So since the election we've heard a lot of introspection by the left as to why Clinton might have lost the election and most of it is the left bleating about forgotten workers falling through the economic cracks... I don't believe this. These forgotten workers were important for a blink of the MSMedia's eye when they could be useful to the GOP winning the election and have already gone back to complete and utter insignificance especially for the GOP. Meanwhile the left still remember them. The poor were used and spat out once again.

The real reason the left lost is the GOP, an arm of the right or rich, are a deeply organized group and have organized from a county level up, they have worked themselves through every township in red states doing their best to keep the system rigged in their favor via gerrymandering the electoral map to maximize their wins state by state.

They have RW think tanks making sure their message is delivered in a timely manner. They have the media in their pocket and despite the nonsense that the media is liberal, it is not. And we know that because the media indulged all the email scandals the GOP accused Clinton of despite being constantly cleared of all wrong doing - they would keep throwing up smoke to make people believe that somewhere there was a fire.

And over and over again I heard the left trot out this drivel - no doubt to the delight of the right who orchestrated all of this.

Orchestrating this is no problem for the right - they have lots of money to throw at doing this. Figures quoted to finance the average republican's election campaign were astonishing, an example is Jeb Bush who was given over $150m in donations to run for election, a bid that failed very quickly in the primaries.

Yet people would incessantly be blathering on and on about Clinton's financing without ever questioning anybody else's funding.

The right-wing have invested decades of time and money into developing an electing machine to make sure they win and control the government which they would have pretty much done even if Clinton had won.

With the GOP constantly distracting the population with endless investigations that waste both time and money and avoid real issues with non-stop tantrums to get their own way closing down government for any reason, and constantly trying to make the left look bad, without any attempt to get anything done but pass funding bills for corporations.

Meanwhile they have think tanks to dog whistle libertarians with statements like: democrats are the same as republicans, when they clearly are not. That government is supposedly trying to destroy ... whatever ... government schools are bad... when all they are trying to do is drum up yet another way to make sure everything in our country is for profit - a huge mistake given the prison industrial complex, something libertarians called for because corporations are supposedly more efficient than government. 

No corporations are NOT more efficient than government. Government doesn't have to make a profit and corporations only exist to make a profit. Making everything for profit is a huge overhead on the economy of the nation.

Then they bleat about everything government does is bad and the GOP goes out of it's way to make it so...

But then even corporations are gamed by these RW think tanks. Corporations are told their only mission is to maximize their profit share price and this is to remain supposedly competitive. This is the gambit of MBAs, accountants and lawyers. To hell with competition, customers, products or services. Corporations have little say in what is going on in the world around them because they are also chasing their tails.

Our problem is the super rich who want to control our way of life, manipulate what we think and how we think. Be very aware of the spin of late night hosts on TV and the media in general.

I somehow found myself on this rolling long conversation between people who I knew nothing about - I think I was included because I sometimes say things people find interesting. But I have no idea why I'd been included in this conversation between many people, many who seemed to be rather young and mostly male.

Anyway, one day I was listening to them evaluate Einstein's intelligence and were trying to determine who was more intelligent, him or Tesla, because apparently Einstein was once asked: how did it feel to be the most intelligent person on the planet. He answered, apparently, that they'd have to ask Tesla because he was the smartest person. I have heard the anecdote before where Einstein named Godel instead.

It was a pretty stupid question in my opinion. Who knows who is the smartest and in what. And the ranking of intelligence is also utterly stupid and given that both Einstein and Godel were pretty much smart in things that pretty much don't impact our lives very much and thus was pretty much irrelevant. Tesla made a massive impact on our lives of course, but that is not the point.

We would not be here if it wasn't for any of these people. Einstein sculpted our understanding of the universe, space and time, our understanding of liquids and the photoelectric effect. Godel impacted our concept of math in a profound way and Tesla has often been called the father of the 20th century. But imagine if one of these  men didn't exist. Would someone else have stepped up and discovered AC, the photo-electric effect, the fallibility of math?

In my opinion we needed all three of these men to be where we are now. But these men didn't exist purely in isolation. They themselves needed other people, mothers, wives, the people who collected the rubbish from their homes...

I personally don't have any knowledge of the people who collect our rubbish. But when I worked as an engineer in this office which was attached to a factory, some of the factory workers would earn extra collecting the engineering staff's rubbish - and I would talk to this guy who came every evening to gather my rubbish for a while when he'd visit my office - I can't recall his name but he was a kind of bright spot in my day... I can imagine Einstein chatting with the garbage collectors finding out about their lives. We didn't spend hours chatting, it was more like 5 or 10 mins a few times a week. But what did surprise me was how he told me that many of the men were rude and ignored him entering their offices and would rebuff any attempt at friendly conversation.

This is male thinking - they thought they didn't need this guy - or that he was beneath them, but I knew I needed someone to take away my trash. He helped me a lot with getting rid of the stuff I no longer needed. Meanwhile I'd be writing computer code - I guess I was doing something really important for the stuff for the workers built in the factory... (really it was reciprocal - I needed them - they needed me).

We need Einstein, Tesla and Godel to be where we are, they gave us ideas and technology, but they needed the trash collectors, mothers and wives for them to be there.

So who was more intelligent is a bit like asking which is more important, Einstein, Tesla, Godel, their mothers, wives or trash collectors? I say all of them were important. We wouldn't have had Einstein, Tesla and Godel if it wasn't for their mothers, or their trash collectors, or their wives, so in effect we need their wives, mothers and trash collectors as much as we needed Einstein, Tesla or Godel. Hence we are all important, like the bits of a bridge, perhaps there are bits of a bridge that aren't important - perhaps the lights aren't necessary for the bridge, but they become important at night when we are driving over the bridge or in fog. Perhaps there are people who go off into the wilderness who will never impact anyone's life after birth - but they impacted their mother, the people they left behind, who then went on to influence others.

We all leave a mark somehow, and who leaves the biggest impact would never be able to leave that mark without all the other people who left their mark on them - we are all within each other's light cone of causality.