capitalistic hierarchical Establishment will again advertise to the public, that self-governance is bad for that public. One looks forward to watching the time needed to turn this ocean liner of propaganda.

Straight talk from the local-community public, encourages censorship by corporate-owned mainstream media — — https://socialistproject.ca/2019/05/open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/#more — The work of We The People has always been self-reliance and self-governance, in the headwind of authoritarianism — — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOj8DqlXNg---But he’s not alone, just more honest. One guesses he gets points for honesty.

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Some voters in the US were disenfranchised due to Capitalist Party D&R election rigging that is controlled by political Parties. The Capitalist Party R&D, have as their objective, putting in place rules that ensure the candidate choice of a particular Establishment Party is put into office, even against the wishes of the voters.

Please remember political Parties have no standing under the US Constitution, but voters do have standing under the US Constitution. Due to disenfranchisement of 3rd-Party candidates, Bernie Sanders who is an Independent, chooses to run as a Democrat for President. If a voter is a member of a 3rd-Party, and wishes to vote for 3rd-Party politician Bernie Sanders, in the Democratic Primary, that voter may be disenfranchised of his/her Constitutional right of a free and fair election, as happened to a large number of voters in NYS in 2016.

One suspects these disenfranchised voters who may have felt defrauded of their right to vote in the 2016 Democratic Primary, voted for Trump in the 2016 general election. One believes this will happen again, because needless to say, the Capitalist Party R&D prefer chaos in the election system, which is a control mechanism for political Parties with no standing under the US Constitution, while the voters do have standing under the US Constitution. This is an interesting red-herring to wield a control that is not Constitutional.

*****Each state is different as to their voter registration guidelines. Anyone wishing to vote for Bernie Sanders for President in the Democratic Primary, should check to be sure they will not be disenfranchised at the polls, once again in 2020, as in 2016. A voter can easily switch between political Parties, rather than functioning as a captive Party loyalist, to a political Party that is not loyal to the voter. *****

Or one can be registered to vote, without being affiliated to a particular political Party. Please remember, the US Constitution supports free and fair elections for voters, but is blissfully unconcerned about political Parties. That some Americans believe “we are a 2-Party system”, is nothing but propaganda.

*****Be sure to check with your state to register to vote in the Primary according to your wish and by exercising your US Constitutional right to vote.*****

*****One may also advocate for ranked-choice voting, that will expand choices for voters, and provide a greater possibility of free and fair elections.*****

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We can do better — — -Credit for this phrase belongs to a fellow financial planner, name to remain private, who expressed this opinion about 30 years ago, and which phrase was so non-threatening, sensible and meaningful, that it has echoed through one’s thoughts ever since. Any similarity of words used currently by public characters is coincidence. The English language has a limited number of words, which generally aren’t patented.

https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/influence-on-democracy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIDtvTydkU&t=638s

In Solidarity With People And Nature —

www.mothersoutfront.org

www.facebook.com/gpnjbc ;; — Green Black Caucus

www.greenpeaceusa.org

www.economichumanrights.org

www.draftbernie.org

www.psr.org

www.blackyouthproject.com

www.riverkeeper.org

www.catskillmountainkeeper.org

www.celdf.org

www.wearesenecalake.com

www.democracynow.org

www.gp.org

https://www.greenparty.org/Platform.php

www.freepress.net

www.codepink.org

www.m4bl.net

www.starhawk.org

www.openthebooks.org

www.nyipl.org

www.pogo.org

www.opensecrets.org

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