I started warning people in 2017 that Trump and the GOP were active threats to our freedoms.
Just blank stares and denial...which persists even now.
The media is already accommodating a further erosion of press freedoms...why else would MSNBC elevate an empty vessel like Kristin Welker, while firing Mehdi Hasan? Why would Business Insider allow an investigation into the accurately reported story of Bill Ackman's wife plagiarism?
Jack Smith's home was swatted, as was Judge Chutkan...with radio silence from the perpetually mute Attorney General.
The gaslighting necessary to pretend that this is a fight to maintain a democracy is absurd. At best, it's a fight to prevent further backsliding. If there's a 10-year plan to reestablish our democracy, I've yet to hear it.
I'll vote for Biden because there's no other option to avoid an apocalyptic dystopia. I can only hope that new leadership arises because there's no return to what passed for 'normal' pre-Trump.
How do you think it would happen? Yes. I am worried. I live in deep red IN. Once this was a blue pocket, but I’m seeing the telltale signs of hatred. Far more gun fire than ever in my life. Do you think voter rolls are secure? Where will they concentrate their efforts? There’s so much security for all the judges and prosecutors in his cases, do we still have enough investigative staff to figure out where these militant groups are? If we start fighting among ourselves, how long before another country joins the fray? This is why I try not to spend too much time thinking down this path… I don’t know and I don’t know where to find out. It’s a recipe for panic.
1. To demand real democracy (good luck - would that include unions :)
2. To help the disenfranchised - the communities destroyed by globalism (and sacrifice profits - ha!)
3. To allow free speech but "stop the algorithms" (not likely - too much money in those things)
We may have become too much of an oligarchy run system - a runaway train. But hey. Maybe, November 5 the will be a turning point and the civil war will just be skirmishes we can squelch. Who knows. But not enough people are scared.
The etymology of "anocracy" sounds closer to anarchy (of either end of any political spectrum) than the republic our plutocratic property-holding forefathers left for U.S. to guard, protect and pass on intact to succeeding generations. I've preferred the vernacular no-longer quite neo-logism of "Cronyocracy." Capital "C" cuz it reflects the true hierarchy propping up whatever government is being sold (and bought).
That has seemed about right (and right wing) since those founding male property-owners died and left their estates the indigenous lands they didn't quite steal since our indigenous First Nations in North America aka Turtle Island didn't understand much less believe in the concept of "Private Property" or "Real Estate."
Health and balance and a better new year for the planet we reside on and live off of, dear courageous Penfist.
It takes courage to even speak before a live corporate-captured microphone of such core concepts of "ownership."
Thank you for the blunt assessment.
I started warning people in 2017 that Trump and the GOP were active threats to our freedoms.
Just blank stares and denial...which persists even now.
The media is already accommodating a further erosion of press freedoms...why else would MSNBC elevate an empty vessel like Kristin Welker, while firing Mehdi Hasan? Why would Business Insider allow an investigation into the accurately reported story of Bill Ackman's wife plagiarism?
Jack Smith's home was swatted, as was Judge Chutkan...with radio silence from the perpetually mute Attorney General.
The gaslighting necessary to pretend that this is a fight to maintain a democracy is absurd. At best, it's a fight to prevent further backsliding. If there's a 10-year plan to reestablish our democracy, I've yet to hear it.
I'll vote for Biden because there's no other option to avoid an apocalyptic dystopia. I can only hope that new leadership arises because there's no return to what passed for 'normal' pre-Trump.
How do you think it would happen? Yes. I am worried. I live in deep red IN. Once this was a blue pocket, but I’m seeing the telltale signs of hatred. Far more gun fire than ever in my life. Do you think voter rolls are secure? Where will they concentrate their efforts? There’s so much security for all the judges and prosecutors in his cases, do we still have enough investigative staff to figure out where these militant groups are? If we start fighting among ourselves, how long before another country joins the fray? This is why I try not to spend too much time thinking down this path… I don’t know and I don’t know where to find out. It’s a recipe for panic.
Outstanding TED talk. Barbara F. Walter nails it.
So it's up to "business":
1. To demand real democracy (good luck - would that include unions :)
2. To help the disenfranchised - the communities destroyed by globalism (and sacrifice profits - ha!)
3. To allow free speech but "stop the algorithms" (not likely - too much money in those things)
We may have become too much of an oligarchy run system - a runaway train. But hey. Maybe, November 5 the will be a turning point and the civil war will just be skirmishes we can squelch. Who knows. But not enough people are scared.
Such an important, succinct and poignant post. Thank you Pen
The etymology of "anocracy" sounds closer to anarchy (of either end of any political spectrum) than the republic our plutocratic property-holding forefathers left for U.S. to guard, protect and pass on intact to succeeding generations. I've preferred the vernacular no-longer quite neo-logism of "Cronyocracy." Capital "C" cuz it reflects the true hierarchy propping up whatever government is being sold (and bought).
That has seemed about right (and right wing) since those founding male property-owners died and left their estates the indigenous lands they didn't quite steal since our indigenous First Nations in North America aka Turtle Island didn't understand much less believe in the concept of "Private Property" or "Real Estate."
Health and balance and a better new year for the planet we reside on and live off of, dear courageous Penfist.
It takes courage to even speak before a live corporate-captured microphone of such core concepts of "ownership."
Most appreciatively yours,
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