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.