Issues of Importance
Dr. John Paul Tabakian
COURSE LECTURE – 1
Today’s Lecture Covers The Following:
• Development Of The Elite Consensus
• Rise of the Counter Elites
• Past, Present, And Future
• Primary Goal Of Elites
• Legitimacy
• Economies of Scale
• Discussion: Look Into The Crystal Ball
COURSE LECTURE – 2
Today’s Lecture Covers The Following:
•
Graft & Pandering
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Transcontinental Railroad Act of 1862
•
Elite Consensus
COURSE LECTURE – 3
This Week’s Lecture Covers:
• Foundation Of California Politics
• California Republican Party
• Democratic Party Of California
• Power Structure Of Both Major Parties
• Interest Groups In The Golden State
• Aerospace
• Environmental and “Green” Companies
• Media – Music, Film, Television
• Agriculture
• Healthcare
• Computer Technology
THE ELITE CONSENSUS
•
Liberty
•
Pursuit Of Happiness
•
Limited Government
PRIMARY GOAL OF ELITES
Elites Strive To Maintain
And/Or Enhance Their
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
•
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
• Infrastructure
• Human Capital
• Resource Acquisition
•
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
• Tax Cuts (sometimes)
• Pandering
HOMESTEAD & TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD ACT OF 1862
Industrialists looked to the Northwest Territory
as a market for manufactured goods.
• Homestead Act opened land to settlers
COUNTERING THE RAILROAD
•
California’s Progressive Movement
•
Governor Hiram Johnson
•
1911 to 1917
•
The California Nightmare
•
Initiative
•
Referendum
“GREEN” COMPANIES – TESLA
• California leads the nation
• If the state were its own country it would rank 6th economically
• Californians known to be pro-conservationist
• “Green” policy is profitable
CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE
•
Agriculture is a major industry
•
88,000 farms & ranches
•
$37 billion dollar industry
•
$100 billion related economic activity
•
Most productive agricultural state
•
More than 50 years
•
Blending of old with technology
• Mainstream
media
generates
over
$60
billion
in
related
economic activity
• Some put the estimate
at over $80 billion
• Various aspects apply to
making this estimate
Direct sales of pornography in the state of California exceeds $20,000,000,000!
• Over 52% of all sales go to women
• Over half of all hotel guests purchase adult videos in their room
PARTISANSHIP
•
Variables determine partisanship
•
Catholics tend to be Democrats
•
Protestants tend to be Republicans
•
Low social status = Democrat
•
High social status = Republican
•
Rural citizens tend to be Republican
MASS AUTHORED CAMPAIGN RHETORIC
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY
There are three conservative factions within the Republican Party. Individuals may identify themselves with more than one. These are:
1. Financial Conservatives 2. Social Conservatives
3. Moral Conservatives
MORAL CONSERVATIVES ARE THE MOST PARTISAN AND IDEOLOGICAL WHO
CRP - MORAL CONSERVATIVE IMPACT
• Governor Davis faced
considerable opposition during his re-election campaign for governor
• Gray Davis’s strategy
was to attack Richard
Riordan during the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
MAJOR PARTY POWER
National parties are weaker and less active
Parties at the sub-national level are stronger and more active than they were in the 1950s, which was at the peak of partisanship
National Party
State Party
Local City / County Party Local City / County Party
Local City / County Party Local City / County Party
BUSH IN 30
BUSH IN 30
AMERICA’S TWO PARTY SYSTEM
Unsuccessful parties are discarded or forced to join with other minor parties
This led to the formation of two major parties
Election rules weed out nuisance candidates
CANDIDATE IMAGE
HOW THE MASSES PERCEIVE THE PARTIES
• Activists are more likely to pursue campaign activities
• Most partisan among voters.
• Besides voting, activists donate labor and money
HOW THE MASSES VIEW THE PARTIES
Let us now see how Hollywood views the parties from the perspective of the average Joe or Jane. Our example comes from the movie “Bulworth” starring Warren Beatty.
OBAMA & APPLE
PROPOSITION 13
•
Passed June 6, 1978
•
Constitutional Amendment
•
Returned property assessments to
1975 levels
•
1% tax at time of purchase
•
Capped annual property tax increases
at 2%
•
Sponsored by Howard Jarvis
PROPOSITION 98
•
Passed November 8, 1988
•
Constitutional amendment
•
Requires minimum percentage of K-14
education funding
•
Guarantee annual education increase
•
Legislature can suspend with 2/3 vote
PROPOSITION 98 – THREE TESTS
• Test 1: From 1988 to 1989, education
spending must be 39% of the state budget
• Test 2: During strong economic growth,
education spending must equal previous years spending plus per capita growth and student enrollment
• Test 3: During weak economic growth,
PROPOSITION 111
•
Passed June 5, 1990
• Changed Prop 98
• Legislative constitutional amendment
• Traffic Congestion Relief and Spending
Limitation Act
• 55% increase in truck weight fees
• 5 cent per gallon increase in state fuel tax
• Change in appropriations limit to minimum
SOCIETAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR
• You may think you are
very tolerant today
• Imagine society 100
years into the future
• Your, great, great, great
grandchildren may think you are intolerant
• What future issues do you
BACKING UP YOUR BRAIN
• Back Up Your Brain
• Microsoft’s Media Presence
Research Group
• Store Every Second Of Your
Life
• “MyLifeBits” or “Surrogate
Memory“
• Transference
ISSUE #2: EXTINCTION
• 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid
• 450 meters or 1,480 feet
• Probability of striking Earth in 2029 – 2.7%
• 2020, Apophis may pass through gravitational keyhole
• Region in space no more than about a half-mile wide
THE SPACE RACE CONTINUES!
•
Harvesting Resources From Space
• Planets, Asteroids, Debris
•
Stephen Hawking’s Warning
PROJECT CONSTELLATION (2)
• Project Constellation Would Be
The largest Payload Rocket In History!
• Three Times The Payload
Capacity of Ares V!
• Colonization Of Moon & Mars
• Why Did President Obama Kill
Project Constellation?
• Answer: Albert Einstein’s
ISSUE #5: QUANTUM TRANSMISSION
• Quantum transmission between the islands of La Palma and Tenerife in the Canary Islands
• Quantum teleportation uses the peculiarities of entangled quantum states
• Changing the quantum state of one entangled photon reflects in the other photon regardless of its physical distance
• What does that mean?
• IMAGINE INSTANTLY SENDING AND
ISSUE #5: QUANTUM TRANSMISSION
IMAGINE INSTANTLY SENDING AND RECEIVING DATA ACROSS THE SOLAR
ISSUE #6: SUPER EARTH
• Seven times more massive than Earth
• 42 Million Miles Away
• Water = Life!
• Earth Like Climate
EMBRACE THE TRUTH
EVERYTHING YOUR
INSTRUCTOR HAS BEEN
DISCUSSING IS 100%
