Some commenters have asked for comments to stay open for each article.

We should develop something, so to begin with, those who wish to comment on earlier articles, all the way back to 1998,could put in the LINK to that page under their screen names, and nothing else, in the current article.

I would like that.

  One thing I want to get you doing is to stop looking for brilliant plots and rethink the basics.   You are about the only ones left who can.

For example, what if the son of an US admiral crashed during WWII and did the following :

“He sought out the enemy.”

The first  thing he said to them was. “You give me medicine and I’ll give you information.”

He told an American magazine that was exactly what he did, with the NAZIS?”

He would have faced at least a hearing for treason in any real army.

But the man I am taking about was not in WWII.     He was in Vietnam.

He was awarded a silver star, became a Republican senator, and was the  respectable conservative nominee  for president in 2008.

This is Rule One of Mantra Thinking:  While you communicate the  same message over and over your mind does the opposite.   You step out of the box and rethink the thinking which got us here.

This is desperately needed, or Bob would not be the only one to repeat the above  incident in its NAZI context.

I would not have been alone during the Cold War in pointing out that the Berlin Wall was built because  every other People’s Democratic Republic always did the same  thing.    East Germany  made  the New York Times because it, alone of all Iron Curtain countries, did not routinely shoot all escapees until 1961.

Because the New York headlined the Berlin Wall, National Review had to talk about.   National Review never  mentioned the kill on sight rule that surrounded the one third of humanity before and after 1961, before or after.

I was the first and only economist to state in a seminar before Nobel Prize winners, that a country is rich or poor, not because of its territory, not because of pieces of paper like the Constitution, but because of the PEOPLE who inhabit it?

My point was fully accepted and promptly forgotten.

That’s the kind of thing I was a professional in doing.

I am the Semmelweis of politics.

But Semmelweis died insane.

It made me a good living, but I did not enjoy feeling like the only surviving  political mind on earth.