The most appalling thing is that mentalities have hardly seemed to change in over 150 years. We are still seeing those hoarding the wealth manipulating the "mudsills" against their better interests, blinding them with hatred of anyone who might do better, binding them with fear of being "downgraded" and driving them with a myth that repl…
The most appalling thing is that mentalities have hardly seemed to change in over 150 years. We are still seeing those hoarding the wealth manipulating the "mudsills" against their better interests, blinding them with hatred of anyone who might do better, binding them with fear of being "downgraded" and driving them with a myth that replaces history, fact and truth.
Well...! Now they believe that they have sewn up both the Supreme Court and the Senate, thus neutering "à volonté" the Democratic Président and House. They could return the country far into the past through "Government by the Judges" and throw out safeguards for the people built up despite them over the last near century or simply wait, block and watch untill their chance came again to rule totally.
This repetitive, destructive spiral has to stop. Secession is no longer an option for the GOP and is hardly necessary as they esteem that they are succeeding in spreading their control over the whole country and imposing their autocratic rule even without slavery. They have in reality adopted the system which they decried amongst anti-slavery States; Wage slavery. Civil war was tried once and it didn't solve the problem for very long! A country cannot go on for long with a constitutional blockage which prevents the government from promoting and supporting the welfare, rights and obligations of all the people.
I trust that Biden is truly inhabited by the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower, and Barack Obama as he is going to need it in order to break this impasse. This cannot be just a transition! He will need to break the log jam either through the justice system by whatever means...treason, corruption or other crimes... or through non-traditional action as "Commander in Chief of the Nation" as did Teddy Roosevelt in order to break the resolve and rigidity of the owners in the Coal Mine deadlock in 1902. Whichever he chooses he must also act strongly through the BULLY PULPIT. He is going to need such a massive groundswell of public opinion, protest and support that McConnell, Koch Inc. and their army of orcs fear for their very existence in the mid-terms. To achieve this he must to lay out a program for everybody; he has to address the root causes of the support on the ground for the Tea Part etc and, to make it happen, he has to invent new, innovative ways of getting things done...which the current constitution does not specifically prohibit. Here his mettle will be tried, his vision tested and his determination proven. Thankfully he has Kamala Harris by his side.
How? How do we "return" this country to a democracy of the People if it ever was a democracy when it is all going backwards. Maybe we need to pour some tea or some members of the tea party into Boston Harbor and insist on "No taxation without representation". Seems the oligarchic Kleptocracy, 1%, have "No taxation for exclusive representation and the legalized corruption of unlimited campaign funding.
To do that Biden has to outflank the GOP but he has to find a way to create a new system to do it...call it what you like...that actually listens to the people and not their money. The only thing he's really got is the force of the people; a revolution from below and not a fictitious one like the rent-a-crowd Boston affaire. Only that will put the Koch/GOP on the run.
We have discussed this before. There are people like George Lakey and Rev. Barbur and many others who are working to train people how to combat this kind of thing without resorting to violence. Guns are not going to solve our problems. "Choose America" and groups like "Moral Monday" can, if we all work together. This is where we can jam the communications system of both the White House and the Congress if we need to. And if it comes to that, if we are still in this mess come spring, jam the streets of Washington DC with many millions of people. I am willing, if it means freedom for my grandchildren and the future of democracy in America. I hope it doesn't come to that, but by golly, our first step is to be loud and clear en masse that this is NOT acceptible. Make noise. Make lots of noise. REal noise, in our towns, in the streets, banging pots from our front porches and balconies. Write real letters, make phone calls to every office in DC.
I'm not sure that Biden's election isn't also owing to corporate money. Both parties are stuck in a campaign money trap that requires that they attend to their donors. Biden was not financed by a "grassroots" financial "wave". If we look at Open Secrets, we find that the Biden team's large supporters were finance, insurance, real estate, communications, electronics, and a big chunk from lawyers and lobbyists. They "listen to money" because we are unable to reform the rules of campaign finance. Until we do, it seems to me, that we are all captured in the confines of monied interests.
Did you read that Koch is now supporting Biden's win? Koch must have somethin' in it. Like Bernie Sanders said, if he is truly sorry for promoting tRunp he can put money in getting away with Citizen United.
I did read suspiciously about Koch. He will never kill Citizens United. It's his ace in the hole. Plus, he has grasped that Trump is a madman. He has no place to go but to Biden, until there's a new Republican for him to back.
One of the biggest obstacles, I think, to campaign finance reform is the media. It makes billions off of elections. Consultants also make millions from media-buys that they receive as a percentage of the buy. Another trap. It is intricately woven.
Kamala is a measure of Biden’s strength of character. He didn’t react petulantly to her debate criticism. He recognizes who elected him. So, I’m a tiny bit hopeful. He surely realizes MM and Senate R’s are against him, and the need to be strongly creative. ❤️🤍💙
The most appalling thing is that mentalities have hardly seemed to change in over 150 years. We are still seeing those hoarding the wealth manipulating the "mudsills" against their better interests, blinding them with hatred of anyone who might do better, binding them with fear of being "downgraded" and driving them with a myth that replaces history, fact and truth.
Well...! Now they believe that they have sewn up both the Supreme Court and the Senate, thus neutering "à volonté" the Democratic Président and House. They could return the country far into the past through "Government by the Judges" and throw out safeguards for the people built up despite them over the last near century or simply wait, block and watch untill their chance came again to rule totally.
This repetitive, destructive spiral has to stop. Secession is no longer an option for the GOP and is hardly necessary as they esteem that they are succeeding in spreading their control over the whole country and imposing their autocratic rule even without slavery. They have in reality adopted the system which they decried amongst anti-slavery States; Wage slavery. Civil war was tried once and it didn't solve the problem for very long! A country cannot go on for long with a constitutional blockage which prevents the government from promoting and supporting the welfare, rights and obligations of all the people.
I trust that Biden is truly inhabited by the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower, and Barack Obama as he is going to need it in order to break this impasse. This cannot be just a transition! He will need to break the log jam either through the justice system by whatever means...treason, corruption or other crimes... or through non-traditional action as "Commander in Chief of the Nation" as did Teddy Roosevelt in order to break the resolve and rigidity of the owners in the Coal Mine deadlock in 1902. Whichever he chooses he must also act strongly through the BULLY PULPIT. He is going to need such a massive groundswell of public opinion, protest and support that McConnell, Koch Inc. and their army of orcs fear for their very existence in the mid-terms. To achieve this he must to lay out a program for everybody; he has to address the root causes of the support on the ground for the Tea Part etc and, to make it happen, he has to invent new, innovative ways of getting things done...which the current constitution does not specifically prohibit. Here his mettle will be tried, his vision tested and his determination proven. Thankfully he has Kamala Harris by his side.
How? How do we "return" this country to a democracy of the People if it ever was a democracy when it is all going backwards. Maybe we need to pour some tea or some members of the tea party into Boston Harbor and insist on "No taxation without representation". Seems the oligarchic Kleptocracy, 1%, have "No taxation for exclusive representation and the legalized corruption of unlimited campaign funding.
To do that Biden has to outflank the GOP but he has to find a way to create a new system to do it...call it what you like...that actually listens to the people and not their money. The only thing he's really got is the force of the people; a revolution from below and not a fictitious one like the rent-a-crowd Boston affaire. Only that will put the Koch/GOP on the run.
The hardest person to negotiate with is someone who won't negotiate at all. A lesson the Republicans have learned well and McConnell practices daily.
You can't deal with bad faith other than going around it to render it useless.
That brings us back to the time-tested practice of negotiating via the barrel of a gun
They are better armed and probably more determined.
I'll concede the first point, but the long war for freedom is righteous.
We have discussed this before. There are people like George Lakey and Rev. Barbur and many others who are working to train people how to combat this kind of thing without resorting to violence. Guns are not going to solve our problems. "Choose America" and groups like "Moral Monday" can, if we all work together. This is where we can jam the communications system of both the White House and the Congress if we need to. And if it comes to that, if we are still in this mess come spring, jam the streets of Washington DC with many millions of people. I am willing, if it means freedom for my grandchildren and the future of democracy in America. I hope it doesn't come to that, but by golly, our first step is to be loud and clear en masse that this is NOT acceptible. Make noise. Make lots of noise. REal noise, in our towns, in the streets, banging pots from our front porches and balconies. Write real letters, make phone calls to every office in DC.
I'm not sure that Biden's election isn't also owing to corporate money. Both parties are stuck in a campaign money trap that requires that they attend to their donors. Biden was not financed by a "grassroots" financial "wave". If we look at Open Secrets, we find that the Biden team's large supporters were finance, insurance, real estate, communications, electronics, and a big chunk from lawyers and lobbyists. They "listen to money" because we are unable to reform the rules of campaign finance. Until we do, it seems to me, that we are all captured in the confines of monied interests.
Did you read that Koch is now supporting Biden's win? Koch must have somethin' in it. Like Bernie Sanders said, if he is truly sorry for promoting tRunp he can put money in getting away with Citizen United.
I did read suspiciously about Koch. He will never kill Citizens United. It's his ace in the hole. Plus, he has grasped that Trump is a madman. He has no place to go but to Biden, until there's a new Republican for him to back.
One of the biggest obstacles, I think, to campaign finance reform is the media. It makes billions off of elections. Consultants also make millions from media-buys that they receive as a percentage of the buy. Another trap. It is intricately woven.
“ finance, insurance, real estate, communications” all crave stability, which has been in short supply lo these past 4 years —
I don't disagree. But it still leaves governing in the hands of the democratic elites rather than the republican elites. So it goes.
Kamala is a measure of Biden’s strength of character. He didn’t react petulantly to her debate criticism. He recognizes who elected him. So, I’m a tiny bit hopeful. He surely realizes MM and Senate R’s are against him, and the need to be strongly creative. ❤️🤍💙
Hopefully she's as strong as he for she might have to take his place and do it all for him..and for us!
Hopefully she’ll learn how to successfully negotiate from Biden. He’s the master of negotiation.