"Long-term real growth of GDP in the US, 1871-2009" [VisualizingEconomics.com]

(D)ude: Man! What is the modus operandi of the Republican Party today?

(M)an: Dude! To distract audiences into agitation and then pull the carpet from underneath the feet of America’s working poor once they elect Republican Party members into government, mistaking the Republicans of today as possessing the qualities of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower. Today’s Republicans are plundering warmongers.

D: Man! What evidence is there that the Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln or Eisenhower and that it has stooped to the level of plundering warmongers?

M: Dude! Look at the gross domestic product of the United States of America since 2006. Better yet, look at the GDP for US since the time of Richard Nixon’s vice presidency in the Eisenhower Administration to the present day.

D: Man! Why?

M: Dude! The Republican Party has, overall, always favored the military and defense contracting industry to generate jobs and advancements in research and development. Generating jobs and advancements in research and development are secondary to the primary goal of the military and defense contracting industry, which is to improve national security. Therefore, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace,

“Currently, the U.S. Government spends $670 billion (USD) on its defense budget which is used to employ tens of thousands of workers in the military and defense contracting industry. The fact that these investments generate jobs, economic growth and, sometimes, result in valuable spin-off technologies is not doubted.

However, the key question that needs to be addressed in order to understand if military spending remains cost-effective is whether it is achieving its primary purpose of improving national security as opposed to secondary objectives which may be in the provision of jobs or the development of new technologies for industrial use.

This is simply because other forms of spending charged with the primary purpose of providing employment or to conduct research and development are likely to be more efficient in achieving those goals than spending targeted at national security. This has been reinforced in various studies, which show, when comparing the direct multiplier effects of military spending to other forms of government spending, it is not as productive in economic terms as spending in infrastructure, education, or even as tax cuts to increase household consumption.”

D: Man! Military spending versus other forms of government spending? The Republican Party relies solely on military spending to boost the economy, while the Democratic Party promotes and carries out spending in infrastructure, education, and encouraging consumerism! The choice is very clear to me finally! Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate for the people, while the Republicans cannot offer a coherent line of policymaking. And the Green Party’s Jill Stein is actually claiming “quantitative easing” as a way out of financial crises when, in fact, “quantitative easing” by the United States Government in the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 led to the inflation troubles being seen today by the United States as a result of the increase in our money supply. Quantitative easing is a last resort, not a first measure. Plus, when pushed to explain the concept of quantitative easing, Jill Stein replied that it was, “a magic trick that basically people don't need to understand any more about than that it is a magic trick.”

M: Dude! Jill Stein is speaking the same foolishness as the Republican Party and their official mouthpiece Donald Trump! The exact same nonsense that led to Brexit, which both the Republican Party and the Green Party supported. Of course, Jill Stein later tried to play down her support for Brexit by speaking against it once it was implemented and the United Kingdom began its separation from the European Union with backwoods fools Theresa May and Boris Johnson taking the place of PM and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.  

D: Man! Is there a branch of the John Birch Society in the United Kingdom? Theresa May and Boris Johnson fit the profile perfectly with their jabberwocky talk.

M: Dude! Jill Stein and the Green Party and the Republican Party are aligned with the John Birch Society perfectly. Jill Stein’s stance on vaccinations is preposterous and aligns perfectly with the positons of the GOP Neoconservatives and Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.

D: Man! Why?

M: Dude! Going after the vaccination schedules of the most vulnerable, infants and children, in societies is the easiest path to provoke the masses to turn against each other based on socioeconomic and ethnic lines. The Republican Party and the United States Press Corps is promoting hysteria and unrest all over the world as a result of their successful campaign to implement Brexit, or Britain’s exit from the European Union. They are well on their way to tear apart the European Union with propaganda campaigns pitting people of lower socioeconomic status against one another which they hope will spill into ethnic strife and unrest throughout Europe.

D: Man! Why?

M: Dude! Europe must confront its patterns of homogeneity in some countries and heterogeneity in others. If you look carefully at the vaccination schedules in countries with socioeconomic and ethnic homogeneity, the schedule of vaccination is far more rigorous than that of countries with socioeconomic and ethnic heterogeneity.

D: Man! Why go after the vulnerable in countries displaying patterns of heterogeneity?

M: Dude! The Republicans and the United States Press Corps create chaos wherever there is socioeconomic and ethnic heterogeneity. Both entities are run by billionaire donors and chief executive officers who are white, male, and exhibit megalomaniac intolerance towards those who are not aligned with them in creed, belief, and opinion.

D: Man! Creed, belief, and opinion? Or creed or belief or opinion?

M: Dude! Their megalomaniac intolerance has no room for “or”! It is “and”!

D: Man! Divide and conquer for one’s own wealth attainment purposes?

M: Dude! The Republicans and the American Press Corps must be stopped in their propaganda campaigns! They are always positioned to take the world, including US, backwards at every pivotal juncture in history.

D: Man! Let’s finally end their neoconservative reign by electing Hillary Clinton as our next president!

M: Dude! That will be US rewriting and recalibrating history towards more inclusiveness by ending the cycle of abuse by the neoconservatives in the Republican Party. Let’s end their destructive cycle of never-ending warfare for the purposes of themselves becoming richer and more powerful. Let’s continue leveraging peace and diplomacy, not hate and anger, by electing Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as our next President and Vice President!

"Democracy is not a spectator sport." VOTE!!!!

(M)an: Dude! Do the American people even know that all the members of the United States House of Representatives are up for reelection on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2016?

(D)ude: Man! Really? I did not know that! You mean that voters actually have a chance to change the makeup of the United States House of Representatives this year?

M: Dude! All 435 members of the House of Representatives are facing reelection this presidential election year, 2016. However, if you look at Alabama and Kentucky, there are congressional districts where some of the Republicans running for reelection are not facing Democratic challengers.

D: Man! Republican Alabama Senator Richard Shelby and Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul are up for reelection? That would mean that the 2010 Tea Party influx of senators are all up for reelection this year. Like Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, there must be an entire ship of fools that rode the waves of Tea Party Republican reformation that ended up implementing 2 government shutdowns in their campaign of obstructionism that set the stage for a Donald Trump to become their official mouthpiece and presidential nominee.

M: Dude! Republican Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are not up for reelection this year. Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn is a Class II member of the United States Senate and Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz is a Class I member of the United States Senate. According to the United States Senate’s official website (and Article 1, Section 3 of the United States Constitution), all Class I United States Senators face election or reelection in the 2018 midterms, meaning their six-year terms expire in 2019. All Class II United States Senators face election or reelection in the 2020 presidential election cycle, meaning their six-year terms expire in 2021.  

D: Man! So then what category of United States Senators are we talking about when we discuss those facing election or reelection in the 2016 presidential election cycle?

M: Dude! They make up the Class III members of the United States Senate, meaning they are facing election or reelection in the 2016 presidential election cycle and their six-year terms expire in 2017. Dividing up the 100 United States Senators as such, there is one group that does end up containing 34 Senators and that is Class III.

D: Man! Why go through such detailing?

M: Dude! To promote gradual transitions towards major changes in trends over time.

D: Man! In other words, to keep the chaos of tyranny from ruining the nation’s democratic principles. To keep the wheel moving forward and guaranteeing against absolutism.

M: Dude! The Sanders Institute and Our Revolution initiatives that Senator Bernie Sanders wants to implement are dependent on this presidential election cycle resulting in the Democratic Party securing majorities in both houses of the United States Congress and Hillary Clinton securing the White House as our next president. Hillary Clinton is the only presidential candidate left in this election cycle to have not spoken hastily and, instead, come face to face with the stark and harsh realities we the working classes and the working poor experience daily. I am surprised that the American Press Corps chooses to go after Hillary Clinton’s character instead of paralleling the deliberately pre-scripted provocations of Donald Trump’s to that of another heinous provocateur pervert named Adolf Hitler.

D: Man! Speaking of Hitler, did you know Winston Churchill actually praised the horrific scumbag many times in ways that warrant a reexamination of the ethos at the time of World War II? Seriously, this is how Winston Churchill chose to summarily put into effect that genocidal feculent,

“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.”

M: Dude! Winston Churchill acknowledged where the world, including England, went deadly wrong,

“The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. . . So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.”

D: Man! Where is the effort on part of the Democratic Party in the United States to register people to vote and mobilize them to the polls come Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2016?

M: Dude! A good first step would be for the Democratic National Committee to work alongside the Sanders Institute and Our Revolution initiatives and reawaken and empower US at the grassroots. The Democratic National Committee needs to be audited and grassroots organizing must be financed. Our local Democratic Party is so immobilized that one must suspect whether the platform committee at the Democratic National Convention was made aware of these local deficits. I inquired about the primaries by calling our local Democratic Party headquarters and was surprised by how many times I was placed on hold until they finally found someone to answer my questions regarding the elections.

D: Man! What about the next step after that?

M: Dude! A good next step would be for everybody interested in organizational efficiency to visit Warren Buffett’s website drive2vote.org! We need our Never Ending Reservoirs of DreamS, or NERDS, to create such websites and movements for their congressional districts!

Genesis 8: 21-22 The Lord's Promise for the Earth

(D)ude: Man! Explain to me how the United States of America succumbed to the politics of hate and why the Republican Party has selected a jackass to represent them?

(M)an: Dude! The Republican Party and the United States Press Corps are corporate entities of the same outright billionaire bigots who are stagnating the world economy with propaganda campaigns aimed against diversity and inclusivity amongst societies. The Republican Party and the United States Press Corps are the status quo that capitulates to a gasconade like Donald Trump from the days of George Herbert Walker Bush. The Republican Party and the American Press Corps want the destructive drama that is Donald Trump because the Republican Party and the American Press Corps want war, not peace. With warfare, there will be a rush of accolades like the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism plus international reporting from the very trenches of hells on earth that the Republicans and the American Press Corps wish for our sons and daughters in uniform.

D: Man! There are no Pulitzer Prizes in times of diplomacy?

M: Dude! The Pulitzer Prizes apparently lose their potency during times of diplomacy and Tom Brokaw should be the first to be repentant of this trend. He has expressed an interest in the Republican Party and the American Press Corps to return US to 1968.

D: Man! And then he went on to sing the praises of the late Nancy Reagan! Wasn’t that somewhere on MSNBC? Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski?

M: Dude! Joe and Mika should be the next to be repenant! Except for CSPAN’s thorough coverage of both the RNC and the DNC, all the corporate networks misreported about what was happening on the floor during the Democratic National Convention. The biggest flaw in the misreporting involved the American Press Corps addressing the audience of delegates and supporters as less informed than themselves.

D: Man! Social media has democratized knowledge, but Richard Haass and the key players at the Council on Foreign Relations, for example, are all part of the status quo, ranging from corporate executives to revered scholars. Richard Haass himself was Director of Policy Planning in the George Walker Bush 43 Administration. And he makes frequent appearances on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Haass swivels not just in his designated chair, but he swivels right and then left and finally right on issues of national security.

M: Dude! The Bernie Institute and its partner organization Our Revolution need US to elect Hillary Clinton as our next president. Donald Trump is the Adolf Hitler of our time. If elected president, Trump will carry out the same policies of ethnic cleansing that Hitler employed in the last century. And Americans must keep in mind that people who stood up against the ethnic cleansing of representative groups during the reign of Adolf Hitler, were labeled as “Resistance” and thrown into genocidal horrors as well.

D: Man! Where is God? As an adult with an evangelical upbringing, I cannot fathom tomorrow with a president so focused on himself and his personal wealth attainment to ruthlessly shatter the lives of all who stand in his way. Donald Trump is entirely focused on himself and his personal wealth attainment to that extent where he can, and he will, shatter the lives of the very people who elect him.   

M: Dude! Jews, Christians, and Muslims must come together and realize the bond that ties us all together. We three are descendants of Abraham. That’s why we collectively fall into the category of Abrahamic religions. The first 5 books of the Old Testament comprise the Torah, Jesus studied the Old Testament and his teachings comprise the New Testament. Muhammed studied the Old Testament and the New Testament and his teachings comprise the Koran.

D: Man! Where do we three begin to realize?

M: Dude! The Old Testament! The Book of Genesis! Following The Flood in Genesis Chapter 8, the God who is omniscient to we three faiths, we three being Judaism and Christianity and Islam, declares [Genesis 8: 21-22],

Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young, but I will never destroy everything that breathes, as I did this time.

As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat; winter and summer, day and night.

D: Man! What about the international unrest that the United States and its allies worldwide are facing? What about the absence of voter registration drives and the presence of voter suppression tactics across these United States?

M: Dude! Hillary Clinton has the stamina and the heartache and the foresight evangelicals like yourself are wanting right now. This is what she had to say about climate change and the unrest worldwide as a result of the Republican Party and the American Press Corps denying the very existence of the phenomenon or laughing off its consequential effects on our shared planet, our shared existence, page 497, Hard Choices,

“Islands and low-laying nations are on the front lines of this struggle, but the rest of us are not far behind. About 40 percent of all humankind lives within sixty miles of a coast. Sprawling cities near coastal deltas, including those of the Mississippi, Nile, Ganges, and Mekong rivers, are at particular risk. We have to project forward and think about what will happen as climate change continues and sea levels keep rising. What will happen to those billions of people if their homes and cities become unlivable? Where will they go? Who will provide assistance?

“Imagine the violence that could follow in the wake of more severe droughts and extreme food and water shortages in fragile states, or the effects on global commerce as farms and infrastructure are destroyed in floods and storms. What will be the impact on global trade and stability as the gap between rich and poor countries widens further?”

D: Man! The billionaire donors in the Republican Party and their paid mouthpieces in the American Press Corps are financing the rise of Donald Trump with a specific purpose in mind and that is to stagnate the world economy for the purpose of getting richer and richer.

M: Dude! Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. The denial of climate change is an equivalent sin to ethnic cleansing horrors across the world during the last century and the start of this new millennium. The denial of climate change is the mechanism through which the Republican Party, billionaire donors, and the American Press Corps implement foreseeable horrors that are clearly manufactured for the purposes of creating crisis in the lives of the most vulnerable in our society, in the horrid goal that the most vulnerable amongst us collapse and cease their very existence. Look at Hurricane Katrina and the delaying of care and services to the destitute by that group of plunderers, or the GOP.

[To be continued...]