The Reasons That the Last Election Did/Did Not...

First, statistically, 9 million eligible voters less than in the 2020 election bothered to vote in 2024.

Inflation isn't the problem, the minimum wage is.

The federal minimum wage is still (15 years and counting) $7.25 an hour.  That is a living wage absolutely, and I almost never use "absolutes," nowhere in these United States.

How does this travesty still exist?  Ask a Republican, if a blank stare is your idea of an answer.

United for Alice suggests that 4 in 10 US households exist (too often unsuccessfully) from paycheck to paycheck.

Economies grow when people can afford to live (buy at least the minimum of life's requirements), save (for unexpected, large, expenses), and invest (for the possibility of vacationing and/or retiring).

Too many Americans aren't able to do the things listed above.  There are many books and articles, oft based on verifiable facts, that state (reasonably unequivocally) that only Democrats are interested in solving the wage, to say not of employee benefits, issue.

The misunderstanding, and/or intentional misrepresentation, of this cost of living problem (combined with: misogyny, racism and machismo) explain how the last election cycle ended.  If the election results are allowed to stand (see also: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment) the problem could get much worse before it could possibly be made better.

 

What did not cause the results of the last election was that the the Democrats went too far to the left... If you think that, then you'll be OK with the streets in your neighborhood being allowed to revert to unmarked trails.

 

That's just the start. Electricity and wired telephones (all telephones were originally interconnected by wires) were available outside cities, because the government insisted on it. Have a look around you when your wireless Internet, cell service and mapping software fail. GPS doesn't fail because the DOD uses satellites.

See also: water, wastewater, NOAA weather services, US military, etc... All function with consistent, boring regularity because they are government regulated or provided services.

If you're looking for where innovation comes from, see: FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers); tier 1 and 2 research (mostly public) universities.

Our daily lives are dependent on, dependable because of, what government does. The reason that you aren't aware of this is because doing their jobs, quietly, is what public servants do.

The DOJ Can Defeat the Insurrectionists... Will they?

To become a nation we first needed to win a Revolutionary War; throw off the yoke of monarchy. The cost in blood and treasure was enormous.

To continue as a single nation we needed a Civil War to re-unify the United States; defeat (bring back into the Union) the seceding, insurrectionist, slavery supporting states. The cost in blood and treasure was, again, enormous.

We face the cost of another insurrection as some try to create a white, pseudo-christian, nation. The difference, this time, is that the people behind Project 2025 selected a grifter, who had previously been elected as the 45^th President of the USA, to run again. This time the 78 year old grifter was assigned a 39 year old, Thiel's toy – JD Vance, as the Vice Presidential candidate. The architects of Project 2025 needed a younger puppet, because they want to have a successor in place if the aged grifter wins again; expires while still in office. The grifter won, again.

The thought that the US would have another actual election after Project 2025 secured the White House is extraordinarily delusional.

Our allies are terrified of the possibilities of the second grifter Presidency and will no longer cooperate (e.g., share intelligence) with the US, because we will be assumed to have at least as bad an attitude towards alliances as had been the case during the 45^th administration.

Initial indications are that the DOJ has the tools to deal with, prevent, a convicted felon, and insurrection inciting person, from assuming the office of the President. Others that might be considered for appointments/offices in the 47 administration (many of whom had participated in the insurrection against the United States of America) can be prevented from assuming offices that require one to take an oath of office. Many of the aforementioned people had taken, and broken, an oath of office (to protect and defend the Constitution) previously.

Section 3 of the 14^th (14/3) Amendment to the Constitution gives the DOJ the means to deal with those associated with insurrection, including the SCOTUS justices attempting to bypass Constitution and rule of law to immunize 45 from his crimes (including his participation in insurrection) committed while in office. Charge and try other sycophants in the administration, Republican party, with criminal allegations pending.

14/3 could also be applied to those in the US Congress who had aided and abetted in insurrection when they refused to impeach and convict a president that had, demonstrably, incited said insurrection.

The DOJ can, and should, save the nation before our current situation deteriorates into what could become a second (un)Civil War; spilling too much more blood.

I am not fool enough to believe that the white, pseudo-christian, charlatans will be defeated without any fighting; loss of life. For the sake of Democratic Republics, ours and all the others (existing and aspiring), don't let this travesty take hold; move into the White House, Congress or the Courts of these United States of America.

Act now or go down in history, if truth might ever be told again, as the ones who abdicated responsibility in the face of incredibly difficult decisions and required, ancillary action.

If your lack of intestinal fortitude increases the probability of a second (un)Civil War I will join with others to do what is required, what you made unavoidable, with a curse for you always upon my lips.

Common Sense Revisited

Oaths of office, rule of law and the US Constitution were all violated by those who participated, in one way or another, in the planning and/or execution of the Insurrection at the US Capitol on the 6^th of January, 2021.

To date, those who led in the aforementioned events have escaped consequences for their activity. We have removed a monarchy before and should not tolerate another authoritarian regime being established in these United States of America as the next act of those specified above.

The DOJ can, and should, apply Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment, to the Constitution, to those associated with insurrection against the USA. Criminally prosecute any whom evidence indicates were involved in related, illegal activities.

The longer consequences are avoided the more difficult the return to the rule of law, in our Democratic Republic, becomes.

 

Why Do We Have a 14th Amendment?

In the years following the Civil War the need for our Democratic Republic to have a defensive mechanism, that gives Democracy time to defend itself, became blatantly obvious.

We need not succumb to insurrection. A defensive system that is not employed is complicity; suicide.

BTW (a.k.a., addendum): 47 has a bromance with Musk because he likes wealthy sycophants, and there are none more wealthy than Musk. Also, 47 wants the office, not the work.

The 14th Amendment Question: Do We Defend Democracy, or Not?

If the DOJ does not apply Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment to all the people the evidence implicates it sends the messages: your oath of office does not matter; the law does not apply; the US Constitution means nothing.

Welcome to the Kingdom of the USA.

If the DOJ applies 14/3 appropriately the messages sent are: the executive branch has a functioning succession process; the House and Senate are fully functioning when there is a quorum in both legislative chambers; the judicial branch can function properly while vacancies are filled.

This is how the rule of law and Democracy persevere.

We remain the oldest functioning Democracy in the world.

Does, "I Have a New Job," Keep One Out of Prison?

 

No!

 

Well... How did we get here, again?

The grifter is back as 47, because he still is incredibly capable of getting away with any and everything.

I am saddened by the 2024 election results. Said results were only possible because those who broke their oath of office by participating in an insurrection against the United States of America have been, to date, spared from the consequences that others, also sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, had a duty to impose.

If 45 had been convicted in his second impeachment, for violating his oath of office and inciting an insurrection against the United States at the US Capitol, we could not be here now.

Many Congress folk also abandoned their oath of office, because they wanted the kind of authoritarian power they still believe 45/47 can get for them; no consequences were brought to bear. Those congress folk should be subject to Section 3 of the 14^th (14/3) Constitutional Amendment.

A majority of the SCOTUS justices aided and abetted the insurrection by ruling that 45, as president, is immune from the force of law and/or guidelines detailed in the US Constitution. Those justices should also be subject to 14/3.

The 45^th President, should have been impeached, convicted and 14/3 should have ended his ability to hold any government office that requires an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution.

Also, some congress folk asked 45 for a pardon towards the end of that first term in office.

Why?

Should those requests be investigated and, if warranted, be indicted and prosecuted?

Absolutely. Yes!

Link to the text of 14/3:

https://constitutionallawreporter.com/amendment-14-03/