…may not be as noticeable if not for the hilarious 2020 Presidential campaign in which, as James Carville suggests, anything goes, and having emerged from the fugue (the psychiatric kind) of the Trump Administration.  People may be peaking out from under that sheep’s cover that has been irreverently placed upon We The People using a tormented type of governance style, as said people wonder where they are and the reason they are accepting the absurd.

Aside from election engineering by the Democratic/Republican duopoly in 2020, Bernie Sanders would probably be President today.  But Senator Sanders carries on his efforts for responsive government by challenging the current business-as-usual culture.  A government more responsive to We The People seems his goal.  If you agree, you can sign the following PETITION if you wish—https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/fobs-democracy/?source=em211129-1-subs&refcode2=8984.105164.-6mtaN&akid=8984%2E105164%2E-6mtaN    –Add your name to Bernie’s petition if you agree: the Senate must do away with the filibuster and the 60 vote rule, and pass legislation that makes it easier for all of our people to vote, ends the influence of big money in politics, and restricts partisan gerrymandering.–end of PETITION to end the filibuste—-
Story not vetted, but seems like “running the government like a business”, that we have been informed is now “our system”  –https://twitter.com/NancyTracker/status/1465116013645733897 –Time for term limits.–end of twitter post–

Received from popularresistance —  

Bolivia: Massive Six Day March To Defend Democracy

Venezuela’s Socialists Win Elections In Landslide

Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs Evict Government Liaison Nathan Cullen

Elections In Honduras: Ending Twelve Years Of Neoliberalism

Biden Drilling Report Blasted: ‘Shocking Capitulation To The Corporate Polluters’

Global Indigenous: Chemicals, Climate And Consultation
-end of popularresistance info–

The USA was once a leader for democratic action but currently even hierarchical sycophants are admitting the USA is in danger of losing its democracy.  For those predictably reminding we are a Constitutional republic, not a democracy one answers “governments don’t do democracy, people do democracy”.  It’s complicated, but democracy seems the best opportunity to advance human and environmental rights.  Fortunately, a global democratic (small d) movement, especially by Indigenous People, may save democracy as the USA capitulates to capitalistic hierarchical tyranny.

Comparison between the mystery-meat Congress and the mystery of the Brown Mountain lights can be imagined as the story of capitalistic hierarchy and democratic action.  How many people given the choice would prefer the heavy regimentation of a mystery-meat Congress compared to the vitality of nature’s display of multifariousness?
MYSTERY EXAMPLE 1–Received from counterpunch  —  https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/26/mystery-meat-congress-clueless-mainstream-press/    –A couple of decades ago, I complained to a Hill colleague, “It (Congress) can’t get any worse than this.”  How wrong I was.Based on my experience and outlook, I offer the following observations.There has evolved a highly centralized, autocratic system in the House and Senate that tolerates meaningful dissent from independently minded legislators in only the rarest and most unique circumstances.
–end of counterpunch info–
MYSTERY EXAMPLE 2Received from wildhunt –https://wildhunt.org/2021/11/the-magic-and-mystery-of-the-brown-mountain-lights.html   —How long the lights have been appearing and doing their mystifying display is hard to say. One of the first modern written accounts appeared in The Charlotte Daily Observer on Sept. 23, 1913.More recent writings, like those from Frances Casstevens in his book, Ghosts of the North Carolina Piedmont (2009), cite examples of the story of the lights being shared by the Cherokee people as far back as 1200 C.E. “The Cherokee have a legend about a great battle that was fought that year between the Cherokee and the Catawba Indians near Brown Mountain,” Casstevens says. “The Cherokee believed that the lights were the spirits of Indian maidens as they searched over the centuries for their dead husbands.”–end of wildhuntinfo–

We can build the vitality of democracy with personal and ongoing attention to the government that is of, by, and for The People.

Democracy that is a function of people, not governments, may be the opposite of authoritarianism which appears to be a function of governments, not people.  Consider the personification of this idea in the following Russell Brand commentary on Black Friday–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqTmwZBhDo    —  “Hang On… Black Friday Deals Are WHAT Now!?” We’re Being CONNED!!

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.