Bait-and-switch may be a reason some people have labeled as war crimes (remembering that war crime is an oxymoron) Russian targeting of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that denies to local community members the civil and human right of the dignity of a functional energy grid while accepting a dysfunctional US energy grid by labeling this as free enterprise.

One may be wrong in the enormity of grid failure in the USA.  But to better understand this issue, an algorithm of sorts could provide a daily report that compares the number of households denied a functioning energy grid access in each of Ukraine and the USA.  Because we do not have this comparison, it feels like the labeling of grid failure in Ukraine is military marketing.

Russian destruction of Ukrainian civilian grids may be a war crime, but to then label American civilian acceptance of ubiquitous and ongoing grid failure as free enterprise feels strained.

Extraordinary US government funding to challenge grid failure in Ukraine while Americans are expected to accept as the price for living in a capitalistic hierarchical failure should be discussed.

White Supremacy seems to be a catch-all phrase that can include characteristics of racism, misogyny, or oligarchy, depending upon your view.  —  https://portside.org/2023-01-01/white-supremacy-and-january-6-whats-missing-congressional-report?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email              —

 The committee is not alone in this failure. The question of whether white supremacist values are driving how the public understands J6 has been almost entirely ignored by U.S. journalists, intellectuals, and pollsters. –end of portside info–

White Supremacy can even encompass into its miasma, a meritocracy that promotes diverse characters in the pursuit of privilege and power.  

Religion also insinuates into governance in this same way, as some people in the USA say that government and religion are separate, but also demand religious tolerance of civil issues.

One speaks to same-sex unions, as an example.  Civil same-sex unions seem to be nothing other than human rights and civil rights, that provide for a family, equal treatment under the law as compared to other families.

One wonders whether it was first civil presumption or institutionalized religious presumption that insinuated religion into the discussion of same-sex unions, and to what end.  Why would a couple that is, for example, bi-racial, demand that an institutionalized religion that had as a tenet of that organization, denigrated such union, wish to be sanctified within said institutionalized religion?

Wouldn’t personal conscience aside from personal desire, steer one away from such religion?  Going further, to demand acceptance is in itself opening the door to religious insinuation where it has no business.

And then when the Supreme Court, for example, is stacked with institutionalized religious characters, resulting from said White Supremacy principles, the resulting discrimination is a given.

So what is this game we’re playing?  Is this enabling in practice?

Displayed dismay that “this could happen to a white person”, is itself interesting.  Exceptionalism seems a 2-way street.  Historical education based in reality has failed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uakedhGh1wg      —

Hospital Sends Police to Fine Terminal Cancer Patient for Smoking Weed Vape

–end of statuscoup info–

Meanwhile Americans still don’t have a 1-payer comprehensive public health care system.  Bernie Sanders would have turned a predatory health industry ocean liner toward a path offering health care sanity.  Team Black and Team White ensured this didn’t happen.  And so goes meritocracy.

****As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-

 This is a reminder of how much we don’t know.  This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought.  We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate.  Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United.  But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy.  Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw          —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate.  Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary.  This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People.  Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
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!