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This is so inspiring, and raises our awareness so much. I have thought about how i can be helpful to zoomers and will continue to so - through writing, discussion, music and history lessons. Literature. But somehow getting involved in their world. I hope part of their world is a recognition that big tech and big data must be demonopolized and decentralized so as not subject to control by power elite and business concerns. (Stuff like mastodon may be a good sign of whats possible for networking socially).

But we have to help Zoomers recognize and rid society of so many corruptions, just look at crypto investing as an example of scam mentality dominating.

Tom its critical to have work like yours where the focus is on learning and is potentially on everything out there in the world and not just in the crazy stuff tucker or lindsay or trump said yesterday.

We can point zoom is to C-SPAN and link to a 1985 program in which Ralph Cippoline and Carl Sagan testified before the U.S. Senate about climate change. We can point out that the head of the committee in the Senate was republican senator Durenberger who also proposed an "economic bill of rights" similar in scope and details to the one proposed by FDR when he called political opponents of such a thing "fascists".

We can point out that today's Democrats don't seem to support any such kind of economic bill of rights.

I am very concerned that the two party system is frustrating everyone's attempts and otherwise applicable trends that enable this 80 year transformation to take place.

I don't agree that a constitutional amendment is necessarily relevant to achieve more three party elections, at least as to federal elections, Because the elections clause in article 1 is broad enough or can be interpreted as being broad enough to require three candidates and run-off voting in all federal elections because it allows Congress to regulate the "manner" of elections. This is precisely the biggest secret that the power elite don't want anyone to know they want us to except the stupidity system without question and they simply cannot fathom what it would be like if there was some third-party on the stage in the debate making it seem completely irrational when one party says there should be no national healthcare system, for example.

Again Thom you've been so helpful and right on top of things when you got focused on the voting issues and your recent book....

I was so angry when I read the brynovich arizona (us s ct) decision because I had seen on the day it came out Pete Williams the mild-mannered MSNBC man on the street who explained to everyone with a series of points written on the screen that most of the restrictions in Arizona that the Supreme Court upheld were either already in place or weren't that significant .....then I went and read the case and saw how alito basically took a whole series of Warren court decisions about democracy and ignored all of them stood them and basically wiped out the whole conception of democracy as a fundamental right.

So for weeks we are sort of this election as being "democracy on the ballot" yet we have lovely individuals like Jen psaki (her P is silent) telling us on cnn television that what voters really care about in this election is .... crime!

Marc s

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