Good, Bad and FAFO...

Humans, and our ancestors, were (still are) curious explorers. Everywhere we’ve looked we observed possibilities and created ways to take advantage of those possibilities.  

The other thing, that happens simultaneously (whether anybody thought about it, or not) is, ”What could possibly go wrong?”

Surprises awaited even if we asked, thought and planned for all those possibilities.  Surprises were/are capably greater if there was not said anticipation.

Take, for instance, population and agriculture that happens in the southwestern USA…  Take a look at the maps that document the deserts of North America, then ask yourself, “What could possibly go wrong?”

The answer is already pretty overwhelming, then some overly enthusiastic, tech narcissists/megalomaniacs (N/M) try desperately hard to sell way too much data center capacity for AI (advanced, 1980s, automation) to run wild.

The N/M really don’t want to think, pretty much at all, because their pronouns are: me, myself and I!  ‘More, more, more...’ is what they are certain they need; everywhere, all the time. Everybody else be damned!

The Potential of Recreating Democracy in the USA

My parents, Greatest Gen, were teachers and they could afford a house, with initial help from parents...  My wife and I, Boomers, could afford a house, in 2001, for less than 30% of our household income, after the initial help (on our first home), from our parents...  can’t do that now.

You, more recent generations, can not do that either, even if we, parents, help.

This is a symptom of a problem that started over 40 years ago when wealthy oligarchs, aristocrat  wannabes, got ticked that the world was not bowing at their beck and call, so they bought the Republican party (created the Republican criminal syndicate - RCS) and eventually got a grifter in chief elected to be President; twice.

I will not tell you the Democrats were innocent, but they mostly cooperated by not resisting, not recognizing, that the ground was being moved beneath their, our, feet.

In 2016 our, USA, allies’ intelligence agencies reported listening/tapping communications, from their Russian bureaus, and they picked up information being exchanged twixt Russia and the offices of Trump family business locations; likely our own intelligence agencies knew this also. Reaction in the USA: crickets.

A book, “Project 2025,” was published, prior to the 2024 elections, that outlined specific details of what the aristocrat wannabes wanted from a second merde l’orange term in the White House; “1984,” made real.  Reaction: crickets.   

Democracy was ours to loose…  and we let it slip away.

Government, when it works, functions in the background and is boring.  So, too many of us took government for granted, forgetting that democratic government is neither a self-starter, nor is it self-sustaining; stopped voting…

This is how we lost democracy in the USA!

People are starting to pay attention to government, after we lost democracy.

Too many people had stopped paying attention when they got used to government working quietly, in the background, largely fulfilling it's role: making everything work reasonably well.

See: USA’s economic history, from 1946 to 1976, when the largest, most productive, most innovative and equitable economy in the world was functioning.  Socialism, Keynesian government spending, were key building blocks to said economy.

DEI is true meritocracy, because it creates an economy where every qualified person can compete for everything all the time.  The economy grows and prospers when everybody can participate; live in all around, reasonable comfort.

VOTE!  Let's get our democracy back.  The future is ours to determine.

Why Authoritarian Regimes Always Fail

China is starting to exhibit the authoritarian syndrome: military starts to resemble the force needed to mount a coup d’etat; oft an internal struggle.  The core elements of a powerful military will be undermined by the, always insecure, dictator.

Russia’s example comes to mind…  Russia has a massive military that was to stomp out, subjugate, the independent country of Ukraine in days… The war is four years old and Russia, by all appearances, is getting destroyed.

The USA has an aristocrat wannabe class driving the merde l’orange (Republican criminal syndicate – RCS) problem: trying to introduce an authoritarian regime in  our own country. This November (hopefully earlier; see Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution) we will get an indication of how much longer this grifter in chief can inflict the authoritarian syndrome/wound.

A couple of things to remember about authoritarian regimes like China, Russia and what’s happening in the USA:

    A strong, capable military isn't possible because a coup d'etat oft originates in    country.

    An economy ruled strictly from the top of the regime is the most demoralizing   thing possible (all decisions are made at the highest levels of the regime, credit is taken by said regime, blame is delegated to any and everybody else). The wheels fall off because the economy is subjugated to the incompetence of the regime.


Authoritarian regimes are still dangerous because they will risk anything, that isn't theirs or themselves, in the process of failing.