A Boomer to the More Recent Generations...

Blaming us, Boomers, is the key to not getting back to where we were after WWII: 1946-1976.

The USA was the land of opportunity after WWII because of: unions, the New Deal, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Glass-Steagall, etc...

During the Gilded Age, the period of extravagance that caused the Great Depression, the megalomaniacal class (mega($)), the uber wealthy of the day, did not think, "enough," applied to them.  Sound familiar?

The business of business is profit, and unregulated businesses tend to profit only the owner class; those whose parents' fiscal status could make business ownership possible.  The mega($) also despised competition; built trusts wherever possible.

Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt were leaders in the effort to put significant, regulatory (government) restraints on their megalomaniacal peers.  The fix started before the turn of the 20th century, but was not successfully completed till the New Deal kicked into high gear at the end of WWII.

Keynesian government spending recognized the need for some activities (infrastructure: water, electricity, telecommunications (telephone, radio, TV, etc...), roads, airports, sea ports; military; education: pre-k to post doc; health care; R&D: FFRDCs, tier 1 & 2 public, research universities; etc...) needed to be done for as close to everybody as possible; this was/is not profitable.  Socialism was, and still is, needed.  Businesses can not, will not, do what's required, even as they declare that, "only they can." Sounding familiar here as well?

In the 1960s and 70s progress towards an all inclusive society was made: the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts lead the way.  Women's health care made major progress in the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.  A woman could not have her own credit card, car or home loan till half way through the 1970s; ask your Mom or Grandmother.

There was a problematic group, heavily promoted by a resurging mega($) class, during the late 20th century called the, "neo-liberals."  They were neither new nor were/are they liberal. Moving away from the government regulations that restrained the unenlightened self-interests of the 1% allowed the economy, that the more recent generations find problematic, to come to pass; again.

I will not defend Boomers from the part of the blame that we deserve. However, if you want to rebuild the economy that made the USA the most equitably wealthy, overall, in the world, you've got a great deal of work to do. If, “socialism,” seems unworkable to you, that points to that person in your mirror as your main problem.

You can ask the Boomers to help, and quite a few of us will, but the effort you need the most is your own; start with voting.  Greed is an ever present characteristic of the human race, and it must be regulated by government; of, by and for the people (voters and other participants). Mega($) self restraint has not, and will not, ever happen.

Time to Recreate Democracy in the United States of America...

 ICE (American SS) is moving fast to make Americans familiar with, and afraid of, said ICE, "law enforcement (SS)."

Speaker (Stepped on his) Johnson, of the US House of Representatives, sent the Republicans (Republican criminal syndicate, RCS) in said US House of Representatives on vacation to avoid swearing in the newest, recently elected, House member; the 218th vote for the release of the Epstein files.

The investigations  into voting irregularities, in the 2024 elections (starting in Rockland County, NY), implicate some of the oligarchs, behind the curtain in the 47 administration, who had provided means and methods for said election tampering;

The oligarchs are trying to get unregulated, kleptocurrency normalized;

The oligarchs are trying to get unregulated AI activities accepted;

Many of the oligarchs, behind the curtain of the 47 administration, are also in the Epstein files...

Pattern emerging?

The oligarchs have a lot to gain with merde l'orange in the White House; sycophants (RCS) in the US Congress and SCOTUS sycophants immunizing 47 from the need to adhere to: oath of office, rule of law and the US Constitution.

The walls are closing in on merde l’orange with: vote 218, Epstein at the door; more investigations about 2024 election irregularities; emoluments violations; war crimes; etc...

If the control, from behind the curtains, is  exposed as the acts of criminally motivated, megalomaniacal oligarchs, trying to create an authoritarian led gilded age (profiting only themselves), said control might come to an end. Oligarchs could begin to face the legal consequences of their activities; finish lives in prisons, not aristocratic opulence.

It is, well past (but not too late), time to hold those who participated, in any way shape or form, in the aforementioned insurrection to task: eject from office as specified in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, so that the legislative quorums that remain can reestablish Democracy in the United States of America! 

Let’s get moving!

We Did NOT Need To Be Here!

We, the people, did not take appropriate action... 

The Republican party began it’s chosen path of decline, to the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS), after the party of Lincoln decided that the traitors responsible for the insurrection, that became the Civil War, did not need to be held to account; very few investigations led to few, or no, indictments and resulted in no trials for actual treason.

In the Reagan administration the conservative, southern Democrats admitted that they were, “Reagan,” Republicans; starting, in earnest, the slide into the RCS.

When 45 was impeached for inciting insurrection (a.k.a., treason) many RCS in the US House did not vote to impeach, but 45 was impeached by the requisite majority in the House nonetheless.

The US Senate required a more significant majority  (two thirds, 67 votes) to convict the impeached merde l’orange/45.  Sufficient RCS Senators refused to convict the impeached President.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution details that anybody associated,  in any way, with insurrection is forbidden from holding any public office, requiring an oath of office,  ever (be it again, or in the first place).  

Merde l’orange would have been removed from office immediately upon conviction, and be barred from any other office, ever again; could not campaign for another elected office, let alone President of these United States.

If all the upcoming elections were to remove all of the RCS candidates and current, public office holders from contention that would clear the way for the convict merde l’orange to be properly impeached, convicted and removed from office for emoluments clause violations, and any other crimes indicated by appropriate investigations.

This would not only return the US Congress to the only party that actually respects: oath of office; rule of law; and the US Constitution…  The Democrats (and the two, Independent Senators) would be put in a position to restore Democracy in the USA. 

We, the people, must rise up to the challenge of voting to restore Democracy in the USA, or we own the fall of Democracy in our nation, and the rest of the world if it follows us down the rabbit hole.

Let’s fix this problem as only we, the people, can!

Democrats and Independents... The time to engage has come!

We don't have to beat the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS) at their own game, using their methods and tactics, but we must compete and win if we're going to restore Democracy in the USA.

When they go low, we walk across them like the badly warn pavement they've chosen to become.

Fight fire with water cannons.  There's a reason those devices are bolted to vehicles.   

Let's demonstrate our determination.

Democrats in Texas, California, Illinois, NY, etc... have shown the way.  

There are things that government must do, because they are expensive to do well, and must be done as well as is possible for as close to everyone as is possible.

The business of business is profit, and there's no profit to be had in providing these most important of basic services: education (pre-k to post doc); transportation (roads, trains, airports, seaports, etc...); basic research (FFRDC, Tier 1 & 2 research universities, etc...); post office (6 days every week, to everyone come rain or sleet...); the military (to protect and defend the Constitution...); regulations that define the boundaries for establishing and keeping civil society.

Government must do health care (Medicare for All/Single payer), because the best medical practices are prevention and most efficient/fastest cure; the least profitable of all available means and methods.

Remember, the business of business is profit, and the best of health care is that which is most efficient and effective; least profitable.

These are some of the things businesses can't do well, no matter what they say, because the pursuit of profit is self-serving, and those who've profited most have taken unenlightened, self-interest to narcissist and megalomaniacal extremes.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, except for everything else.  Democracy is what we must constantly pursue as if our posterity depends upon it, because it does.

Lead, follow or get out of the way, because we've  got a Democracy to re-establish in these United States of America.

“De Minimis,” is for Cheating.

There is no such thing as a, “de minimis,” (insignificant) change to any voting machine; anywhere, ever.  All proposed changes should have every detail published and distributed well in advance, so that everything might be cross checked by multiple other, “third party oversight,” agencies and vendors.

I spent 25 years working in tech support for computer connectivity, networking, and in one of the data centers, where I spent 5 years, we did systems changes starting Saturday at midnight.  The phrase used for dodging reporting and accountability was, that the system, “change is transparent to the users.”

There were often changes in many of the different sub systems involved in the processing of data at this, unnamed, company.  Too often many of these changes were labeled, in the associated documentation (lack thereof), as, “transparent to users.”  Many of these changes were not known to said users, and most of the systems' users did not come in till start of business on Monday morning.  

The phones at the operations/tech support desks would start to ring as computer  users on the east coast tried to begin their work week on Monday morning.  The changes weren't just not, “transparent,” they often had caused applicable systems to crash.

It was apparent, though not followed through with, that no changes should ever be referred to as, “transparent to users,” and/or, “de minimis.”

The voting machines used in the USA are far more important than the data processing systems in any single company, so it is far more important that NO change may ever be labeled as, “de minimis.”

According to an investigative piece, from the Daily Boulder, a private lab quietly implemented sweeping changes to voting machines used in over 40% of U.S. counties ahead of the 2024 race. Those changes, the report claims, were made with no public notice, no formal testing, and no third-party oversight.

What changes were made to voting machines before the 2024 election?  Investigations and litigation is currently in process to find out.  The election has been certified by Congress, so the results of the 2024 Presidential election are unlikely to be changed as a result of the aforementioned activity.

Instead of labeling these as major changes, Pro V&V classified them as “de minimis,” a term typically reserved for insignificant tweaks. This classification allowed them to bypass public scrutiny and avoid triggering full-scale testing or certification processes.

But watchdog group SMART Elections wasn’t convinced. In their words:
“This wasn’t just a glitch in some sleepy county. It was a stress test of our entire system.”

Soon after the machines went live, complaints began to surface.

At the center of the controversy is Jack Cobb, the director of Pro V&V. While he doesn’t appear in the headlines, his lab certifies the machines that millions of Americans use to vote. According to the report, once the controversy began to gain traction, Pro V&V’s website went dark, leaving only a phone number and a generic email address. No public logs. No documentation. No comment.

Pro V&V is certified by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). However, once accredited, labs like Pro V&V face no real public oversight.

These are problems that should never have been allowed to happen; needs to be determined and addressed before November elections in 2026.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/kamala-harris-won-the-u-s-elections-bombshell-report-claims-voting-machines-were-tampered-with-before-2024/articleshow/121732679.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst  


https://aitechtonic.com/secret-changes-to-voting-machines-cast-shadow-over-2024-u-s-election-integrity/  


P.S., If the federal elections of 2026 lead to a veto proof, Democratic majority in the US Congress, then the transgressions, oft illegal, of the (criminally convicted, pathological liar) merde l'orange administration can start to be corrected while said troublesome 47th president still occupies our (US citizens') White House.

Let's Get Busy!

Ladies and Gentlemen of all persuasions... I hear too many of you complaining about how life is mistreating you. Especially, that the Democratic party does not work for you.

Have you registered to vote? Checked your voter registration? Do you vote in as close to every election as possible?  Have you communicated with your elected officials (briefly, courteously and reasonably often)?

Seems like a lot to ask of you... However, it really does not take all that long with the Internet and e-mail tools available these days. You already knew these things unless you are one of those folks described in the first paragraph, who hasn't attempted any of these things.

If you don't do any of the aforementioned, suggested things, how do you expect Democrats to know what you want? What you need? You're expecting a clairvoyant to just magically be able to know all and do exactly what you want; every where, all the time.

If that describes your lack of activity in your own best interest, you're your own worst nightmare.

Your job is too tough and doesn't pay the bills, provide the benefits you and your family need...  So, did you join a union? Did you ever think to organize with your co-workers to petition for what you, and everyone else, really are expecting in return for your  hard work?

Once again, you might be the problem if you are expecting that what you want will just magically happen!

Are you surprised when things just don't automatically go the way you want?

If you can't be bothered to make a modest effort for yourself, for your own life, you are the reason that you will always be disappointed.

One of the loudest, and most consistently present voices in America are African-American, women!  But they don't have the numbers to do it all by themselves.

In the last Presidential election they could not carry the most qualified candidate to victory, not only because they have insufficient numbers on their own, but also because misogyny and racism worked against them.

We, Americans, are literally in the worst of times, because too many of us could not be bothered to show up and act in our own best interest.

We all need to stand up, look around, find the team that's most likely to work with, and for, us (a union and the Democrats) and get busy.

Democracy doesn't happen  on it's own, and isn't self sustaining... If we, each and every one of us, can't be bothered to at least show up we will always be saddled with what someone else wants.

We need to get all of our back sides in gear, join together, and let's create the society that works as well as is possible for all of us.

Let's get this done!

Three Steps Forward; Four Steps Back...

 Fight fire with water cannons!

In the 1940s there were unions and workers started to reap more of the benefits of the industrial, then information, age that their efforts created. The 1960s saw Civil and Voting Rights advanced for more Americans. In the 70s women's rights and health care needs were advanced in the USA. We voted for a seriously qualified, African-American man for our President early in the 21st century; twice.

We got self-satisfied and the progress was lost.

Some megalomaniacal, wealthy oligarchs (aristocrat wannabes), with the help of some seriously insecure, (almost exclusively white) people (a.k.a., MAGAts) elected the 34 times convicted, pathological liar to the Presidency; twice.

The oligarchs are surprised by the consequences of electing said merde l'orange; FAFO. The MAGAts are discovering that, "the leopard is eating their face;" FAFO, once again.  

Where there is wealth (in the USA we've created the largest, wealthiest of economies the world has ever known) theft will be a near constant threat.  The aristocrat wannabes pretend that the miracle, of the USA, was because of what they've done. They are utterly incorrect. They want the spoils funneled to themselves, but they are completely incapable of doing this, amongst the many other things at which they always fail, for themselves.

Hence merde l'orange and the MAGAts.

We, the people, need to take back our Democracy.  Protest, peacefully, and vote in every election.

Our Democracy is our responsibility.  

Remember, Democracy doesn't happen on it's own, and does not sustain itself.
 
Democracy is a form of government that must be: of, by and for the people, or it will not work.  

When government works it is boring!  The following books are explanatory; need not be read cover to cover to be understood:

Who is Government; by Michael Lewis (and many others); Riverhead Books, 2025.  

Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Your Wallet Does Better During a Democratic Administration), by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Advantage Media Group, 2012.

Poverty, By America; by Matthew Desmond; Crown Publishing; 2023.  

How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems That Shape Our World; Deb Chachra; Riverhead Books; 2023. 


We, the voters (nobody else can do it for us), bear the responsibility for good government.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for everything else," said Winston Churchill.

The USA is now enduring the, “everything else,” that is the worst of government.

Come together, right now, and restore our progress, our Democracy, as only we (all the people) can.