Understanding Applied Socialism...

Democrats responding poorly to the Democratic Socialist victories of late have forgotten, never knew, the history of the US economy.

To review:

There were multiple, "panics," (recessions in 19th century America) that were caused by the over reach of private credit.  The Great Depression in 20th century America; same cause.  The Great Recession in 21st century USA also had the same cause: over extended private credit.

What panic mongers, and their ilk, don't care to understand is that no matter how much the Republican criminal syndicate runs up the federal deficit it causes the perception of problems that they desire, but it does not cause recessions or depressions!

Why not?

Because the US government controls the money supply.  The folks who buy US Treasury Bonds/Notes don't dump their investments because the government can, if the need arises, print all the money needed. That might cause inflation, but the debt is always paid.

The same does not apply to private debt.  

The fix for the Great Depression was socialist... Yes I just triggered some who will not review the history that they have avoided so well, so far.

See: 
A Brief History of Doom: 200 Years of Financial Crises, by Richard Vague; 

The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway;  

https://livingnewdeal.org/history-of-the-new-deal/programs/  

Sherman Anti-Trust Act;

Glass-Steagall;

The New Deal (including the Alphabet Agencies);

National Industrial Recovery Act;

https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2026/06/some-of-what-democrats-should-be.html  

etc...

Unregulated capitalism is feudalism!

Properly applied socialism gave the United States the largest, most equitable, economy in the world, from 1946 - 1976.

The big tent that is, as it should be, the Democratic party needs to understand the role that government, including applied socialism (regulated capitalism), has played in the incredible success that has been our US economy.

A group of way too rich, megalomaniacs (aristocrat wannabes) have purchased the Republican party to create the Republican criminal syndicate; purchased the White House for Reagan and the criminal in chief that is merde l'orange; added the SCOTUS to their list of purchases.

These megalomaniacs have three pronouns: me, myself and I...  Aren't just unwilling to share, they never have enough for themselves; want more, more and more still.

The voters have to put the Democrats in control of the government or, "we the people," will never get our democratic republic back.  The Democrats we elect have to understand the enormity of the task they will, hopefully, be told to fulfill and get it done! 

Properly Applied Socialism

Unregulated capitalism is feudalism.

Remember the, "Panics," of the 19th century, the Great Depression of the 20th century and the Great Recession of the 21st century?  They were all caused by over leveraged, private debt, and the fix wasn't implemented till anti-trust laws, Glass-Steagall, Keynesian government spending, government agencies creating jobs, etc... applied appropriate, Socialist, corrections.

That was socialism finally curing what was causing recurring crashes of the US economy while creating the greatest, most equitable, economic expansion in the history of the USA (and the rest of the world, for that matter). See: statistics from the US economy from 1946 - 1976. 

I'm betting that you know where to find said stats.

The megalomaniacal oligarchs, aristocrat wannabes, spent decades trying to undo that progress. The wannabes finally stopped progress when they purchased the Republican party to create the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS). 

The Reagan administration (RCS in the White House) introduced the  regressive nonsense that constituted, 'Supply Side,' economics. The Neo-liberals (a combination of gullible Democrats, Libertarians and Independents) allowed what George HW Bush appropriately, initially, labeled as, "voodoo," ('doo-doo,' to me) economics to destroy the aforementioned economic progress.  

The merde l'orange (criminal in chief) administration has had the White House purchased for them, while the RCS tore down the legislature, US Congress, and SCOTUS. All this in service to the megalomaniacs who did not want the, previously mentioned, enormous and equitable economy to be restored, to say naught of improved upon.

The current, incumbent Democrat office holders are trying to pretend all this isn't true, because restoration would put some of them on the sideline; out of power.

Time to move forward again!  Bernie, AOC, Mamdani, Waters, etc... will lead the way.

Some of What Democrats Should Be Prepared To Do!

Democrats, we can not claim to represent working folks of the USA when the federal minimum wage, of $7.25 per hour, approaches 20 years in place. A living wage in the USA is at least $25 per hour.

Medicare For All/Single Payer would catch the USA up to what all the other OECD  (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 members) countries already have: they get better results, for nearly everybody, for far less cost.

Similarly, the definition of what had been pensions changed from ‘defined benefits’ to ‘defined contribution’ programs like the 401k. We need to bring back defined benefit pensions for all working people.

The Social Security trust fund is facing bankruptcy, because the tax that pays for it only applies to around the first $160,000 of an employee’s annual income, even as folks who’ve made over $400,000 per year, who have not saved sufficiently well enough for retirement, have a need for their Social Security benefits.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. 

If the Democrats regain control of government, from local to national, there’s a need to be ready to resume boosting the  US economy.

Solar panels on flat roofs, south facing roofs, wind turbines and agrivoltaics attached to batteries and microgrids;

Condensation of atmospheric humidity to water, collected for distribution via pipelines, and/or deposited directly into crushed stone filled trenches, that direct water towards aquifers, reducing water evaporating right back into humidity;

Solar powered desalinization facilities, mounted on barges that can go as far inland as saltwater flows. Collect, distribute and/or deposit water into the aforementioned trenches.

There are multiple precautions that should be considered, because if climate change causes sea levels to rise 20 feet (especially if this happens in this century) multiple millions of Americans, and around a billion people worldwide, will be flooded out of their homes, workplaces and neighborhoods. 

There is not sufficient room for said displaced folks to just move to higher ground.

We must be ready to build, install and operate these facilities in these United States of America if we retake control of our government. This must happen even as we begin the re-installation of democracy in the USA.

First and foremost: register and VOTE!

No Need for Those Data Centers

 The ginormous, problematic, data centers in question are not needed.

There are multiple ways to take advantage of AI on your local: laptop/PC/MAC; don’t need the use of cloud computing in a ginormous, data center.  

Search for more information:

Plugable TBT5-AI; Desktop-class GPU that connects to a laptop via a single cable.

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT;

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070;

Dell.com/AI;

www.geeksforgeeks.org;

www.techradar.com  

These are just some of the options available to the users of extremely powerful CPU/GPU equipped computing environs.

A big problem with Large Language Models (LLM) is that they copy/utilize information that is stored on central, cloud, computing environments; your data in those in the ginormous data centers. That information is not theirs to use even if they were to properly cite credit for information that is, “borrowed.” 

Another problem, especially with LLMs, is that they can't tell fact from fiction, so that answers they provide (work that they do) can be partially, to 100%, wrong.

The key point here is that the data centers causing problems, because they use/abuse enormous quantities of water and electricity (and other problems they create) aren’t needed.

Getting things accomplished again...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. 

If the Democrats regain control of government, from local to national, there’s a need to be ready to resume boosting the  US economy.

Solar panels on flat roofs, south facing roofs, wind turbines and agrivoltaics attached to batteries and microgrids;

Condensation of atmospheric humidity to water, collected and/or deposited directly into crushed stone filled trenches to reduce water evaporating right back into humidity;

Solar powered desalinization facilities, mounted on barges that can go as far inland as saltwater flows. Collect, distribute and/or deposit water into the aforementioned trenches.

Be ready to build, install and operate these facilities in these United States of America if we retake control of our government and begin the re-installation of democracy in the USA.

First: register and VOTE!

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.