Puritanical America is functioning predictably.  Sexual preoccupation seems mirrored in political characteristics as one watches a reclusive Biden who says he won’t debate and hasn’t been accessible to questions directly from the general public who is expected according to dictation from the Democratic/Republican duopoly, to run against an exhibitionist-style Trump on the topic of campaigning.  Suggestive is the same exhibition/repression as applies, for example, to Trans matters.  

The C-Span call in topic was on the matter of choices for President in 2024, and several people brought up the topic of Wokeness as applies to DeSantis and Drag Shows.  Wokesters seem currently irritated at the lack of respect bestowed upon Wokeness, but use of slang seems to invite derision.  Meanwhile DeSantis raises the topic of children at Drag Shows.

A caller to C-Span expresses a thought that DeSantis is weak.  As compared to Trump, DeSantis isn’t bombastic, but that doesn’t mean weak.  It seems DeSantis has been trapped into a Drag Show/child audience conversation that is absurd, when we should be talking about respectful interaction between Trans people and others, for example, at the supermarket, PTA meeting, or church.  One suspects a large number of hetero people haven’t been to a strip show, whether male or female, and aren’t especially harmed by this FACT.  Inordinate display  of sexuality seems like exhibitionism that is the answer to suppression.  Neither are necessarily healthy.

I won’t vote for a Presidential candidate who campaigns from his basement and won’t speak with the electorate 1-on-1. This morning I heard a clip on C-Span of Trump saying (paraphrase)  that he admires a leader who “controls” 1.5 million people.  Does he really?  That says it all.  Trump knows everything about borders and nothing about boundaries.

C-Span hosted a phenomenal discussion this morning on the topic of actual governance that surpassed either of Woke or MAGA presentation.  It was extremely informative and to hear from so many young people was delightful.

Some people conflated Trans issues with Wokeness.  I don’t get the connection, but am an expert on neither.  Murkiness seems to reign.  This is a reason to avoid slang, if one wishes to be taken seriously by the broadest subset of people.  If exclusion is the point, then carry on in slang, but don’t call it democracy.https://www.c-span.org/video/?527643-5/2023-cram-exam-ap-government-politics-exam-review     –APRIL 29, 2023  | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 04/29/2023

Washington Journal

2023 Cram for the Exam AP Government and Politics Exam Review

High school social science teacher Sunshine Cavalluzzi discusses the upcoming Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Exam, and how students can prepare for it. We’ll be taking calls from high school students only.–end of c-pan info–

Here’s an example of how to think rather than what to think—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dpCqVqUl4w    —

Kim Iversen ASKS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Million Dollar QUESTION (clip)

–end of sabby sabs  info–You go girls, to be indelibly ’70’s Feminist………

FYI….The Greens have taken the gloves fully off, people!!!

This is the reason I’ve voted for Howie Hawkins and Jill Stein rather than vote for Biden or Clinton.  This speaks to the control of the US electoral process by the corporate political parties Democratic and Republican.  Can a Presidential candidate seriously run outside of the Democratic or Republican Parties?  Surely everyone can write in a candidate.

https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3107&context=hastings_law_journal    —

The right to vote implies the concurrent right to choose the person for whom one votes. 5 The ability to cast a write-in vote6 in lieu of voting

for a slated candidate best reflects a voter’s ability to freely choose the candidate of her choice. Such voting furthers each individual’s ability to express through the election process both her political views and her dissatisfaction with the slated candidates or the political process itself. Because write-in voting ultimately furthers political debate, it is political speech that is protected by the First Amendment. 7 Because voting whether for a slated or write-in candidate-is a vital facet of the political process and contains an important expressive function, 8 no interest should be considered sufficiently important to infringe upon either a voter’s freedom of choice or her right to express her views through voting.

As Americans have become increasingly dissatisfied with both the Democratic and Republican parties, the ability to express one’s political views through the election process has become more important, whether or not those views actually carry the day.9 This Note will show that the importance of political expression through voting, balanced against the lack of any sufficiently important government interest, leads to the conclusion that bans on write-in voting are unconstitutional. 10

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One doesn’t recognize as Constitutional, the hostage-taking of elections by the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

As to suppression and exhibition of our Puritanical bent, one recalls that in the USA, women were burned at the stake as witches.  Some who mention this are criticized at the same time our choices seems to be exhibition or suppression.  Hmmm…….——–https://wildhunt.org/2023/04/baking-bread-with-a-kitchen-witch.html         –The gardens, the land, the orchard – for the most part – are spaces that the humans I live with acknowledge as my domain. No one pays attention to whatever Witchy stuff I get up to unless it is the neighbors. By now, I think any unusual-seeming activities like me talking to myself (really to the land spirits!) are chalked up to my being an eccentric “nature lover.” I have been told that they hiss-whisper those words when they say them. Apparently, nobody wants to say even a soft euphemism for “Witch” too loudly. Bless their sweet neighborly hearts. They are all doing their best to be good people.

Gentle reader, I leave you with one last quote I found to have the sweet tone of truth: as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra once said, “All sorrows are less with bread.”

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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!