Another great perspective on the root cause of all the really bad things in the world. No one has said it better, and your solution is the most succinct answer that describes exactly what needs to be done- “There is only one force that can make this happen now: citizen outrage.”
The good news is, there is plenty of citizen outrage to …
Another great perspective on the root cause of all the really bad things in the world. No one has said it better, and your solution is the most succinct answer that describes exactly what needs to be done- “There is only one force that can make this happen now: citizen outrage.”
The good news is, there is plenty of citizen outrage to go around and it can be used as a force for goodness (for e.g., to work with our public sector decision-makers to promote our general welfare and protect us from those who would do things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests.)
There is an abundance of citizen outrage just waiting to be inspired and networked by the right set of progressive leaders. These leaders need to collaborate with a uniform message to attract 3.5% of our citizens by promoting the right purpose with, of course, great framing/branding/messaging and technology (which makes it pretty easy to laser focus citizen outrage using persistent nonviolent resistance and most of our First Amendment rights). The purpose is to elect candidates that will pledge to work with our citizens to promote our general welfare using best practice-based solutions, and protect us from the bad guys. In addition, to get my vote a candidate must pledge to Move To Amend if elected, support 100% public campaign financing, and work to build a role model public education system as well as a role model public healthcare system.
If "citizen outrage" correlates to all Thom's paragraphs beginning with "the majority of Americans," what we have here is evidence that the grand idea of America is toast. It took many peons to maintain the lifestyle of barons and princes. Feudalism and similar systems seem to be history's norm. Numbers mostly don't count, historically speaking. Who has the most guns in America?
I regard “citizen outrage” as a kind of human “activated complex” in that it is the state that millions of Americans find ourselves in, and it won’t take much to inspire us to get active. I find that there are three things that bode well for the future if we can effectively use our citizens’ outrage. First, there is more citizen outrage now than in any other time (i.e., plenty of supply). Second, being able to focus that outrage on doing good things should be pretty easy with contemporary knowledge and technology. Third, assuming that our government’s purpose is to promote our general welfare and protect us from oligarchs, we already know how to best meet that purpose through role model education and all the goodness that that would generate.
Now we just need our progressive leaders to show 12 million of us how we can use our First Amendment rights to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers.
As always, it all comes down to what is learned. Basically we just need to motivate 3.5% of our fellow Americans to learn that we’ve been flimflammed as well as learn how to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers. Maybe Thom could offer everyone a Christmas discount when one buys all of his Hidden History books. If you read them and don’t understand the oligarchs’ grifting ways and why we need to care, you have learned to be bad at learning.
Another great perspective on the root cause of all the really bad things in the world. No one has said it better, and your solution is the most succinct answer that describes exactly what needs to be done- “There is only one force that can make this happen now: citizen outrage.”
The good news is, there is plenty of citizen outrage to go around and it can be used as a force for goodness (for e.g., to work with our public sector decision-makers to promote our general welfare and protect us from those who would do things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests.)
There is an abundance of citizen outrage just waiting to be inspired and networked by the right set of progressive leaders. These leaders need to collaborate with a uniform message to attract 3.5% of our citizens by promoting the right purpose with, of course, great framing/branding/messaging and technology (which makes it pretty easy to laser focus citizen outrage using persistent nonviolent resistance and most of our First Amendment rights). The purpose is to elect candidates that will pledge to work with our citizens to promote our general welfare using best practice-based solutions, and protect us from the bad guys. In addition, to get my vote a candidate must pledge to Move To Amend if elected, support 100% public campaign financing, and work to build a role model public education system as well as a role model public healthcare system.
If "citizen outrage" correlates to all Thom's paragraphs beginning with "the majority of Americans," what we have here is evidence that the grand idea of America is toast. It took many peons to maintain the lifestyle of barons and princes. Feudalism and similar systems seem to be history's norm. Numbers mostly don't count, historically speaking. Who has the most guns in America?
I regard “citizen outrage” as a kind of human “activated complex” in that it is the state that millions of Americans find ourselves in, and it won’t take much to inspire us to get active. I find that there are three things that bode well for the future if we can effectively use our citizens’ outrage. First, there is more citizen outrage now than in any other time (i.e., plenty of supply). Second, being able to focus that outrage on doing good things should be pretty easy with contemporary knowledge and technology. Third, assuming that our government’s purpose is to promote our general welfare and protect us from oligarchs, we already know how to best meet that purpose through role model education and all the goodness that that would generate.
Now we just need our progressive leaders to show 12 million of us how we can use our First Amendment rights to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers.
As always, it all comes down to what is learned. Basically we just need to motivate 3.5% of our fellow Americans to learn that we’ve been flimflammed as well as learn how to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers. Maybe Thom could offer everyone a Christmas discount when one buys all of his Hidden History books. If you read them and don’t understand the oligarchs’ grifting ways and why we need to care, you have learned to be bad at learning.