RADICAL IDEAS WHEN CORRUPTION IS POLICY


Possibly many mainstream political voices within the Republican/Democratic duopoly would prefer everyone who supported other than their authority would simply grin and bear it.  However, in FACT differing voices, considering the policies of the Democratic/Republican duopoly, given a few years for interpretation and accomplishment, feel justified and motivated to raise higher, voices not compliant to said authority.

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1488949067459747845         –Call me a radical, but I happen to believe that a job should lift workers out of poverty – not keep them in it.–end of twitter info–
Don’t kill each other.  Understand the feelings of those who remember history—
https://twitter.com/SpiroAgnewGhost/status/1488665232549371904              — This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a Concentration Camp & they had been liberated.–end of twitter post
Work for the common good—–https://mailchi.mp/nader/facilitating-civic-and-political-energies-for-the-common-good-wl7qxxmd3f?e=cfd1bea9b5       ——Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the dominance of giant corporatism with a Ten-Year Plan budgeted at $1 billion a year (See, Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism, January 7, 2022). Readers wanted to know more about the Plan and where the money would come from to implement this grand initiative.—-end ralphnader info–
Technology may be used by hierarchical Establishment to promote progress defined in terms of greed, privilege, and exploitation in the same way democracy is used by capitalistic hierarchical Establishment to support imperialism.  —  https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/putting-technology-in-its-place/     –As anyone who has followed my work will know, globalization is of particular interest to me: for more than 40 years I’ve been studying its impacts on different cultures and societies around the world. From Ladakh and Bhutan to Sweden and Australia, a clear pattern has emerged: as people are pushed into deepening dependence on large-scale, technological systems, ecological and social crises escalate.–end of countercurrents info–
C-Span hosted relevant discussions this morning.https://www.c-span.org/video/?517524-6/washington-journal-rep-ami-bera-d-ca-discusses-russian-threats-invade-ukraine-amp-biden-foreign    — FEBRUARY 3, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 02/03/2022

Washington Journal

Representative Bera on Russian Threats to Invade Ukraine and Biden Foreign Policy

Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, talked about Russian threats to invade Ukraine and Biden administration foreign policy.–end of c-span info–
The separate issues afflicting the world and in particular the USA can be better understood by recognizing the overarching reality of a Pyramid-Scheme economy intended to transfer the wealth of the nation from the 100% to the 1%.  The components of this system are spoken of individually in a way that deflects from the overarching policy that promotes hierarchy over requirements for a healthy society that supports the majority of people while cherishing our environment.
Included in this charade is a foreign policy that needs to be questioned.  
9:45AM–paraphrase–Representative Ami Bera–Spoke of the incredible loss of life in WWII with the sentiment that he did not want to go back to that.
Several thoughts about the sentiment–*WWII was an aggressive policy enacted by Nazi’s practicing fascism which is a systematic collaboration between government and commercial interests to promote the interests of hierarchy*Uncomfortably, fascism has been acknowledged by growing numbers of people as expanding in the USA*Some people recognize The Military-Industrial Complex as the tool used by hierarchy to inflict this system around the globe under a pretense of “spreading democracy around the world” while democracy is under attack in the USA*Efforts by hierarchy to insinuate Russia as part-and-parcel of WWII fascism continues and is pure propaganda*Disruption in the Ukraine is fomented by expanding capitalism from the West*The same capitalism that is creating an unequal society in the USA is promoted around the globe under the policy of “spreading democracy”*Historically Russia has been more the recipient of aggression than the perpetrator*Russia may feel a special suspicion toward fascism due to having dealt with fascism during WWII*https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war         —


*Soviet Union8,800,000-10,700,00024,000,000

Intellectual honesty demands reminding the mortality for Russians was in the struggle against fascism, not as fascists.  This is not to comment on the relationship between Russia and the Ukraine which is limited at best.  It is to say the USA may be causing more heartbreak than it is healing, if anyone cares.
Intellectual honesty also demands the worrisome embracing by some in the USA of hyperbolic capitalism that seems too nearly fascist.  The word trick is propaganda,  by so many politicians and bureaucrats that seem to wish to insinuate that Russia during WWII was the nation against which the USA fought.  This seems particularly….is evil too strong a word?….no it isn’t.
9:50AM–C-span caller from NC–Democrats are terrible on messaging, specifically on the topic of Medicare.
One believes the Democratic messaging is on target.  The problem is the policy.  That the Democrats ignore support for Senior Citizens seems precisely their intention, as it seems to be for Republicans.  In capitalism, after citizens are retired they are useless to the capitalistic system.  Neither branch of the Republican/Democratic have skin in the game to protect workers past their prime.  And so, the messaging is precisely correct, and the reason voters support these politicians is beyond me.
Considering the amount of commercial contributions to political campaigns, we effectively have lobbyists writing laws—-https://www.postandcourier.com/health/clyburn-has-taken-more-than-1-million-in-pharma-money-in-a-decade-far-surpassing/article_62b10180-d956-11e8-9122-4f50316f66fa.html
https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1488995659835494407?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email       –The US has given Ukraine $2.7 billion in military aid since 2014, including $650 million since Biden took office, along with deployments of U.S. and NATO military trainers. Now it is sending more troops, more “lethal aid.” And RUSSIA is the aggressor?–end of medeabenjamin info–
Received from commondreams  — https://outreach.commondreams.org/index.php?action=social&chash=013d407166ec4fa56eb1e1f8cbe183b9.157&s=b1bc8d3faaa302bfd18968874947ab60      —Tax-Dodging Billionaire Dynasties Could Cost US $8.4 Trillion: ReportStarbucks Profits Soar by 31%—But It’s Raising Prices Anyway‘Disgrace’: EU Panned Over Plan to Label Gas, Nuclear GreenUS Covid Death Rate Marks ‘Dark Side of American Exceptionalism’
The Pandemic Proves the Benefits of Universal Health Care
The Fed’s War on Inflation Is Really an Attack on Workers–end of commondreams info–

Commondreams info seems to be the story of the sorry state of life currently.  Dynasty families may have brought with them in generations past, ideas of fascism that buoy their supremacy.  We could consider whether said dynasty families are healthy for a functioning democratic (small d) republic.  Privatization seems to be a goal for said entities that are hierarchical and breed greed and privilege.
Most notably, now is a good time to discuss the high mortality rate from the pandemic in the USA that is functioning on a for-profit health industry rather than a 1-payer comprehensive public health care policy.  So-called Democratic messaging from this FACT is policy and is intentionally inflicted for the benefit of commercial interests rather than good public health.
It only feels tragically predictable that imprisonment of those most typically representative of the origins of the US Constitution in a manner that feels like politics.  —  https://portside.org/2022-02-02/leonard-peltier-americas-longest-held-indigenous-prisoner-he-should-be-freed  –Peltier’s co-defendants were found not guilty by reason of self-defense for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in Oglala on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota during a shootout with members of the American Indian Movement. Law enforcement killed Joseph Stuntz, a young Native man whose killing was never investigated. Years of appeals processes have poked holes in the validity of the government’s theory. Peltier’s conviction in that case rests solely on the basis that he was present on the reservation with a weapon that day – not that he fired a fatal shot or had any hand in killing anyone. So why is he still in prison?–end of portside info–
And still we spend billions in Europe and are now sending US troops to confront Russia, when we could more honestly deal with our own corruption.
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.

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