Changing the ruling in "Citizens United" is futile.

Bernie Sanders attack on the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision in the "Citizens United" case, that permits unlimited money contribution to 'independent' PACS ( Political Action Committees) is a futile attempt to 'get money out of our politics'. Of course Bernie, his followers, and many others who share the objective of getting the influence of money out of our politics are correct in their objective: getting the Oligarchic donors who buy and sell our representatives for the benefit of the Oligarchs is a necessary task to get Representative government to work.  But as long as there are Representatives to be bribed they will be bribed, Constitutional Amendment, Congressional laws simply won't stop the Oligarchs buying Representatives.

The solution is to remove the Representatives from the government. If there are no Representatives to make the laws they can't be bribed. And no Representatives implies that the people must muscle up to the task and vote directly on the laws under which they live. We the People must make our own laws, debate them before voting on them, and then vote.

The Founding Fathers ( read this as the founding Oligarchs ) did not believe man was wise enough to govern himself; or at least they shouldn't be allowed to govern themselves in defiance of the wiser, better, more Oligarchic path of having only land owning, college educated, better trained in political science, members of the intelligentsia, that is, men like the Founding Fathers as the Executives and legislative Representatives, and Judges of the United States of America. The Founding Fathers fixed things so the people never vote directly on the laws they live under, never directly vote for the Executives, and never vote, directly or otherwise, on the Judges. The power of the people, the power of the citizens, and responsibility of the citizens, to govern themselves was removed from the citizens by the Constitution when it made the Legislature a set of elected Representatives, the Executives selected by members of the electoral College, and Judges appointed for life by the Chief Executive, with the 'advice and consent' of the Senate.  The Representatives that stand between the people and laws they live under, between the people and the Executives who Administer the Laws, who stand between the people and the Judges who interpret the laws are the governing bodies of this land, and not the people, certainly, not the people. Andit is so because the people are not wise enough to govern themselves.

To get these Representatives, who Represent their own views, their own prejudices, and the views and prejudices of the Oligarchs who bribe them to Represent the views of the people has proven nearly impossible. I admit it does happen, but much too infrequently.

To end the Oligarchy of the United States, we must end the Republic of the United States and found the Democracy of the United States where the people vote on the laws, the Executives, and the Judges without someone between them and the laws, Executives,and Judges. We must have an Actual Democracy.

1. The legislative function of the United States shall be performed directly by the people according to Article I of the Constitution and legislation that the people enact. If a bill is passed it is then sent to the President for signature, veto, or pocket veto, following Article I Section 7 of this constitution.

3. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected by the people. The Electoral College is hereby rescinded.

4. One ninth of the  Federal Judiciary shall be elected every year by the citizens of their respective jurisdictions. Currently serving judges will be up for election in reverse order of their years of service, longest serving next to be elected until such time as all have been elected.

2. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be directly elected by the people to four year terms and shall not serve more than two such terms.

3. One ninth of the Federal Judiciary shall be elected every year by the citizens of their respective jurisdictions. Currently filled judgeships will be elected in reverse order of their years of service, longest serving is next to be elected until all have been elected.
4. The right of citizens Of the United States to directly vote for the laws under which they live, to directly carry out all other legislative functions stated in Article I of the Constitution, to directly vote for the President and Vice President, and to directly vote for the Judiciary, shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State.
           
             As always: see assocactualdemocracy.com

Back to Equality and Freedom: Amend the Constitution to vote on the laws

With the election over - or not, recounts are ongoing - We must turn to the solving the problem of representative democracy, of our Representatives, and to take back the power of voting for people and make it voting for laws,executives, and judges. We need to work to get this Amendment, or one that changes the government to these ends, passed and put in the Constitution.

1. The legislative function of the United States shall be performed directly by the people according to Article I of the Constitution and legislation that the people enact. If a bill is passed it is then sent to the President for signature, veto, or pocket veto, following Article I Section 7 of this constitution.

3. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected by the people. The Electoral College is hereby rescinded.

4. One ninth of the  Federal Judiciary shall be elected every year by the citizens of their respective jurisdictions. Currently serving judges will be up for election in reverse order of their years of service, longest serving next to be elected until such time as all have been elected.

2. The President and Vice President of the United States shall be directly elected by the people to four year terms and shall not serve more than two such terms.

3. One ninth of the Federal Judiciary shall be elected every year by the citizens of their respective jurisdictions. Currently filled judgeships will be elected in reverse order of their years of service, longest serving is next to be elected until all have been elected.
4. The right of citizens Of the United States to directly vote for the laws under which they live, to directly carry out all other legislative functions stated in Article I of the Constitution, to directly vote for the President and Vice President, and to directly vote for the Judiciary, shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State.

See assocactutaldemocracy.com

Trump University settlement

 Our President-elect has admitted he's a thief. But who doesn't know that. The American have tried honor and hope and hard work to live like people on tv and it didn't work. So now they want to try lying, fraud, stealing, cheating, and every underhanded thing imaginable. But I think history shows that doesn't work either. Pity.

Why and how Trump won

I've been going over why the Republicans in the non-urban areas supported Trump and believe he will "make America great, again" and what they believe that means. First, what is the cause of their being disgruntled. The economy is just a small part. What I have concluded is that they believe they no longer are "special". As I grew up and then older I saw the color and race of America changing. We whites were 87% of the country. "We" made the decisions, chose the path to the future. We were in charge. We were special.With television and movies and legal actions, starting with Brown vs. School Board, where "separate but equal" was shot down - by an all white Supreme Court"- integration of blacks into the "white" communities got sped up and 'normalized'. Whites were no longer "as special", they lost some "specialness". Then the Spanish migration came from various countries, mostly legal. And Asian peoples joined the few who already here. Whites were less andless "special". Obama's election was like a final blow, nothing was 'sacred' anymore. While the majority of us cheered that the U.S. has matured to the point that we had a black President, many in the rural areas saw the bottom drop out of the their world-view and their view of themself, and of the nation. Then the economy went bad, schools went bad, etc. And many Asian Indians and Middle Eastern Arabs came to America, and illegal latino immigrants were here in large numbers. And we whites had less and less reason to believe we were 'running things, and were "special". We were "loosing" OUR Country. And THEY wanted it back, like it was. Well, you won't get it. And you won't get it because we still believe what the Declaration of independence says: "All men are created equal..." That means there are no special people. Whites are not special. Blacks are not Special. Asians and Arabs and Latinos aren't special. Trump tapped into this loss of "being on top" and won the election. But he can't make whites "special, again", because we never were. We are all Americans, entitled to all the rights and privileges everyone else is entitled to. We are all "involved in mankind". We might know it but its true. My advice to the "disgruntled" white community is what the comedian lady said to the Bernie supporters at the convention: "Get over it" There are no special people. Work together or get out of the way. You've b locked the way, here in 2016, for a few years, maybe even decades, but "the truth will out". We whites are not special and Trump is certainly not the person who is going to make us "special again. Sorry its so long.

Prepare for the attack on the Bill of Rights and 'illegal immigrants"

We'll need to put away food and books, preparing for thousands of American "Ann Franks". And we need to re-read how to form a resistance, from Camus and the French writers of Combat. We should get copies of Orwell 1984 and Animal House. We should put away some cash so the Homeland Security can't track bank withdrawals, etc. We can stand against this coming deportation and loss of Freedoms. The Trump Administration is preparing, we should too. Soon the right of assembly will go, the right of protest, and then free speech. "Political correctness" is under attack and that means the First Amendment, with the "New Judges" to support it all. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Preparing for the Trump Presidency

We should start thinking about making our cellars and attics places where we can hide our friends and families from the Trump deportation troops. We should start thinking how we can get arms, for home and family protection. Perhaps we should join the NRA so they will assist us in getting and keeping weapons.

Trump won - who didn't know that?

Here is a peer of Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Kennedy,Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, named Donald Trump. He is not their equal, but his our President. He will meet this responsibility as best he can. I am fearful that the best he can do is too little to assist us in going positively into the future. I think he is unfit and unworthy of the responsibilities we the people have given him. We shall survive, but not prosper. The intelligentsia of this nation has brought a revolt against its philosophy and arrogance. But the price the rebels will have to pay may well be too great cost. Trump is still a degenerate moral,sexual, intellectual, and human being. I, for one, will not look upon this man as anything but a fascist fool.