A problem on the topic of fascism is that, until authoritarian exploitation of human resources (people) or natural resources (environment) becomes noticeable, the money is nice.  A governance based on :”the economy” can be a euphemism for dictatorship.  It is easy to overlook corruption when money is being generated, and this includes our nation of shareholders.  Add to this the highly questionable policy of Citizens United by which lawmakers are purchased by big-money interests, and supposedly monitoring sources such as the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to maintain balance in “the economy”, has over a decade kept too low, interests.  Keeping interest rates abnormally low has forced family savings accounts into the stock market that can be considered speculative.  Low interest rates may also promote inflation.  

Apparently some shareholders are awakening to their responsibilities.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/wall-street-faces-key-votes-on-new-fossil-fuel-financing/?utm_medium=email      –Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are scheduled in the coming days to host their annual shareholder meetings amid rising scrutiny of Wall Street pledges to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.Shareholder advocates this year have filed resolutions at each of the lenders calling on them to stop providing financing for companies that are expanding fossil fuel production. That’s their big push this year because according to the International Energy Agency’s net-zero road map, new fossil fuel development is incompatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The pact calls for preventing global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.–end of eenews info–Fossil Fuel industry profits have been expanded obscenely on the backs of the American public, and most currently due to the highly questionable Russia-Ukraine War.  Some of the same players in the Ukraine story in our US Administration both Republican and Democratic, also seem quite influenced and rewarded by promotion of industry profits.  Fossil fuels are thought to contribute to Climate Change.  Principles as expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution—“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America—end of preamble—-One hears people remind that “we are not a democracy” without adding that we are not either a stated fascist government.  Both democracy and fascism are as enacted.  Corruption and greed seems to have moved the USA from the idea of democracy and toward the idea of fascism.To be aware is a responsibility of a serious citizen—-https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Administration-Wasted-17-Million-Unused-Hotel-Rooms-Illegal-MigrantsOne doesn’t suppose the goal of The Founders is fascism.  That the US government seems to function in that capacity is unsettling.  In FACT, reports supported by no less than Congress have recognized the Native American contribution to ideas of our democracy as written into the US Constitution and touched upon in the Preamble.  The USA is functioning instead similar to the policies against which was fought The American Revolution.  Native Americans appear to honor a more healthy balance between patriarchy and matriarchy.  This could also be called a healthy Yin-Yang balance.  Commercial interests have campaign-donor influence on lawmakers who should be working for We The People.  Lectures from fascists that “we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional republic”, could be challenged with intellectual honesty, reason and logic.https://portside.org/2022-04-24/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-inflation-how-should-policymakers   –Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. –end of portside info–How are the majority of Americans doing?—https://portside.org/2022-04-24/poor-crossroads—-The 54th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., just passed. Dr. King was shot down while organizing low-wage sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. At that time, he was building the Poor People’s Campaign, an effort to organize America’s poor into a force to be reckoned with. In his opposition to the Vietnam War and his promotion of a campaign to lift the load of poverty, he suggested that racism, poverty, and militarism could only be dealt with by uniting millions of poor people to change the very structure of our national life.–end of portside info–As one who heard in real time the words of MLK, Jr., one has been disappointed by the appropriation and transfer of his message by a political Party, as his ideas were white-washed into political campaign fodder.  We cannot consider the genuine message of MLK, Jr. too often.From popularresistance  —  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/kxd90y07uy?e=1b0a9c0541         —

NATO Countries Gear Up To Supply More Weapons To Ukraine

US Imposes Flawed Food System On The World

The Amazon Labor Union Is A Problem For Democrats

The Climate Justice Movement Must Be Anti-War

The United States And Ukraine Started The War—Not Russia

Testimony: Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal And Wall Street Greed

I Visited Biden’s MPP Tent Courts

Activists Outraged As Democrats Withdraw Trans Healthcare Bill

–end of popularresistance info–

From MRonline–  https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=197884b839       —

What is propelling the U.S. into increasing international military aggression?

For an Ecosocialist Degrowth

The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism–end of mronline info– 

Should we call it degrowth when it is nothing more than the logic of avoiding infinite growth using finite resources?
This could be the right time to consider ideas from Native Americans.       —  https://www.facebook.com/dici.staff.9/posts/743984079926147       –On behalf of the DU Native Student Alliance, we are inviting all relatives far and near to join us for the 11th Annual New Beginnings Powwow on Saturday, May 14th 2022 This will be our first in-person powwow since 2019. This year’s theme “Back to the Matriarch” is centered on celebrating the sacredness of all matriarch care givers, leaders, and educators in our communities. This also calls for the celebration of our wonderful and hardworking students. –end of facebook post–

Mass incarceration in the USA is a policy that has surpassed incarceration rates from all other nations.  In the Southern Tier of NYS some people are attempting to counter-balance this anomaly.  Some in the local bureaucracy have advocated for ever-stiffer laws to “crack down” on those they label as “activists”, and who other people recognize as honest and involved local citizens.  Anyone wishing to do so can support actions to mitigate incarceration, if only marginally—-https://www.gofundme.com/f/atnxdj-book-drive-for-the-broome-county-jail?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer    –Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier (JUST), a grassroots anti-mass incarceration organization, is raising funds to support what we affectionately call the “Book of the Month Club.” This all volunteer run project sends books at the request of people incarcerated in the Broome County Jail. In the past year alone, we sent in over 650 books providing those individuals with entertainment, a sense of normalcy, and literacy skills that will benefit them upon release. The cost of buying books accumulate quickly thanks to onerous jail rules limiting the number of allowable vendors. The project is not funded by the state nor from grants. All costs are covered by donations from the public, including generous university members, religious organizations, and members of the community.–end of JUST info–Another opportunity to be vital—-https://twitter.com/HonorTheEarth/status/1518287242481086466?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email   –Take a read and join us in demanding that the Army Corps of Engineers deny Huber’s permit to fill 28.5 acres of wetland in the 1855 Treaty Territory. –end of twitter info–access twitter info to learn how to help….
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.
———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.