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.

Another problem with Large Language Models (LLM) is that they copy/utilize information that is stored on central, cloud, computing environments; 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.” 

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.

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.

What Democrats Can Do...

Recommended, Democrat talking points:

Health care:  Single Payer/Medicare for All... We can catch up to all the other OECD countries that pay far less, than the USA, for better results. We can eliminate bankruptcy caused by medical costs;

Restore Research and Development, FFRDCs (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers), public and private government/taxpayer funded research universities;  

Raise the federal minimum wage from the 20 year old $7.25 per hour to a living wage, tied to inflation or GDP growth (which ever is better), starting at, at least,  $25.00 per hour;

Develop all flat, or south facing sloped, roofs to have solar panels and microgrid connected battery, electricity storage…  Supplemented with wind turbine generated electricity; 

Point out that there are, currently, approximately 300 million vehicles, and  similarly there are approximately 300 million guns in the USA.  The vast majority of the vehicles are driven every day, whereas almost none of the guns are fired every day.  Yet, the leading cause of injury and death for American children and adolescents is a shot from a gun…  We need responsible regulation of gun ownership;

See, also:

Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box; How the Performance of Our Presidents has Impacted Your Wallet, by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Published by ADVANTAGE, 2012.

https://epiaction.org/2024/04/02/economic-performance-is-stronger-when-democrats-hold-the-white-house/#full-report

https://epi.org/press/new-report-finds-that-the-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidential-administrations/ 

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/28/joe-biden-economic-policy-covid-recovery-election/2831709130611/  

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/10/14/the-american-economy-has-left-other-rich-countries-in-the-dust  

Register and vote. 

Expect better government from Democrats, even if they do things quietly; don’t brag.