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okay so yes they’re now talking about deporting US citizens to foreign terror prisons—yet another thing that was sheer TDS paranoia until it wasn’t—but relax: it would only be heinous repeat offenders, I’m sure they’ll have the administrative errors worked out by then
Some more prophecy from Pope Pius XII, on preparing oneself for marriage and parenthood:
“It is a curious circumstance and a lamentable one, that whereas no one would dream of suddenly becoming a mechanic or an engineer, a doctor or a lawyer, without any apprenticeship or preparation, yet every day there are numbers of young men and wome…
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The richest man in the world spent more money than most people will see in a lifetime to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact that his $25M was a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent on other elections is why we must overturn Citizens United.
I disagree, you are citing a red herring, one that is indeed evidence of how the two party system is failing under the oligarchy that runs it and Democrats are completely unable to protect us. You are currently promoting war in Ukraine, not peace, and you have censored valid criticism and the discussion of certain topics which are unfavorable to Democrats. You have picked an idol in Joe Biden while distracting with the obvious misdeeds of the Republican Party and Trump. You have revived the Col…
"... the obvious misdeeds of the Republican Party and Trump."
Only nine words reflect truth in this latest wandering, confused, haughty misdiagnosis -- wrong disease, wrong treatment, wrong doctor.
Perhaps you should read some Naom Chomsky or Chris Hedges, intellectuals who do not have shows for their own benefit and who do not do the dirty work of the Democratic Party. If you haven't noticed, the Biden administration is having Ukraine fight a proxy war with Russia, fully supported by Thom Hartmann and "progressives" like you. When we're hanging off a sliver of the earth that is left after nuclear devastation, Thom Hartmann will still be telling us about Trump, Putin and the Republicans.…
In the interest of facilitating the debate, let me offer another way to look at the problems and issues you mentioned. I suggest that we agree on the answer to the following three questions before we go on if only because without such an agreement, there will be no understanding. First, what is our government’s purpose? Second, how do we meet that purpose using best practice-based solutions and systems? And third, why isn’t our government meeting its purpose? Most of us focus on the third qu…
Good one. The purpose of government is to protect the Constitution and the People by leveling the playing field and helping to make citizens' lives easier to navigate so that they can prosper. Life's hard enough as it is; our government was originally intended to help everyone, not just the rich bastards who think they're above the law and personal responsibility. Meet that purpose by engaging citizens to fully participate in their democracy. The failure to meet that purpose is the failure of c…
I would submit that your definition of our government’s purpose is another way of describing the Preamble PLUS you bring up two of the root causes for our democracy’s decay. You note that our government is supposed “… to protect the Constitution and the People by leveling the playing field and helping to make citizens' lives easier to navigate so that they can prosper.” That is certainly pithier than the Preamble, though I’ve always thought that Hamilton’s synopsis of it to be great as well because it also includes a reference to protecting our citizens from the morbidly rich like you did. Hamilton said, “We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.” Whether it’s factions or rich bastards, they are the assholes who do things adverse to our rights and our communities’ interests. Regardless of what people decide is the purpose of our government (and I think the Preamble pretty much puts that question to rest), we first need to agree on what it is or we’ll continue to have millions get flimflammed by the master grifters. There is nothing more fundamental for any enterprise that wants to be a going concern than a mission statement that defines the purpose. Once we agree that uniting for the general welfare and protecting us from rich bastards is the purpose, then I believe the best way to achieve that purpose is, first, to sever the control that the factions/rich bastards have over our government’s decision-makers (the hard part), and then collaborate with our citizens to design and implement role model education, role model healthcare, and role model security for everyone. As you noted, we have millions of citizens who never learned that they should participate in our democracy, much less how, making them eager marks for the bullshit. Maybe they will never learn that they are being played, but that doesn't mean their kids can’t learn the truth. Since this has been a multi-generational propaganda campaign that has promoted bad decision-making skills it’s going to take some time to fix things, but I’m confident that if we ever got to the point where we could build a role model education system (like the one that Finland learned to build from American educators), we would have enough citizens who knew what to do.