An open letter to Steve Bannon, Trump's inside man
Out of the box
Bannon: originator of policy, projects, challenging ideas, come hell or high water
By Jon Rappoport
Steve Bannon, Trump's inside man, his chief strategist and
senior counselor, is different. No question about that. What he creates
for Trump and the American people remains to be seen. But when was the
last time you saw an anti-mainstream-media man, a virulent ridiculer of
major media, a high-profile figure in independent media (Breitbart) sit
this close to the president of the United States?
Bannon: "The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's
wrong with this country. It's just a circle of people talking to
themselves who have no f-ing idea what's going on. If The New York Times didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. The Huffington Post and everything else is predicated on The New York Times.
It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all
her information - and her confidence. That was our opening."
Steve,
Since you say you're going to push programs and projects to
dig the country out of the economic hole it's been in for years now, I
have a few ideas, based on 30-plus years of working as a freelance
independent reporter. Thirty years starts to put a few new ideas into
your head. Solutions. Because you can't keep reporting on what's screwed
up for that long without seeing there are ways out of the horror show.
Exits. My ideas aren't filmy fantasies. They're gained from looking
straight at continuing disasters that have been unfolding across
America.
ONE: On a search engine, type in "urban farms Chicago."
You'll see there is actually a directory of such operations. They're
happening. Local people are growing and eating their own food. Some of
this food can also be sold for profit.
---There should be many, many urban farms in every city in
America. Plots of land where local residents grow and trade and eat
their own fresh, clean, nutritious food. It is a revolutionary act.
Initiate 5,000 of these farms in inner cities. The government
provides initial funding in the form of loans. The residents themselves
will expand their operations into profit-making ventures; they'll sell
the excess food.
I'm estimating that for less than $50 million, the whole
national program can be launched---as opposed to the trillions of
dollars that have been poured down rat holes for the past 50 years in
the "war on poverty."
The residents of inner cities will now have a real economic
stake in their own survival and success, and they'll escalate the power
of their demands for safe neighborhoods---safe from gangs and thugs and
drugs.
TWO: With federal encouragement, let's have one state (pick
one) in which the following unimpeachable rule applies: any health
practitioner of any stripe can practice freely, as long as he doesn't
offer remedies which are more toxic than the standard medical remedies
for the condition he's treating. Do you see the outcome? That state,
overnight, becomes a destination of choice for huge numbers of people
who highly value the freedom to manage their own health. The economy of
the state blossoms like a million roses. The state becomes an example
for every other state in the union. They quickly follow suit.
Background: In case you think I'm talking about an
inconsequential segment of the population, during the Health Freedom
movement of the early 1990s, when the FDA was raiding the offices of
alternative health practitioners and threatening to cut off the public's
access to a wide range of nutritional supplements, the Congress
received millions of letters protesting these moves---more letters than
had ever been received on any issue in the nation's history. These
people are still out there. Some of them came to Trump's side during the
campaign. Some didn't. They are a potent force. And they spend billions
on natural health solutions every year.
THREE: Deploy the cutting edge of new media---live streaming
video on the Web---to make a large populist movement into a huge
populist movement. Trump (and perhaps you) do several broadcasts a week
directly to the people, bypassing the tired old media networks and
putting them further in the dumper where they belong. The substance of
these broadcasts (to the whole world)? A blow-by-blow description of
life-lifting programs your administration is putting in place---the
ground-and-pound specifics, not the usual high-flying
generalities---featuring, of course, comments on the people who are
opposing you (by name) and exactly what they're doing to stop the
people's will. This would be a new kind of reporting and speech-making
from the president.
FOUR: More live-streaming on the Web---on-site coverage and
interviews from the places where the actual work of rebuilding the
nation's infra-structure is taking place. Day after day. And to boot,
the same on-site coverage where factories are being re-opened and
Americans are reclaiming their jobs. Show all this to the country and
the world (if it's really happening). And while you're at it, why not
stream exactly, and in great detail, what's actually going on at the US
southern border? I'm sure Americans would be interested, to say the
least.
If all this suggests the creation of a president's broadcast
network, straight out of his Office of Communications, why not? As long
as false PR doesn't take it over...
Well, Steve, that's it for starters. There's more. Hope this stimulates your imagination.
There are untold numbers of independent and citizen reporters
online. We're watching. If real, not fake change is in the offing,
let's see it come out of the box.
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