Libertarian Socialism

The language on the bag of tortilla chips explains everything we need to know about inflation—that eating tortilla chips in excess makes you fat.

I once received a check out of the blue from Bank of America for $1.67. Apparently, I’d been the lucky winner in a class-action lawsuit that B of A had lost and the bank, in a semiotic show of scrupulousness, wanted to make the point that every customer, no matter how small, counts. It was my very first taste of the the way corporate America likes to make the consumer feel important.

I think I’ve been much too hard on politico’s Liz Cheney and Donald Trump. I’ve got to cut them some slack by cutting to the chase: I like Liz because she’s telling the hard truth about gross superhuman hypocrisy in a state that prides itself on freedom but is unfriendly to the truth. And I like Trump as a disrupter—I only wish he’d been competent enough to uphold certain basic standards and protocols as well as observing the laws with which his mighty office had been entrusted. Though the years 2016-2020 may become known as the era America Binged on Junk Food and Elected a Fat President, it can’t be said the man wasn’t disruptive.

Chancie of Cody, perhaps the best masseuse in the world, describes herself as a Libertarian Socialist. She’s ok with firearms but is for gun control. Self-employed, she believes in capitalism but thinks there should be basic health care and social services for every man, woman, and child in the USA. Politics should be pretty easy, Chancie says, if plain old common sense was ever to be applied.

BTW, which of these three political slogans will hold up the best over the long haul? Hope and Change or Make American Great Again or Build Back Better? Vote now, Operators are Standing By.

Used to be $2.00 a bag—now only .29 cents more.