Tag: Henry Wallace
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Why I like Quora
I’ve switched most of my time-wasting from Substack to Quora, because (1) Quora is subject based, not forceful. Quora feeds you more of what you like and less of what you don’t like. Substack refuses to set up subject areas and insists on hammering you with the same damn shit no matter how often you…
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Repeating Dewey’s mistake
Duane Jones was frustrated when his ad agency was hired by the Dewey campaign in 1948. He was assigned to run national radio advertising for RNC. Jones understood the Electoral College and wanted to concentrate his firepower on the six swing states. The RNC insisted on spending money equally across all states. They also understood…
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Three parallels
Since 2008 I’ve been trying to highlight and illustrate better ways of solving the problems created by Wall Street. The New Deal was the most effective solution. It was preceded by Mutual Benefit Societies in the 1880s, then Social Economics around 1910. All three movements continued in various ways until Wall Street finally killed everything…
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Good work!
Via Stoller, Lina Khan has notched up one BIG victory before NYC Trump returns and breaks everything again. Khan won a court injunction to halt the merger of Kroger and Albertson. If allowed, the combo would be larger than Walmart, and would be able to raise grocery prices without limit. It would also close down…
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Obama COULD have fixed this.
Violence does sometimes work. When the entire political and court system is totally fucked, doing nothing but pure damage EVERYWHERE, ruining people here and bombing foreign countries, there’s no other option. Other insurers are starting to change their ways to avoid the same fate. Obama knows how to run a movement, but the one time…
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Obama gets it right
Religion News Service cites a recent article by Obama. = = = = = START QUOTE: What does build trust, because it builds relationships, is people banding together to get stuff done. Whether it’s a mosque and a synagogue joining forces to help victims of a natural disaster, or a Black community linking up with…
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Exactly 100 years ago
Adam Kuznia, a Minnesota farmer, has started writing on Substack. He’s carrying on a clever campaign to get a proper Agriculture subject category on Substack, so people who want to know about farming or write about farming can find it easily. Henry Wallace, father and son, fought the same battle on a larger scale to…
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Checking an idea
For a long time I followed the standard economist line that price controls are always bad. I’ve applied this to interest rates, where it unquestionably works. But in some areas it’s clear that price controls are needed to block the destruction by Wall Street monsters. Henry Wallace made a strong case for price controls, perhaps…
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Instead of messaging…
Continuing from previous item on persuasion. I’m talking to the Democrat party now. You don’t need to persuade or message better. You don’t need to find a Blair or Clinton “third way”. The “third way” is exactly why you’re losing now. You only need to COPY your own best president. COPY the only president who…
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IOOF history
After spending some time at the Odd Fellows retirement home in Eureka Lake, Polistra decided to seek out a lodge. She found a typical one in La Cygne** near the southeast corner of the state. Like most lodges it was in a downtown storefront. The building looks like it originally housed a bank. A grocery…
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You ain’t the muster, mister.
For many years commentators of various stripes have been telling rulers what they MUST do. It’s a perfect waste of words. You’re not the muster, so you can’t tell aristocrats what they MUST do. Aristocrats know who the muster is and what the muster wants, and automatically obey without explicit commands. Bezos and Soros are…
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Important question
In this interview David Sirota makes plenty of sense about the failures of the elite class that led to the Trump victory. Toward the end Krystal asked a question that seemed marginal to me. After she answered it, I can see that it’s pretty much the whole story. Why were the Repooflicans OPEN to takeover…
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Henry Wallace is smiling
Alexandra Fasulo has been starting up a small farm, and reports frequently on Substack about problems and blessings. She finds the USDA is a huge blessing, ready to provide all sorts of material assistance and information to new and old farmers. Henry Wallace would be proud. He built the USDA into a massive servant of…
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Mutual is NOT dead.
While researching IOOF for Eureka Lake I realized that the IOOF is NOT dead yet. It hasn’t devolved into a drinking club or sold out to commercial insurance firms like most other societies. It still runs modern retirement homes in at least three states, and has active lodges and new members in many cities. Trinity…
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More basic sales rules
Speaking of physical vs virtual…. I randomly noticed a substack thread of Dem campaigners. They’re tired and discouraged because nobody will listen. They’re mainly worried that Trump will implement Project 2025 which is a world-ending apocalypse in their minds. Phone banks are simply useless, but door-to-door CAN bring results if you’re clearly offering something that…
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