Consequences for Sedition and Insurrection

The USA has, since it's inception, been building towards a universally inclusive, democratic republic. It is a great concept that started in an era of increasing enlightenment... As the centuries have past there has been a reasonably consistent effort to apply the benefits of our democratic republic, closer and closer, to 100% of our citizens and immigrants.

 

Every step towards the inclusion of everybody has met with resistance/push back.

The push back has been from white, northern European, Americans and it has culminated in insurrection in the US capital; in the US Capitol Building. The lies, sedition and regressive direction of these northern European, white, Americans started, again, after the defeat of those same people in their last act of violent insurrection; the Civil War.

The Civil War's end was followed by few, to no, consequences for the parties responsible for sedition leading to, and their involvement in, said insurrection. Hence began the process, sedition, involved in the start of the re-prosecution of the Civil War. The regression accelerated after the election of an African American to two terms as President of these United States of America.

The Republican party has chosen to be a partner in fomenting sedition, and the resulting insurrection, over many decades. It started with their objections to the Equal and Voting Rights Acts; the courts slowly, but consistently disassembling, “Jim Crow;” and government institutions (especially the US military) integrating society.

There must be serious consequences (investigation, documentation, indictment and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law) for the individuals and institutions associated with the activities that have led to sedition and insurrection in 2021, or else we will, once again (sooner than later), resume the path toward white supremacists attempting to replace our democratic republic with an authoritarian regime that caters exclusively to said white, northern European, Americans.

The next attempted coup may be a more competent effort.

It Wasn't a Blue Tsunami, but...

 It wasn't a Blue Tsunami, but it was very close.

There are going to be Democrats in the White House (starting on January 20^th 2021), they will have a minimal, Democratic majority in the US Senate and we have retained a modest, Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives. Thereby, the new 46^th administration will be able to accomplish things that are needed by all of us in these United States of America.

How did this happen?

We, those who vote for government that benefits all of us, showed up at the polls. We voted! We won, barely.

It is very important to note that those who do not vote in their own best interest, and are often quite unaware of it, also voted in very large numbers. We barely defeated them.

We must always show up at the polls, every time, because a democratic republic is only, “of the people,” when the vast majority of people own their responsibility and vote.

There were leaders who helped drive this effort to turn out voters; there were groups of people who have been the most consistent in casting their ballots... They will not be called out here because the list is long and some will almost certainly be missed.

We all, and more, must do it, vote, again and again and again, ad infinitum... Because we have, quite recently, come altogether too close to losing our democratic republic and we must not allow that to happen again.

Democratic Socialism is... Regulated Capitalism

 As one drives down public streets past public schools, public hospitals, police and fire stations, military bases... 

You know where you are because you've got GPS (DARPA/NASA) on your Internet ((D)ARPAnet) connected cell phone (FFRDCs)... 

The government, in the USA, invests at least 30% of the money that goes into the economy annually.

That is democratic socialism and regulated capitalism...  It has worked well, and will almost certainly continue to do so if, and only if, we the people participate in electing competent people to govern this process; vote to keep our democratic republic.

Consequences for the 45 administration...

 

The far right was able to start misrepresenting the Civil War late in the 19th century: it was about states' rights (to create insurrection/war/treason against one's own country) not slavery... Except that each seceding state created a new Constitution that featured a white person's right to own black people as slaves; recover and punish any slaves that might have escaped.

Two terms of an African American President and minority-majority (white people as the largest minority, where all the other races total a majority of the US population) drove the crazy, insecure, white (northern European Americans) out of what little sanity they retained.

 

If the right, wing nuts lose this round of a combat free, re-prosecution of the Civil War without consequences (investigation, documentation, indictment and prosecution in a court of law) they'll be back, again, as soon as they can regroup.

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 5^th, 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.

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.

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.