Why Vote for Democrats?

First and foremost, that is voting in your own best interests (see also, the book: Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box).

Furthermore, let Republicans tell you:

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) was censured by the OK Republican Party for his role in bipartisan border policy negotiations. Republicans had been demanding changes in (Mexican) border policy for years, and Senator Lankford sat on a committee that has just negotiated a bill that gives the Republicans almost everything that they had asked for, and was punished for presenting these favorable results during the Biden (Democratic) administration; in an election year.

The horror!

Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) requested, while speaking on the House floor, that any of his fellow Republicans, “give me one thing (that we've accomplished), one, that I can go campaign on, and say we did.”

Nobody could; nobody did.

Meanwhile, back in Texas: Republicans are planning to defy a Supreme Court ruling against activity that Gov. Abbott ordered, and multiple state agencies did, on the (Mexican) border.

The previous President recently was adjudicated to owe over $83 million dollars to E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after being convicted of her rape. That same former president still has 91 felony indictments against him.

This is the Republican party, in it's own words and deeds.

If this isn't enough reason to vote for Democrats, try this on for size: the Infrastructure Act; the Inflation Reduction Act; the Chips Act, etc... These bills were all passed into law during the first two years of the Biden administration. Monopoly and Anti-Trust Action by the FTC and DOJ continue to make progress during this administration.

The economy has experienced record growth and unemployment is at historic lows during this, Biden, administration.

Your vote matters.

How can you tell?

In states with Republican majorities in the legislature, and Republican Governors, they are doing everything they can get away with to reduce voting rights.

Register. Vote. Communicate with your elected officials.

 

The Big Myth Thrives...

 To the detriment of the vast majority of us all.

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

...Details the enormous falsehood of, “The Market,” as the center of the economy, and society.

Check out (Internet search): Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) to begin to shred the, “Big Myth.”

Also, check out the books:

On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke. This book provides insight into what Adam Smith actually wrote about things like, “the invisible hand,” without becoming a door-stopper tome.

A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises by Richard Vague. Details how private, not government, debt is a leading factor, every time, in creating financial crises.

Republicans (too oft aided by, “neo-liberal,” Democrats) are funded by megalomaniacal billionaires (folks who kept billions of $ for themselves while 10s of thousands of employees did/do the work) that fancy themselves as an American aristocracy... Hope to set the USA on a course that returns us to a time before the 1860s.

In the mid-twentieth century the United States made significant progress on: civil and voting rights, women's health care and the aforementioned FFRDCs. Self-satisfied with that progress Americans went on with their lives, and forgot (paid no attention to) the fact that, from beneath their rocks, regressive, insecure, white people still festered.

In the early 21^st century the election of Barrack Obama, an African American (black) man, to two terms as President of these United States brought the worst of humanity (labeled, correctly, by Hillary Clinton as, “deplorables”) out from under their stones.

Under the guise of 'Federalists' and 'Originalists' the wealthy primed the courts, via their Republican sycophants in Congress (aided by the 43rd and 45^th administration), to dilute both voting and civil rights, then strip women of control of their own health care.

Fear of immigrants was stoked with the deplorable base while the means to solve the problem were impeded by the very Republicans in Congress who complained loudly, while campaigning on and about that very issue.

In order to preserve, and perhaps even advance, our Democracy and economy we all must register and vote for Democrats, while communicating satisfaction, or a lack thereof, with all our leaders; avail ourselves of every opportunity to act.