Happy Thanksgiving to you all! A true celebration of the triumph of democracy made all the better now that we have something to look forward to after 4 dark years. At last decent people who care for, and respect the equality of, all are back in charge.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! A true celebration of the triumph of democracy made all the better now that we have something to look forward to after 4 dark years. At last decent people who care for, and respect the equality of, all are back in charge.
Yes, it looks like democracy is still alive but it won't be healthy again until the current bunch of rich Slaveholders are brought to heel. I may not sleep well until January 20, 2021, at noon. And, then the hard work and visionary thinking we need to do will probably take a couple of decades for us to realize the more Perfect Union we'd like to have.
I don't think the work ever ends. There will be pushback for the election of Biden & Harris, just as there was for the election of Barack Obama. The real work begins now.
And it doesn't end even when ALL the people's real and perceived needs are addressed. Working hard for the wellbeing of ALL the people is the intrinsic raison d'├кtre of elected politicians and representatives....otherwise they serve no purpose other than to impose their personal power.
We need to start by fixing that fractured foundation. One must build on a solid foundation. One of the issuess have been the "remedies" for our problems are more bandaids than solutions.
Oh, how I want to agree --- long to agree --- with you! However, as strong a position as the Presidency is in this country, the Legislature and the Judiciary are co-equally strong. Yes, let us be grateful for the Biden-Harris win, but let us not let down our guard against a too-Republican Senate and a not-enough Democratic House and a way-too-"conservative" Supreme Court. Let us all, throughout America, help the people of Georgia send us two Democratic Senators. Stacy Abrams, how can we best help you?
Each of the balancing powers must be rededicated to the service of ALL the people, each in their constitutional role. We have to finish with the partisan dominance of minorities of any sort in any of the co-equal branches of government.
Rededicating to the service of all the people must entail removing McConnell from his powerful majority position, and to do that, we must do whatever we can to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock get elected to the Senate.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! A true celebration of the triumph of democracy made all the better now that we have something to look forward to after 4 dark years. At last decent people who care for, and respect the equality of, all are back in charge.
Yes, it looks like democracy is still alive but it won't be healthy again until the current bunch of rich Slaveholders are brought to heel. I may not sleep well until January 20, 2021, at noon. And, then the hard work and visionary thinking we need to do will probably take a couple of decades for us to realize the more Perfect Union we'd like to have.
I don't think the work ever ends. There will be pushback for the election of Biden & Harris, just as there was for the election of Barack Obama. The real work begins now.
And it doesn't end even when ALL the people's real and perceived needs are addressed. Working hard for the wellbeing of ALL the people is the intrinsic raison d'├кtre of elected politicians and representatives....otherwise they serve no purpose other than to impose their personal power.
And all of that in a much more difficult world. It's a start!
Well, that very difficult world is the requisite, fractured foundation upon which an improvement can be constructed.
Yes...once it has stopped falling apart. We will need the political equivalent of an "anti-earthquake building code" .
We need to start by fixing that fractured foundation. One must build on a solid foundation. One of the issuess have been the "remedies" for our problems are more bandaids than solutions.
Oh, how I want to agree --- long to agree --- with you! However, as strong a position as the Presidency is in this country, the Legislature and the Judiciary are co-equally strong. Yes, let us be grateful for the Biden-Harris win, but let us not let down our guard against a too-Republican Senate and a not-enough Democratic House and a way-too-"conservative" Supreme Court. Let us all, throughout America, help the people of Georgia send us two Democratic Senators. Stacy Abrams, how can we best help you?
Each of the balancing powers must be rededicated to the service of ALL the people, each in their constitutional role. We have to finish with the partisan dominance of minorities of any sort in any of the co-equal branches of government.
Rededicating to the service of all the people must entail removing McConnell from his powerful majority position, and to do that, we must do whatever we can to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock get elected to the Senate.