Republicans Need A Vibrant and Vivid Vision
There’s a megaton communication weapon the Republicans are missing in their arsenal for victory. It’s a compelling, bold vision for the future of every state and the country. I’ve asked well-known politicians and those working for them, “What is the vision for our state and our nation?” Most mistakenly tell me it’s their platform. Others give me a blank stare. They don’t know or have one. More than ever, Republicans need an audacious vision that powerfully showcases imagination, conceptual solutions, commitment and, most importantly, innovative leadership. Leadership expert and author Warren Bennis rightfully said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
A political platform, as you know, is a statement of beliefs, aims, and values such as advocating for a smaller government, having a strong foreign policy, providing tax cuts to stimulate the economy and supporting the Second Amendment. Of course, a strong platform is imperative, but without a gripping and lofty vision that paints a specific bright picture of how Republicans envision a better, more beneficial future for citizens, they are missing huge chances to win battles, encourage more party members to vote, and sway those wavering and independent voters.
Transformational political leaders are all about shaping the future. So, they must have a far-reaching, soulful vision that inspires, motivates, excites, and galvanizes the support of the people. In Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people will perish.” The right vision by the right leadership gives people hope and sustains them during tough times, especially now with the deep, perhaps long-term impact of the coronavirus. Developing a comprehensive vision, not just a catchphrase or rallying cry, is about communicating the impactful innovations that will happen over time in our cities, states and country.
Former President George H.W. Bush had no grand dreams of transformation and had trouble with “the vision thing,” as he put it. This lack of vision was seen as a factor in his defeat by Democrat Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential race. It is now used as a metonym for any politician’s failure to incorporate a greater vision in their campaign. While President Trump has garnered loyalty and support with his “Make America Great Again” and now “Keep America Great,” Republicans need to put substance behind those slogans by communicating a level of vital detail that paints a more fulfilling and captivating story of how America will improve and prosper in 5 to 10 or more years from now and how the quality of life for people, businesses, and other organizations will improve.
A grandiose vision psychologically and emotionally impacts people immensely more than a political platform does because it focuses on how leaders will solve vexing problems, expand possibilities, and create wonderful opportunities that will make a big difference in all aspects of our lives and businesses. The right vision will clearly demonstrate how Republican leaders will deliver something of enormous value that people want and need, especially to satisfy lingering, unmet needs.
An interesting example of visioning came from none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a seven-minute film set several decades from now depicting what the future would look like if they pulled off the Green New Deal. It was telling a story that hasn’t happened yet. While I’m definitely not a fan of Sandy O, her policies and especially her Green New Deal as stated, I think she at least creatively showed how it would unfold and make a difference for people from her perspective. As someone who helps organizations be more creative and innovative, my opinion was that the imaginative effort of her utopian vision was impressive, though greatly flawed from a reality standpoint. At least she had a vision.
With the unprecedented, tsunami-like changes predicted to take place soon with AI (Artificial Intelligence), quantum computing, electric vehicles, robotics, and other likely disruptive industrial, technological, medical and scientific changes, the fallout in terms of expected unemployment, shifting new industries, and new business and operating models need to be addressed along with those multifaceted strategic threats and competition from China, Russia, and others. That vision has to address all those key structural changes and challenges.
Crafting an enticing, grand vision would project how America would look and bring about foundational improvements in transportation, infrastructure, housing, defense, energy, agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing and the environment, among other sectors. Articulated in a clear, complete, creative, and credible way, that vision will positively highlight what’s in it for all Americans in the future. In addition, the Republicans would gain influence and power by developing another vision -- of how their party would change by making it more inclusive of minorities and youth, by reducing corruption and special interests and by shining the luster for upright politics with those disenchanted and disconnected voters.
Why haven’t politicians in both parties embraced developing such visions? Many don’t think they need one -- that a definitive platform is sufficient. Others don’t know how to develop and communicate a vision. Most likely, they are afraid of being held accountable for making it happen. It’s always easier and less risky to advocate small changes. Finally, many Republicans fear being open to criticism of any big and daring ideas and strategies for the future.
However, the right vision communicated in the right way will let people “see” and even “feel” it, and would be a powerful focal point to get new voters and supporters into the party. Republicans would appear more innovative with deeper insight and foresight than the Democrats. A vision is essential for providing a “north star” to navigate and succeed in these turbulent, uncertain times and guides planning and decision-making, while helping to focus on priorities. Helen Keller profoundly said, “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight, but no vision.” Right now, the Republicans can use that 2020 vision!
Ray Anthony is an author and speaker on creativity, innovation and strategic change for corporations, government agencies and the military. His email is Innovader@comcast.net.
Millionaires projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth by 2019
By Gabriel Black
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
OBAMA’S CRONY CAPITALISM – A NATION RULED BY CRIMINAL WALL STREET BANKSTERS AND OBAMA DONORS
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OBAMANOMICS:
The report observes that while the wealth of the world’s 80 richest people doubled between 2009 and 2014, the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population (3.5 billion people) was lower in 2014 than it was in 2009.
In 2010, it took 388 billionaires to match the wealth of the bottom half of the earth’s population; by 2013, the figure had fallen to just 92 billionaires. It fell to 80 in 2014.
THE OBAMA ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
“The goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.”
“In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.”
Why the rich favor the Democrats
There's little doubt that today's Democrat Party is the party of the rich. Actually, that's an understatement. Far more than billionaires are involved. A better expression of reality would be to say a fundamental core of Democrat coalition is the managerial class, also known as the elite. These are the people who run the media, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the big corporations, the universities and schools, the investment banks, and Wall Street. They populate the upper levels of government bureaucracies. These are the East and West Coasters.
The alliance of the affluent with the Democrat Party can be seen in the widely disproportionate share of hefty political donations from the well-to-do going to Democrats and a bevy of left-wing causes. It's also why forty-one out of the fifty wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats.
BLOG: DEMS LOVE SOCIALISM FOR ILLEGALS TO KEEP THEM COMING AND BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE AND SOCIALISM FOR BANKS. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF IT!
Bernie Sanders is an exception. But he's an anomaly viewed as dangerous to the party, which is why he's being crushed by the Democrat establishment.
Why do the wealthy align with the Democrats? The answer may seem counter-intuitive, but it is really quite simple. It's surely not ideals or high-minded principles. Nor is it ignorance. Rather, it boils down to raw self-interest.
In his book, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Christopher Caldwell notes that rich Americans think themselves to be as vulnerable as blacks. They are a relatively small minority of the population. They fear being resented for their wealth and power and of having much of that taken from them. Accordingly, the wealthy seek to protect what is theirs by preventing strong majorities from forming by using the divide and conquer principle.
As R.R. Reno writes when reviewing Caldwell's book: "Therefore, the richest and most powerful people in America have strong incentives to support an anti-majoritarian political system." He goes on: "Wealthy individuals shovel donations into elite institutions that incubate identity politics, which further fragments the nation and prevents the formation of majorities."
Some of the rotten fruit of the wealthy taking this approach include multiculturalism, massive immigration of diverse people, resistance to encouraging assimilation, racial strife, trying to turn white males into pariahs, and the promotion of gender confusion. Through it all, society is bombarded with the Orwellian mantra that "diversity is strength," as if repeating it often enough can make it so. It is also why patriotism and a common American culture are so disparaged today. Those from the upper strata of society project the idea that if you're a flag-waving American, you must be some kind of retrograde mouth-breathing yokel.
The wealthy as a groups are content to dissolve the glue that holds the U.S. together. And it is all done to enhance and preserve their power, wealth, and influence. This is why they so hate Donald Trump. He strives to unite people and the country, although you'd never know that that is what the president is doing if you live in the media bubble. Trump's MAGA agenda is an anathema to the managerial class.
To quote Reno one final time:
The next decade will not be easy. But it will not be about what preoccupied us in the sixties, and which Caldwell describes so well. Rather than the perils of discrimination we are increasingly concerned with the problem of disintegration — or in Charles Murray's terms, the problem of "coming apart."
Trump and the GOP he is molding are the vehicles to restore and strengthen national solidarity. Trump said at the Daytona 500, "No matter who wins, what matters most is God, family, and country." That is not the Democrat agenda. As seen in Democrat politicians, their policies, and the behavior of their major contributors, the aim is to further weaken the social and national bonds in America. There is a lot at stake here. If solidarity wins, the Republic can survive and prosper. If the Democrats and their wealthy cohorts do, then the middle class withers, the Republic dies, and the rich and their managerial class get to rule the roost. That is what it comes down to.
OBAMANOMICS: IS IT WORKING???
Millionaires projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth by 2019
By Gabriel Black
18 June 2015
Households with more than a million (US) dollars in private wealth are projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth in 2019 according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
This large percentage, however, only includes cash, savings, money market funds and listed securities held through managed investments—collectively known as “private wealth.” It leaves out businesses, residences and luxury goods, which comprise a substantial portion of the rich’s net worth.
At the end of 2014, millionaire households owned about 41 percent of global private wealth, according to BCG. This means that collectively these 17 million households owned roughly $67.24 trillion in liquid assets, or about $4 million per household.
In total, the world added $17.5 trillion of new private wealth between 2013 and 2014. The report notes that nearly three quarters of all these gains came from previously existing wealth. In other words, the vast majority of money gained has been due to pre-existing assets increasing in value—not the creation of new material things.
This trend is the result of the massive infusions of cheap credit into the financial markets by central banks. The policy of “quantitative easing” has led to a dramatic expansion of the stock market even while global economic growth has slumped.
While the wealth of the rich is growing at a breakneck pace, there is a stratification of growth within the super wealthy, skewed towards the very top.
In 2014, those with over $100 million in private wealth saw their wealth increase 11 percent in one year alone. Collectively, these households owned $10 trillion in 2014, 6 percent of the world’s private wealth. According to the report, “This top segment is expected to be the fastest growing, in both the number of households and total wealth.” They are expected to see 12 percent compound growth on their wealth in the next five years.
Those families with wealth between $20 and $100 million also rose substantially in 2014—seeing a 34 percent increase in their wealth in twelve short months. They now own $9 trillion. In five years they will surpass $14 trillion according to the report.
Coming in last in the “high net worth” population are those with between $1 million and $20 million in private wealth. These households are expected to see their wealth grow by 7.2 percent each year, going from $49 trillion to $70.1 trillion dollars, several percentage points below the highest bracket’s 12 percent growth rate.
The gains in private wealth of the ultra-rich stand in sharp contrast to the experience of billions of people around the globe. While wealth accumulation has sharply sped up for the ultra-wealthy, the vast majority of people have not even begun to recover from the past recession.
An Oxfam report from January, for example, shows that the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population went from having about 56 percent of the world’s wealth in 2010 to having 52 percent of it in 2014. Meanwhile the top 1 percent saw its wealth rise from 44 to 48 percent of the world’s wealth.
In 2014 the Russell Sage Foundation found that between 2003 and 2013, the median household net worth of those in the United States fell from $87,992 to $56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While the rich also saw their wealth drop during the recession, they are more than making that money back. Between 2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all the income gains in the US went to the top 1 percent. This is the most distorted post-recession income gain on record.
As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has noted, in the United States “between 2007 and 2013, net wealth fell on average 2.3 percent, but it fell ten-times more (26 percent) for those at the bottom 20 percent of the distribution.” The 2015 report concludes that “low-income households have not benefited at all from income growth.”
Another report by Knight Frank, looks at those with wealth exceeding $30 million. The report notes that in 2014 these 172,850 ultra-high-net-worth individuals increased their collective wealth by $700 billion. Their total wealth now rests at $20.8 trillion.
The report also draws attention to the disconnection between the rich and the actual economy. It states that the growth of this ultra-wealthy population “came despite weaker-than-anticipated global economic growth. During 2014 the IMF was forced to downgrade its forecast increase for world output from 3.7 percent to 3.3 percent.”
THE CRONY CLASS:
OBAMACLINTONOMICS was created by
BILLARY CLINTON!
BILLARY CLINTON!
Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush.
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the
Democratic Party had completely repudiated its
association with the reforms of the New Deal and
Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare
programs to provide an ample supply of cheap
labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN
BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a
growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the
1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three
strikes” provision that has helped create the largest
prison population in the world.”
“Calling income and wealth inequality the "great moral issue of our time," Sanders laid out a sweeping, almost unimaginably expensive program to transfer wealth from the richest Americans to the poor and middle class. A $1 trillion public works program to create "13 million good-paying jobs." A $15-an-hour federal minimum wage. "Pay equity" for women. Paid sick leave and vacation for everyone. Higher taxes on the wealthy. Free tuition at all public colleges and universities. A Medicare-for-all single-payer health care system. Expanded Social Security benefits. Universal pre-K.” WASHINGTON EXAMINER
OBAMA’S WALL STREET and the LOOTING of AMERICA – SECOND TERM
The corporate cash hoard has likewise reached a new record, hitting an estimated $1.79 trillion in the fourth quarter of last year, up from $1.77 trillion in the previous quarter. Instead of investing the money, however, companies are using it to buy back their own stock and pay out record dividends.
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OBAMA’S CRONY CAPITALISM
A NATION RULED BY CRIMINAL WALL STREET BANKSTERS AND OBAMA DONORS
PATRICK BUCHANAN
After Obama has completely destroyed the American economy, handed millions of jobs to illegals and billions of dollars in welfare to illegals…. BUT WHAT COMES NEXT?
OBAMANOMICS: IS IT WORKING???
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