Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Deconstruction Of The American Social Contract

The United States of America is arriving at its 250th birthday. The birthday of the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. The birthday of the land of opportunity. The birthday of the country where anyone could achieve at his or her desired level provided, they worked hard and used what was provided and available to them. The land where Americans were permitted to accumulate capital and property and leave wealth to the objects of one’s bounty. A land more than worth keeping, preserving, and fighting for.

Saturday, June 20, 2026

CONNECTICUT: The House That Political Hacks Built

 At the close of the Second World War, there was a great migration from the southern states of the country to the coasts, along with a postwar baby boom. This influx of additional people caused well-meaning and thoughtful civic leaders to try to find ways to house this overflow of people and family growth. One solution was rental “projects housing,” creating small apartments of many sizes with attractive landscapes to give the residents a feeling of home. And the projects sprung up everywhere. Father Panik Village in Bridgeport, CT. Southfield Village in Stamford. Arnold Court in Greenwich, and the masterful Cabrini Green in Chicago, IL. Starting with visions of success, failure came. Combinations of the welfare system, the destruction of the nuclear family via that same welfare system, drugs, alcoholism, crime, and abandonment caused these projects to meet the wrecker’s ball, crumbling into the dust of needles and shell casings left long before. Families that stayed together followed the original intention of the projects and saved money and moved out to homes of their very own. City mismanagement caused the buildings to wear out much sooner than expected. Overall, it was a pitiful debacle, and the wrecker's ball was the punctuation ending this sad and failed chapter in history.

After this wasteful disaster of epic proportions, one sad lesson was learned: Housing provided without the opportunity of ownership and preserving one’s investment was invariably headed to ruin. However, developments such as New York’s “Co-Op City” and “Cooper Village” provided ownership and equity and have succeeded for decades. So, one would think that to provide success in housing other than abject failure, one would not try to do the exact same approach that failed decades ago and expect a different result.

However, Welcome to Connecticut! 

A place where a chorus of political hacks always have a better idea!

A place where the wrong solution is chosen about every time, and where failure is gift wrapped to masquerade as success.

A place where the failed approaches of the recent past are brought out to the sycophantic and ignorant as "unprecedented".

A place where cries of an “affordable housing shortage”  have caused the serial building of monstrous apartment developments that stamp out any semblance of local zoning and community character, as we find these housing monstrosities are entirely unaffordable due to dead business and salary growth in Connecticut. Therefore these developments head to the express lane to be the Cabrini Greens and Father Panik Villages of the future.

A place where no decent and durable housing can be built as the combination of a dead economy, a welfare-state environment, contaminated zoning laws, and the sheer cost of doing so makes all that a losing proposition not worth the risk for any builder or contractor in his or her right mind.

But never fear! Whenever there is a social or community need that good old economic principles are not permitted to deal with, you can rest assured that a combination of politicians, community activists, “religious leaders”  grossly overpaid “nonprofit heads” and “housing advocates” will step in to make a bad result, even  unthinkably worse.

And worse leads to what we already know.

Housing affordability? For things to be affordable, people must be able to produce sufficient income in order to afford them. “Connecticut gets an "F" on housing affordability screams a recent headline so states a recent report by Realtor.com.”   Connecticut ranked 46th out of 50 in the report. The median household income is just over $95,000 per year in the state, and the median listing price for a home is just over $500,000. “We need more homes, we need more multifamily homes, those missing middle options. But really, we need a combination of all those strategies for Connecticut to catch up to our peers,” Chelsea Ross with Partnership for Strong Communities said. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/connecticut-receives-f-for-housing-affordability-and-availability-in-new-report/)

The report itself should be must reading for those running for office in the November election, presuming they possess the basic comprehension skills in order to do so. Housing is a complete debacle for Connecticut, in contrast to the billions of dollars that have and will be spent on the guise of "affordable housing". "If the top of the class reshuffled, the bottom barely moved at all. Connecticut (No. 46, F), California (No. 47, F), Hawaii (No. 48, F), Massachusetts (No. 50, F), and Oregon (No. 45, D-) all hold the same rankings as last year...These states face structural challenges such as high prices, constrained land, restrictive zoning, and building costs that far outpace what middle-income buyers can afford.     (https://www.realtor.com/research/state-report-cards-2026/)

What I find interesting is that the "non-profit" Partnership for Strong Communities” organization is quoted in the above news report. "The Partnership" has been in existence since 1998, and their website states the following: Since our founding, the Partnership has successfully advocated for more than $2.6 billion in public funding in Connecticut. These investments have helped build homes and deliver services to increase housing affordability, supply, access, and stability. We have engaged community, civic, and elected leaders to come together and imagine, plan and execute effective change and to create a new paradigm of thinking about housing. (https://pschousing.org/our-history/). Their finances are interesting also. Their Executive Director, Chelsea Marie Ross received $132,271 in compensation along $5,762 in "other" compensation in 2024 (their last published financial statements) (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200882009). Executive Compensation along with other Salaries and wages of $454,488 account for 54.3% of all expenses for this "non-profit". 

Many social-media users asking questions of, or making criticisms of "The Partnership" are quickly blocked because "The  Partnership", is imperious, and shame on us for not knowing that. Meanwhile, The State of Connecticut spends more than $1 billion dollars a year for programs such as the “Housing Trust Fund” and the “Time to Own” homebuyer program. After all, no amount of money is too large in order to deal with a "crisis".

Many find it fascinating that with the amount of Connecticut Taxpayer funded programs and "nonprofits" for "affordable housing" through tax credits, subsidies to municipalities and other programs, Connecticut continues its race to the bottom of both a shortage of housing and the affordability of housing. It is also important to note and is left out of the debate, is that Connecticut has one of the highest property rates in the country, with such rate increases attributable in many cases to waste, fraud, abuse, and duplication of services as opposed to consolidation. It is ranked third in the country for highest property tax rates with a real estate tax rate of about 1.54% to 1.66% of a property's assessed value. The logical question would be wouldn't the lowering of property tax rates in turn lower property and rental costs? That simple question seems lost in the race to control zoning by an elite political few, who, while living in their Greenwich mansions, demand a lower standard of housing that they can profit from in the guise of "affordable housing" while, (like Ned and Annie Lamont with Annie’s equity interest in benefit provider “Unite Us”), can sit back and reap the benefits of this obfuscation and exploitation of the relative underclass.  

There are many free-market solutions to lower the costs of housing and rents in Connecticut. The solutions have worked before and will work today. However, since the "non-profit affordable housing" industry is drive by profit and control and facilitated by overpaid bureaucrats, professional panderers. and Executive Directors, these solutions will never be mentioned. Connecticut's ruling Democrat elite savor and profit by bottom-feeding off the pitiful economic conditions that exist in the state while not paying the debts they create, thereby adding to the $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities. Meanwhile a cacophony of activists, do-gooders, and suffering Sams and Sallies are quick to call anyone a racist, (or even worse, a Trump supporter), for calling this horrific mess to task.

 

One really does not need to read a report or listen to the comments of this chorus of failure to understand what is really happening. Just see what is happening around you. And to the cacophony of the hacks, just keep it up.  For it is certain that if they keep it up, housing will never be affordable in this state. 





Saturday, June 13, 2026

86-47. The Battle Plan In Democrat-Driven Politics.

 In the political hellscape that is America, 2026, finding real leadership anywhere is a challenge at best. Sadly, this leadership crisis is most acute in the present Democrat party, where a casual observation reveals an organization bereft of principles and morals doing anything that it can to win, even if it means embracing a toxic abusive Nazi like Graham Platner in Maine or a blithering hyperbolic idiot like Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Cities and states exist in danger and destruction under the reigns of people like Kathy Hochul in New York and Ned Lamont in Connecticut. Gone are the days of fine Democrats like President John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman. These gentlemen could not exist in the morass of chaos, cheating, destruction, and hate that is the Democrat brand today.

 Hence, what specifically describes the Democrat brand today? 86-47. (Expletive) Trump. That summarizes the Democrat Party in Connecticut and America today. The Democrat Party represents something that would have been unimaginable 20 years ago. Lost is debate and vision and creative participation in solving problems and strengthening the country. Because if it involves anything at all that has been positively brought about by the 47th President of the United States, it needs to be cursed and stomped to pieces. 86-47. That is all that matters. And may the devil strike the person dead who thinks otherwise.

The Democrat Party in 2026 represents the following:

The endorsement and embracing of Socialist and Communist political/social positions rather than freedom and democracy.

A murderous hatred of all things President Trump, the Republican Party and any dissenting opinion to their failed Socialist and Communist political/social positions.

Unchecked illegal immigration with immediate Taxpayer funded support exceeding Social Security payments for many legal citizens that have worked their entire life and paid taxes.

Acceptable violent clashes by left wing paid political protestors against law enforcement officials and ICE (Immigration Control and Enforcement) and detention centers are a new form of entertainment by the Democrat Party. 

Meaningless and fraudulent elections with the counting of ballots made by dead people and other illegal voters that only end when the chosen Socialist Democrat candidate has won.

Fraudulent voter rolls that may not be inspected by any governing agency.

A legal system that protects the criminal, and disregards the victims of crime.

Laws that no longer apply to the Democrat Party.

The encouragement of keeping mentally deranged individuals on the streets to attack, murder and or commit crimes against innocent law-abiding citizens.

The promotion of homeless drug dens in full view of all on prominent Democrat Party run city streets. 

Open injections, public defecation, and the use of innocent dogs as drug experiments is perfectly acceptable, and must be viewed as normal.

Rampant fraud and crime in Taxpayer funded programs and "nonprofits" that will help benefit those politically connected to the shameless Democrat Party. The amount fraud taking place in our country is a large reason why we have a National Debt of over $39 Trillion dollars.

 A bought and paid-for state run media that will blindly follow whatever the Democrats want them to say (or not say).

You may wonder how the above-described horrors exist in America 2026? It is simple. 86-47. (Expletive) Trump. That is all that matters. So, does it matter at all that many poor babies will be born and will not have parents setting up free “Trump Accounts” with a $1,000 free deposit to work as a first step to provide significant capital to them on their 18th Birthday? Does it matter if an inept state like Connecticut is one week away from the Federal “Opportunity Zone” deadline and will not declare regions in state that could take the first step to free themselves from perpetual urban decay? Does it matter that spineless and useless Republicans in states like Connecticut do not take a first step in campaigning on these incredible benefits that can be life changing to the people of the state? Suffice it to say it does not matter. What does matter is 86-47. Trump must die so all can live. The Democrat Party is truly the Cancer of America in 2026. Their reign of terror is unstoppable.

The Connecticut Democrat Party is in the same frenzy. United States Senator Chris Murphy is running around the country promoting his new failed book and handing out money to leftist organizations. Attorney General William Tong is making a career of suing the Trump Administration over everything and everything as several prominent local Republicans pander to him and seek his “bipartisan” friendship while they are photographed at events. Socialist-Leftist Liberal Governor Candidate Josh Elliott apparently does not wish to pay a "Living Wage" in the two stores he owns but decries why the minimum wage is not higher. Governor Ned Lamont, if he truthfully has nothing to hide as he drones on, refuses to disclose financial statements and anything relating to his family's hedge fund and their past profiting from Connecticut Taxpayer funded no bid contracts and forgiven loans.  Weekly, many ask for answers to the Lamont's involvement in "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and the numerous deals hidden through “quasi-public” organizations such as “Connecticut Innovations”.  Numerous Democrat State legislators have been caught in various illegal activities from DUI, harassment, lawmaking while drunk, stealing from Target and the infamous nonprofit scandals of the “Blue Hills Civic Association,” along with other myriad “nonprofit” organizations in the state.

Seeing this debacle in Connecticut, many see opportunities and a chance to right the world and bring positive change. But unfortunately, not the Connecticut Republican Party. As of the time of this writing, The Connecticut Republican Party still cannot find candidates for 31 Districts in the present election cycle, but was somehow able in three days to marshal a primary challenge in District 50 to Jadon E. MacCormack with seconds to spare for his remarks made several weeks ago on alternative lifestyles.  The Democrat Party was in full force condemning MacCormack's statements in shows of "bipartisanship". But there  is irony as the Connecticut Democrat Party supports Connecticut Taxpayer funded gender transition treatments for minors, inappropriate drag queen story hours for minors, and other assorted books that border on pornographic to be allowed in public and school libraries, while the Connecticut Republican Party reacts to each of these issues with a deafening silence as they attempt to shame those that disagree with them.  Aren’t decent conservative God-fearing people enjoined from disagreement with items that politicians endorse? And if so not allowed, then why are we prohibited if we live in a country that has free speech protected? Or is it free speech reserved for only those who agree with the Democrat Party and its assorted silent participants crying and thinking (Expletive)Trump?

But why bother? All that matters is the same 86-47. 86-47 has even gone so far as to be a coded threat to the President of the United States of America made by the former Director of the FBI, James Comey. Why is this acceptable and must not be criticized? After all it isn't is open game when it comes to the failed games of election year politics. 

Let's be real, the new Democrat Party and those enabling are playing this game by rules they have made up with no prisoners being held. You either agree or you are history to put it bluntly. Nothing else matters as far as they are concerned. But right now, it matters more than ever. 

Please do not ever let a Democrat or a politician dictate your morals or ethics to you. Because friends, we are at a point in history where our lives, and the future of the country, depend on it.


Saturday, June 06, 2026

Connecticut: As 43% Of Citizens Have 80/20 Vision, Politicians Are Blind.

 Connecticut is an interesting case study in this election year as sentiments mirror the national perspective. In the examination of this perspective, two vastly different viewpoints are presented by voters. Somehow, 57% of these state voters agree with the current corrupted, tepid, and failed state-run economy while 43% are shouting out for some innovative ideas, actual ethical leadership with economic growth and reducing the current state debt of roughly $150 billion dollars that is not factored into the venerated “Fiscal Guardrails”.  The Connecticut Democrat Party with all of its corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and economic and social failure continues its dictatorial hold on the state-run media and some citizens, with said leverage facilitated by your tax dollars via lager “Marketing, Media, and Public Relations” -expenditures in the state budget.  Meanwhile, the current race for Governor is shaping up to be a re-run of the last four debacle races that were bereft of boldness, principles, and innovative ideas that in the end, signified nothing.


And almost on cue every election cycle, we invariably see another mishandled public relations disaster by the Connecticut Republican Party that somehow misses the entire moral core of the argument. In 2022, the “Annie Lamont Goes To (abortion-restrictive) Nashville” ad campaign, Republican insiders laughed and slapped their knees at this obtuse joke poking ridicule at the Lamonts, while not caring that at least 43% of their voter base do not want to see babies killed in the womb https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/annies-in-nashville-lamonts-offhand-comment-now-in-stefanowski-ad/.  Fast forward to 2026, and we see Jadon MacCormick, a 23-year old man running for state office on his partially imperfect Christian beliefs, and rather than provide guidance and embrace those parts of the young man’s enthusiasm and family perspective that 43% of legitimate voters in their stable agree with, choose to submit him to a high-tech lynching where many established Republicans, rather than separating the wheat from the chaff, have agreed with child-abusing Democrats that Mr. MacCormick and all of his views need to be eradicated from the race, if not the face of the earth, as he does not represent "Connecticut Values". https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/connecticut-leaders-denounce-gop-candidates-happy-straight-month-statement/amp/ . All said, if one is interested in the way this situation could have been a remarkable success as opposed to a colossal failure, I respectfully direct you to my friend and colleague’s Tony De Angelo’s show of June 4, 2026. https://youtu.be/yXekoEUKVuk?si=Xtj2lUaBx0aFpMva.  

And once again, we see another Public Relations disaster brought to you courtesy of the Connecticut Republican Party. 

But in the endgame, what does all of that matter to the 43%? That 43% of those legally voting in the state faced with a dead economy, oppressive utility costs, excessive taxation, a lack of leadership and a morally-bankrupt state are so tired of this facade of posturing, and care only to the extent that they do want any more of the malfeasance and venality that represents both the Connecticut Democrat Party and its corrupted Governor Ned Lamont. These people have what is known in the political trade as “80/20” issue voters, focusing their energies on the items most important to their survival. And at the same time the never-ending issues of illegal drug use, destroyed and wrecked cities, massive crime, and violence along with a failed legal system are repeated by taxpayer-supported media reminding them that all of the ills of their world are all President Trump's fault and/or all due to Republican’s fault.

But for all of the established parties jousting about state corruption, all of it real, and none of it good as it reflects gross negligence, abuse, fraud, and omissions across both sides, What Connecticut officials had to say about latest Erin Stewart report, . The major and real economic issues in Connecticut conveniently omitted by these parties continue to be a lack of transparency in the Lamont Administration. Once again, where are the answers to the involvement of the Lamont's in   "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and the numerous deals hidden through “quasi-public” organizations such as “Connecticut Innovations”, all of which entities have been tracked to have a Lamont-family financial connection through some state-located municipality or nonprofit.  But state media tells us that all things are great! If the state is in such great economic shape, why does it have one of the highest tax rates in the country, one of the worst rankings for businesses, a departure of corporate businesses the size of a conga line and $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities? 

Query why there are two realities in Connecticut, being the one they want for you to believe, and the one that is actually happening in reality?

What else is the 43% of forgotten voters concerned about as opposed to endless strivings of politicians jamming their version of “Connecticut Values” down our throats? Their kids. Harm to their children. The real social issue in the state of Connecticut. The crisis of illegal drugs.   How many more years are needed to clean up the chronic flow of illegal and deadly drugs in the state? How many more human beings need to die from drug overdoses to say enough is enough? It is evident that politically connected operators close to state government benefit from this constant drug crisis by Connecticut Taxpayers monies being funneled to numerous "non-profit" agencies that are not taking care of this problem.  It is the same situation with domestic violence charities as the more funding there is, the more beatings there are. Indeed, these are the “Connecticut Values” that your taxpayer-paid state media chooses to hide from your view when you flick a switch for news.

What else is important to that 43%? Violence. Car theft and criminal retail theft abound in the state. Why must people fear for their lives to buy gasoline at night? Why can't criminals be convicted of their crimes and be taken off the streets? How many more murders in the Democrat Party strongholds of Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury need to happen before someone really starts to get tough with crime for the last time? Will it happen if a prominent Democrat Party family member is murdered in cold blood? Will the police officer that took the craven killer down be criminally charged? (Of course, this is a nonsensical question as police in Democrat-run Connecticut are not allowed to police anything whatsoever).

But there is a critical error in blaming only one party for this morass. The charade of this failed Connecticut Democrat Party should be brutally addressed every single day in this election by the Republican Party. We know it will not be, nor ever will be, until there is new and dedicated leadership for ethics to be restored to both parties. You see, the problem is Republican blindness. Republicans try to deal with this cancer on a political level trying to be liked and accepted. while Democrats are fighting a culture war against all things responsible and decent. If this fatally flawed approach will not change, then maybe it is really time for a set of logically, functional, and honest ideas/solutions and actions to be promoted by a new and legitimate third party. It would truly be a breath of fresh air in the confusion, smog, and sickening pollution that our current Connecticut Uniparty political system is mired in for this election.