We choose our reality moment to moment.  Currently a big question is whether democracy will continue.  That is entirely in the hands of We The People, if we are capable of choosing our own reality.  Over the last decades, a climb up the ladder of success as described by hierarchy has been the carrot to motivate We The People away from democracy and into the welcoming arms of capitalism.  The problem is the trap of hierarchy that doesn’t include equality and justice.  If the reward in dollars is sufficiently high, some people make the trade.  

In this season of Thanksgiving that is interestingly associated with Indigenous People, one appreciates the message from this group—https://madmimi.com/p/9a40331?pact=25000-165665617-12747276216-4dfa9fd64abfdfce5edb5a75d6071b33dff7ae18     –The Haudenosaunee Confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations in what is now upstate New York has been meeting for 1,000 years. United by a common goal to live in harmony, each meeting, large and small, is opened with the beautiful and incantatory Thanksgiving Address. This enfolds each gathering in a culture of gratitude, the consciousness that the earth and its many manifestations continually gift us with abundance, with enough. A radical notion in our consumer society. The prayer also situates our individual lives and souls on an earth with no boundaries. The sun and rain shower every shoulder, the winds cool every face, the ground supports every footstep. Our gratitude for these blessings reminds us, in turn, of our obligation to treasure and foster them, as they do us.–end of souloftheearth info–
https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/influence-on-democracy/   –During 1750 it was clear that the colonist’s ideals were beginning to diverge from those of Europe and Franklin began to look at a new system of government. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy model presented a society free of oppression and definition of class. But issues with the alliance faced the colonists with the Haudenosaunee complaining of too many traders and no regulation among them. Franklin, who had already become immersed in English-Haudenosaunee alliance politics, took the next logical step and took the position of Indian Commissioner for Pennsylvania.–end of haudenosauneeconfederacy info–
As the public is swept into compliance to hierarchy by the indoctrination that “our system is capitalism”, we must urge proof or even evidence of some kind that this statement is fundamentally FACTual.  The US Constitution itself states differently, and inspiration for the US Constitution seems to evolve from Indigenous People with descendants still often maintaining ideas of a lifestyle that lives in balance with Mother Earth.  
We would be better off to respect and draw from this inspiration.  We can do this without the need to label goals using economic definitions.
To view life through a financial lens suggests corruption.  The goal of capitalistic hierarchy may be to sustain this delusion.  In the end this system is unhealthy for people and nature.   —  https://popularresistance.org/after-400-years-its-time-to-take-down-the-monumental-insult/     –The offending editorials by the Wall Street Journal refer to the Indigenous people who gave Pilgrims corn and taught them how to grow the life-saving source of food as less than human. The diary showcased by the Wall Street Journal characterizes this bountiful continent as “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men.”Such de-humanization contributed to the genocide that extinguished 90 percent of the Indigenous population and produced residential schools that took Native children from their families, as was the case with my grandfather who attended three of them. This dehumanization is not a thing of the past. It continues today with the disappearances of thousands of Indigenous women whose fate is often not even investigated.The Wall Street Journal editorial page claims to promote an economic philosophy rooted in free markets and a free society.Yet on Thanksgiving, the paper publishes a narrative absent of any gratitude for the Indigenous gift of corn which now comprises 90 percent of the feed grain produced by U.S. agribusiness. How ironic that this gift of the so-called “desolate wilderness” is not even recognized on Thanksgiving–end of popularresistance info–

Climate Change is a byproduct of capitalism.  Capitalism in a definition must include hierarchical control.  Seemingly we as a nation needn’t demand a system to label as ours, whether capitalism or socialism, if we held politicians to Oaths of Office to uphold the US Constitution.  Due to insistence that “our system is capitalism”, an inordinate attention is paid to “the economy”, to the detriment to human and environmental rights.  A sane balance of principles that include free market principles would better follow guidelines in the US Constitution.
https://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed-video/cop26-reportback-climate-justice-activists-speak-out/         –A panel of international climate justice activists shares perspectives on COP26 and the next stage of our struggle, and afterward answers questions from the audience.Speakers, in order:

• Maura Stephens, introduction, for SCNCC
• Mel Figueroa, moderator, with GEN
• Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN (Women’s Environment & Climate Action Network, via prerecording)
• John Foran, System Change Not Climate Change
• Asad Rehman, War on Want
• Irene Shen, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
• Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson
• Yeb Saño, Greenpeace, SE Asia

This event was cosponsored by Green Eco-Socialist Network (GEN) and System Change Not Climate Change (SCNCC), two organizations committed to ecosocialist transformation.–end of socialistproject info–

An example of moves away from free markets is suggested in a return to wealth by inheritance rather than earnings that seems indicative of a medieval economy of extreme class division by law is the undermining of the Inheritance Tax.  This tax is a tool by government of breaking up hereditary estates that eventually accumulates the wealth of the nation into the control of a few families.  We may see signs of this in the USA in 2021.  This promotes as leaders those who inherit the position out of no contribution of their own.
https://portside.org/2021-11-27/ultra-rich-skip-estate-tax-and-spark-50-collapse-irs-revenue   –The dramatic decline — to the point where the tax is paid by 0.04% of dying Americans — is largely the result of the tax overhaul enacted by Republicans in 2017, which doubled the amount the wealthy can pass to heirs without triggering the levy. –end of portside info–
Laws have been passed by politicians bought into office via Citizens United by which big-money interests dictate laws to be passed.  This not only protects inherited wealth, but the means by which wealth is accumulated.  How does this comport with free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eqQgippBEE     –Cornel West Interview – Obama: In Pursuit Of A More Perfect Union

As one who voted for Obama twice, I slowly realized Obama’s loyalty to big-money interests, as touched upon by Cornel West.  One understands and supports the need to have opposed a 2nd term of Trump, to have put back into office the same group that was the reason for a Trump Presidency, seems supremely self-defeating.  We need to get real. 
We need to vote based upon policy and character instead of race and groveling.
What is the message to campaign using race while distancing from minorities after winning an election?  Isn’t that insulting?  Apparently it’s complicated.
We have much work to do. 

We deserve better.      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.