Economics and Politics Keeping The Market Force focused on the money (NOTE: This conversation is republished from a thread started by David Noyes to emphasize its importance to every member. Please comment here.) David Noyes: (Wasnt originally going to share this here, even though it does focus on Big Money and how it Corrupts Our Culture... Felt it might be too political, & Id been under the impression this page was more about Finance/Economic matters than political ones. — Taking another look around a moment ago, though, and Im not sure any longer... In many ways I have trouble differentiating this group from one of those zillions dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party: theres so much here unrelated to Finance/Economic matters and tons of solely Pro-Democrats related material. Not a complaint mind you [and I loathe todays GOP, which should be obvious]: its just that I disseminate a lot about politics and ideology which it hadnt occurred to me to share here, and now Im in a bit of a quandary as to whats appropriate for the page... — all the more so as I dont hesitate to Criticize the Dems either even if they are the lessor evil, as some of my posts demonstrate. [Ive trashed Geithner, Holder and the like w/aplomb here, and make no apologies as theyve so righteously deserved trashing... - but again; those posts/comments have been based on economics more then politics.]) Jerry Ash: Thank you for your observations, David Noyes. I too have had concerns about WE Are The Market Force becoming too politically oriented and see no need for it since, as you say, there are a gazillion other Facebook groups engaged in partisan politics. The thing that makes (should make) WE Are The Market Force different is its singular focus on the money — the countrys wealth being taken from the poor and middle classes and then used against them in the political process to corrupt our democracy and take away our rights as voters. Thats a difficult path to follow because of the many side roads. Partisan politics among them. It is also difficult because you cant cleanly separate economics from politics. On top of it, Im conflicted by my very strong belief that a group (FB or otherwise) is dependent on its members. In the field of knowledge management I preached that good management involves being an enabler, not a commander. And that the most valuable resource is not money, physical plant or executive management. It is people. And so, I listen to our people. Many of our most active contributors have had my ear. Principle among them, Heather Kimbrough, who has boku experience as a group administrator and deep knowledge in public policy … particularly on the issues we care about. She has become the unofficial #2 in our organization. Ive been convinced that we cannot divorce the financial issues from the political. The tough part is knowing how far we go. At this point I am following Heathers lead which does go further than I personally like. At the same time, Ive not abandoned my insistence that a political post MUST CONNECT EXPLICTLY to economic injustice and the use of wealth to corrupt our government. EXPLICITLY. Not implied. Ive even let that rule slip a bit as we head toward the general election. For another reason. Our members are warriors. When theyre OUR Market Force Warriors, they are on our track. But they come to us as warriors of a different battle field with many different issues. The Market Force is just one of their battle fields and they bring to us great energy. We dont want to subdue that. At the same time, we need them to fight the right battles on the right battlefields. A conundrum. David, I realize you are not complaining. And, I appreciate your concern. Im doing the best I can … and I know I can do better if I just keep listening to everyone who cares about The Market Force. And I know you care. Hopefully, we will not lose the emphasis of economics during the next few weeks and, once the election is over (and the aftershock as well) we can bring the content back to a primary interest in economics.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:20:00 +0000
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