I Could Never Sell

Under the heading Say What? I restate an article here that… well… imagine a Flamenco dance that in time, with its heels, intricately drives a single nail into the boards.    Here I drive the same nail with two or three whacks of the hammer.

So, Who Killed JFK?

Or, who killed his call to public service?  Those who say government does not work.

Government does not work?

True, when we elect men and women who say so.

True, when we put them in government to prove it.

In your business, would you hire someone who announced in the interview that your business does not work, and never could?

So why do we hire such people for the business of the public and the people?

Competition, maybe.  We are hiring for our competitor.   Sending our competitor a clinker.  Planting saboteurs, or vandals, inside our competitor.

Because in our business we see the people and their business as a competitor, and of course we want our competitor to fail.

The people’s business as a competitor to our own?  How can that be?

Thomas Jefferson suggests an answer:

Merchants have no country.  The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

As founder of a nation, he knew his competitors:

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

A “monied corporation” must coldly calculate the interests of its shareholders, and trip the people and their interests wherever that maximizes the gain to shareholders.  An executive or board member who did otherwise would be replaced, if not sued.

Why wouldn’t a political party form around the interests of Jefferson’s “monied corporations”?  Declaring itself differently, of course, in speech-making and advertising and public relations.

Said simply: Why wouldn’t a political party form to oppose the business of the people, as needed?  Restrained only by the competing interests among its “monied corporations” ?

So it has, so it has.

When?

We have lost the South for a generation, said Lyndon Johnson, signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 one year after John Kennedy announced it.  He meant his own political party, but the loss was larger to the other party, which in the course of that generation, my generation, lost everything but the South, and the Confederacy, and a never-ending resentment of government in any form.

Who killed JFK?

JWB.

John Wilkes Booth.

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