It;s been quite a while since autoworkers were laid off, factories in the US closed, jobs shipped overseas, and the beginning of incredible profits by the auto industry and fabulous payout to CEO’s. Workers remaining took drastic pay cuts, lost benefits, and were denied a defined benefit retirement plan.
Workers were lauded for their sacrifices; but the praise didn’t translate into restoration of pay or benefits.
At the time, noticing experienced workers with immediately usable skills and empty functioning factories, some people wondered why said workers wouldn’t take the opportunity to set up worker-owned factories in which workers accepted both risks and profits. Workers had all ready lost so much. This would have been the perfect time for this experiment.
Instead the UAW is now striking to retain the golden years that were yanked from them for hierarchical enrichment.
A reason the experiment never happened could be that the Representatives of The People had put in place pro-corporate regulations and laws that have ham-strung innovation.
The poster children of this pro-corporate government may be Citizens United and under the mentoring from http://www.alec.org. .
Our system of pro-corporate capitalistic privilege aren’t a part of natural law, but is a system specifically legislated by bribed politicians.
The first opportunity was a special moment in which it could work. Either way, anytime voters choose Representatives of the People, we could choose those who promote people over corporations. This is the perfect time.
That both Corporate Joe and Capitalist Trump showed up to urge workers they are the best choice for workers is a naively silly display of campaigning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLW9s6NpS7w —
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Town Hall on NewsNation | RFK Jr. Town Hall
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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”