Respose to Biden's Speech - 4/28/21

 On Democracy:

 Biden: "Can our democracy overcome the lies, anger, hate, and fears that have pulled us apart?

America’s adversaries –- the autocrats of the world –- are betting we can’t.  And I promise you, they’re betting we can’t.  They believe we’re too full of anger and division and rage.

They look at the images of the mob that assaulted the Capitol as proof that the sun is setting on American democracy.  But they are wrong.  You know it; I know it.  But we have to prove them wrong.

We have to prove democracy still works — that our government still works and we can deliver for our people.

In our first 100 days together, we have acted to restore the people’s faith in democracy to deliver.  We’re vaccinating the nation.  We’re creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.  We’re delivering real results to people; they can see it and feel it in their own lives."

Biden sees the autocracy, monarchy, oligarchy pull, of the current Republican Party as well as in the  failed Russian and other Soviet nations, as well as the currently successful Chinese Communist government. 

It comes to the old line of Kings, Popes, dictators, and many philosophers, starting with Plato, "Man is not wise enough to govern himself."

To which Jefferson answered, "Then he should govern others?"

In 1960 I took a high school class named "Problems in Democracy". From which I concluded that he major problem with democracy was being confused with an economic system, as opposed to a political system. I've not changed my mind since then. And I also saw that has never been  a "Democracy". B.C Athens of Pericles wasn't because slaves and non-land owners didn't vote. Representative governments, few and far between in history, have all failed; and never had the people voting on the laws.  And certainly did not broadcast that 90% of the laws passed were based on monetary issues: get the tax money, spend the tax money how you want to. Which generally meant great swaths of corruption and repression over "the people". 

Before we fight the autocrats, philosophically and financially, we should not only support Democracy, we should be a Democracy. A democracy is where the people vote directly on the laws, vote directly for their chief Executive officers, vote directly for their Judges. We should start working on this, now. See assocactualdemocracy.com. Contribute, help, work for justice for all, equality for all, freedom for all; you know, for Democracy!

Trump still incompetent...

 How stupid are the Republicans? Trump has one over-riding policy: make the inept and unqualified Trump the King of America, the Putin of America. Trump has neither the political skill to convince the country it should give up democracy and he doesn't have the courage to try and use force. As I said, he's unqualified. Lenin and Hitler sent armed men into heir legislatures 100 years ago. Trump sent 'bear spray' incompetents into our legislature. Fool. Democracy is pretty well ensconced in the US. I know they've taken it out of the schools and out of the Senate. But the people see. They don't want to be ruled, especially by someone who made 560,000 deaths happen when a little sense could have led to only the 60,000. The republicans have been chosen by our Republican Oligarchs. And they've only picked incompetent little failed lawyers. They can't even get decent flunkies to put into office. Biden is going to crush the lack of sensible plans in the Republican Party. And rightfully so. We must make America an Actual Democracy: see assocactualdemocracy.com

Corporations standing against the State's Voter Suppression Laws

 Big Business has not suddenly lost sight of 'self-interest' and Capitalism. They simply don't want to be governed by an autocratic, centralized, vote and voter controlling Republican, or any other autocratic government, fascist, communist, Nazi, or monarchist, just like Jefferson and Madison didn't want it. They don't want stupid incompetent liars to be able to set their prices, determine who they can hire, tax them in arbitrary ways, and take away their independence. The Corporations control the economy and they will not give up that control to a bunch of unemployable lawyers who the corporations have put into office thinking they run the economy. This is just a tap on the shoulder: "We run things. Not the government, certainly not the people. Get in line or we'll buy different dummies to follow our orders.

The Ugly Americans

It was insulting when we were "The Ugly Americans" because of uneducated, unread, uncultured new rich traveling the world and exposing our national ignorance and prejudices. But now, now we ARE the ignorant, uncultured, ugly people with degrees from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. mostly in underwater basket weaving. Not only did the ignorant politicianns just fail over a half million dead Americans and their families and friends. Not only did Congressmen sign on to a Trump suit asking the Supreme Court to appoint the biggest idiot ever in politics as Dictator for life, those politicians didn't even understand, and don't to today know what the hell they were doing. Their Oligarchs sent their chauffeurs down to Congress to tell their flunckies what to do, and their flunkies did. Up with MAGA, Down with the United States. please, bring back the Ugly Americans, these stupid ones just make me laugh, 'til I cry, and think how I loved being an American. All my life I've been a sucker: God, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Good triumphs over evil 'cause its nicer, Study math & science, make the world better for Republicans. Hell, even our Scientists failed us. But I knew, I saw it all coming, when the Senate put lying dog Justice Thomas on the Supreme Court, I knew America had died. Maybe Hamilton was right, maybe the people aren't wise enough to govern themselves. Only Jefferson answered him, "Then they should govern others?" And Gaetz and Trump say, "Certainly we should. We're smart." 

Republicans Need to Suppress Voting

The Republicans have strategies to 'steal' elections because their policies are mostly "power centric" aimed, not at freedom, people, equality, hopeful policies. Since Nixon, the really good "rotten" Republican the Republicans have had mostly second rate candidates, Carl Rove lying to voters, nobody saying we're going to improve our Country, except they will make more planes and ships and bombs for the Army - The Russians are coming the Russians are coming. Our education system has more administrators in it than teachers. Our roads are 40% refilled pot holes. Our businesses get 20% of their profit from tax relief and lower wages, no unions, no unions! Everything is a "Competition", like we're still in the jungle fighting for bones. 12 to 15% of Americans are in poverty. Single mothers, fathers in jail, black people shot down in the streets, guns for killing each other manufactured faster than hot dogs. The Republicans have a failed philosophy, a group of selfish money grubbing fools, fools: power hungry, and totally incompetent Republicans. They have no decent objectives, except quit democracy; no decent path to recruiting anyone but the bottom of the class. They have admitted, in Supreme court argument, that they can't win an election unless the Courts let them suppress the votes of the voters who know they are stupid worthless people. They cannot compete for votes because they don't believe in voters, or the people, or progress. Get the money, get money, Republicans!

 

Answer to NYT "Loving America"

 Love America? Everybody else can only tie me. There is no greater lover, or critic, of America. America is flawed, and shows it is flawed in every failed and stupid action its taken in the last few generations. But Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin, Madison, Monroe, oh, yeah, Hamilton the signers of the Declaration and Constitution have my respect for their attempt, & failure, to put a lid on power grabbing, people crushing, capitalism; mankind abuse with (3/5ths a person) Slavery; misogyny in voting equality, freedom limiting with the layer of Representation in electing Senators, in electing Presidents, in selecting Judges, because they believed 'man is not wise enough' to govern himself.(Except Jefferson.) The landowners, slaver owners, said no man can be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and let only 35% of the people vote for Representatives, and only 20% qualified for office. But it was aspirational by bright and courageous people. Lincoln stood up for it and removed slavery, on paper, but not from history. But the Constitution is Amendable. And Madison started with the Bill of Rights'. And the Preamble to the Constitution famously pushes us to make a "more perfect Union". It's a 'hard slog'. We will become an Actual Democracy: the people will directly vote for the laws, for the President, and for the Judges. One Amendment away: see assocactualdemocracy.com. I love America, I love life, and I aspire to the removal of man's inhumanities to man'.

Response to NYT columnist saying Dr. Seuss has bias in some books.

 So we shouldn't read Mark Twin? How about William Faulkner? Remove the examples of "normal racism" and you denigrate the fight against it. They demonstrate that people can acclimate themselves to any and all philosophies. And seems, especially the horrible ones. I think it's because of our prayer for magic. Maybe rotten does make us superior. But that's irrelevant. The truth is that there have been slaves for 10,000 years and a fair percentage of them were, and are, black. And white and toddlers and all exposed to man's inhumanities to man. And now you say tear up some of the little books that unintentionally, probably, but its irrelevant, have some bias. There's ten times the bias, black bias, in the Bible and the Koran, etc. Tear them up and I'll come to your funeral. Education and understanding is how you fight all ignorance. Get your head out of your column and get it into the human race. Oh, yeah, you won't get paid unless you, as a journalist, don't start some kind of fight, rather than help cure a human ill.