"The Cities are Unsafe..."

 Sure the cities are "unsafe". Why aren't Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, etc.? And it's not a race or money issue, it's a human issue. I know we need police but I also know that a fairly large percentage of our police don't believe 'all men are created equal'. I've heard many officers of the police say our black citizens are 'animals'. They are dehumanized, negated as citizens as well as people. Our police aren't taught "No person shall... be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law.." NO PERSON starts the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth has the same language. Due process Comes from a Court, not from the end of a gun. It was Mao who said "Power comes from the end of a gun", not Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. They believed power came from a voting booth. The Republicans have devolved to 1918 Russia and 1933 Germany: throw out democracy, put in a dictator, an get 150 million dead again, so you be comfortable selling guns and tanks and aircraft carriers. The Republicans attacked democracy on 1/6/2021 & did it again this week ''stopping" a bi-partisan investigation with 35 Senators against the investigation and 56 voting for it. That's right, the minority of 21 won the vote! We desperately need to remove the Representative Republic and replace it with an "Actual Democracy": the people vote on the laws, for the Executive Officers, & for Judges, all responsible to the votes of the people. see assocactualdemocracy.com. Stronger & brighter than Trump are coming.

How Putin, Trump, and Republicans are trying to Fix American Problems we don't Have.

 To me it looks like the Democrats are putting their shyness, ignorance, and cowardness right out front in pursuing legal claims against Trump. The DOJ is not bringing their evidence of Trump's obstruction of justice, of Trump's advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, of Trumps doing Putin's bidding in undermining Democracy following Russia's and China's modus operandi of undermining democracy by positing "elitists", "billionaires", "CEO's" , as haters of the poor and down trodden and making sure the poor and downtrodden hear the message, everyday. They browbeat the foolish rightwing media outlets into advocating hate and resentment against the successful and wealthy, and the successful and wealthy into hating the poor and downtrodden. Democracy can't work in and among the raw uneducated parents of the nation. parents who believe they, and their children, are being cheated by the government and the "elitists" and rich, and, really, may well be. Consequently there is only one way o fix this "inequality", do away with elected representatives and get some dictator, king, or setof rich oligarchs, just like Russia has. Imagine, there is a working cure to the fake problems that Putin discovered existed in other countries. How fortunate we will be to have an example, Russia, of what kind of government we should have. Trump was right to kiss Putin's - ring. Russian Government, a solid dictatorship, is just how we can fix America. Thank Putin, Trump & Republicans.

Argument for Actual Democracy...Again.

 Even the raw uneducated citizens of the land deserve Representation. So they elect raw uneducated Representatives. They go with 'feelings' like Trump said, he makes decisions 'by his gut'. Simply put dumb people want dumb representatives to represent their never thought out positions and needs and how the government can help them. Today's "gossip machines", like Twitter and Facebook, bring them propaganda of total impossibilities and teach them to not only want dumb Representatives (see Trump), but that they should stop picking their Representatives ever 2 to 4 to 6 years and pick them for life, or leave the picking to the "party Leaders". In other words, do away with democracy and go back to Aristocracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, whatever you want to call 'no representation' and no say about the laws, the Executive Officers, or the Judges. The solution, well known for 10,000 years and never, ever, implemented, is 'Actual Democracy", where the people vote directly on the laws themselves, no Representatives to be bribed; vote directly on the Executive Officers, no Electoral College; and directly for the Judges; no appointment by the Executive to a lifetime job and no accountability to anyone. Jefferson told Madison the Judges didn't even look like members of the same Country. See assocactualdemocracy.com put up back in 2014. And help them...

Predictions of Biden's Coming Failure, questioned.

 So Biden must fail, by your account, after all the other nations had people and process that failed. You're simply a purveyor of gloom and doom without any U.S. evidence because nobody has dared try and organize the tax dollars to be spent on the people who paid those tax dollars. Other good columnists are saying Biden will go down in history. Only problem is they all do. But few people know Biden's intentions. But he's been saying them for years. He's certainly not a communist or socialist or a conscious left winger. But he is fervently against the American Oligarchy of bought and paid for Republicans working against the people and for the rich and powerful. You've seen Biden and heard Biden over the years. He simply stands for and with a better life for the average ranger. something you 'special people' believe is your right by birth and maybe education. You keep knocking people trying to help us all and your writing, as others has, may not meet the requirements that progress wants and needs. Perhaps its time to revisit your philosophy of " Man is not wise enough to govern himself" and watch him govern himself.

Reply to NY Times Article where Senator Linsey Graham said, in effect," Our Instructions are not Racist"

 For 80 years the Slaves only counted for 3/5 ths of a person for purposes of our census. See the Constitution. So seems that demonstrates that at least until the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments followed the loosing Souths philosophy from the protection of the Constitution, that a way back to Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence could be found. That's the one where the currently belittled slave owner put a line or two about freeing slaves in the Constitution which was taken out of the final draft so Georgia and North Carolina would sign the Declaration. so, 600,000 whites lost their lives freeing the slaves in an act of saving our Union, Amending the Constitution, and Freeing the Slaves from the institution of slavery. That left the job of getting free and forced education to the white population and an extra 30 years for the black population to be set up in a "separate but equal" position that left the vast majority of African Americans in separate but unequal schools until 1954 when the future Justice Marshal won the Brown vs Board of Education Decision before the Supreme Court. A decision not fully enforced to this day. By Constitutional mandate black lives counted only 60% of white lives from 1788 until 1867 or '68. Then by law Black lives were not entitled to the same education as Whites. The 5th and 14th Amendments "No person... may be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law." Gunned down in the street is not "DUE PROCESS"