WWII, and the following decades, saw the largest investment in human capital throughout the free world, but particularly for the United States of America. Today, politically, we might refer to this investment strategy as “Populism,” when in fact it is a wealth building mechanism that resulted in the United States having the strongest global economy, roads, bridges, schools and services for the population.
Since the 1971 “Powell Memo,” the strategy has been to ‘invest’ in US corporations, with the misguided logic that somehow the wealth created at the ‘top’ would find its way down to the general population. This strategy was hyper-fueled during the 1980s and the Reagan Revolution, when Americans were told the government was their enemy and we were sold a bill of goods that “Supply Side,” or “Trickle Down” economics would benefit the country. As a result of the Powell Memo and the subsequent flim-flam of “Voodoo Economics,” the United States has witnessed the largest wealth transfer in the history of the world. Not only did all the wealth rush to the top one percent of the country, the big, bad government started dishing out massive (billions of dollars) subsidies to their corporate overlords while simultaneously slashing taxes for the rich…resulting in massive debt that has now ballooned to $35+ trillion as of 2024.
We head into the 2024 election with a Democrat (Kamala Harris) and a Republican (Donald Trump) who have starkly opposing views of investing in the country. Harris’ economic plan is a call back toward using government money to support the middle-class and lower tier of the population. AKA “Human Subsidies.” Trump, as he did in his Presidential term, wants to continue the Republican policies of cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy and promising to slash “Entitlements” via their Project 2025 agenda. Call this “Jesus Voodoo Economics.”
Make no mistake about it, Project 2025 is NOT an economic plan. No one in business thinks that drastically increasing tariffs on imported goods will improve economic conditions. Project 2025 is a Religious, extremely far-right, agenda that is designed by the The Council for National Policy. The Council for National Policy (CNP) is the offshoot of centuries of religious, Christofascist, Talibangelical efforts to convert the Unites States to “Dominionism.” In their world, Donald Trump is the savior (GEOTUS: God Emperor of the United States), the chosen one born to enact their agenda to make the Unites States into Jesusland. Supply side economics has made the members of the CNP fabulously rich, and they have the economic clout to force everyone in the country to pray to their blonde-haired, blue-eyed, invisible friend who lives in the clouds and always has a neatly trimmed beard. Yes, it is true, if you were a Nazarene from Arimathea, you could purchase a Norelco razor in those days.
The CNP is the offshoot of the John Birchers who, even among the Republican party, were too weird for ultra-conservative Barry Goldwater and he threw them to the curb. Once Reagan came to power, the CNP was born and the effort to enact their “Seven Mountains Theology” became reality. This salvation movement is born of the “7 Mountain Politics and Theology” and embraces the language of “war” to reclaim the kingdom of God. Adherents to the theology of Dominionism are committed to waging war on the existing institutions of the country. The CNP has been behind the movement to take over the information war-space and prop up their puppets in the political sphere to fight their ‘holy war.’ The ‘war’ started in 1981, shortly after the election of Ronald Reagan, when conservative Christian and activist Paul Weyrich saw the opening in which he could build a movement based on the Southern Baptists and American Evangelicals and build an ‘army’ to destroy “secular humanism.”
However, consider the fact that the entire 7 Mountain Politics and Theology can trace its roots directly to the Renaissance when, as Neil Young wrote: “…the aimless blade of science slashed the Pearly Gates…” and the church started to lose power. So, for centuries, the church has had a hard-on for the world…we ‘owe’ it to the church to give them back their power. The all-male dudes in flowing robes with their incense and woowoo are the arbiters of ‘truth,’ and we are just lost souls who need saving.
The fingers of authoritarianism are now wrapped tightly around the neck of the United States. At the heart of this homicide of democratic values is the Council For National Policy, the “CNP.” For over four decades now, the CNP has amassed a powerful group of ultra-rich US plutocrats with a mission of destroying the decaying secularism of liberal democracy and replacing it with a neo-Christian government known as “Dominionism.” The implementation of a Christian nation comes with a media campaign that trashes liberal democracy, channels media and religion and champions autocrats around the globe.
In the CNP worldview, democracy is a failed experiment that has led to the decay of a ‘holy’ society…we have gay marriage, abortion, ‘other’ religions, transgenders, and all of this is the work of Satan himself. The only way for the country to survive is to establish a nation based on Biblical values….e.g., Dominionism. The media assault has, and does, include: Salem Media Group, Bott Radio Network, American Family Radio, Focus on the Family, the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and now includes state-run media like Fox News, OANN, Right Side Broadcasting and NewsMax. Aiding them for decades has been a parade of clown-car TV evangelists from Pat Robertson to Jerry Falwell to the absolutely bat-shit crazy Kenneth Copeland.
Your vote this year is not one for investment in human capital versus more supply-side economics. It is a vote for the United States Constitution, which is a document that states we live in a country of, by, and for “The People.” Not a country for the failed church, not a country for the richest 125 Talibangelical families, not a country for fraudster conman who paints his face orange and speaks in language that mimics every other tin-pot dictator for the past century+. Choose wisely.