SOS: I’m part of an informal study group in Indianapolis, comprised of retired lawyers, doctors, economists, civil servants etc. We’re raising money on GoFundMe to send a copy of The Deficit Myth to every member of the U.S. House and Senate. This will cost about $11,000. Here’s a link to the GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/manage/2b8g4-send-the-deficit-myth-to-congress. Any contribution to this effort would be greatly appreciated! Please help us spread the word! Thank you!

Me: Good luck with that. However, I would put to you that the bottom line with virtually all politicians is: What is going to get me re-elected. And reading a book that even though it is true, is abstract, not easily understood and doesn’t directly, immediately and obviously impact their personal self interest…is not going to move them.

Conversely, a 50% gifted discount to the price of virtully everything a person buys which means that it doubles their purchasing power, transforms erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation and if you’re a business person potentially doubles the demand for all of your goods and services…is a total winner for almost everyone…which makes it an election winning issue THAT BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESIST. IN OTHER WORDS ITS POLITICALLY INTEGRATIVE.

JP: Yeah & while *Biden’s policies may have been good for the ‘economy’ – share prices, Wall Street et al – it certainly hasn’t been felt in the ‘real economy’ of everyday americans’ day-to-day lives. That’s why there’s a glaring disconnect between what those “analysts” on CNN/MSNBC are saying : “Why aren’t people happy? The economy is growing. Americans just love to complain” and the struggle to survive people are actually experiencing in the real world.

*i don’t think anyone really believes Biden is capable of running a bath let alone the economy. Calling it “Bidenomics” is so disingenuous it’s perverse.

Me: I really do understand your cynicism and disgust at half assed “changes”. All the more to ACT/ADVOCATE for REAL change as in the policies and regulations of the new monetary paradigm of Gifting strategically applied throughout the entire economic process.

JP: Yes i agree, but the Oligarchal Corporatocracy Duopoly parties are unable & unwilling to reform or change anything within a system designed by them, for them and to which they are the gatekeepers. Before any substantive, meaningful reform can even be attempted the entire ‘2 Party’ electoral system must first be reformed. Again though, the Duopoly will be wholly resistant to anything which puts their hegemony at risk. These changes cannot happen via electoralism. The demand must come from the bottom up, a mass movement demanding change. Power concedes nothing without demands and it will never come from the top down. Every single piece of advancement and progress for the working class has been forced upon the ruling elites from below, with mass movements like the Civil Rghts in the 50s & 60s, the Unions in the ‘30s, Women’s liberation in the 70’s, the list goes on.

Me: The 2 party system lays down difficult barriers to third parties, but they are overcomable. The problem is that virtually all third party candidates…are simply tweaks of the present two parties. The key is having a policy program that is truly a thirdness greater oneness that conceptually expresses and implements the new paradigm…and that is exactly what my 50% Discount/Rebate policy (and the rest of its program) is. It is a deeper, more direct, more universally experienced and immediate change than Social Security was and has become and hence is a “third rail” once its implemented. So lets have the 50% Discount/Rebate At Retail Sale Party right along with the New Monetary, Financial and Economic Paradigm Mass Social Movement as well.

I’d be happy as hell to have an exegesis of the new paradigm’s entire policy program with Stephanie, Steve Keen, Michael Hudson, but I can’t get them to respond to me on their various sites. Ann Pettifor at least responds positively to me on her Substack. All I want is synthesis/thirdness/real change.