I'll continue to do my bit, contribute to keep journalism alive, give money to office holders and to office seekers who go against this assault on our constitution. Mass open defiance may yet happen and this old man will do his bit there too. I'll keep showing up with the other white haired folk. Where are the young people? Their futures…
I'll continue to do my bit, contribute to keep journalism alive, give money to office holders and to office seekers who go against this assault on our constitution. Mass open defiance may yet happen and this old man will do his bit there too. I'll keep showing up with the other white haired folk. Where are the young people? Their futures are at stake. Seeing them demonstrate in big numbers could energize resistance.
Indivisible is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, April 5. Put it on your calendar and attend one near you! Or, if you can, attend the protest in Washington, DC.
Breizhfan, I am all in favor of Indivisible's protest. It cannot hurt. It gets people thinking. But there is no power in protest. Anyone who thinks there is, confuses power with influence. They are not the same thing. There are two sources of power in society:
1) government power which legitimately comes through the barrel of a gun.
2) the power of the 3% of Americans who own the institution of business and control wages. The remaining 97% of us are at their mercy.
The only power we working people have is to with-hold our labor. Refusing to submit to authority is the only way for ordinary people to grab power in any society. We must support organized labor. It is our only hope; short of a revolution.
Mr. Solomon, that's a good thought. I saw in the news that the "Big Three" auto dealers are already enraged over the Tesla advertisement which Trump and Musk delivered in front of the White House the other day. This ad. was paid for by the tax payers. More socialism for Musk, I would say. Perhaps these two out of touch psychos shall make bigger mistakes of this kind in the future.
I called out car dealers, the beef industry, local chambers of commerce, In my comments above. There are many others affected this way. My agency, DOL, regulated virtually all of them in some way. IMHO it doesn't take much to get the ball rolling.
I am banned on X and Facebook and I just got a warning from Bluesky...I wish others would spread the news. I was in an OSHER discussion group yesterday with many orthers -- all have war stories. All are retired... all get SS...all have kids and neighborfs and friends who have been "Musked."
I believe we can and should do both...protest in huge and undeniable numbers in every state AND support labor organizations AND barrage our members of Congress in opposition to Trump & DOGE's corrupt & illegal actions.
I understand your perspective, Gerald. And a protest will only have a chance of succeeding if it's massive. LBJ was moved by the masses of people in the streets protesting the Vietnam War. But we need millions of people to come out to make it effective.
I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, we'll have to contend with martial law and then all protests will be illegal.
So it might be worth a shot while we still have the chance.
Yes Breizhfan, the bigger the demonstration is, the better it is. When I was young I was teargassed while in a huge protest in D.C [200,000 of us]. It was broadcast all over the world on TV. Today, right now, there are protests going on in hundreds of locals in this country. But the Mass Media are refusing to cover them. Instead they are talking about how Musk's rocket returned the stranded astronauts from the IS Space Station. The people who will be talking about the protests are those like Amy Goodman, Rachel Madow and Rick Wolff.
G2, in answer to your question "Where are the young people?" The pollsters in the democratic party are well aware that the young people no longer can be relied upon to support the Dems. There has been a significant shift in the political concerns of the young in America in the last 8 years. An important shift away from the Dems' policies.
There is no explanation coming forth from the Dem. pollsters as to why this shift has occurred. Some have whispered that the shift might be related to the saturation of the use of the modern smart phones during that 8 year period. The smart phone came onto the market only about a decade ago. The youth of today have known no other world but the one of the electronic screen and what it is they learn from it. This is an artificial world, from the point of view of anyone over 19 years old. If you are 20 or older, you were socialized into a different world. A world I would call "the real world."
It is not, therefore, a surprise that a gap exists between the youth of America and the adults. Young people no longer support the Dems. The leadership of both parties is geriatric and out of touch. Chuck Schumer just demonstrated it. But it is undeniably true that even though Trump is old and one of the wealthy elite; he is great at lying to the public and saying all the right things. His performance at the state of the union address was a masterpiece of the art of the flummox. It was as spellbinding as it was phony and effective. Especially among the uneducated working class voters and the young. He has them all in his hands.
Added to this is the undeniable fact that even when the Dems had the ability to give people good policy; they failed to do so, for the last two generations.
I do not dare predict the future. But I suspect the economy will collapse in the next 6 to 12 months. According to the time-tested theory of Keynesian economics all the signs are in place. The big investors in the stock exchanges are all liquidating their holdings. China, France and other Countries are buying gold like mad, the price of it has skyrocketed and the U.S. economy has been sliding downhill since Trump's election. The world economy is unstable. A deep depression could change everything; for the better, or for the worse.
I'll continue to do my bit, contribute to keep journalism alive, give money to office holders and to office seekers who go against this assault on our constitution. Mass open defiance may yet happen and this old man will do his bit there too. I'll keep showing up with the other white haired folk. Where are the young people? Their futures are at stake. Seeing them demonstrate in big numbers could energize resistance.
Indivisible is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, April 5. Put it on your calendar and attend one near you! Or, if you can, attend the protest in Washington, DC.
It's time to take to the streets!
More info here: https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
Breizhfan, I am all in favor of Indivisible's protest. It cannot hurt. It gets people thinking. But there is no power in protest. Anyone who thinks there is, confuses power with influence. They are not the same thing. There are two sources of power in society:
1) government power which legitimately comes through the barrel of a gun.
2) the power of the 3% of Americans who own the institution of business and control wages. The remaining 97% of us are at their mercy.
The only power we working people have is to with-hold our labor. Refusing to submit to authority is the only way for ordinary people to grab power in any society. We must support organized labor. It is our only hope; short of a revolution.
If businesses, with millions of employees threatened with bankrupcy protest, especially to Congressional Republicans, it will work.
Mr. Solomon, that's a good thought. I saw in the news that the "Big Three" auto dealers are already enraged over the Tesla advertisement which Trump and Musk delivered in front of the White House the other day. This ad. was paid for by the tax payers. More socialism for Musk, I would say. Perhaps these two out of touch psychos shall make bigger mistakes of this kind in the future.
I called out car dealers, the beef industry, local chambers of commerce, In my comments above. There are many others affected this way. My agency, DOL, regulated virtually all of them in some way. IMHO it doesn't take much to get the ball rolling.
I am banned on X and Facebook and I just got a warning from Bluesky...I wish others would spread the news. I was in an OSHER discussion group yesterday with many orthers -- all have war stories. All are retired... all get SS...all have kids and neighborfs and friends who have been "Musked."
I believe we can and should do both...protest in huge and undeniable numbers in every state AND support labor organizations AND barrage our members of Congress in opposition to Trump & DOGE's corrupt & illegal actions.
I understand your perspective, Gerald. And a protest will only have a chance of succeeding if it's massive. LBJ was moved by the masses of people in the streets protesting the Vietnam War. But we need millions of people to come out to make it effective.
I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, we'll have to contend with martial law and then all protests will be illegal.
So it might be worth a shot while we still have the chance.
Yes Breizhfan, the bigger the demonstration is, the better it is. When I was young I was teargassed while in a huge protest in D.C [200,000 of us]. It was broadcast all over the world on TV. Today, right now, there are protests going on in hundreds of locals in this country. But the Mass Media are refusing to cover them. Instead they are talking about how Musk's rocket returned the stranded astronauts from the IS Space Station. The people who will be talking about the protests are those like Amy Goodman, Rachel Madow and Rick Wolff.
Thank you,will do.
G2, in answer to your question "Where are the young people?" The pollsters in the democratic party are well aware that the young people no longer can be relied upon to support the Dems. There has been a significant shift in the political concerns of the young in America in the last 8 years. An important shift away from the Dems' policies.
There is no explanation coming forth from the Dem. pollsters as to why this shift has occurred. Some have whispered that the shift might be related to the saturation of the use of the modern smart phones during that 8 year period. The smart phone came onto the market only about a decade ago. The youth of today have known no other world but the one of the electronic screen and what it is they learn from it. This is an artificial world, from the point of view of anyone over 19 years old. If you are 20 or older, you were socialized into a different world. A world I would call "the real world."
It is not, therefore, a surprise that a gap exists between the youth of America and the adults. Young people no longer support the Dems. The leadership of both parties is geriatric and out of touch. Chuck Schumer just demonstrated it. But it is undeniably true that even though Trump is old and one of the wealthy elite; he is great at lying to the public and saying all the right things. His performance at the state of the union address was a masterpiece of the art of the flummox. It was as spellbinding as it was phony and effective. Especially among the uneducated working class voters and the young. He has them all in his hands.
Added to this is the undeniable fact that even when the Dems had the ability to give people good policy; they failed to do so, for the last two generations.
I do not dare predict the future. But I suspect the economy will collapse in the next 6 to 12 months. According to the time-tested theory of Keynesian economics all the signs are in place. The big investors in the stock exchanges are all liquidating their holdings. China, France and other Countries are buying gold like mad, the price of it has skyrocketed and the U.S. economy has been sliding downhill since Trump's election. The world economy is unstable. A deep depression could change everything; for the better, or for the worse.
Amen brother.