Friday, November 27, 2020

Messaging is key...

The Republicans do it well to their targeted, too large, audience and Democrats do less well; need to improve. However large the Republican audience is, it isn't a majority and they must cheat to win elections.


Democrats must demonstrate (arrange demonstrations of) the available, non-partisan software that creates the smallest district with the correct population; fair redistricting disallows representatives choosing their constituents (Republicans tend to lose in these districts).


Motor voter: DMV uses driver's license data to automatically offer voter registration, and updates voter registration data automatically when a driver's license is updated (doesn't purge voter rolls).


Let's get going, because: January 5th, 2021 (GA), 2021 (VA), 2022 (most everywhere else) is coming. If our democratic republic is to survive (can't thrive if it's not alive) the responsibility of all eligible citizens to VOTE never ends.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Consequences for the 45 Administration

 

Our forefathers, framers of: first, the Articles of Confederation, then the US Constitution, did not detail every possible activity of, "those whom we are obliged to trust with power," because they knew it would be an enormous, contentious document that could not cover all possibilities.  They laid out the founding principles of this democratic republic for a reference to which all that might follow would adhere.

It, therefore, becomes necessary for us to formulate a means and method to deal with the challenges to the continuance of this, our democratic republic.

The Republicans in the US congress were given the chance to impeach a president in clear violation of both law and Constitutional restrictions on the office; books by former 45 administration staff reveal an awareness of the president's insufficiency to the requirements of the office held and did absolutely nothing about their 25th amendment capacity.

This is completely and utterly unacceptable!

If all these folks are not investigated, documented and held accountable for their own abandonment of oath to their office and lawless behavior, we (you, me and all the US citizens) set a precedent that is even more dangerous to our democracy than this recent, incompetent attempt at an apartheid, authoritarian regime; re-prosecution of a combat free, civil war.

There were none held to account for the civil war; insufficient consequences for the activity of the Nixon and Reagan administrations, etc... These, and other, oversights emboldened the actions of the 45 administration and the sycophant Republican party.

Nuremberg created an appropriate example of a forum to investigate, document and prosecute all the violations of Constitution and law. It should be the model that guides our actions once the President-elect and Vice President-elect are securely in the offices to which we, the voters, have elected them.

Following through with accountability for the actions that threaten our democratic republic may be the most important thing that any of us will ever do. History will document our (in)ability to do what is appropriate and necessary.


Thursday, November 5, 2020

Voting in your own best interest...

These things should be broadcast from every bully pulpit available, especially if a Blue Tsunami is insufficiently realized:


Your access to telephone and electricity was probably provided by, and is definitely made more reliable and affordable through, the government's regulatory environment that they operate in. The Internet, GPS, digital picture and sound (e.g., television and multi-media of any kind), microelectronics, etc... were first developed by, and for, agencies of the US government; often via Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC)...


Health care info... Comparing costs and results around the world. Spoiler: the USA has the highest, by far, costs and is well down the list of good results in every category.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries


A study of many studies all confirming Single Payer/Medicare for All would reduce costs and improve results:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003013


A study demonstrating potential benefits of Single Payer health care:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext


The results are in and the conclusions are all in agreement; Single Payer/Medicare for All health care is more effective, efficient; less expensive... The United States of America needs to get this done.



If you are voting for your own economic self interest, you are voting for the Democrats. This point is highlighted by two magazines not known for supporting a Democrat's perspective. They also reinforce the main assertion (Democrats are better for our economy) of the book: Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet; by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb.

www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/10/10/want-a-better-economy-history-says-vote-democrat/?fbclid=IwAR0i8nzXekYwplu8dYBqvf1604bN7K0MS4cFXIDWcYmvz9Yrqq7Do9nMCPM#735d9a4dcb44


https://www.wsj.com/graphics/red-economy-blue-economy/?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR0Bc0fWIf_vlvP8oW7QIjn9kJyqJcyegC82wDStywM1w0o-x30cC2akGjw



These are facts that need to be shouted from the mountain tops!


Business schools should be queried about how these facts are presented in their required curriculum.