It's not every day, but at least once a week you really hit it out of the park -- clear, concise writing with no bs, just good solid information. Along with a plan for a solution. Thanks for giving me some hope.
Also, the farmers are looking at huge increases in fertilizer; I saw one farmer say that after crunching the numbers, she will lose $68,000 this year. Not a lot to a corporation but a death knell for an independent farmer. One must ask, and your new government idea notwithstanding, is this planned? Are we all being driven into poverty in order to make the oligarchs richer and the tech bros in charge of everything from bombs to education. Yipeeee!
We may be at the point that Oklahoma and Kansas farmers were during the dust bowl when they just gave up and abandoned their properties and the banks were only too happy to foreclose and sell to the highest bidder. Or in 2008 when banks sold hundreds of foreclosed homes to single buyers for 10 cents on the dollar which has led to our housing crisis now. Somehow in America, the rich always get richer.
Personally, I think the firing of Bondi was another distraction. The Iran war distracted from the Epstein files. then the war became indefensible, so he fired Bondi to create another distraction. This will continue down the line. The people who voted for trump thought they were getting a businessman who would run the country like a business. They never looked behind the curtain to see a failed businessman who leveraged himself almost into bankruptcy (although he used that trick as well). Now he has used the presidency to make his family rich beyond their wildest dreams and since it's out in the open, no one seems to care. He knows nothing about markets or diplomacy.
No, we cannot go back to the way we were. I wholeheartedly agree that we need to begin anew. We need a system immune to exploitation, and immune to people like trump (still not sure why him?). But before we can do any of that, the current administration has to go.
The last paragraphs, with a call to action to redesign our country, are inspiring and so needed. Opponents jeer that the No Kings protests are self-soothing wastes of time, but only if we're not also engaged in envisioning and building a better system as you outline. Thank you for the Bill of Rights. I don't agree with all of it, but it is a fantastic starting point.
Your comment, to restate, is the systemic issues are the deeper problem. To oust Trump would not correct the forces allowing him to exist. That he could start a war without serious comment from the GOP is telling. That in his Easter meeting he could extoll his worldly ego and still retain the evangelicals is telling. The depravity of weak ethics and soul are the telling qualities of Trump’s world. It isn’t a failing of our Constitution. Rather, it is a moral flexibility treating principles as quaint notions.
Yes. There needs to be a summit meeting of the various progressive groups and elected leaders to formulate a vision that takes into account Scott Nakagawa’s caution about replacing one authoritarian structure with a progressive one.
I found KKKaroline's boilerplate about Judeo Christian Values as rather revealing. It is of course possible to accept many of those VALUES without embracing or even believing in the religion. Perhaps we should be looking at a nation based on a lot of those values:
Judeo: Thou shalt not kill, covet, bear false witness, steal--basically, the last 6 commandments
Christian: where to start? Love thy neighbor as thyself, unconditional love, compassion, humility, forgiveness, and integrity, justice, the golden rule and equality.
Who knew that Jesus was a prime promoter of DEI. None of those values are evident in today's regime, as many have pointed out, of course.
I've noticed a MSM lack of coverage on the approximately 20,000 seafarers currently trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. Isn't it a looming humanitarian crisis?
Good thoughts, Mary! We have an opportunity to start anew and make a better world for our children and grandchildren. There is no going back to what was considered OK at this point because we are seeing and living through blunders unimaginable in our current government and the thought of going back to "a tad" better government is not going to work. We're here for the rebuilding and remaking of a government that has been running in the ditches since 1970. I'm in!
I am overwhelmed by the destruction going on and the hollowing out of our country, Working through the reality of its progressive hollowing out over the past decades. I am on the street protesting again but this time it is for survival. We have gone terribly wrong and the right guy was here to exploit it. I am further overwhelmed by the task Ahead of rebuilding, reforming and refining a good basic concept of we the people. Your Bill of Rights is the good start and the necessary basis for what needs doing. How do we do this? When? I’m ready but see so much apathy and no substantial pushback by so Many… repugs, Congress, legacy media, oligarchs. It seems a long stumble to the mid terms.
This post is an incredible call to action for the people of the United States of America. Can we reimagine how our government works and build new system that truly reflects what our ideals say we are?
"...emceeing the clown-car stage of imperial decline while the wheels bounce off in every direction." As strangely riveting as it is to watch this train wreck, you offer a sense of hope for a different future.
It's all well and good to point out what needs to be done to protect the republic from collapse, but nothing will get done as long as the Guardians Of Pedophiles, in lockstep, keep driving us toward destruction. Either the republicans start working for the U.S., or the party must shrivel and die. Otherwise, we are doomed.
A breathtaking call to action, thank you.
Profound and moving essay-- and beautiful writing as well... Thankyou...
It's not every day, but at least once a week you really hit it out of the park -- clear, concise writing with no bs, just good solid information. Along with a plan for a solution. Thanks for giving me some hope.
Yes! I ditto every syllable especially about hope …well said.
Also, the farmers are looking at huge increases in fertilizer; I saw one farmer say that after crunching the numbers, she will lose $68,000 this year. Not a lot to a corporation but a death knell for an independent farmer. One must ask, and your new government idea notwithstanding, is this planned? Are we all being driven into poverty in order to make the oligarchs richer and the tech bros in charge of everything from bombs to education. Yipeeee!
We may be at the point that Oklahoma and Kansas farmers were during the dust bowl when they just gave up and abandoned their properties and the banks were only too happy to foreclose and sell to the highest bidder. Or in 2008 when banks sold hundreds of foreclosed homes to single buyers for 10 cents on the dollar which has led to our housing crisis now. Somehow in America, the rich always get richer.
Personally, I think the firing of Bondi was another distraction. The Iran war distracted from the Epstein files. then the war became indefensible, so he fired Bondi to create another distraction. This will continue down the line. The people who voted for trump thought they were getting a businessman who would run the country like a business. They never looked behind the curtain to see a failed businessman who leveraged himself almost into bankruptcy (although he used that trick as well). Now he has used the presidency to make his family rich beyond their wildest dreams and since it's out in the open, no one seems to care. He knows nothing about markets or diplomacy.
No, we cannot go back to the way we were. I wholeheartedly agree that we need to begin anew. We need a system immune to exploitation, and immune to people like trump (still not sure why him?). But before we can do any of that, the current administration has to go.
The last paragraphs, with a call to action to redesign our country, are inspiring and so needed. Opponents jeer that the No Kings protests are self-soothing wastes of time, but only if we're not also engaged in envisioning and building a better system as you outline. Thank you for the Bill of Rights. I don't agree with all of it, but it is a fantastic starting point.
Your comment, to restate, is the systemic issues are the deeper problem. To oust Trump would not correct the forces allowing him to exist. That he could start a war without serious comment from the GOP is telling. That in his Easter meeting he could extoll his worldly ego and still retain the evangelicals is telling. The depravity of weak ethics and soul are the telling qualities of Trump’s world. It isn’t a failing of our Constitution. Rather, it is a moral flexibility treating principles as quaint notions.
Yes. There needs to be a summit meeting of the various progressive groups and elected leaders to formulate a vision that takes into account Scott Nakagawa’s caution about replacing one authoritarian structure with a progressive one.
I found KKKaroline's boilerplate about Judeo Christian Values as rather revealing. It is of course possible to accept many of those VALUES without embracing or even believing in the religion. Perhaps we should be looking at a nation based on a lot of those values:
Judeo: Thou shalt not kill, covet, bear false witness, steal--basically, the last 6 commandments
Christian: where to start? Love thy neighbor as thyself, unconditional love, compassion, humility, forgiveness, and integrity, justice, the golden rule and equality.
Who knew that Jesus was a prime promoter of DEI. None of those values are evident in today's regime, as many have pointed out, of course.
I've noticed a MSM lack of coverage on the approximately 20,000 seafarers currently trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. Isn't it a looming humanitarian crisis?
Good thoughts, Mary! We have an opportunity to start anew and make a better world for our children and grandchildren. There is no going back to what was considered OK at this point because we are seeing and living through blunders unimaginable in our current government and the thought of going back to "a tad" better government is not going to work. We're here for the rebuilding and remaking of a government that has been running in the ditches since 1970. I'm in!
I am overwhelmed by the destruction going on and the hollowing out of our country, Working through the reality of its progressive hollowing out over the past decades. I am on the street protesting again but this time it is for survival. We have gone terribly wrong and the right guy was here to exploit it. I am further overwhelmed by the task Ahead of rebuilding, reforming and refining a good basic concept of we the people. Your Bill of Rights is the good start and the necessary basis for what needs doing. How do we do this? When? I’m ready but see so much apathy and no substantial pushback by so Many… repugs, Congress, legacy media, oligarchs. It seems a long stumble to the mid terms.
This post is an incredible call to action for the people of the United States of America. Can we reimagine how our government works and build new system that truly reflects what our ideals say we are?
"...emceeing the clown-car stage of imperial decline while the wheels bounce off in every direction." As strangely riveting as it is to watch this train wreck, you offer a sense of hope for a different future.
It's all well and good to point out what needs to be done to protect the republic from collapse, but nothing will get done as long as the Guardians Of Pedophiles, in lockstep, keep driving us toward destruction. Either the republicans start working for the U.S., or the party must shrivel and die. Otherwise, we are doomed.