Why Americans are embracing policies they were taught to fear, while rejecting a stupid, oligarchic economic model that's failed us all (except the oligarchs)...
Very often it seems that "leaders" are actually followers who run to get ahead of the crowd. And I hope those at the top of the DNC are listening and willing to really step forward. In the last several national elections they seem to have been more interested in flashy pep rallies than hard, on the ground, programs with outreach to voters and a vision that gave genuine solutions for real problems.
I kept getting in the mail, both physical and electronic, messages that only said, "Republicans bad, send money." Sometimes these came from candidates at the other end of the country, and the bombardment got worse and worse as the election neared. In fact, its starting again. This is a dead-end approach and no way to run a campaign for real change. And if those running the DNC don't want to do what really counts, then it is time to push them out and put in people who have a coherent program that means something.
Well put. For everyone outside of NYC wringing their hands about the 'far left' in the democratic Party, let me help: We voted for Mandami and the people he endorsed (I'm in NY 13) precisely because they clearly articulated actual problems we have right here, right now, and actual solutions. There's palpable energy right now in NYC around that kind of approach.
If I see one more Schumer email starting with 'I'm writing a strongly-worded letter to Pres. Trump' I'm going to plotz. We *know* Trump is bad. You've had plenty of time to do something about it. With respect, GTF outta the way.
Self-interested Schumercrats, corpocrats, and their self-interested consultants stand ready to deliver the nation to fascism. A few days ago Donna Brazile was on the tube counseling moderation, centrism, the usual cautious, uninspiring BS voters everywhere are actively rejecting. Last night Hakeem Jeffries was mush mouthing avoidance of the message voters delivered in NYC Tuesday evening. They and their ilk are a luxury we can no longer afford. If they ever had a time, it is long past. They’ll eventually be pastured, but ‘til then they can and should be ignored.
Agreed, and I believe she’d be more powerful, more effective as Senate Majority Leader, for a much longer period of time (see Mitch McConnell), than as president. She’d also be one helluva Speaker!
Progressive Dems need to quit using the “democratic socialist” label. They’re playing into the Republicans strategy. Republicans have been calling Dems “communists” or “socialists” for 70 years. I recall a time when if a Democrat wore a red tie, Republicans would call him a Communist. This isn’t socialism, it’s democracy and capitalism with fairness and equity….like we had until Reagan began tearing it down in 1981. Check out the reelection platform of Republican President Eisenhower. He supported unions, supported spending on infrastructure, supported hospitals and health insurance companies staying not for profit, supported enforcing anti-trust laws and supported continuing the top marginalized tax rate of 90% on the rich. As a five star general, he also warned us of the “military industrial complex.”
Don’t react to labels, react to real issues. If you want the U.S. to be “great, again”, you have to bring back the policies, regulations, tax codes and laws that created that greatness.
Just as "liberal" became a dirty word, dissolving into the acid of wokeness and attack on it, I find it interesting that if not a dirty word, the label of "progressive" has lost its meaning. Progressive values are human values of dignity, a democratization of wealth, participation and voice. Not "progressive enough" it has been split, to its left, by the now proud label of democratic socialist.
The support that is swelling for both certainly comes as a result of citizens yelling "fight" -- a call that has, up to now, fallen on the deaf ears of the status quo & so called "moderate & centrist" officials and politicians of the Democrat Party.
It's always infighting or the "circular firing squad" rather than the power of the message and policy proposals of the democrats that is emphasized in the media. I fear that this division may become an opening for continued focus discord rather than unity of purpose in the coming midterms. Trump conflates "socialism" with "communism"; this must remind us that many people will still be leery of the designation of "socialist" -- more "radical" than progressive?
Now, if Schumer would only take off his readers, and look into the camera, perhaps we can show a public face of willingness to stand tall in this to-the-death fight for democracy.
P.S. I just love that you called WWII the antifa war! My Dad too, came home, became a postal worker with good benefits and a good pension, raising 2 professional children. He often said that he didn't know what people had against unions and by extension the democrats because of these very things. My father-in-law used the GI Bill to buy a house and start a garment business. A life-long Republican he knew that government was there to serve its citizens not fleece them.
Those of the current generation that was not raised during the cold war are not terrified by the word communism, It is only us old codgers, who were conditioned to duck and cover, that the word communism or communist or red scare has a negative connotation
We are way paste ideology, We are neck deep in fascism
Is this not Germany 1938? It is fair to compare Estrada and antifa(scismmt) Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society.
DANIEL SANCHEZ ESTRADA wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was merely convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. Giving him a long prison term would make a mockery of justice, his defense attorney, Christopher Weinbel, told U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday.
The following is only the latest move by Trump to steal the election in November. His SAVE act violates the 10th Amendment and thus unconstititutional, and has no force of law,. It should be roundly and publicly denounced as such in the media, the electronic as well as print, And discussed for and wide on substack, reddit,Shitter, etc.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators Wednesday that, under a proposed USPS rule, the agency would not deliver mail ballots for states that refuse to provide lists of voters who requested absentee or mail ballots. Democrats said the rule would coerce states into sharing sensitive voter data with the Trump administration and turn USPS into an election gatekeeper. Steiner said the Postal Service would comply if a court blocks the proposal. David Shepardson reports for Reuters; Finya Swai reports for The Hill.
However I blame Joe Biden for this. I posted constantly during his tenure, that he failed to appoint Democratic Governors to fill vacancies.
Here is how it want: After he took the oath, two seats in the USPS Board of Govenors came open, and he chose a Democrat and a Republican. . He was obsessed with bipartisanship after 34 years in the Senate and being tutored by Racist Dixiecrats like Eastman and Thurmond.
Then two years later another two seats became open, and he could have filled them with Democrats, but he did nothing,he left them open,
There are 11 seats on the board of governors,and only the board can fire the Postmaster General.
One of the seats is the Postmaster General, another is the Assistant, that leaves nine seats. Dejoy, who has a stake in Oshkosh Defense, which has the contract to make the replacement USPS trucks, after he cancelled the contract for electric trucks, and he also shit canned 711 new mail sorting machines, to please Trump who has a thing against mail in voting.
I am going to trash Biden, for damn good reason, we can blame him for part of this mess, and Kamala for conceding 21 hrs after the last ballot was cast in California, at 1600 hrs on Nov 6. she couldn't wait to concede while votes were still being counted.
All excellent points. Dejoy really fucked with the USPS. Our local post office hub burned (suspicious maybe???) in June 2 years ago. We are the county seat. We are a now after 200 years a totally blue county and the wealthiest county in PA. But we do not have a major PO, only small one person offices who are now totally overworked. USPO tells us to drive to the next county for pickups, etc. It’s just wrong. We’v been told now they will rebuild after they finally tear the old one down. Of course this will take a few years, it’s not one of Donald’s pet projects.Raise your hand if you think we won’t have our PO again until after 2028…our county now goes and picks up mail in ballots daily for a few weeks before the election…another cost for taxpayers. And don’t get me started on the sorting machines. Our mail is sent to another state for sorting.
We are purple...even the red T in the middle of the state gets fed up and flips. Just ask Fetterman how to do that...of course now he is on everyones dislike list.
I grew up in Philadelphia, when it was Republican. There is a saying, quite correct that there is Philadelphia on the east, Pittsburgh on the west and Kentucky in between. It is purple only because of the cities.
Industrial and post-industrial capitalism is the privatization of dictatorship, and fully contradictory to the values of democracy. We have always wanted/needed an economic democracy in harmony with the political democracy our founding fathers created. It was the abuses arising from the Industrial Revolution that led to the Paris Commune, Das Kapital, The Molly Maguires, and the IWW. The base line of Capitalism is that everything is a commodity, including people, and that owners have all the power to decide, which they call "freedom". Thomas Paine and Eugene Debs would like to have a word about that.
Everyone one in the United States is no longer an "individual" and nor even a "citizen"! They are merely a "profit center" in the Corporate States of America.
The word is resource, not commodity, a resource is something that is consumed in the act of production. Iron, coal, oil , minerals, wood, vegetable, animals including Human Resources (HR)
Just as socialism and communism are misused as tools of propaganda, so is capitalism.
Capitalism, left unchecked, tends towards monopoly, antihuman behavior, authoritarianism.
However were it not for capitalism we would not be alive, there would be no United States, no TV's, no industrial revolution, and without an industrial revolution, there wouldn't even be a steam engine.
Here is how it started. in `1606 a group of London Merchants and Lesser Nobility, pooled their resources (capital) and petitioned King James I, for a charter to explore and exploit the new world, that part discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Juan Cabota (John Cabot), that stretched from the location of the future Roanoke Colony to Maine, which they called Virginia.
In 1607 Three ships were launched that landed at the mouth of a river they named the James, and a port they named Jamestown.
Said capitalist venture did not became a royal colony until 1624, when James revoked the charter (actually the 3rd charter)
More and more workers are beginning to feel poor in the "richest" country in the world.
The real elites are the ones that can afford any damn thing they want but refuse to pay for the services and infrastructure they use daily.
Peter Thiel created a club; he is manipulating and using the members for street cred. The money is never enough and neither is the power over the workforce. Read about "Dialog" that has been described as Bilderberg meets Silicon Valley: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog ... - WIRED
Democratic socialism is coming to a district near you, because creepy, greedy Tech Bros will gobble-up everything and everyone if we don't stop them. We're off to a good start. See you in the streets.
On a bright note Thiel's Palantir stock has lost 50% of it's value in the last year. Many companies are breaking their relationship with Palantir over ethical concerns about their surveillance practices.
Yes they feel poor, but many still adore their orange savior. They don't feel that poor, othersise they would be at the bottom of Maslow's heirarchy of needs, that they still embroiled in the culture war, that they still rank owning the libs, and view trans, queers, dark skinned people as a threat, means that they are still very comfortable in their economic and social status.
The Roberts Court: The Nazi Republican Judicial Tool
An in depth review of John Roberts (bit.ly/4gEvZDR) as chief justice, partnering with his Federalist appointees Alito and Thomas, joined at the hip by a McConnell manipulated Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett all join to create a Nazi Republican tool to judicially advance the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) agenda now commonly thought of as Project 2025.
These Nazi Republican judicially robed hacks have been planted over the years to direct the demise of voting rights(removal of Sections 2 and 5 of the VRA), reproductive health care for American women(Roe v Wade), allowing campaign contributions to flood the political zone(Citizens United decision), ensuring that the minority Nazi Republicans could be justified in holding power even if they didn’t fulfill their obligations to WE the People(GW Bush presidential campaign succeeds over Gore settled by a conservative SCOTUS without all the Florida ballots being counted), and most recently giving Cheeto a wanna be dictator full immunity from actions as president. Pretty awesome work by JR and his partisan political judicial incompetents.
Now at the apex of their power the Nazi Republicans with all branches of government under their control, it’s now to power through holding onto power. So election subversion, interference, and if push comes to shove, a judicial ruling protecting the federal removal of ballots or voting machines. Time for SCOTUS expansion which should be one of the first on the agenda in 2029.
God forbid that democratic socialism arrives on our shores. We might turn into a country like Norway, Sweden or Finland where the tax rate is high. And who needs things like free healthcare, free education (including up to phd) and strong unions. Better to keep all money in the hands of a few who know what is best for us. Greed is the American way, we don't need to mess with it.
The Democratic Party is mostly bought, complicit and so far behind that they’re dysfunctional. The forces behind project 25 are moving faster than anyone can stop their goal of a one world total domination.
Excellent! This will be a mainstay of my “article thrusting” debates with those who voice fear about moving “too far left.” We gotta unbrick the old Overton window in that Square Deal house and shut the current one FOR GOOD!
I've had a draft form of a "basics" newsletter of this issue around for a while. Time to flush it out. The Harrtmann Report goes into much greater depth, and backstory, than mine will. On the other hand, mine will spread out into the misuse of names. A "Patriot" missile anyone?
Progressive policies are what most Americans would like( after TR and FDR fought to give it to them,) but Democratic Centrists (who are really closer to Trumpicans) are afraid to support,, because they are afraid of retribution from the right, just as are their Republican counterparts.
I think even among the under educated and the poorly informed we are realizing as a country that Medicare for all is something we need. That is, if the medical profession, their managers, and insurance groups don’t end up responding to this by making our country even more divided between the have’s and have-not’s than it already is.
If good medical care (which includes Rx, diagnostics, hospital care, as well as good doctors) is reserved for the rich only, the one’s who can afford to forgo insurance to go to boutique medical practices, and pay for hospital care out-of-pocket, we will continue to be in a downward spiral in death rate and quality of life. And, by-the-way, that’s what’s happening as we speak, without Medicare for all.
One big factor for this that is not talked about is a provision in law. We have plenty of medical school graduates, what we have is not enough doctors. We are being squeezed as a result of a provision of the Balanced Budget act of 1977 that fixed the number of residency positions. A Republican led congress pushed for this Medicare provision and like minimum wage has been frozen since then, yet, our population has doubled since that time.
Another similar situation is our oil availability and gas prices. As a country we have plenty of oil yet our prices are being inordinately controlled by the number of refineries in the country which have been decreasing over the years, not increased over time.
I was in full agreement until the end in which magic was invoked. The eighty-year cycles may have some basis historically and pendulum swings are common. But it is absolute folly to anticipate that there will be a swing at this juncture because of some schedule or predictable dynamic. The swing, first of all represents supposedly the entire country, which is not exactly how things work. Within the country there will always be variations and arch resisters. The degree of change depends on a million variables and factors and changes here or there may last five minutes or five years or fifty-five years. I prefer to stay in the real world, and no one should be banking on an eighty-year miracle, in my humble opinion.
People who are against Socialism practice Antisocial-ism. Look up “antisocial behavior” to find out how they think.
Absolutely right, Paul. This Administration and the syndicate they have formed is literally filled with psychos and sickos.
Very often it seems that "leaders" are actually followers who run to get ahead of the crowd. And I hope those at the top of the DNC are listening and willing to really step forward. In the last several national elections they seem to have been more interested in flashy pep rallies than hard, on the ground, programs with outreach to voters and a vision that gave genuine solutions for real problems.
I kept getting in the mail, both physical and electronic, messages that only said, "Republicans bad, send money." Sometimes these came from candidates at the other end of the country, and the bombardment got worse and worse as the election neared. In fact, its starting again. This is a dead-end approach and no way to run a campaign for real change. And if those running the DNC don't want to do what really counts, then it is time to push them out and put in people who have a coherent program that means something.
Well put. For everyone outside of NYC wringing their hands about the 'far left' in the democratic Party, let me help: We voted for Mandami and the people he endorsed (I'm in NY 13) precisely because they clearly articulated actual problems we have right here, right now, and actual solutions. There's palpable energy right now in NYC around that kind of approach.
If I see one more Schumer email starting with 'I'm writing a strongly-worded letter to Pres. Trump' I'm going to plotz. We *know* Trump is bad. You've had plenty of time to do something about it. With respect, GTF outta the way.
Self-interested Schumercrats, corpocrats, and their self-interested consultants stand ready to deliver the nation to fascism. A few days ago Donna Brazile was on the tube counseling moderation, centrism, the usual cautious, uninspiring BS voters everywhere are actively rejecting. Last night Hakeem Jeffries was mush mouthing avoidance of the message voters delivered in NYC Tuesday evening. They and their ilk are a luxury we can no longer afford. If they ever had a time, it is long past. They’ll eventually be pastured, but ‘til then they can and should be ignored.
Absolutely agree! Thanks
I think AOC should primary Schumer when he's next up for reelection. Send him to pasture and don't wait for him to get the message.
Agreed, and I believe she’d be more powerful, more effective as Senate Majority Leader, for a much longer period of time (see Mitch McConnell), than as president. She’d also be one helluva Speaker!
Progressive Dems need to quit using the “democratic socialist” label. They’re playing into the Republicans strategy. Republicans have been calling Dems “communists” or “socialists” for 70 years. I recall a time when if a Democrat wore a red tie, Republicans would call him a Communist. This isn’t socialism, it’s democracy and capitalism with fairness and equity….like we had until Reagan began tearing it down in 1981. Check out the reelection platform of Republican President Eisenhower. He supported unions, supported spending on infrastructure, supported hospitals and health insurance companies staying not for profit, supported enforcing anti-trust laws and supported continuing the top marginalized tax rate of 90% on the rich. As a five star general, he also warned us of the “military industrial complex.”
Don’t react to labels, react to real issues. If you want the U.S. to be “great, again”, you have to bring back the policies, regulations, tax codes and laws that created that greatness.
Just as "liberal" became a dirty word, dissolving into the acid of wokeness and attack on it, I find it interesting that if not a dirty word, the label of "progressive" has lost its meaning. Progressive values are human values of dignity, a democratization of wealth, participation and voice. Not "progressive enough" it has been split, to its left, by the now proud label of democratic socialist.
The support that is swelling for both certainly comes as a result of citizens yelling "fight" -- a call that has, up to now, fallen on the deaf ears of the status quo & so called "moderate & centrist" officials and politicians of the Democrat Party.
It's always infighting or the "circular firing squad" rather than the power of the message and policy proposals of the democrats that is emphasized in the media. I fear that this division may become an opening for continued focus discord rather than unity of purpose in the coming midterms. Trump conflates "socialism" with "communism"; this must remind us that many people will still be leery of the designation of "socialist" -- more "radical" than progressive?
Now, if Schumer would only take off his readers, and look into the camera, perhaps we can show a public face of willingness to stand tall in this to-the-death fight for democracy.
P.S. I just love that you called WWII the antifa war! My Dad too, came home, became a postal worker with good benefits and a good pension, raising 2 professional children. He often said that he didn't know what people had against unions and by extension the democrats because of these very things. My father-in-law used the GI Bill to buy a house and start a garment business. A life-long Republican he knew that government was there to serve its citizens not fleece them.
Those of the current generation that was not raised during the cold war are not terrified by the word communism, It is only us old codgers, who were conditioned to duck and cover, that the word communism or communist or red scare has a negative connotation
We are way paste ideology, We are neck deep in fascism
Is this not Germany 1938? It is fair to compare Estrada and antifa(scismmt) Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society.
DANIEL SANCHEZ ESTRADA wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was merely convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. Giving him a long prison term would make a mockery of justice, his defense attorney, Christopher Weinbel, told U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday.
The following is only the latest move by Trump to steal the election in November. His SAVE act violates the 10th Amendment and thus unconstititutional, and has no force of law,. It should be roundly and publicly denounced as such in the media, the electronic as well as print, And discussed for and wide on substack, reddit,Shitter, etc.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators Wednesday that, under a proposed USPS rule, the agency would not deliver mail ballots for states that refuse to provide lists of voters who requested absentee or mail ballots. Democrats said the rule would coerce states into sharing sensitive voter data with the Trump administration and turn USPS into an election gatekeeper. Steiner said the Postal Service would comply if a court blocks the proposal. David Shepardson reports for Reuters; Finya Swai reports for The Hill.
Keep in mind that Postmaster General David Steiner is ALSO the lead independent director of FedEx.
ALSO a big trump supporter and donators.
The GOP has you've been trying to privatize the USPS for decades. That way they get a list of who are and where EVERYONE lives!
I had no idea that he was associated with Fed Ex.
However I blame Joe Biden for this. I posted constantly during his tenure, that he failed to appoint Democratic Governors to fill vacancies.
Here is how it want: After he took the oath, two seats in the USPS Board of Govenors came open, and he chose a Democrat and a Republican. . He was obsessed with bipartisanship after 34 years in the Senate and being tutored by Racist Dixiecrats like Eastman and Thurmond.
Then two years later another two seats became open, and he could have filled them with Democrats, but he did nothing,he left them open,
There are 11 seats on the board of governors,and only the board can fire the Postmaster General.
One of the seats is the Postmaster General, another is the Assistant, that leaves nine seats. Dejoy, who has a stake in Oshkosh Defense, which has the contract to make the replacement USPS trucks, after he cancelled the contract for electric trucks, and he also shit canned 711 new mail sorting machines, to please Trump who has a thing against mail in voting.
I am going to trash Biden, for damn good reason, we can blame him for part of this mess, and Kamala for conceding 21 hrs after the last ballot was cast in California, at 1600 hrs on Nov 6. she couldn't wait to concede while votes were still being counted.
All excellent points. Dejoy really fucked with the USPS. Our local post office hub burned (suspicious maybe???) in June 2 years ago. We are the county seat. We are a now after 200 years a totally blue county and the wealthiest county in PA. But we do not have a major PO, only small one person offices who are now totally overworked. USPO tells us to drive to the next county for pickups, etc. It’s just wrong. We’v been told now they will rebuild after they finally tear the old one down. Of course this will take a few years, it’s not one of Donald’s pet projects.Raise your hand if you think we won’t have our PO again until after 2028…our county now goes and picks up mail in ballots daily for a few weeks before the election…another cost for taxpayers. And don’t get me started on the sorting machines. Our mail is sent to another state for sorting.
Blue county, in Pennslytucky. Coincidence takes a lot of planning.
We are purple...even the red T in the middle of the state gets fed up and flips. Just ask Fetterman how to do that...of course now he is on everyones dislike list.
I grew up in Philadelphia, when it was Republican. There is a saying, quite correct that there is Philadelphia on the east, Pittsburgh on the west and Kentucky in between. It is purple only because of the cities.
Industrial and post-industrial capitalism is the privatization of dictatorship, and fully contradictory to the values of democracy. We have always wanted/needed an economic democracy in harmony with the political democracy our founding fathers created. It was the abuses arising from the Industrial Revolution that led to the Paris Commune, Das Kapital, The Molly Maguires, and the IWW. The base line of Capitalism is that everything is a commodity, including people, and that owners have all the power to decide, which they call "freedom". Thomas Paine and Eugene Debs would like to have a word about that.
Capitalism believes everything is a commodity....so very true!
That's how Citizens United got passed!
Everyone one in the United States is no longer an "individual" and nor even a "citizen"! They are merely a "profit center" in the Corporate States of America.
The word is resource, not commodity, a resource is something that is consumed in the act of production. Iron, coal, oil , minerals, wood, vegetable, animals including Human Resources (HR)
Just as socialism and communism are misused as tools of propaganda, so is capitalism.
Capitalism, left unchecked, tends towards monopoly, antihuman behavior, authoritarianism.
However were it not for capitalism we would not be alive, there would be no United States, no TV's, no industrial revolution, and without an industrial revolution, there wouldn't even be a steam engine.
Here is how it started. in `1606 a group of London Merchants and Lesser Nobility, pooled their resources (capital) and petitioned King James I, for a charter to explore and exploit the new world, that part discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Juan Cabota (John Cabot), that stretched from the location of the future Roanoke Colony to Maine, which they called Virginia.
In 1607 Three ships were launched that landed at the mouth of a river they named the James, and a port they named Jamestown.
Said capitalist venture did not became a royal colony until 1624, when James revoked the charter (actually the 3rd charter)
More and more workers are beginning to feel poor in the "richest" country in the world.
The real elites are the ones that can afford any damn thing they want but refuse to pay for the services and infrastructure they use daily.
Peter Thiel created a club; he is manipulating and using the members for street cred. The money is never enough and neither is the power over the workforce. Read about "Dialog" that has been described as Bilderberg meets Silicon Valley: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog ... - WIRED
Democratic socialism is coming to a district near you, because creepy, greedy Tech Bros will gobble-up everything and everyone if we don't stop them. We're off to a good start. See you in the streets.
On a bright note Thiel's Palantir stock has lost 50% of it's value in the last year. Many companies are breaking their relationship with Palantir over ethical concerns about their surveillance practices.
Yes they feel poor, but many still adore their orange savior. They don't feel that poor, othersise they would be at the bottom of Maslow's heirarchy of needs, that they still embroiled in the culture war, that they still rank owning the libs, and view trans, queers, dark skinned people as a threat, means that they are still very comfortable in their economic and social status.
The Roberts Court: The Nazi Republican Judicial Tool
An in depth review of John Roberts (bit.ly/4gEvZDR) as chief justice, partnering with his Federalist appointees Alito and Thomas, joined at the hip by a McConnell manipulated Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett all join to create a Nazi Republican tool to judicially advance the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) agenda now commonly thought of as Project 2025.
These Nazi Republican judicially robed hacks have been planted over the years to direct the demise of voting rights(removal of Sections 2 and 5 of the VRA), reproductive health care for American women(Roe v Wade), allowing campaign contributions to flood the political zone(Citizens United decision), ensuring that the minority Nazi Republicans could be justified in holding power even if they didn’t fulfill their obligations to WE the People(GW Bush presidential campaign succeeds over Gore settled by a conservative SCOTUS without all the Florida ballots being counted), and most recently giving Cheeto a wanna be dictator full immunity from actions as president. Pretty awesome work by JR and his partisan political judicial incompetents.
Now at the apex of their power the Nazi Republicans with all branches of government under their control, it’s now to power through holding onto power. So election subversion, interference, and if push comes to shove, a judicial ruling protecting the federal removal of ballots or voting machines. Time for SCOTUS expansion which should be one of the first on the agenda in 2029.
God forbid that democratic socialism arrives on our shores. We might turn into a country like Norway, Sweden or Finland where the tax rate is high. And who needs things like free healthcare, free education (including up to phd) and strong unions. Better to keep all money in the hands of a few who know what is best for us. Greed is the American way, we don't need to mess with it.
The Democratic Party is mostly bought, complicit and so far behind that they’re dysfunctional. The forces behind project 25 are moving faster than anyone can stop their goal of a one world total domination.
Excellent! This will be a mainstay of my “article thrusting” debates with those who voice fear about moving “too far left.” We gotta unbrick the old Overton window in that Square Deal house and shut the current one FOR GOOD!
I've had a draft form of a "basics" newsletter of this issue around for a while. Time to flush it out. The Harrtmann Report goes into much greater depth, and backstory, than mine will. On the other hand, mine will spread out into the misuse of names. A "Patriot" missile anyone?
Another fine post, Thom! But I think that progressives won't change the oligarchical system unless there's some REAL socialism in their program -- not just "tax the rich." I argue this at greater length at https://www.transcend.org/tms/2026/06/elon-musk-spacex-and-the-dogma-of-ownership-rights/
Progressive policies are what most Americans would like( after TR and FDR fought to give it to them,) but Democratic Centrists (who are really closer to Trumpicans) are afraid to support,, because they are afraid of retribution from the right, just as are their Republican counterparts.
I think even among the under educated and the poorly informed we are realizing as a country that Medicare for all is something we need. That is, if the medical profession, their managers, and insurance groups don’t end up responding to this by making our country even more divided between the have’s and have-not’s than it already is.
If good medical care (which includes Rx, diagnostics, hospital care, as well as good doctors) is reserved for the rich only, the one’s who can afford to forgo insurance to go to boutique medical practices, and pay for hospital care out-of-pocket, we will continue to be in a downward spiral in death rate and quality of life. And, by-the-way, that’s what’s happening as we speak, without Medicare for all.
One big factor for this that is not talked about is a provision in law. We have plenty of medical school graduates, what we have is not enough doctors. We are being squeezed as a result of a provision of the Balanced Budget act of 1977 that fixed the number of residency positions. A Republican led congress pushed for this Medicare provision and like minimum wage has been frozen since then, yet, our population has doubled since that time.
Another similar situation is our oil availability and gas prices. As a country we have plenty of oil yet our prices are being inordinately controlled by the number of refineries in the country which have been decreasing over the years, not increased over time.
I was in full agreement until the end in which magic was invoked. The eighty-year cycles may have some basis historically and pendulum swings are common. But it is absolute folly to anticipate that there will be a swing at this juncture because of some schedule or predictable dynamic. The swing, first of all represents supposedly the entire country, which is not exactly how things work. Within the country there will always be variations and arch resisters. The degree of change depends on a million variables and factors and changes here or there may last five minutes or five years or fifty-five years. I prefer to stay in the real world, and no one should be banking on an eighty-year miracle, in my humble opinion.