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Democracy in Action

If we're not going to have a type of democratic system where politicians actually represent their constituents and still have realistic differences with their politician brothers and sisters AND compromise and work out real solutions to real problems, then we need to go to an alternative. The alignment of special populist interests against the wealthy interests that currently roam the halls of congress and state houses is necessary. Call these populist interests unions, lobbies, or any other name that represents their goals. Tenant's unions, workers unions, medical/healthcare consumer unions Their goals will be the issues that politicians neglect or believe that prior legislation whether current or past has adequately addressed citizen demands. Recent DOJ lawsuit against RealPage shows real estate corporations are banding together to keep rental prices high during downturns and raising rates together so diminishing competition within the communty. R

Could have left it

Could have left how you found it without going to the front lines and confound it with all your strife Its hard to figure why hamas and hezbollah and even israel, russia and ukraine Go to all that trouble to eke out their form of paradise when it seems they could have left it like they found it And itd be better than than the way they made it. Thats good for america too. The age of exploration was more like the age of domination The christian soldiers, getting everyone ready for the apocalypse, and it still hasnt come yet, It just looks as if they could have left what they discovered to already be, Left it alone, the way it was when they found it, instead they stand around with their armies, believin gods on their side, Languishing outside the gates of hell or auschwitz or gulag 17 or black sites, black holes with no names, or borders where youre either locked in or locked out. Were all standing around, mired in our histories of violence . Poin

Where should we stand

If we say war is never justified in a truly humanitarian world where every human being is no more no less valued than any other, then we are on the side of history thats aligned with all the humanitarian, social justice ideals ever thought or believed. That puts us in the bullseye of the rest who control us as well as control all the reasons for war, capitalism, and fascism. Israel along with its torturing ally, the united states, have redefined warfare in the past seven decades. The imperial arm of the us over the decades by cia sponsored guerrilla operations throughout the world, the weaponization of "friendly" terrorists (such as al Quada, taliban, shite, shia) in order to further worldwide resistance to any other national aggression, and the state authorized development of torture and black sites to coerce information.   The weaponization of allies has now become an outed foreign policy supported by nearly all politicians, as well as citizens.

No matter who wins, we lose

As revolutionaries of the future and not the present, we do have to realize that it doesnt matter who "wins" in the zionist, iran, hezbollah, hamas, us, ukraine, russia, houthi battle between fascist, nationalist forces because no matter who wins, we will still lose. Support for any nationalist, religious theocracy is only a false peace In iran and many other nationalist revolutions, including america's own revolution, liberal, and,especially, progressive idealists have always been shoved under the bus. The left has been left out in the cold.   Lebanon is the current victim of zionism. To pretend that this is merely a "self-defense" is ignorant, it is the us/israel clean up of terrorism as defined by 9/11 ideals. Do we need to remember the results of the last two american wars in the region. Iraq, under the auspices of corporate oil interests and afghanistan, taliban cultural, religious, and national restrictions still in effect since t

America Fatigue Syndrome

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  I couldn't have said it better. OPINIONOPINION, Opinions I suffer from America Fatigue Syndrome, do you? America Fatigue Syndrome is not the figment of a neurotic imagination. The upset, weariness and recurring bouts of déjà vu it triggers are real. Andrew Mitrovica Al Jazeera columnist Published On 6 May 20226 May 2022   A woman holds up a sign during a protest in Foley Square, after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in New York City, New York, US, May 3, 2022 [Jeenah Moon/Reuters] I am so tired of the United States of America. Perhaps you are tired of America, too. You may be an American who has – like many of us outside of America – become exhausted by and with America. If it is any consolation, exhaustion is one of the telltale symptoms of America Fatigue Syndrome, a condition that, I suspect, much

Dystopia Utopia #3 Greenland

  Dystopia Utopia #3 Greenland If given the choice most people when choosing between a good outcome or a bad outcome for a future, will usually try and bend toward the good outcome. It’s only natural, isn’t it? It is difficult to imagine why but if we presume most people in power in any one nation are educated and that education provides a resemblance to a traditional, cultural heritage, soaked in a historical brine of both future and past, glory and tragedy, we can predict a reasonable desire for a positive outcome.   There are so many imaginative writings these days, not coincidentally, coinciding with scientific, political, and what some might call moral predictions of imminent disaster, decay, and divine intervention. Dystopias are everywhere now. This is the Age of Dystopia. In days of yonder and yore, prophets, witches, soothsayers among others were constantly going about pointing out what might look like reasonable prognostications for their times, of death and despair a

Why are we still afraid?

Aren't we one world now? Are we still cowering behind our own flags, entrenched in the safety of our own freedoms, the freedom to ignore, the freedom to not be involved, the freedom to not be affected. Are those freedoms? The democrats showcase their politicians, all saying the same thing, shouting freedom, opportunity, equality, diversity, inclusion but if we believe in the sanctity of the system, then anything is still acceptable, including authoritarianism, fascism, and more recently, acceptance of genocide. When the convention is over, when we are not drowning any more from the waterboarding media of hope. I've said it more than once, these problems-war, inflation (recession, economic collapse, crisis), immigration standstill, all this and more is the result of decades of both parties aggressive and passive alignment with the principles of status quo capitalism, profit, and greed. Nearly every politician has benefited and profited from our democracy.