TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When everyone with power over our daily lives constantly lies about everything, how can anyone be trusted? Our government, all three branches and both parties: our civic leaders: the military brass in the Pentagon: federal, state, and local judges: law enforcement:  and in many cases, Christian leaders: everyone of these groups has an agenda, and hiding the facts, the truth, is beneficial for them, but not the American people. I WOULD BE REMISS IF I EXCLUDED THE MEDIA Freedom of the press is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Our Founding Fathers believed that the “Fourth Estate” was critical. They would report criminal actions and corruption occurring within our federal government. In 2026, all viable media outlets are owned by Trump’s oligarchs. All television media and a large number of our newspapers and blogs have reached a level of corruption not possible prior to the age of electronics and communication. You and I cannot trust a single thing we see or...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The term is “Democratic Socialism.” Read the definition and think about the biggest problems most Americans face today, and ask yourself if it makes sense. [Democratic socialism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for a decentralized, socially-owned economy operating within a democratically controlled political system. It seeks to dismantle corporate power, shift resources away from profit-driven motives toward social need, and empower workers in their daily lives.”] This IS the basic intent of our Founding Fathers: the people should have a voice in everything happening in our nation’s capital. The people support the change. Look at the results of yesterday’s New York primary elections. FROM CAPITALISM TO THE CURRENT PLUTOCRACY: MOST AMERICANS HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN From 1789 through the end of the 2j0th century, America has been a capitalistic society. America’s largest corporations have controlled the economy and therefore the future of our nation...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Hitler was without a doubt a madman. He was obsessed with power and control over the future. Today, he would be defined by psychiatrists as both a paranoid schizophrenic, and a malignant narcissist. You might remember a letter signed by 25 of our nation’s most respected mental health authorities, offering their beliefs that Trump is afflicted with malignant narcissism. However, Adolf Hitler was an accomplished artist and a brilliant man who chose tyranny over accomplishments which would benefit all mankind. His fascist playbook, Mein Kampf, details techniques designed to control the masses. It begins with extreme nationalism, and continues with many tactics guaranteed to eventually convince the weak-minded that everything he said was an irrefutable fact. First and foremost, a lie told often enough will eventually be accepted as the truth. We witnessed the use of this method after the 2020 election. Although Trump’s own “Election Czar” told the press that “the 20...