ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
"Impeach and prosecute." Those are the key words. After the Civil War, very few of the Confederate traitors and insurrectionists were prosecuted and punished according to the malevolence of their crimes. Most were "rehabilitated," many eventually returned to Congress and the Senate, and monuments were erected to honor their treachery. This has directly led to a tacit acceptance of the ideas of the likes of Ingrassia, Steven Miller, Steve Bannon and the rest of the MAGA masses being a major part of our political discourse today. And the same oligarchs who crafted the Confederate nightmare are still pulling the strings. If we are able to take back power in this country, those people need to be prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum extent of the law, as was done in Brazil.
After getting elected in 2028, Democrats must solve the core problem in the legal system by enforcing the federal law on insurrection in 2029 to arrest, convict, and imprison Trump, members of his administration including his Cabinet, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court. What’s happened in America in 2025 is an insurrection by Trump, his administration, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court. The insurrection started on January 6, 2021, and was planned in PROJECT 2025 to continue as planned in 2025. Insurrection is defined as a felony crime in federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) in language that is clear and easy to understand:
“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
The law is clear. Trump should have been imprisoned - instead he is presidnet and doing everything Russell Vought wants by way of destroying the goverment agencies. Where was the rule of law - I guess it was were it is now - no were in sight.
*EXECUTED. “High Treason,” as fomenting a violent Insurrection BEFORE W Bush’s “forever wars” were ended, is punishable by DEATH. I never thought I’d wish for death, but Bunkerboy possesses ZERO positive human qualities.
I am from Florida. The north should have lined up the politicians and officer corps of the south against a wall and shot them for the traitors they were.
Instead, we concentrated on "healing." We are still fighting that damn war because we did not have the stomach to finish it.
Let's not make that mistake again. This needs to REALLY hurt. So that nobody wants to do it again.
I certainly understand the emotional appeal of calling for the death penalty, and I'll say it openly: I toyed with the idea (as I'm sure countless others have done) of buying my first-ever gun (I'm 74) and capping some asses myself. In the end, I realized that starting a civil war (as certainly would have been the outcome) would be a cure worse than the disease. I have always opposed the death penalty. For me, spending the remainder of their lives in a maximum-security federal prison would be punishment enough. And while we're at it, we need to severely curtail the power of the president to issue pardons. The circumstances that would make it allowable need to be spelled out clearly and irrevocably. A law has very recently been introduced that takes important first steps in achieving that. And Ghislane Maxwell needs to be sent back to the prison she was in before she was transferred to Club Fed for covering Trump's ass.
I am not actually calling for the death penalty now. I meant after the civil war. Although trump did try to overturn a legal election, so if that is not treason I do not know what is.
I do want EVERY single enabler prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I do NOT want to hear one bit of "let's find common ground."
I'm with you, friend. There must not be talk of "National healing" or reconciliation. These people will only see that as weakness and go back to their long-running conspiracy to make real Ayn Rand's fever dreams. It needs to be dealt with harshly. We need to make the cost of insurrection against the Constitution and ideal of "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" higher than most would be willing to pay. And we need to commit ourselves to ensuring that those who are willing to pay, do so without delay.
Lincoln was trying to preserve the Union after a heinous civil war and effectively "pardoned " the Confederates by allowing them to be absorbed back into the United States and to continue in the work of being productive for the betterment of the country. Sadly, the South has been the hotbed of bigoted White Supremacy ever since and is now once again raising it's ugly head to threaten our sacred constitutional rights as declared in the Preamble , The Constitution and The Bill of Rights of which they still wish to expunge and replace with a fascist autocracy.
I honor the noble motivation of those who pardoned the Southern traitors in the interest of healing the national trauma of the Civil War. The fact is, as you say, it didn't work, and so much of the darkness in the American psyche is a direct result of it. We need to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. Apart from direct prosecution of the primary malefactors, we also need to reform our economic system and empower government agencies to ensure that corporate greed and hegemony of markets, AND THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS, disappear from our society. Politically, we need to both limit the amount of money that can be spent on a campaign, mandate that media of all types provide free air time to all candidates equally, whether in local, state or federal elections (let them all pay back for the privilege of their licenses) and ban SuperPACs and corporate contributions, because corporations are NOT people. We also need to limit the length of campaigns to perhaps a couple of months and make it much easier for alternate parties and candidates to have a voice in elections. I'm not against wealth or property. "No state ownership of the means of production" for me. But all businesses must have a responsibility to promote the common good, and support an egalitarian society, and must be held strictly to account when they depart from that ideal. Sorry if that sounds preachy, but that's the privilege of old farts like me. :-D
We're better than that ,Christine. John's suggestion of prison time will suffice and is more consistent to what I want of our country in the form of justice.
Trump has opened closet doors that have been closed for decades. The bigots and the misogynistic misfits have risen again thanks to the GOP and the 6 Trump justices on the highest court.
Trump surrounds himself with these people. It appears that he loves the most hateful, bigoted and incompetent supporters he can find. The only qualification is extreme loyalty to the Dumper himself. I believe his philosophy is, "Who cares if they are bigots? Who cares if they are competent? The only real measure is loyalty to *me*!
Is lacking political judgment snd decency the same as low IQ? I agree with your disgust, but there should be accountability for this people's management. Stupidity is an excuse.
I just get tired of listing his entire menagerie of shortcomings… He is an immoral, corrupt, racist, rapist grifter…. Basically we can list every negative personality trait in the entire dictionary because they are all accurate descriptions of this subhuman. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Lisa, agreed; but my point was your combining of IQ with his selection of evil people. I think he sees quality in persons that we consider racist, antisemitic, and incompetent: that is not stupid, but s political judgement that he should be accountable for.
ENOUGH. A Jew (Miller), an Italian (Ingrassia), and a Hispanic (Fuentes) walk into the White House, thinking they're in the in-crowd. And I won't be the least bit surprised when they find out they're as much the OTHER as those among their hated immigrant roots. Because NAZIS are gonna NAZI. Signed, a Jew and Left-Wing Scum that supports Justice and won't be silent.
Hate is a tactic to overthrow the government, from my essay, E Pluribus Unum: https://dialector.substack.com/p/e-pluribus-unum "Every petty insult hurled, every neighbor turned enemy, every blind partisan skirmish, these are not just childish grievances; they are the deliberate dismantling of American heritage. This is not some passing phase of division, it is an orchestrated assault on the very essence of our nation. The Constitution, the framework of our shared identity as citizens, has been erased from our political talk from within, replaced by raw emotional manipulation that leaves us too distracted to defend ourselves from governmental lawlessness. This isn't just a national disgrace, it is an existential crisis. Either we conserve the Constitution, the foundation for protecting our American heritage, or this country dies before our eyes. There is no middle ground. Those who seek to erase constitutionally faithful governance are waging war against the United States itself. And if we fail to recognize this now, we won't get a second chance."
My clearest description of this is in "American Politics 101: The Fundamentals of American Greatness": https://dialector.substack.com/p/american-politics-101 Here is one quote from the section, 'The Very Un-Great Culture War" - "The culture war is not making America great. It is hiding the truth of real American greatness, which is our unity under the Constitution, and destroying the civic virtues that put American greatness directly into the hands of We the People. The culture war is not American politics. It is an abdication of American politics, the denial of civic responsibility, the rejection of reasoned self-government, a betrayal of American citizenship, the sabotage of public trust, and the death of thoughtful deliberation on governing policy. Our culture war works to keep us away from our Constitution and to destroy our unity by filling our minds with poisonous partisan nonsense. Its only function is to keep the constitutional principles and structure that define American politics from ever making America great again.
The culture war is a distraction factory, with an anti-American purpose to distract, divide, and conquer the American people so that we make war upon ourselves instead of uniting like real Americans under the Constitution. An irony of the culture war is that it is helping to destroy real American greatness in the name of Making America Great Again. The culture war contributes nothing to the governance of the nation. Its sole purpose is to make it impossible for the citizens of the United States to support and defend the founding document that defines the nation, secures our freedom, guarantees our rights, and brings forth every measure of real American greatness.
This is what tyranny needs to kill America and make a profit off of its corpse. The anti-American tyranny that is manifesting in our culture war loves to reward ignorance of American heritage, punish principles and ethics, and train citizens to treat each other as enemies. While we do our culture war duty to scream at each other like a bunch of impotent farm animals being led by the nose, the knowledge of our Constitution, our rights, our American heritage, and our patriotic duties fades from public memory. In their place: culture war animosity, childish insults, and a grotesque partisan spectacle of avarice and sickening lust for un-American dictatorship. This is not who we are, and it is not who we have to remain."
As a woman, I couldn't help but envision what these petty hatred-mongering men must be like in their personal relationships. Ugh. Likely, the women in their lives can't just pick up and leave when the brutality sets in, the physical violence and/or mental abuse - the threats, the irrational, unreasonable demands. Imagine having a petty tyrant in the house at all times. These puny little fascist misogynists in the Trumposphere all suffer the same psychological issues, damaged beyond repair, never really happy, always angry and always ready to blame.
Like! Thanks for the reminder of a book I mean to buy myself for New Years: "A Well-trained Wife." Apparently it is focused on religious oppression, which isn't a mandatory context for your concerns, but I still want to support the witness. Control and abuse of females is so universal and perpetual we few privileged "Western Civilization" women only notice it because we've had this tantalizing glimpse of the possibility of being able to act as fully human, especially with human rights under the law. Such a brief moment: hey, we got credit cards in our own names in the 1970's! Wow!
No doubt, Ghislaine Maxwell is one of them. Damaged people on both sides. However, we need to acknowledge that men are in the overwhelming majority of miscreants when it comes to brutality towards the opposite sex, the incidence of rape, sexual aggression, physical brutality, war mongering, sexually deviant behaviours, oppression and murder.
It's not easy being a single woman trying to survive in life while competing with men for a livelihood. I don't blame them for wanting a loving relationship with a significant other to share life and it's hardships with . It's a scary world that we live in .
Bigotry is a central feature of MAGA/Trumpism, something they have celebrated openly. From the time Trump came down the golden escalator, he’s demonstrated that bigots, racists, and fascists are welcome. They’ve come out from under all the rocks under which they were long hiding to cheer their good fortune. It only grows and survives, though, if we allow it to do so. Push back.
Yes. He has made it so visible that it is impossible to be complacent. Love conquers hate. We can get clear on what we love about our country and work to make it a reality.
On New Year’s Day I will be making a list starting with the Declaration of Independence’s self evident truth that we are all created equal.
Good for you, Jonni. I'm with you on that. The Preamble is another worthy writing to trumpet and any of what Tom has suggested early in this thread would be advised ,as well.
Charles - The only difference now is that instead of hoods the KKK now wears a mask and an ICE badge and the grand marshal is currently gold plating the Oval Office.
Donald the Cruel has given life to those who hate. Every single group that has ever been discriminated against is experiencing rising hate. Jews, minorities, gays, people of color, immigrants, Muslims, Asian-Americans, etc.
So all decent people must Resist & Unite. The haters are a minority but they use force & violence to try to dominate the decent majority. Besides rallies, the Resistance needs to actively oppose the crimes & barbarism of Donald the Cruel's administration in the justice system. We must vote & replace the reactionary politicians with moral & ethical elected officials & leaders.
The day will come when MAGA is so far behind the main stream he & his ilk won't be visible in our rear view mirrors.
A small interesting tidbit about the surname Ingrassia....
"Background, origin and meaning of Ingrassia:
The surname Ingrassia originates from Sicily, Italy, and is derived from the Arabic word "ingrassia," meaning "fattening" or "enriching." It was likely initially used as a nickname or descriptive name for someone who was well-nourished, prosperous, or perhaps involved in agriculture or animal husbandry. Over time, this descriptive term evolved into a hereditary surname. Associated names may include Ingrassi, Grassi, or Grassia."
For a long time Italians were not considered "white". My NY born father's Irish background relatives had difficulty accepting my mother who was the daughter of Italian immigrants.
Good point! I was reading (sorry, earlier in day, I try to cite sources, but...) about the Justice Dept. making a court filing that they literally didn't have enough competent staff left to comply with some discovery deadline. Then there is this from David Kay Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3uepHkwm3Y drawing a parallel from 2008 crash aftermath, with competent people in place, compared to Trump "clown car."
This piece succinctly cuts through the wild morass of reported statements and events and gets to the heart of the Trump regime, and of Trump himself. It's the kind of cogent statement that is satisfying in its simplicity and gives one the feeling that there's nothing that needs to be said. Well done, Professor Reich!
Project 2026 If Brazil can do it, so can we!
Win the Senate and House, Impeach and Prosecute.
ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE!!!!!
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Official Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
"Impeach and prosecute." Those are the key words. After the Civil War, very few of the Confederate traitors and insurrectionists were prosecuted and punished according to the malevolence of their crimes. Most were "rehabilitated," many eventually returned to Congress and the Senate, and monuments were erected to honor their treachery. This has directly led to a tacit acceptance of the ideas of the likes of Ingrassia, Steven Miller, Steve Bannon and the rest of the MAGA masses being a major part of our political discourse today. And the same oligarchs who crafted the Confederate nightmare are still pulling the strings. If we are able to take back power in this country, those people need to be prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum extent of the law, as was done in Brazil.
After getting elected in 2028, Democrats must solve the core problem in the legal system by enforcing the federal law on insurrection in 2029 to arrest, convict, and imprison Trump, members of his administration including his Cabinet, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court. What’s happened in America in 2025 is an insurrection by Trump, his administration, Republicans in Congress, and six justices on the Supreme Court. The insurrection started on January 6, 2021, and was planned in PROJECT 2025 to continue as planned in 2025. Insurrection is defined as a felony crime in federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2383) in language that is clear and easy to understand:
“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
The law is clear. Trump should have been imprisoned - instead he is presidnet and doing everything Russell Vought wants by way of destroying the goverment agencies. Where was the rule of law - I guess it was were it is now - no were in sight.
The rule of law is “try and stop me.”
*EXECUTED. “High Treason,” as fomenting a violent Insurrection BEFORE W Bush’s “forever wars” were ended, is punishable by DEATH. I never thought I’d wish for death, but Bunkerboy possesses ZERO positive human qualities.
We’re going to need an AG who will do the work.
Amen to this. Merrick Garland, thanks for nothing.
Hello Yeildo14... Don't forget John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, and Joe Biden for Assisting DJT's Escape From Accountability...
I remember all of those names. Especially President Biden, for whom I voted.
What in the actual f*** was Biden thinking, putting limp man unit Garland in that position?
Are you telling me that Biden did not have a conversation with Garland that started with "first, we throw the cheato's a** in jail?"
How about AG Jack Smith!?
I am from Florida. The north should have lined up the politicians and officer corps of the south against a wall and shot them for the traitors they were.
Instead, we concentrated on "healing." We are still fighting that damn war because we did not have the stomach to finish it.
Let's not make that mistake again. This needs to REALLY hurt. So that nobody wants to do it again.
I certainly understand the emotional appeal of calling for the death penalty, and I'll say it openly: I toyed with the idea (as I'm sure countless others have done) of buying my first-ever gun (I'm 74) and capping some asses myself. In the end, I realized that starting a civil war (as certainly would have been the outcome) would be a cure worse than the disease. I have always opposed the death penalty. For me, spending the remainder of their lives in a maximum-security federal prison would be punishment enough. And while we're at it, we need to severely curtail the power of the president to issue pardons. The circumstances that would make it allowable need to be spelled out clearly and irrevocably. A law has very recently been introduced that takes important first steps in achieving that. And Ghislane Maxwell needs to be sent back to the prison she was in before she was transferred to Club Fed for covering Trump's ass.
I am not actually calling for the death penalty now. I meant after the civil war. Although trump did try to overturn a legal election, so if that is not treason I do not know what is.
I do want EVERY single enabler prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I do NOT want to hear one bit of "let's find common ground."
There is NO negotiating with terrorists.
I'm with you, friend. There must not be talk of "National healing" or reconciliation. These people will only see that as weakness and go back to their long-running conspiracy to make real Ayn Rand's fever dreams. It needs to be dealt with harshly. We need to make the cost of insurrection against the Constitution and ideal of "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" higher than most would be willing to pay. And we need to commit ourselves to ensuring that those who are willing to pay, do so without delay.
Well expressed by you. Very well expressed.
It's got to really hurt.
Repuglicans are nothing but traitors and Nazis.
Lincoln was trying to preserve the Union after a heinous civil war and effectively "pardoned " the Confederates by allowing them to be absorbed back into the United States and to continue in the work of being productive for the betterment of the country. Sadly, the South has been the hotbed of bigoted White Supremacy ever since and is now once again raising it's ugly head to threaten our sacred constitutional rights as declared in the Preamble , The Constitution and The Bill of Rights of which they still wish to expunge and replace with a fascist autocracy.
I honor the noble motivation of those who pardoned the Southern traitors in the interest of healing the national trauma of the Civil War. The fact is, as you say, it didn't work, and so much of the darkness in the American psyche is a direct result of it. We need to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. Apart from direct prosecution of the primary malefactors, we also need to reform our economic system and empower government agencies to ensure that corporate greed and hegemony of markets, AND THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS, disappear from our society. Politically, we need to both limit the amount of money that can be spent on a campaign, mandate that media of all types provide free air time to all candidates equally, whether in local, state or federal elections (let them all pay back for the privilege of their licenses) and ban SuperPACs and corporate contributions, because corporations are NOT people. We also need to limit the length of campaigns to perhaps a couple of months and make it much easier for alternate parties and candidates to have a voice in elections. I'm not against wealth or property. "No state ownership of the means of production" for me. But all businesses must have a responsibility to promote the common good, and support an egalitarian society, and must be held strictly to account when they depart from that ideal. Sorry if that sounds preachy, but that's the privilege of old farts like me. :-D
Since they are guilty of treason, as far as I’m concerned, I recommend a wall and a firing squad!
In fact, they should receive the same ‘due process’ they gave all the American immigrants they rounded up!
We're better than that ,Christine. John's suggestion of prison time will suffice and is more consistent to what I want of our country in the form of justice.
Sounds like a very good idea to implement post haste.
May I quote you? "Make America Grateful Again?" Perfection.
You sure can! Tom Kurhajetz
red,white,and blue maga caps
47 shares Bolsonaro’s future. He knows it as well as we do. It’s just a matter of time.
Thumbs up emoji!
👍🏼
I also find Brazil encouraging.
Love it, Tom.
sick and tired of hate... grift...gloat...bugly boast blame...shame name calling bully hate...sick and tired
Let’s go for regime change, right here at home.
Amen and amen!
Me,too.
Trump has opened closet doors that have been closed for decades. The bigots and the misogynistic misfits have risen again thanks to the GOP and the 6 Trump justices on the highest court.
Trump surrounds himself with these people. It appears that he loves the most hateful, bigoted and incompetent supporters he can find. The only qualification is extreme loyalty to the Dumper himself. I believe his philosophy is, "Who cares if they are bigots? Who cares if they are competent? The only real measure is loyalty to *me*!
Yes, but those of us with an IQ higher than the average Republican already knew that they were waiting behind that door.
Is lacking political judgment snd decency the same as low IQ? I agree with your disgust, but there should be accountability for this people's management. Stupidity is an excuse.
I just get tired of listing his entire menagerie of shortcomings… He is an immoral, corrupt, racist, rapist grifter…. Basically we can list every negative personality trait in the entire dictionary because they are all accurate descriptions of this subhuman. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Lisa, agreed; but my point was your combining of IQ with his selection of evil people. I think he sees quality in persons that we consider racist, antisemitic, and incompetent: that is not stupid, but s political judgement that he should be accountable for.
They were always there. Just hiding. Now out in the open.
ENOUGH. A Jew (Miller), an Italian (Ingrassia), and a Hispanic (Fuentes) walk into the White House, thinking they're in the in-crowd. And I won't be the least bit surprised when they find out they're as much the OTHER as those among their hated immigrant roots. Because NAZIS are gonna NAZI. Signed, a Jew and Left-Wing Scum that supports Justice and won't be silent.
Hate is a tactic to overthrow the government, from my essay, E Pluribus Unum: https://dialector.substack.com/p/e-pluribus-unum "Every petty insult hurled, every neighbor turned enemy, every blind partisan skirmish, these are not just childish grievances; they are the deliberate dismantling of American heritage. This is not some passing phase of division, it is an orchestrated assault on the very essence of our nation. The Constitution, the framework of our shared identity as citizens, has been erased from our political talk from within, replaced by raw emotional manipulation that leaves us too distracted to defend ourselves from governmental lawlessness. This isn't just a national disgrace, it is an existential crisis. Either we conserve the Constitution, the foundation for protecting our American heritage, or this country dies before our eyes. There is no middle ground. Those who seek to erase constitutionally faithful governance are waging war against the United States itself. And if we fail to recognize this now, we won't get a second chance."
And just think of the energy expended to amount the campaign of hate. It’s far more difficult than spreading the love of each other and our country.
They have been planning this for quite some time , it seems.
My clearest description of this is in "American Politics 101: The Fundamentals of American Greatness": https://dialector.substack.com/p/american-politics-101 Here is one quote from the section, 'The Very Un-Great Culture War" - "The culture war is not making America great. It is hiding the truth of real American greatness, which is our unity under the Constitution, and destroying the civic virtues that put American greatness directly into the hands of We the People. The culture war is not American politics. It is an abdication of American politics, the denial of civic responsibility, the rejection of reasoned self-government, a betrayal of American citizenship, the sabotage of public trust, and the death of thoughtful deliberation on governing policy. Our culture war works to keep us away from our Constitution and to destroy our unity by filling our minds with poisonous partisan nonsense. Its only function is to keep the constitutional principles and structure that define American politics from ever making America great again.
The culture war is a distraction factory, with an anti-American purpose to distract, divide, and conquer the American people so that we make war upon ourselves instead of uniting like real Americans under the Constitution. An irony of the culture war is that it is helping to destroy real American greatness in the name of Making America Great Again. The culture war contributes nothing to the governance of the nation. Its sole purpose is to make it impossible for the citizens of the United States to support and defend the founding document that defines the nation, secures our freedom, guarantees our rights, and brings forth every measure of real American greatness.
This is what tyranny needs to kill America and make a profit off of its corpse. The anti-American tyranny that is manifesting in our culture war loves to reward ignorance of American heritage, punish principles and ethics, and train citizens to treat each other as enemies. While we do our culture war duty to scream at each other like a bunch of impotent farm animals being led by the nose, the knowledge of our Constitution, our rights, our American heritage, and our patriotic duties fades from public memory. In their place: culture war animosity, childish insults, and a grotesque partisan spectacle of avarice and sickening lust for un-American dictatorship. This is not who we are, and it is not who we have to remain."
Thank you, Max, for your very thoughtful explanation of our current reality.
It does seem that what you are saying is exactly what is happening.
The most vicious clubhouse on earth. :(
As a woman, I couldn't help but envision what these petty hatred-mongering men must be like in their personal relationships. Ugh. Likely, the women in their lives can't just pick up and leave when the brutality sets in, the physical violence and/or mental abuse - the threats, the irrational, unreasonable demands. Imagine having a petty tyrant in the house at all times. These puny little fascist misogynists in the Trumposphere all suffer the same psychological issues, damaged beyond repair, never really happy, always angry and always ready to blame.
Like! Thanks for the reminder of a book I mean to buy myself for New Years: "A Well-trained Wife." Apparently it is focused on religious oppression, which isn't a mandatory context for your concerns, but I still want to support the witness. Control and abuse of females is so universal and perpetual we few privileged "Western Civilization" women only notice it because we've had this tantalizing glimpse of the possibility of being able to act as fully human, especially with human rights under the law. Such a brief moment: hey, we got credit cards in our own names in the 1970's! Wow!
Judith ,there some women among them who are just as bad.
No doubt, Ghislaine Maxwell is one of them. Damaged people on both sides. However, we need to acknowledge that men are in the overwhelming majority of miscreants when it comes to brutality towards the opposite sex, the incidence of rape, sexual aggression, physical brutality, war mongering, sexually deviant behaviours, oppression and murder.
It's not easy being a single woman trying to survive in life while competing with men for a livelihood. I don't blame them for wanting a loving relationship with a significant other to share life and it's hardships with . It's a scary world that we live in .
Bigotry is a central feature of MAGA/Trumpism, something they have celebrated openly. From the time Trump came down the golden escalator, he’s demonstrated that bigots, racists, and fascists are welcome. They’ve come out from under all the rocks under which they were long hiding to cheer their good fortune. It only grows and survives, though, if we allow it to do so. Push back.
Yes. He has made it so visible that it is impossible to be complacent. Love conquers hate. We can get clear on what we love about our country and work to make it a reality.
On New Year’s Day I will be making a list starting with the Declaration of Independence’s self evident truth that we are all created equal.
Good for you, Jonni. I'm with you on that. The Preamble is another worthy writing to trumpet and any of what Tom has suggested early in this thread would be advised ,as well.
Charles - The only difference now is that instead of hoods the KKK now wears a mask and an ICE badge and the grand marshal is currently gold plating the Oval Office.
There definitely needs to be resistance starting now.
I think we have reached at least Hate 10.0!
We have to counteract with Compassion, Empathy, and Justice 100.0!
And equality.
Yes.
Yes. We need a healthy mix of that ,too.
Donald the Cruel has given life to those who hate. Every single group that has ever been discriminated against is experiencing rising hate. Jews, minorities, gays, people of color, immigrants, Muslims, Asian-Americans, etc.
So all decent people must Resist & Unite. The haters are a minority but they use force & violence to try to dominate the decent majority. Besides rallies, the Resistance needs to actively oppose the crimes & barbarism of Donald the Cruel's administration in the justice system. We must vote & replace the reactionary politicians with moral & ethical elected officials & leaders.
The day will come when MAGA is so far behind the main stream he & his ilk won't be visible in our rear view mirrors.
Good points.
A small interesting tidbit about the surname Ingrassia....
"Background, origin and meaning of Ingrassia:
The surname Ingrassia originates from Sicily, Italy, and is derived from the Arabic word "ingrassia," meaning "fattening" or "enriching." It was likely initially used as a nickname or descriptive name for someone who was well-nourished, prosperous, or perhaps involved in agriculture or animal husbandry. Over time, this descriptive term evolved into a hereditary surname. Associated names may include Ingrassi, Grassi, or Grassia."
https://www.wisdomlib.org/names/ingrassia
So, very true to type it seems.
For a long time Italians were not considered "white". My NY born father's Irish background relatives had difficulty accepting my mother who was the daughter of Italian immigrants.
Thank you for the tidbit re the name Ingrassia.
Like I just wrote: Greed is at the heart of all of this.
So erudite!!!
So learned of you to say so, JBR.
"[Ingrassia] has written: “We need competent white men in positions of leadership."
A statement about competent white men coming from someone in the Trump administration is so deeply ironic, it's not even funny.
Good point! I was reading (sorry, earlier in day, I try to cite sources, but...) about the Justice Dept. making a court filing that they literally didn't have enough competent staff left to comply with some discovery deadline. Then there is this from David Kay Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3uepHkwm3Y drawing a parallel from 2008 crash aftermath, with competent people in place, compared to Trump "clown car."
This piece succinctly cuts through the wild morass of reported statements and events and gets to the heart of the Trump regime, and of Trump himself. It's the kind of cogent statement that is satisfying in its simplicity and gives one the feeling that there's nothing that needs to be said. Well done, Professor Reich!
ABOMINATION
pathetic white boys….
Just a bunch of little dicks who adore Bone Spurs.
In his picture on the email, that wanker's smile begs for a fist.
Backpfeifengesicht: German word meaning a face that deserves a slap/punch.
👍 Thanks! Looking forward to working that new Deutsches Wort into my vocabulary!
Hoffentlich Vergangenheitsbewältigung fur America SCHNELL!
Egsactly.
Hate and Cruelty..