Preserving The American Political Philosophy

Originally written for Medium Democratic Socialism has existed in the US longer than you may know. Cloudvisual-co-uk-unsplash (1) If one understands Democratic Socialism as a centrally managed wealth redistribution economy, the USA has been a Democratic Socialist society since at least the 1960's. In 1964 the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was enacted by the federal government, promoted as an program to combat poverty. In 1965 The National Endowment for the Arts was enacted. This was followed by the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 , a design to centrally coordinate every unit of government, from the federal to the local, using government grants (wealth redistribution) as its instrument. The transition that begins with creating a policy to improve the lives of the most distressed takes only four years to “mobilize human and financial resources” in service of a full blown top-down economy using grants to influence or control the economic developme...

TO BE OR NOT TO BE SOVEREIGN Sample of the book, Public Private Relationships and The New Owners of the Means of Production,, from the chapter To Be or Not To Be Sovereign. To read more and to find out which Maine towns have been made indentured to a corporation by the Maine Legislature purchase the downloadable manuscript in the side bar on the right. http://goo.gl/L0ZSkO In 19 93 The Main e Legislature chartered its first Maine town that would be governed as an “instrumentality of the state” The t own was given the name, The Loring Development Authority. It occupied a former military base which had lost 1000 jobs. Why let a crisis go to waste? A chance to implement a new political system! The story of the Loring Naval Base, The Cutler Navy Base and the Brunswick Navy Base are another chapter in the saga of what happens to when The United States withdraws its' military presence and a void is created into which hostile forces move. The United States Navy was p...

TWEET THIS  http://goo.gl/PDdtbX When the Maine city state of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority came into being as a municipal corporation serving as an instrumentality of the state, it was a instance where in the power of the state usurped the authority of the local government by using the state and federal government's ability to collect and then redistribute wealth, to buy Brunswick, Maine. Brunswick obliged the higher powers by foregoing its own constitutional authority to act as the agent of  economic development in the territory which was once its own: Maine State Constitution: Article VIII. Part Second. Municipal Home Rule. 1969 Section 1.  Power of municipalities to amend their charters.  The inhabitants of any municipality shall have the power to alter and amend their charters on all matters, not prohibited by Constitution or general law, which are local and municipal in character.  The Legislature shall prescribe the procedure by...