Fixing Our Democratic Republic After Republican/SCOTUS Efforts to Break It.

Democrats,

VA Hospitals, rural abandoned hospitals, federal buildings, military bases, etc...  Can be used to create federal, women's clinics.

Federal, military, medical personnel, and federal contractors (from said rural hospitals and closed clinics)...  Can staff these clinics.

Protected prescriptions (from the aforementioned, women's clinics) to customers/patients via the USPS.

Use federal facilities and personnel to fill needs, the SCOTUS recently created, and fill the gaps till voters can give Democrats the legislative majorities needed to correct said issues more permanently.

Always remember, as in the case of women's health care, voting and civil rights, etc..., What was once secured can be taken away by a persistent pestilence currently known as Republicans.

There can be no worries about bi-partisanship till there is a second party not determined to ruin our democratic republic in the name of their own power.

 

Be Part of the Solution in the USA

Fascism has arrived in the USA.

Get angry, and then be the one of the folks who channel their energy, and, more important, their vote to fixing the problems that not voting allowed to happen. 

It's people not voting that failed their country...  A Democratic Republic requires voter participation.

The people who have always showed up, and voted (Hillary called them, "deplorables"), were given the ability to bring us here by those of us who bought into the lie that our vote didn't  matter.

Every vote cast matters!

Founding Document Basics...

This is for those least likely to read it...

“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...” is as close to health care as anything included in the Declaration of Independence, and yet SCOTUS declared that women can't have it.

FYI... Medicines, shipped by US mail, are protected against any and all interference by federal law.

2^nd Amendment enthusiasts, who have no idea what is actually written in said amendment, would skip over the first four words (“A well regulated militia”) to get to where their imaginations think the word, “gun,” is mentioned...

“Keep and bear arms,” in the 18^th century (when the document was written, and not amended at all since then) means to possess the weapons one would bring when called to service in the government's (British aristocracy or American democratic republic) militia. The 18^th century weapons included: pikes (variation on a spear), bow and arrow, sword and fire arms (black powder, muzzle loading, single shot, musket and/or pistol), and (for those who could afford it) a black powder, muzzle loading, single shot, rifle.

Fire arms, not guns; guns didn't exist when the document was written, and it hasn't been amended since then.

 

There's Only One Party in Our Democratic Republic...

Democrats need to step up the messaging. Forget bi-partisan and run on the GOP/Re/Qpublican's, decades long, war on nearly everything Democrat.

Bring every bill that passes in the House to the Senate for a vote; explain what said bill would've done if it had been allowed to pass...

Explain the Jim Crow, filibuster and who always stops it's repeal; remind voters again and again and again, ad infinitum...

The Re/Qpublicans have forced the need for continuing resolutions, in lieu of bi-partisan budget legislation, for decades...

Gingrich, as House majority leader, stopped as much as he could of the Clinton administration's legislative agenda. A serious version of the ACA, Bill Kristol warned that if it was in place for a couple of years it would be so widely appreciated that it would impossible to undo, was stopped before it could ever become law....

Re/Qpublicans have tried to outsource, or eliminate, starting almost immediately after each program came to be: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The Re/Qpublican party is the party of, "shrink government till it can be drowned in a bath tub," and did everything possible to make it's government, “can't do,” philosophy self fulfilling...

Moscow Mitch, as Senate majority leader, declared his most important job was to make Obama a one term President...

The Re/Qpublican party sent a delegation to Moscow July 4^th 2018...

The Qpublican party wouldn't impeach the orange menace, twice, even after he provoked insurrection...

Legislation, during the Biden administration, has repeatedly passed in the House only to die in the Senate...

Election reform, repair and update of the Voting Rights Act, has been blocked by Re/Qpublicans at every opportunity, because they know they can't win a fair election...

The Senate has become the most recent, Re/Qpublican place where good legislation, that has already passed in the House, goes to die!

If we don't advertise, in reasonably affordable places (e.g., multiple platforms on the Internet), we will be the reason we, Democrats, do poorly in all upcoming elections.

Remember that anyone that had anything to do with the Insurrection, including those who confessed to said participation via acceptance of a pardon, need be on the receiving end of Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment.

Well, How Did We Get Here?

The Insurrection of January 6, 2021 once again brings violence to the fore in the continuing, re-prosecution of the (un)Civil War...

It's been hard for some to come to grips with, “Well, how did we get here?”

White supremacists have been integral to these United States... First, the history of the Americas, the western hemisphere, has been documented as starting in 1492; in spite of massive amounts of accumulated evidence that people have resided on the entire landmass for tens of thousands of years...

Labor was provided by slaves; brought to the Americas involuntarily...

That the USA's founding fathers were enlightened, in an 18^th century context, while still prone to being white supremacists; white men owning property were the only original voters, those held as slaves were counted as three fifths of a person in the original census and indigenous people did not count at all...

That for the last 50 plus years Democrats have felt a need to be nonpartisan, reaching across the aisle in a centrist (neo-liberal) way, while picking up the pieces of the economic and social messes Republicans created. (see also, the book: Bulls Bears and the Ballot Box by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb)...

Some things to keep in mind while promoting progressive (Keynesian) Democrats up and down all ballots in 2022, and beyond...

FDR (D): The New Deal and Keynesian economics, etc...

 

JFK (D): 1962 Speech at Rice University, FFRDCs, etc...

 

LBJ (D): Great Society, Medicaid, Civil and Voting Rights Acts, etc...

SCOTUS: 1973 Roe v. Wade...

 

Obama (D): Affordable Care Act, etc...

Biden (D): American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, etc...

The media has been promoting a, “both sides do it,” in creating the chaos that has haunted our United States of America for, at least, the last century.

That's patently incorrect.

Conservatives, in the guise of Republicans since the Reagan administration, created problems while trying to return to the problematic, white supremacist, roots of these United States.

Democrats have picked up the messes while refusing to point out the errors, and without ever holding those, who were intentionally making those errors, in a recurring nightmarish series of events, responsible.

Elections and investigations can give us the power to correct the errors of the recent past and hold those criminally responsible to task.

Remember, this is a recurring problem, because we, who should know better, get comfortably self-satisfied and forget that those, who would do whatever it takes to serve only themselves, never go away.

Keep your eyes open, and: Vote! Vote! Vote!

 

Environmental Groups Must Address Both Sides of Climate Change

Can 350.org, UCS, FOE, Greenpeace, etc... walk and chew gum?

Fossil fuels are, and always have been, key to the Industrial and the Information Ages. We aren't anywhere near being able to provide renewable energy to power the world we live in, so (like it or, preferably, not) fossil fuel production continues!

We must be able to provide the HVAC we are all accustom to, light for buildings, streets, etc... Then we must add all the renewable energy and infrastructure needed to power transportation...

That's an extremely tall, almost unbelievably so, order that we aren't, yet, taking seriously.

I started a company to take transportation over half way to reducing fuel consumption, and associated tailpipe emissions. It isn't being done by the established transportation industry players, because there are wealthy and powerful influences against anything that reduces hydrocarbon profits.

I recently testified about the aforementioned transportation issues to both the EPA and USDOT, but that, too, is an attempt to register a tortoise for a marathon.

It is well past time that 350.org, and all the other responsible environmental boosters, worked both sides of the problem. We owe that to the future generations from whom we lease the Earth.

 

Bill Maher Jumps the Shark

Bill Maher is a Qpublican talking point, and misleading his audience (of which I am still one) in a number of ways:

Bill Maher owes James Carville and Bill Clinton an apology.  Bill Clinton stated (at the Democratic National Convention), and James repeated (on Maher's TV show), the statistic (that could have easily been confirmed by Bill M., or his staff, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website) that since the fall of the Soviet Union (the end of the Cold War; 1989) the US economy has added 51 million jobs; 50 million during Democratic administrations, and 1 million during Republican administrations.  Sounds, and is, fantastic...  Bill Maher called it, "Bullshit," and for that he owes Bill Clinton and James Carville an apology.  

I'm waiting!

 

Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment is real and applicable to many in the US Congress, SCOTUS and state election administrators (all who took an oath of office to the US Constitution, and broke it by having anything to do with election denial and January 6th, 2021;

Real investigations take a frustratingly long time, especially when it involves thousands of people and incredibly, enormous quantities of evidence;

Government is flawed because it is done by people. Our government has been hampered by decades of, “trying to shrink government till it can be drowned in a bathtub,” and, “Supply Side economics,” promoted by Republicans/Qpublicans (after January 6^th 2021) and Neo-liberal (confused) Democrats;

The vast majority of things you depend upon everyday are here because of government: roads, bridges, airports, seaports, public education, Post Office, electricity (Rural Electrification Act, etc...), technology (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers), etc;

Don't want to live in an authoritarian, dictatorship you have to vote and for only one (Democrat), of two (find an independent party with a governing presence, anywhere in these United States), political parties;

Find out what medical research believes was the actual count of the dead, the real consequence, of Covid;

What masks and isolation did for the Flu;

If Bill's prediction for the midterm elections are correct he can look in the mirror, as a part of the, “conservative media,” for the reason.