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I was just watching The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and it's funny how fairy tales that seemed so boring to me when I was younger seem so very REAL and relevant now that I am older.  If only I had understood them better then, or had them explained to me by someone, I might have made better choices or rather more appropriate choices for the goals I was seeking.  What goals, hahahaha, I don't think I EVER had goals.  

I take that back, I remember saying to my girlfriend once that I was destined to be a leader of men.  In the movie, I can't help thinking that the children are a representation of me and my brother and sister, we were so gullible once.  Our parents weren't exactly the aficionados of the ways of men. More importantly I remember the little animals we all called ourselves, my brother was the lion, my dad was the elephant, my mom was the giraffe, and my sister was the zebra.  

I was the tiger.  They're GREAT!  Did I mention I used to call myself TONY? lol. Ann-Tony. No?  Still not funny? 

Anyways, today we are going to talk about what the difference of the regular party and the Republican party is.  I might have mentioned this before but it bears repeating.  Some people don't understand what the Republicans are or what it means to follow them or even to follow the Democrats.   Just yesterday I was talking to my Dad and explaining the difference.  He started saying that he didn't like Rubio and said he thought he was a big shot, I explained that Obama had a similar amount of time served in the Senate and then I sounded off about Ted Cruz being also the same and that these two senators, despite being in office less than a single full term, were now MORE popular than the 100 other senators that had been there longer than them.  At this point, I started to point out though that it didn't matter anyways since what you do there is make decisions, not become an expert at anything and now that I got it out of my system and he understands what the two sides mean, I am going to explain it to you yet again, this time perhaps a little simpler, maybe a little more refined.  

The Republicans for the most part represent the Freedom movement.  Even Lincoln was a Republican but back then most business owners were in kahootz with each other as often they are.  The big traders of anything huge are all in agreement that they should all survive and as much as they can they serve each others interests at the expense of the public and as SOON as they can, they put people in office that will INSURE that their needs, their PERSONAL(rich people's) needs, are secure.  In times such as these, Republicans become the rebel's party, the party for FREEDOM from the government.  Freedom from the part of the government that supports keeping humans as property.  

And it's during such times, that war breaks out.  People simply outnumber businesses, that's never going to change.  Once the wall goes up, the wall MUST come down.  No matter what business you think is important, cable, gasoline, cigarettes, internet providers, Mexican workers, all of these eventually will start to put up walls to insure that they maintain some sort of monopoly or CONTROL of some sort on the industry somehow OUTSIDE of government or if possible THROUGH government.  But once people all agree, that wall is gonna come down.  It's like Clinton saying he didn't have sex.  You can't un-have it.  You gotta just explain it, show that sweet picture of Mr. Pewterschmidt with his egg nog, and get to explaining to everyone that lying happens but only for a short while and then reality checks in to your brain.  It happens to everyone and to every industry.  They want to say they didn't do wrong but meh, so what, we outnumber you, you did wrong and so what meh, and now we are just wanting you to put controls in place so it can't happen again.  It's sort of like Chris Christie or Scott Walker.  If they are great politicians, and they did good things for many people in the past, then fine stay in office but apologize, explain why some fool could change TRAFFIC without you knowing and even if you have workers that do some wrong things just to please you, just say how much fun you had and correct the system because we ALL need to believe in the system.  The system is why we have a country.  The system is what our soldiers are dying for.  You should think of that every time you want to STEAL from the system.   You have to ask yourself what kind of leader you want to be, a demon-lord or a unicorn.  Remember the movie LEGEND?  Well, good movies are REAL.  The demon lord type of leader rules using magic(aka public trust) to instill fear in his subjects.  People disappear, bridges start to clog, public emails disappear, and interns have a LOT of alone time with the President.  See?  That's ruling with darkness.  The more secrets, the more chances of the switcheroo, where you went from good guy to betraying the public trust.  So now you are wondering why the unicorn is a symbol for goodness yeah? Well because he uses the public trust to SERVE the public.  You see that?  Some people would say(like my sexy female cousin who despite all her wisdom and an amazingly wise green beret father STILL falls short sometimes) it's better to be the jockey than the horse.  Well, not if you are a leader.  If you are a leader and you are a JOCKEY then what you are is a DEMON LORD... have a nice day.  And if you are a horse then you are a unicorn.  

Oh you get it now? 

Anyways, sidetracked from the other thing.  So Republicans are the less government party.  They want all regulations alleviated or removed, they want taxes frozen so businesses make more money, and they want more military most of the time.  Despite how awful it sounds, there is a time and place for military and for cutting taxes and for removing regulations so it's good that they exist.  Republicans are betting, especially nowadays after the Citizens United ruling, that beggin for the rich and using that money for advertising is MORE effective than doing the right thing for the poor people. Why? Because they are betting that the poor people don't pay attention.  They are betting that the poor people won't show up to vote.  They are betting that poor people will see a face on TV and despite this face having a HISTORY of voting FOR BUSINESSES that take advantage of the poor people's programs like food stamps or unemployment to simply give the big businesses tax breaks that the 5 or 10 executives can write in as accomplishments to justify their 100k bonus that year, they are betting poor people will simply ignore all that and maybe not even show up which is what happened during the mid-term elections for the Senate.  

I like how it's called the U.S. Senate but its real name is the American Senate, U.S. means nothing.  It reminds me of how the rest of the world must view us when even our NAME is unclear.  

Democrats want more government.  A LIBERAL amount of it.  That's how I remember the two is that liberal means more government, and conservative means a conservative amount of government.  But like I said earlier, eventually, businesses find their way into government through laws and puppets.  Once government agrees that the poor should be subjugated, that the musical chairs should stop, it's game over.  The civil war cannon is all but lit.  That's why voting democrat is so scary and it's also why ALL regulation must be looked at closely, because controls usually work only ONE way, they go in and they NEVER come out.  The Patriot Act is a good example, the Homeland Security department, the CIA, the numerous regulatory agencies.  I am not saying we need to get rid of them but notice how they are never going away.  We got along fine without them and now they rule us and little by little, if we disengage from the government for just like 8 years, we won't be ABLE to remove the controls that will allow government to decide even your LIFE goals without your input.   (Remember in Finance how raising the Fixed Assets makes your income increase but also more volatile).  That's why the two party system, bipartisanship, is so necessary.  The right thing to do is to let Obama put in as many regulations as he wants knowing full well, that Republicans are going to want to repeal them once they get into office.  

And they should.  Because too much regulation leads to what I have said before is called the LESSON of the Statement Redesign Team.  The team was put in to make the statement FREE of clutter and to make it easy to read, and then, over time, as they were about to have to go back to manning the phones(stress) instead of eating cookies and cakes in meetings all day long, and perhaps after the number crunchers realized that confusing statements generate MORE late fees, they were kept in office and there has been a Statement Redesign Team that has been in place ever since, constantly "improving" statements for the last >10 years lol.   Oh by the way Elizabeth Warren was NOT wrong with putting the CFPB(Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) into place.  That little bit of regulation was DECADES late and trust me, after <15 years working for a credit card, they need to KEEP that agency at least until the banks are broken up, which needs to happen soon before the musical chairs stop.  What do I mean?  Well you will have to read my previous blogs.  

So to be clear, what we need is NOT to have one party or the other.  In the eighties people during the Reagan era were actually wondering if the Democrats were going go away because people were SO happy with Reagan lol, and not so long ago, people were wondering if the Republicans were ever going to hold office again since they messed up so bad with GW.  But you shouldn't ever worry because eventually they both become corrupt.  Eventually with too much government the agencies become overbearing on businesses and dishonest, and eventually by the same token, banks and businesses, free of regulation, feel free to bait and switch, charge usury rates(don't know what that means anymore do ya? the word kind of disappeared didn't it?), false advertise and what else could I mention that makes businesses rich through deceptive practices, who then pay off the government to allow the deceptive practives to smell as much as they might smell at which point the government either ignores the companies or it "riders" hidden deceptive practice laws onto other bills while noone pays attention.  

Like let's say, allowing businesses to claim a religious reason for refusing service to someone.  

So the real challenge for all of us, true-believers, is to stop the DIVIDE.  There are always going to be rich people and poor people and fact is most people just want to find a niche and live that life as long as they can without imposing their will on others.  That's goodwill.   That's what must be preserved.  What must not be allowed to happen is for the wage gap to increase.  If government is corrupt it happens, if there is no government it happens.  If you learn anything in economics and thought that was useful in voting, TOSS IT, and remember this, ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY IT HAS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS BEEN A BATTLE BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR.  From us and the king of England, from the slave owners and the rest of the country, from the Pharoah and Moses, from the Romans and Jews versus Jesus, even the Nazis and Jews, more than ANYTHING, what you want to guard against is the wage gap... poof, you just learned something MORE useful than what any economist could teach you.   

Our minds are built in binary.  We want to like what is good and fight what is evil.  We can get told the it's the blacks, or it's the racists or that it's Israel or Iran or that it's the Mexicans(it might actually BE the Mexicans) or Wall Street(it might actually BE Wall Street) or the scientologists or that it's the corrupt police or the incompetent foreign airline regulatory boards; people want to tell you that these are evil and that THERE YOU SIT the good guy, but the media and the mayor and the governor and everyone in Washington DC want you NOT to believe it's the rich people... but it is.  All of these others are distractions that allow your next door grocer to keep claiming non-profit while YOU continue to pay taxes.  All businesses, if they can collude, will do it and then claim heresy when someone speaks up as if they didn't know.  It's their JOB to know.  It's their job to learn the loopholes.  That's all there is to do in business is to hurry up and open your business, earn some money, and put some guy in charge of your job so you can LOOPHOLE hunt all day long.  That's the job! 

Now, more specifically, keep in mind that people will attack you for speaking your mind.  Julia Ioffe just pointed out recently in an article that the Russians have WHOLE CENTERS of trolls.  These trolls are paid minimum wage(I worked it out to about 2.91 per hour for 12 hours) to find forums where people on the internet speak and then to bat around any ideas that speak against Russia or Putin.  They did this in groups of 3 where the first one would advocate people that were against Putin, then the villian of the 3 would slander and mame the idea of being against Putin and then the third would show up with pictures advocating Russia and Putin and that was their job all day long, all in 3s, and apparently from what the article said that's BETTER than average wages.  So expect attacks, and remember that the point is not to become an attacker, the rich people WANT you to join a party and become unified like my father is to ONE party(which by the way he is allowed to vote for or not vote for but never against), which then puts the rich people in charge because THEY more than anyone can predict the future(Edge of Tomorrow) like I have said before by harassing the people they have identified.  No.  You should choose NOT to be an attacker.  To remain ODIN.  To swing one way and then to swing another.  To be a COUNTER attacker.  

In the BIBLE, it says there that you should not pursue vengeance and that Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord.  That's what it meant was to not JOIN UP a cause for vengeance because like they said in KILL BILL, the forest is dark and it's SO EASY to get lost and become someone rabid.  That's what should happen is that there should be an ebb and flow of power that is UN-predictable so as to keep any one source of DOMINANCE, any demon lord, from controlling first us... and then the world.  

Vengeance IS this ebb and flow.  It's natural... it's not a cause.