One is charmed to hear so much from talking heads on state-influenced-corporate-owned MSM and wonders what took so  long.  The topic of democracy has so often been interlinked erroneously to hierarchical capitalism that one looks forward to the spectacle of capitalistic hierarchical MSM dancing on the head of the pin of this topic.  So far its quite entertaining.  It should boost the flagging ratings of MSM.

One was enjoying an engaging presentation on C-Span with 2 young women who were enthusiastic on the topic of women in history.  Unfortunately an ice event occurred that took out our DISH connection, facilitating a switch to cable news in the form of MSNBC.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?516749-5/washington-journal-beckett-graham-susan-vollenwider-discuss-history-chicks-podcast    — DECEMBER 18, 2021 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 12/18/2021

Washington Journal

Beckett Graham & Susan Vollenwider Discuss the History Chicks Podcast

The History Chicks Co-hosts Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider discuss their podcast–end of c-span info–
And what was occurring on MSNBC?  That would be an interview with Congresswoman Pramilla Jayapal who is a Democrat often described as progressive.  The topic this morning was democracy, which is a new topic for politicians who are most often obsessed with “the economy”, and most commonly the health and well-being of the upper echelon of characters.
Maybe unfamiliarity with the essence of democracy as found in the US Constitution, Ms. Jayapal uttered the phrase that is revolting, (paraphrase)……The only Party that is a pro-democracy Party is the Democratic Party.
Yes she did.  By the way, if our politicians can spew such bunk while our government persecutes Julian Assange for reporting FACTS, shouldn’t questions be asked about “our democracy”?
A few thoughts about the lie that “we are a 2-Party system” —*The US government is not set up as a “2-Party system” by the US Constitution*President George Washington in his Farewell Address specifically warned against political Parties due to the inherent conflict-of-interest*The Democratic Party along with the Republican Party have censored out of debates 3rd-Party voices since Ross Perot so nearly won the Presidency *In 2020 the Democratic Party worked to silence the voices of 3rd-Party candidates, most familiarly Independent Bernie Sanders but not to exclude Green Party Howie Hawkins*Conflict of interest was extant in the Democratic Primary in which the meritorious Jim Clyburn stepped in to short-circuit a growing support for Bernie Sanders which Bernie Sanders is a stalwart of democratic action*Bernie Sanders specifically promotes democratic (small d) socialism which, may one interject, was that which was promoted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*Bernie Sanders was denigrated by Democratic Party Establishment characters during a Democratic Presidential Party campaign as being a fake in civil rights because, as one Party member said, “I was in the civil rights movement and I didn’t see Bernie Sanders”
One’s point is that the fraud that “we are a 2-Party system” is standing on the shoulders of so many frauds from the Republican/Democratic duopoly as to appear dictatorial.  The appearance of corruption undermines trust in government.
To hear a Democratic Party Congressperson express the lie on corporate-owned-government-influenced MSM, this time self-defining as “left” as compared to FOX that self-defines as “right”, is to be expected; but is not to remain unchallenged.
It is however, indicative of meritocracy.———https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission         One doesn’t wish to offend or inflame, but to inform.  In other words, to practice democracy,  Discrimination forestalls ability to communicate with each other and seems rampant on state-influenced-corporate-owned MSM.  To divide and conquer is the focus of hierarchy which is about capitalism in 2021 as much as it was in the 1700’s.
As one hears the self-absorbed Democratic Base discover and express doubts about policies of Joe Biden, one reminds of the denigration of Bernie Sanders by the same  –https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/a-decade-on-the-left/#more   —Leo Panitch (LP): I think enormous progress has been made. We saw a movement from protest to politics. It was a short bridge from the police riot against the G20 demonstration here in Toronto in 2010 to Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish indignados a year later. There is a path you can follow from this to Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015 and the Bernie Sanders candidacy in 2016 in the United States.–end of socialistproject info–
The funny view is the startling interest for “democracy” from hierarchical Establishment characters shoe-horning themselves into presumption of democracy enthusiasts—-https://mtracey.substack.com/p/covid-bullshit-jobs-are-driving-everyone?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTU0NTE0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NTY2NjMwNCwiXyI6IitCcEYzIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM5ODQ1NDg2LCJleHAiOjE2Mzk4NDkwODYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMDMxODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.-Yv5EhxXFl1L9sQPC0vuocbxeJBvdguc-xe9B1MfZio   –She replied: “haha im not super interested in having a conversation about my work with you, but thanks for asking. feel free to screenshot this message though and twist it however you’d like to further push your bureaucracy narrative!”
Well, there was no need to screenshot: copy/paste is fine. Upon further inquiry, I couldn’t help but notice that Avalon Penrose, who–end of tracey.substack info–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZcOWYsE7M     –Vaccine Mandates: THIS Is What History WARNS Us
Democracy (small d) is a pale reflection of human rights.  https://portside.org/2021-12-17/what-amy-coney-barretts-anti-abortion-code-really-means  –“The safe haven statute completely eliminates the pregnant woman’s burden of parenthood,” petitioners write in a 2015 filing defending Arkansas’ 12-week abortion ban.The idea of safe haven laws as an abortion end-run is now prevalent, if you know where to look. It can be found in the anti-abortion movement’s lobbying at the highest court, but not just there.“With Safe Haven laws, women have an alternative to abortion,” tweeted the research arm of the prominent anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony List.–end of portside info–
The control over a woman’s body is retained by each by mandate from the Creator as each imagines as He, Her, It or Cause And Effect.  Attempt by Establishment to control such is beyond democracy and insinuates into human rights which are individual.

Women labeled as Feminists from earlier eras have been denigrated by others who dismiss them as upper-class white women; nonetheless and be as it may, that women in 2021 have any rights may stand on those shoulders—-https://msmagazine.com/2021/12/13/fetal-personhood-women-equality-abortion-roe-v-wade-dobbs-v-jackson/   –From the writing of the U.S Constitution until the second half of the 19th century, federal and state laws nearly always considered married women legal non-entities. Under the doctrine of coverture, a woman’s legal standing became subsumed under her husband’s upon marriage. Women had no right to own property, earn money, maintain custody of children in a rare instance of divorce, or represent themselves politically. In the final decades of the 1800s, women’s rights advocates succeeded, state-by-state, law-by-law, in securing some legal rights for married women.Suffragist Alice Paul penned the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923 to overturn these sex-based laws. But anti-sex discrimination statutes did not succeed until the 1970s when feminist activists and lawyers, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned them and replaced them with equity laws such as Title IX.–end of msmag info–             
https://msmagazine.com/about/         —  Ms. was a brazen act of independence in the 1970s. At the time, the fledgling feminist movement was either denigrated or dismissed in the so-called mainstream media. Most magazines marketed to women were limited to advice about finding a husband, saving marriages, raising babies or using the right cosmetics.—end of msmag info–
The diversity within iconic realities of ’70’s Feminism challenges the fiction that minority women were not permitted within these circles by a modern-day presumption of white female ideology.  Such presumption seems more nearly political Party strategy……again……..
The above Ms. Magazine was received from  —  https://mailchi.mp/282a114fa2be/era-in-the-news-may-8-4994170?e=9fd5b10b7d–

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First ‘Summit For Democracy’ Should Be The Last

A Whistleblower And Constant Thorn In The Government’s Side

They Won’t Ever Find Us Because Our Love Is Bound To The Rocks  –At the US State Department’s Summit for Democracy (9–10 December), US President Joe Biden announced a range of initiatives to ‘bolster democracy and defend human rights globally’. These measures are to be funded by $424.4 million from the United States. This money will go towards the same institutions that have – for the past sixty years – intervened to undermine the sovereignty of democratic processes from Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) to Honduras (2009) and Bolivia (2019). The US focuses on falsely portraying governments that are unwilling to accept US leadership as corrupt US Unveils Legal Trigger For War With Russia

Why We Must Defend Julian Assange

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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.