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What</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Happened</span> <span style="color: #666666;">to the</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">U</span><span style="color: #666666;">.</span><span style="color: #999999;">S</span><span style="color: #666666;">.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">A</span><span style="color: #666666;">. ?</span> </b><br /><br />Phonebank: <a href="https://wisdems.org/phonebank" target="_blank">WisDems.org/phonebank</a>
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<br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A Very Brief Timeline:</b></span> <br /><a href="https://uResist.org/iMGs_blog/Keynesianism_Worked_Friedmanism_Failed_1945-1975-2020_uR.png"><img border="0" height="" src="https://uResist.org/iMGs_blog/Keynesianism_Worked_Friedmanism_Failed_1945-1975-2020_uR.png" width="98%" /></a>
<br />We only have to go back 100 years, in this very brief timeline, to gain a general understanding of how we ended up here. Continuous corporate-media consumption provides a framing of issues, and worldview, conducive to corporate interests above our own. …with the lie, that corporate interests are our own.
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<br />In the <b>1920</b>’s, the labor movement had been stifled after suffering a series of devastating losses. Laissez-faire capitalism and fascism were on the rise, crashing the economy by the decade's end.
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<br />During the <b>1930</b>’s, the labor movement was revitalized, and the Democratic Party was transformed. CIO organizing began. Socialists, unions, and communists pushed FDR to implement the New Deal. The 1935 Wagner Act <span style="color: #666666;">(NLRA: <i>The National Labor Relations Act</i>)</span> guaranteed employees’ rights to organize, collective bargaining, and collective action.
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<br />Democrats were progressive on economic issues, but regressive on most social issues. But, that changed over time.
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<br />In <b>1944</b>, FDR proposed a 100% tax on income above the top marginal tax bracket of the time. They ended up with a 94% tax on the top marginal tax bracket. These socialist policies gave us the strongest economy we ever had, and like all great policies, never would've happened without pressure from the Left: workers unions, communists, and socialists.
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<br /><b>1945-1975</b>: The Golden Years of Capitalism
<br />Although, it should be called The Golden Years of Socialism, since all economies are mixed, and it was the socialist policies that made the economy great. Of course, greedy capitalists continue to take credit for the achievements of the Left. The Right claims that the strong economy was a result of WWII, but we know that war profiteering only helps <span style="color: #666666;">(the rich)</span> war profiteers, demonstrated by our policies of endless war. The 1947 Taft–Hartley Act was an assault on the 1935 Wagner Act <span style="color: #666666;">(NLRA)</span>, launching attacks and propaganda, undermining labor, which continue to this day. In <b>1949</b>, the FCC introduced the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>in exchange for, otherwise free, licensing</i>)</span> to devote some airtime <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>with varying viewpoints</i>)</span> to matters of public interest.
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<br />Throughout the <b>1950</b>’s, the top marginal tax rate remained above 90% <span style="color: #666666;">(1951-1963)</span>. Inequality was greatly decreased, and a strong welfare state created a vibrant middle class. Early on, the wealthiest psychopaths <span style="color: #666666;">(disgruntled Industrialists/Robber Barrons)</span> released a barrage of propaganda, resulting in making 3 generations ignorant on class/economic issues: The Traditionalist and Baby Boomers of the time, and then to their children, Generation X. The first two generations benefitted from the social democratic economy, but then by the mid-70’s, began to destroy it for the rest of us.
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<br />In <b>1956</b> the FBI’s counter intelligence program, COINTELPRO, began a series of extralegal covert projects, surveilling, infiltrating, disrupting and, discrediting American political organizations.
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<br />The Social Democracy of the <b>1960</b>’s gave way to the Peace and Civil Rights Movements. LBJ and the Civil Rights Acts solidified the Democratic Party’s shift toward being more progressive on social issues. Nixon’s Southern Strategy did the opposite for Republicans. Taxes for the rich were lowered to 77%, and then to 70% for the wealthiest 1%.
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<br />On December 4th <b>1969</b>, as a part of the illegal counter-intelligence program, COINTELPRO, the FBI assassinated Fred Hampton, in cold blood, in his bed, just before dawn. COINTELPRO continues to operate to this day. Peace and equality are always under attack by those who benefit from war (racist violence) and inequality.
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<br />The <b>1970</b>’s: Women’s Rights made great strides. In 1971, Nixon declared a “war on drugs” with the intent of terrorizing and criminalizing those he viewed as his enemies: black people and <span style="color: #666666;">(the peace movement)</span> hippies. In 1974, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his crimes against America in the Watergate scandal. The top marginal tax rate remained at 70% throughout the decade. Milton Friedman’s economic policies began to take hold. Sharp rises in oil prices, due to OPEC's 35th conference (1973), led to an economic downturn.
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<br /><b>Money Entered Politics</b>
<br />to a much greater degree:
<br /><ul><li>Buckley v. Valeo (1976) held that limits on campaign contributions are unconstitutional, and that spending money to influence elections is protected speech by the First Amendment.
</li><li>First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978) upheld the rights of corporations to spend money in non-candidate elections (i.e. ballot initiatives and referendums). </li></ul>
The conservative Supreme Court <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>Nixon's appointees</i>)</span> voted to deregulate campaign finance, so that the rich can now buy politicians, subverting democracy. Corporations are people, and money is speech. The fossil fuel industry, knowingly set out on a decades-long campaign, to deceive the public about the urgency of climate change, putting the entire world at risk, for their short term profits. Jimmy Carter’s fuel efficiency requirements made for an easy economic recovery during the Reagan Administration.
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<br />The <b>1980</b>’s ushered in Milton Friedman’s destructive economic policies of deregulation, commonly referred to as the Reagan Revolution. The corporate elite and their media were thrilled, and celebrated this transition of flipping the New Deal on its head. Protections against usury were deregulated. Attacks on unions, workers’ rights, and consumer rights increased exponentially. The top marginal tax rate dropped below 70% for the first time since 1935. The fiscal irresponsibility of Reagan, very quickly turned America from the world's leading creditor nation to the world's leading debtor nation. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Workers’ wages stagnated, and the middle class gradually began to fall.
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<br />In <b>1987</b>, the Reagan administration eliminated the Fairness Doctrine, giving way to an environment of ever increasing corporate propaganda. The return of Laissez-faire capitalism with Reagan's policies of deregulation also exasperated the S&L crisis, and caused the first crash on Wall Street since 1929. The top marginal tax rate continued to dropped, finally reaching 28% by 1988.
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<br />The list of Reagan’s crimes amount to beyond extensive. He supported the apartheid in South Africa, sold weapons to Iran, to support terrorism <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>by the Contras</i>)</span> in Nicaragua, and his malfeasance in response to the AIDS crisis led to a massive domestic death toll. The only country in the world condemned for international terrorism by the World Court, thanks to the Reagan Administration, is now the United States of America. Among Reagan’s many crimes, not least of which, is putting life on Earth at risk, by expanding the Military Industrial Complex.
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<br />Friedmanism <span style="color: #666666;">(the Reagan Revolution)</span> continued throughout the <b>1990</b>’s. Bill Clinton’s Third Way officially declared Democrats as being center-left on social issues, while being center-right on economic policy. Running as an economic conservative, depressed the vote on the Left. He only won because Ross Perot divided the vote on the Right, but the corporate media continued to push the narrative that running to the right, is a winning strategy for the Left. As President, Bill Clinton turned his back on workers, deregulated Glass-Steagall, and cut welfare, continuing Friedmanism, Reaganomics, austerity, and the ensued bubble economies.
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<br />There's a perception that unions have gotten larger, when they've actually gotten smaller. Local branches used to be huge, while national branches were very tiny, as they would merely serve a tangential connection. The real work, specific to each location, gets done at the local level. Decades of the Right's attacks on unions have decreased the size of local branches, decreasing their ability to be effective. As a result, the surviving national branches grew, simply in order to keep their unions alive.
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<br />The "center" <span style="color: #999999;">(<b>Overton Window</b>)</span> moved further to the Right. No longer the party of workers, nor the party that taxes the rich, the Democratic Party is now <span style="color: #999999;">(<i>not surprisingly</i>)</span> no longer the dominant party. This is the Neoliberal Era, an era in which the Democratic Party betrays the Left, priming the country for another right-wing victory.
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<br />The <b>2000</b> election was a disaster. Roger Ailes made the decision to have John Ellis <span style="color: #444444;">(Bush’s first cousin)</span> call the election for Bush on Fox, election night, and the rest of the corporate media fell in line. Gore won the popular vote. When all the votes were counted, Gore also won Florida, and every independent recount showed Gore won Florida, meaning he won the 2000 election. The Supreme Court threw out the ballots, and the loser took the office of the U.S. Presidency.
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<br />Bush was out of D.C. more than 40% of the time, his first year in office. He was basically on vacation up until 9-11. The Republican Party stole the election, left our country open to attack, started an illegal war by attacking a country that never threatened us, instituted a global torture program, and crashed the economy, devastating the world economy by the end of his second term.
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<br />Bush failed to keep America safe, left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, and turned Clinton’s surplus into a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
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<br />In <b>2008</b>, Obama ran his campaign as a progressive, and won. The more they called him a socialist, the more he went up in the polls. Unfortunately, he governed like a Republican, or Reagan Democrat. Although, the top marginal tax rate ranges from about 35% to 39%, it’s important to understand that the effective rate <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>what they actually pay</i>)</span> generally remains at around 0%. The "loopholes" are intentional. Those big campaign donations, from the rich to both parties, are not for nothing. They called him a Keynesian, but his policies and record show otherwise.
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<br />Obama extended the Bush Tax Cuts, ramped up deportation at the border, escalated the war in Afghanistan, ended the Iraq War on Bush’s timeline, increased U.S. drone attacks, and renewed the Patriot Act. Merrick Garland was a Republican suggestion. Mitt Romney suggested his healthcare plan, and Obama took it. Obama passed the ACA, a corporate healthcare plan, developed by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. The most socialist thing Obama did in office was to implement Mitt Romney's Republican healthcare plan.
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<br />Obama broke his promise and didn’t even try for the Public Option, even with majorities in both houses and a sweeping mandate. Instead, he went with the highly unpopular right-wing Individual Mandate, what people hate most about the ACA. Hypocritical Republican indignation over their own plan is endless. Of course, not everything Obama did was objectionable. To his credit, the Iran Deal was arguably one of the best foreign policy achievements by a U.S. president in recent history.
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<br />One thing we learned from the Obama years, that he never did, is that we cannot work with Republicans. Obama spent eight years foolishly bending over backwards for Republicans, as they spit in his face every step of the way. The list of Republican policies goes on, and on… Obama was further to the right than Reagan on the economy. But, instead of appreciation from right-wing media, there was outrage. Remember the aggrievement from those hypocritical psychopaths? Republicans only care about power <span style="color: #444444;">(for the rich)</span>, and will destroy the country and the world pursuing it.
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<br /><b>2010:</b> <b><span style="color: #666666;">More Money in Politics:</span></b> with more Campaign Finance Deregulation:
<br /><ul><li>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310: The Conservative Supreme Court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political communications by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.
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<br />Studies show this ruling boosted Republican electoral success.
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Obama failed to meet the progressive mandate, which carried him into office. It’s not a coincidence that the most popular policies are still the most socialist policies, implemented by the most progressive administrations: FDR’s Social Security <span style="color: #999999;">(<i>of the New Deal)</i></span> & LBJ’s Medicare <span style="color: #999999;">(<i>of his Great Society</i>)</span>. The most popular president in American history was the one who taxed the rich. The Democratic Party was the dominant party when they were the party of working people. But unfortunately, the Democrats learned the wrong lessons from the McGovern (1972) and Mondale (1984). From 1968 to the present, Democrats have been moving further and further to the economic-right, becoming the weaker party. Obama campaigned to the Left and won, but then governed to the Right, and lost over a thousand seats during his terms in Office.
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<br /><b>2015</b>: Bernie Sanders ran on the Democratic ticket, becoming the most popular politician holding office, in the U.S., and now the world. Throughout the Primary, the corporate media continued to push the lie, defying all polls, that Hillary was the most electable for the General.
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<br />In <b>2016</b>, the Democratic Party nominated the most hated politician among conservatives, Hillary Rodham Clinton. They pandered to the Right, depressing the vote on the Left, and then lost to Donald Trump, the least popular candidate in recent history.
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<br />He lost the popular vote by 3 million, and began his term with no public mandate other than possibly performing a political 180° from his previous positions. Trump <span style="color: #666666;"><b>United The Right</b></span>, rallied the racists, relentlessly lied, incited violence, and very predictably provoked an environment of death & destruction.
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<br /><b>Trump’s Top 10 Fascist Headlines</b> for his term:
<br /> 1. The Wall
<br /> 2. Concentration Camps at the border
<br /> 3. Kidnapping & family separation
<br /> 4. Greatest transfer of wealth to the rich
<br /> 5. Weakest response to highest unemployment
<br /> 6. Weakest response to worst pandemic
<br /> 7. Doubling Covid deaths by spreading lies
<br /> 8. Spreading Covid himself
<br /> 9. Forced Sterilization
<br /> 10. Vows to never stepping down
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<br />Trump destroyed Obama’s Iran Deal, increasing tensions, putting America and the world at risk.
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<br />After decades of the Left dropping out, Progressives inspired by Bernie made historic victories in <b>2018</b>. Part of being on the Left is learning how to collaborate and cooperate by building coalitions. Centrists concede all the way to the Right before negotiations even begin. They kowtow to Republicans, and attack the Left. Democratic-Socialists put forward the most popular progressive policies, and fight for them. <a href="https://twitter.com/uResist/status/1322587968884924417" target="_blank">#DemEXIT</a> is saying, let the corporatists and fascists decide. Although, the response of disengagement is understandable and cathartic, it’s exactly what the rich want. The harsh reality is that 3<sup>rd</sup> Parties have accomplished little more than nothing in over 40 years, while <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrandNewCongress" target="_blank">#BrandNewCongress</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeDemocrats" target="_blank">#JusticeDemocrats</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders" target="_blank">Bernie</a>, and the <a href="https://twitter.com/DemSocialists" target="_blank">#DSA</a> have taken out a dozen corporatists with a dozens Democratic Socialists, in just the last 2 years. Corporate Democrats are beginning to realize they’re on notice from the Left. That’s how you send a message. 💌 <br />
<br /><b>2020</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefeatFascism" target="_blank">#DefeatFascism</a> or succumb to an increasingly brutal authoritarian regime. Bernie Sanders ran another historic campaign, and lost. The lack of organization on the left was demonstrated clearly when the most popular politician with the most popular policies couldn’t win an election against a guy who barely campaigned. Elizabeth Warren would’ve dropped out when Klobuchar and Buttigieg dropped out, if she was actually part of the left, and if the left was actually organized, in which case <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieWouldHaveWon" target="_blank">#BernieWouldHaveWon</a>.
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<br />No one on the Left, who understands electoral politics, would <a href="https://twitter.com/uResist/status/1323435394952843264" target="_blank">#WalkAway</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/uResist/status/1322587968884924417" target="_blank">#DemEXIT</a>, since that leads to a corporatist winning the Primary, and a fascist in the General. What got us here, has a lot to do with the working class <span style="color: #666666;">(i.e. Left)</span> dropping out. This trend is the opposite of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LesserEvilVoting" target="_blank">#LesserEvilVoting</a>, which is merely the exact same strategy as voting for the best candidate, who has a chance. When the Left drops out, the Right wins, resulting in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreaterEvilVoting" target="_blank">#GreaterEvilVoting</a>, not lesser. Disengaging is continuing a losing trend. Strengthening engagement is the reversal of a losing trend. Since 2018, the trend is just beginning to reverse. That’s how we’ve elected over a dozen unbought uncorrupted progressives <span style="color: #666666;">(inspired by Bernie)</span> to congress. Even if you like center-right economics and you’re not a fascist, you’ll vote Democrat, for now. If you want to keep any civil liberties at all <span style="color: #666666;">(i.e. freedom)</span>, you will vote Democrat. Biden is more left than Trump on every issue. We get better candidates by voting in primaries. Our democracy is under constant threat from the Right. Trump said he will not step down, even if he loses. Only dictators do that. If it’s close, he will steal it. If he gets away with it once, he will keep doing it, ending our democracy. This is our last chance to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteHimOut" target="_blank">#VoteHimOut</a>.
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Every election</b> is the most important, we are always told. It’s easy to become cynical after hearing this so many times. But, after realizing that economic inequality has been increasing over the past four decades, it actually makes perfect sense. Elections become more dire as our rights become more precarious. When economic inequality increases, inequality increases across the board. And, the only people who benefit are the billionaire psychopaths, who will destroy everything before admitting they’re wrong, or giving up an ounce of power. We have a choice to make. We can do nothing, and allow for billionaire supremacy, through the exploitation of humanity and the environment (i.e. everything), or we can organize and fight inequality and injustice, and force the most powerful people in the world to obey the laws of nature and democracy, and stop them from literally burning it all down. They want you to believe that progressives are destructive, while the corporate establishment is literally heating up the planet for short term profits and a hold on power. The military industrial complex is already blowing it all up. Big Energy is already burning it all down. The police state can’t be trusted, and as the writing on the wall is revealed to us through Michelle Alexander, we recognize that mass incarceration is the New Jim Crow. "Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."-MLK,Jr.
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<br />There’s a global worker’s movement for a green just economy on the rise. And, there is no other plan in sight. 98% of climate scientists all over the world, paid from different sources, in different countries, all agree that we have ten years to reduce our admissions in order to have a 60% chance of survival. They are not alarmist. They are the opposite. Climate change is happening faster than they’ve predicted. We do not have more time, but possibly less. We cannot afford another four years of climate denial. Conservatives like to insinuate that we are cowards or fools for believing in science, while they were shaking in their boots over the Fox fabrication of a War on Christmas. Now, they have QAnon on the brain, and they are completely lost. But, we don’t have time to be cynical, or the luxury of apathy.
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<br />Ever since Bill Clinton turned his back on workers, Progressives have been leaving the Democratic Party. It’s a very understandable cathartic response, yet ultimately, a losing strategy. It only accomplishes one thing, handing power over to the Right, as in, Corporate Democrats in the Primary and fascists in the General. When the Left drops out, the Right takes over. Although, since 2018, Progressives have been taking over the party. This will be crushed under fascism. The problem is not <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LesserEvilVoting" target="_blank">#LesserEvilVoting</a>, because the trend, before this, has been the exact opposite. Disengagement has been the trend on the Left for decades, long before <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemEXIT" target="_blank">#DemEXIT</a>. Many on the left feel like they can’t vote for Biden because he’s on the Right. The toxic attitudes of “centrist”corporate-Democrat voters and the Party’s corporatist agenda, has fractured the party, and Progressives on the Left. What the Left needs to learn, is the concept of coalition building. Anyone who thought Hillary was more electable than Bernie, was severely misinformed, at best. Corporate Democrats are often wrong about pretty much everything except for their understanding that Trump & Republicans are worse than Democrats. Years before an election, we can talk about 3rd Parties, but months, weeks, & days before an election, isn’t serious at all. There’s only one serious strategy, days & weeks before an election, and that is to vote for the best candidate who has a decent chance. In the Primary, that was Bernie. Now it’s Biden.
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<br />Both corporate parties can appear to be the same, as long as you can overlook the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and the fascist leadership of the Republican Party. The best way to beat the Corporate Democrats, is to stay registered, and vote them out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrandNewCongress" target="_blank">#BrandNewCongress</a> [+] <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExpandTheSquad" target="_blank">#ExpandTheSquad</a>
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<br />Trump's fascist rhetoric rally's his base. Remember when he campaigned on building a wall, blamed everything on immigrants, minorities, and poor people? Remember when he kidnapped innocent children, put them in concentration camps at the boarder, destroying families forever? Remember the militarization of the police and borders? …the violence against the Left, against dissent, and the brutality toward peaceful protesters? Remember the hatred towards anti-fascists? …the kidnapping of innocent people on the streets into unmarked vehicles? Remember, forced sterilization? Remember how Uniting The Right ended in death? Notice how all of this not only refers to Trump, but also Hitler. Can you see fascism yet? We have seen from the extensive footage, that practically all of the violence at protests comes from alt-right agitators and out-of-control incompetent cops. We spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined. We imprison more people than any other country. We need to defund the bloated violent incompetent police state, and reallocate those funds.
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<br />The Right almost always punches down to worship the rich. They only make exceptions to this, if the elite or authority in question are pro-equality / anti-authoritarian. The Right is not about individualism. It is thinly veiled authoritarianism. They can’t question the military or police state. They can’t question any U.S. war, because they can’t think around or outside of the propaganda slogan, “Support the Troops.” It’s very effective at stopping conservatives from questioning any U.S. policy of war. Their selfish slogan is “America First,” which amounts to American hegemony, war mongering, and increased violence around the world. The Right cannot improve America, because they support all of the worst ideas ever devised, from torture, pollution, preeminent strikes, to bigotry and endless inequality.
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<br />For decades, capitalists have tried to claim that collectivism equals authoritarianism, but that’s just another right wing lie. Using Venezuela as an example of socialism is as disingenuous as using Saudi Arabia as the quintessential example of capitalism. So then, what do Bernie Sanders and progressives mean by socialism? This is easy. We mean, the very policies that gave us the greatest economy we ever had: USA 1945 - 1975, and the most stable economies in the world today, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, etc… You got it, the corporate media has a corporate bias (i.e., a right wing bias), as usual, just the opposite of what Fox has been telling you. They’ve got all of the lies backwards.
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<br />When Trump incites violence at his rallies, the crowd cheers. We all hear them loud and clear. On the contrary, when you listen to the Left, say a Bernie rally for instance, you hear the crowd cheer for peace, equality, solidarity, and to fight for a just world. When Bernie supporters first started chanting Bernie, he stopped them, and said, it’s not me, it’s us! And, hence his slogan became, “Not Me, Us” which is quite a contrast to the selfishness of Trumpista’s, Me First sentiment. Remember when Trump said, he’s the only one that matters. This is a theme for them. Bush was the decider. They both expressed their love of dictatorship. They’re spelling it out for us, and conservatives love it. The one thing that the Trump administration has done, is that it has removed all doubt around and concerning illegitimacy and sickness of right wing ideology. Individualism on the Right merely represents excuses for selfishness and greed.
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<br />Trump supporters are murdering innocent people in the streets, and still they try to blame peaceful protesters. Trump incites violence at all of his rallies, and his supporters cheer and comply. Just remember their lies and outrage over the most peaceful protests in the history of protests, kneeling before the flag during the anthem. No matter how many times they were told it’s about police brutality, they responded with lies saying it’s about the flag or the troops. With that level of outrage over the most peaceful protests imaginable, of course they’ll lose it over street demonstrations. We’ve seen them ram cars and trucks into crowds, violently infiltrate protests, storm public buildings with military grade weapons, and cry about wearing a mask during a pandemic. If you think the conservatives are the peaceful ones, you haven’t been paying attention.
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<br />There’s enough footage of the protests to make an estimate that over 90% wore masks. There’s also enough footage and reporting to show that it was actually right wing agitators and out-of-control incompetent cops committing all of the violence. People who believe in peace and equality and risk their lives to stand up for people they don’t know and have never met, are not the violent ones. Protests against police brutality are always met with police brutality, unless you're peacefully kneeling before the flag during the anthem. Then, they just lie, and say it's about something else. The BLM demonstrations are no exception. The establishment media tends to side with the corporate establishment, not civil disobedience.
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<br />Trump ran to the left of Hillary, now he’s trying to run to the left of Biden. If Biden lets him do that, we’ll probably lose again. Bill Clinton ran as an economic conservative and only won because Ross Perot divided the vote on the right. Obama won because he campaigned as a progressive. Unfortunately, he governed as a Republican and continued to disaffect the working class, which is how we got to Trump. The most popular programs are Social Security and Medicare. The most popular president in our history, is the one who taxed the rich. …FDR, of course. He was elected four times until he died. I know, Republicans used to be more progressive than Democrats on social issues, but that all change after the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and Nixon’s Southern Strategy. But then, since Reagan, both parties have moved to the far right on the economy, with Democrats usually managing to be a little better. If Obama implemented Medicare For All, instead of Mitt Romney’s Republican corporate healthcare plan, Democrats would be loved so much Republicans could never win again. Obama also extended the Bush Tax Cuts, deported more immigrants than Bush, escalated the war in Afghanistan, increased U.S. drone attacks, and renewed the Patriot Act. He was elected to do the opposite. Now, do you understand why progressives left the party? Republicans speak to, and rally their base, while Democrats malign their base, and then wonder why they lose. We have to face the truth to win. Only the Right is fueled by lies. We have to beat Trump, and then we have to primary all of the corporate Democrats. This is the only plan the left is coalescing around. It’s the only plan, which speaks to the non-voting majority, and if we don’t come together on this, we very well could be looking at an ever increasingly unstable spiraling descension towards our own extinction.
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<br />Remember, FDR was not progressive, he was pushed by socialists, communists, and unions to implement the socialists policies that gave us the best economy we ever had. It wasn’t enough. It left room for the Robber Barrons to come back in their Reagan / 3rd Way / Milton Friedman Revolution. So now, in many ways, we are back to a New Gilded Age, fighting extreme inequality, depression, and fascism. Just as FDR could be pushed, we can push Biden. It’s all about organizing. “We need to change the conditions under which we can organize, so that we can organize more.”-Jane McAlevey.
<br />If we let Trump take another four years, we stand to lose what shred of democracy we have left. Democracy is weak in the U.S., but it’s not dead yet. We know Biden is a right-wing corporatist, but his administration will still be much better than the far right fascist Republican administration. Kamala Harris is now looking the presidency, and she knows she will be challenged from the left if she continues to represent her corporate donors over public interests. With mass movements on the rise, they can be pushed, Republicans can’t. Trump will continue to kidnap protestors on the left into unmarked vans. What we have seen so far, is obviously, just practice for what’s coming, if we decide not to make the only vote, which has a chance of being counted against fascism.
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<br />Trump will not win the popular vote. Republicans almost never do. He will be the loser again. The only question is, can we win by enough, to override the corruption in the system? It all comes down to… …How much do we want to avoid living under a fascist dictatorship? Because, we’re going to have to win by 6,000,000 votes, most likely, to get the electoral college. 40% of the electorate do not vote. Most of them agree with progressive policies. So, we cannot win them over by pretending Biden’s progressive, they know he’s not. And, we can’t win them over by pandering to the right. The best strategy is the honest message that he can be somewhat influenced by a mass movement for economic, environmental, and social justice, where as Trump cannot. Trump panders to his xenophobic base and wins. Democrats malign their progressive base and lose. Let’s not have a repeat of 2016.
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<br />We are tired of this, we never wanted this, but as long as we are alive, we are in it. This is not going away soon. Voting is not everything, but it’s not nothing. We’ve never gotten the greater evil, because too many people voted for the lesser evil. Remember, the lesser evil, is still less evil. The time to vote for a great candidate was in the primary. We didn’t lose, because the centrists wouldn’t let us win. We lost because of exhaustion, dispiritedness, apathy <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>the corporatists we need to vote out</i>)</span>, and the failed strategy of DemExit, which has been the ever increasing trend for decades. I’m not here to blame anyone. I’m here to ask you to rethink your strategy, considering this dire moment. A year before an election, we can support whomever we think is best. But now, just days before the election we know it will be Biden or Trump, a corporatist or a fascist. That’s not hyperbole. They’re not exactly the same. One administration will clearly be better than the other. And, to pretend otherwise amounts to nothing more than an exercise in futility and disempowerment. Thinking that someone else could win at this point is obviously delusional. A non-vote or 3rd party vote is a message sent to no one. It will not be received. It is also not a moral act, since moral acts are not predictably meaningless. If you care about results, it will have no effect on the outcome. But, since 2018 the strategy has been clear.
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<br />When the Democratic party was the party of workers, we were also the dominant party. That was no coincidence. With Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and your local DSA, we can organize and take the party back. Democracy is dying, but it’s not dead, yet. Voting does not contribute to the system of corporate billionaire class control over our lives. It is one tool that we have, along with other types of civic engagement, and civil disobedience. We need to use them all. Remember AOC. My nephew and I canvased for her in October of 2017, before her campaign took off. There was no way of telling at that point that should could win, other than her being an incredible talented candidate. As you know, she went on to take out the forth most powerful Democrat. And, in primary after primary since then, we’ve been electing progressives. Every time we elect a progressive, we take out a corporatist. There’s your new party. But, this will eventually become impossible, if we keep becoming more fascistic. Scholars around the world believe the U.S. has only a 20% chance of not becoming a fascist dictatorship. The mail-in ballots will take weeks to count. Trump will probably stop the count within a week due to Proud Boy protests Most polling stations should be as safe as going to the supermarket. So, if you can, vote in person. I’m afraid it might be more of a threat to our lives, if we don’t. Unless you have some other tragedy November 3rd, please do the one thing that could count against fascism. We will achieve more fighting Biden, than fighting Trump. But either way, there is no giving up. Until we become refugees fleeing fascism, the fight continues. …and even then, it will <a href="https://blog.uResist.com/2020/09/26.html">continue</a>.
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📊 From now until November, <div>when all the votes are counted, we cannot rest. We can’t spend one minute thinking Republicans won’t do the worst possible thing imaginable. If we can face hard truths and take action, there’s a slight possibility we won’t lose what little democracy we have. </div>
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<br />Trump has clearly stated he will not step down. He’s doing everything he can to create chaos at the polls and with the Post Office. He plans to do what he said he will do, throw out the ballots. Far-right lawyers will give it an air of legitimacy. It will go to the Supreme Court, and they’ll pull a 2000 on us. If he gets away with it this time, he will just keep doing it, if for no other reason, to avoid jail time once out of office. Anyone who helps him will keep helping him, for that same reason. And, some will help him. We can’t afford to delude ourselves. <br />
<br />If Trump continues to stay in power, he’s not leaving, and it will be all of our faults, not no one’s fault. For instance, the best way to win is to bring out the young vote, except they want a progressive, and they know Biden is a corporatist. Centrists decided to repeat 2016, by pandering to the right, and ignoring the left, hence depressing the vote on the left. On the other hand, progressives who wanted a stronger candidate should face the fact that <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieWouldHaveWon">#BernieWouldHaveWon</a> the primary if it wasn’t for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemEXIT">#DemEXIT</a>. Anyone, who had the ability to register and vote for Bernie and didn’t, is in part to blame. DemEXIT hands power to corporatists in the Primary and fascists in the General. It may be understandable, it may be cathartic, but it is nothing more than an exercise in futility and disempowerment. Suggesting a 3<sup><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;">rd</span></u></sup> party has a chance in this election, is not a serious argument. Voting is just one tool that can work, it’s not about identity, unless we’re narcissists. <br />
<br />This is not about shaming, it’s about the best strategy considering the predicament we’re in. We have to mobilize Zoomers to vote against fascism, so that we have time to organize. From AOC to Cori Bush, we just voted in a dozen progressives, while taking out a dozen corporatists. This trend will be crushed under fascism. Organizers are already being kidnapped off the streets into unmarked vans. We are just beginning to organize, but we are nowhere near ready to fight a fascist dictatorship. If we want any semblance of democracy, we need Trump out of office. If it’s close, Trump will be able to steal it. He may be an idiot, but this he knows. We shouldn’t be calm. Unless you’re already packing your bags, we need to be obsessing about winning. <br />
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📊 Political Paradigm <br />
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This graph plots five 2020 presidential candidates according to their statements, actions, and policies <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>and policy proposals</i>)</span> considering history and the rest of the world. <br />
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There is a wide range, from the least hierarchical <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>most collectivist</i>)</span>, anti-authoritarian society to the most extreme hierarchical <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>intolerant</i>)</span> authoritarian regime. Where do we find ourselves in this paradigm, and whose policies should win out? It seems pretty obvious. We all know corruption exists, and that the news media is not always perfectly straightforward and 100% honest, but most of us still feel that we have a general understanding of the big picture. Whether you read The New York Times, Washington Post, watch CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, or consume no news at all, you probably feel you have a general sense of how the world works. Unfortunately, most of us are wrong in our assessment of important details. We all know we are being lied to, but if we are wrong about who is lying and what those lies are, we will act against our own interests. For many, this graph seems to put the center in the upper right. Obviously, the <b><span style="color: #666666;">Overton Window</span></b> is placed on the graph where the corporate media tries to pass off as the center. ...now, somewhere between corporatism and fascism. Ever since Reagan, we've been sold the idea that a corporatist is a moderate.<br />
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This graph, which plots five 2020 presidential candidates according to their statements, actions, record, and policy proposals, may seem off to some. If your idea of the center, fits within the confines of the <b><span style="color: #666666;">Overton Window</span></b>, you may want to reexamine some basic facts. <br />
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The candidates who are the least authoritarian and the farthest to the left, Bernie and Warren, are placed near the center <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>of the graph, outside the Overton Window</i>)</span> for a reason. Warren is in the upper right quadrant because she leans more toward capitalism than social democracy. She voted <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>in 2017 & 2018</i>)</span> to increase military spending. She’s a capitalist, and she calls herself a capitalist. Even though, her record is problematic, she’s a great candidate by comparison. If we had no better option, it would make perfect sense to put our full support in her candidacy. But of course, Bernie is running. In Europe, he would be on the right, which is one reason why he’s placed near the center of the graph. Another reason, is that <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>even though he’s the most anti-authoritarian leftist in the race</i>)</span> he’s still to the right on the economy of both the Democrats and Republicans of the New Deal Era. During the 1950’s & ’60’s we taxed the rich over 90% on the top marginal tax bracket. Even Eisenhower, a Republican, taxed the rich over 90%. But, when AOC said 70% is moderate, the corporate media went nuts. This is how far to the right we have gone, and the inequality is destroying us. When we had a good economy, during The Golden Age of Capitalism <span style="color: #666666;">(1945-1975)</span>, we taxed the rich more than anyone today has suggested, which is why Bernie is placed near mixed economies and Keynesianism on this graph. Bernie is a great candidate, the best we’ve seen so far, but he is a centrist if you can see the big picture. He is not extreme. The so called “crazy” leftists today, are simply people who are not right-wing. We just want to give everyone health care, like every other first world country, and tax the rich, like we did when we had a good economy. …and we want to deal with climate change, you know, so we don’t all die. The far left in today’s political paradigm, are actually the only people who are not crazy. In a world where extreme inequality and endless war are the norm, peace and equality are crazy ideas.<br />
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Science tells us we have about 10 years to reduce our emissions before climate change catastrophes become uncontrollable. This means we really have about ten months. We cannot afford to be delusional. We know that a corporate democrat will put the concerns of his donor base over the interests of humanity. If you’ve been paying any attention to politics at all, you know this to be true. The failure of corporate interests to lift up humanity, couldn’t be more stark. Socialism polls better than capitalism in America today. This is a new era, and a gaffe machine with vague platitudes won’t cut it. We need someone with broad base support across all districts. We don’t need someone who will fight for the big banks, weapons manufacturers, or the fossil fuel industry. We need someone who will fight for humanity. <br />
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Remember, 40% of the electorate are independents, who cannot vote in the democratic primary. Polling continues to show that they will come out to vote for Bernie in the general. They understand that Bernie is for the working class. Sanders has the most popular and aggressive policy proposals, the most individual donors, and the most enthusiastic energized base, with over a million volunteers. Bernie polls to beat Trump by double digits in the general, has the policies to fix what’s broken, and is the only candidate with the grassroots movement needed to push these policy proposals through. In 2016, they called him crazy. Now, they’re imitating him. Corporate centrists still try to dismiss him, as they follow those who are following him. He’s not only the leader of a movement, he’s the leader of the other candidates, as they strive to sound more progressive, more like him. So, it’s time we take a step back to examine the big picture, to support a real progressive, and, for once, elect a winning candidate. <br />
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Sometimes, as we rethink and reframe our perception, we can hone our rhetoric with precision. As we navigate the shifts within our political landscape, we no longer have the luxury of cynicism or apathy. …actually, we never did. So, with clarity and vision, make way for progressives, the defibrillator of democracy. The corporatists will lose. As the Third Way Corporate Democrats cling to power, progressives like Bernie, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Brand New Congress candidates propose time tested solutions. From Northern Europe (Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, etc... ) to the United States’ New Deal economy (of the 50’s and 60’s), these democratic-socialist policies have been proven to work. These “socialists” or New Deal Democrats (Social Democrats) are ideologically centrists when compared to history and the rest of the world. In other words, they’re far from extreme. Don't fall for corporate media propaganda. We will fix the economy, and we will win! The winning Blue Wave strategy is the Progressive Wave. The Blue Wave is here because the Progressive Wave is here.<br />
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The progressive wave is here in the U.S. today. If you don’t see it, you just might be dedicated to self-deception. Progressives have been winning in local elections all around the country. We are in the midst of an anti-authoritarian leftist movement. Even though, the bigots on the right have been rallied by Trump’s openly racist rhetoric, leftwing policies are just as effectively rallying the left. Obama was voted in to be the next FDR <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>well, the next non-racist anti-war FDR</i>)</span>, but instead we got a Reagan Democrat in 2008, and then lost 1000 seats throughout his term. We haven’t had a true progressive in the White House since LBJ. Obama referenced FDR when he asked the public to make him pass progressive legislation. Apparently, Occupy wasn’t enough.<br />
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<b>It’s true</b> that I quoted the old testament. I’m glad we can agree that the old testament can be dismissed as irrelevant at best, but my main points deal with the new testament. The new testament condones slavery, yet claims god is love. Love does not condone slavery. This should be obvious to any thinking person. If you’re going to personify love, you have to do better than the new testament god, because that’s just another obvious failed attempt. It’s certainly not the word of Love. I hope I don’t know anyone who condones slavery. So, as far as I know, I don’t know anyone whose morals could be improved by this deeply flawed book. The god of the new testament as well as the old, has repeatedly fallen short of the most basic principles of morality, and that’s not love. <br />
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You don’t have to pray for me, because no one’s sins have ever been absolved by the killing of an innocent person. No human sacrifice was ever good news. That’s not how morality works. Every human sacrifice (murdering the innocent as atonement for sin) has been and still is a sick twisted act of unimaginable lunacy. Jesus did not end the belief in human sacrifice. The story of Jesus has prolonged this belief, as you exemplify by saying, “He died for our sins.” It doesn’t make it any better if it’s a good person (or a pure person without sin), as the sadistic theory goes. It doesn’t matter if it was last week or at the dawn of the age, it’s still an immoral act that would never be condoned by Love, let alone required by any moral being. Why couldn’t he just forgive people? Do you want to know how to forgive someone? You just decide to forgive them. That’s how you do it. How is it that the almighty god doesn’t have the power that every other living being has? At some point, your faith has to hold up to your questions, and if it doesn’t, then it’s time to change your belief system to a more rational moral view. To accept a human sacrifice as a legitimate effective act, is a moral low point to which I cannot stoop, and neither should you. <br />
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I understand why you believe it. Your parents, grandparents, and family going back generations probably believed it, because it’s embedded in the culture. In fact, the only difference between a cult and religion is size. Once a cult becomes large enough to influence an entire population’s culture, it acquires the status of religion. Popularity doesn’t make the beliefs any more rational. Thinking for yourself is difficult, which is why so few people do it. Even though, everything I said should be pretty obvious, it’s difficult for anyone to think outside their own cultural paradigm. <br />
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Your belief system requires you to not question. "Blessed are those who believe without seeing.”(John 20:29). Blind faith is seen as a virtue, when it’s actually a dangerous requirement of any religion. Since they are all made up, unquestioning blind faith is imperative to keep up the big lie. An honest belief would welcome scrutiny. "Lean not on your own understanding."(Proverbs 3:5). This fear of thinking should be your first sign as to the dishonesty of the doctrine. The fear of questioning is built into religion, as it is with any propaganda system. Allegiance to a party, team, or group, rather than principles, is not morality. Admiring the rich while obeying authority is not morality, it’s authoritarian. Anything worth doing in life (aside from immediate concerns of survival) ultimately deals in some way with questioning authority and the status quo. The least we can do is advocate for improving the system, while dismantling authority whenever it’s found to be illegitimate. And, that also holds true for any imagined celestial dictator. Don’t forget I went to church for twenty years, and every sermon had at least one message about the dangers of thinking, and the danger of any person who might make you question. Beware of the fast talker. It’s a ploy to make people afraid of rational thought, or any honest question about religion. Because, if you allow yourself to think for two minutes without fear, everything I just said will become absolutely clear.<br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This article was written as a response to an email forwarded to me touting the benefits of going to church. </span></span>Use of the terms, “church” and “the Bible” here generally mean the Christian church and Christian bible. Although, the most general sentiments could be applied to almost any religion. The email starts by saying </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">“If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!” </span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> and ends by claiming, without evidence, that church provides spiritual nourishment. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">So, I reexamined the question, “Why go to church?”. </span></span><br />
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This is a good question. <br />
Church goers rave about the benefits of church, and the importance of fellowship and communion with people who share a belief from which they claim to derive morality and truth. That sounds enriching. Finding the truth is enlightening, and generally only arrived at through an honest search. The search for the truth begins by questioning every idea you’ve ever held dear. If an idea doesn't pass the test of evidence, deduction, and logic, it should not only be discarded, but you must then question why you ever believed it in the first place. If you’re able to be honest with yourself, then there’s still hope. <br />
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So, why go to church? <br />
Another reason might be to reflect on “the infallible word of God”, the Bible. The best verses in the Christian bible are the one’s that talk about love, peace, and equality. Love thy neighbor (Mark 12:31). The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12) encourages fairness and equality. These verses are beautiful ways of simply saying, "Don’t be a hypocrite”, and “be kind and care for one another”. Seek peace (Psalm 34:14), God is a god of peace (1 Corinthians 14:33), and care for the sick and help the poor (Matthew 25:35-40). There’s a lot of evidence to show that living this way improves your life. <br />
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But, let’s see what else the bible says. <br />
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† : “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12) <br />
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That’s funny, because I remember women teaching Sunday School. Why didn’t they teach me that this verse is false? Perhaps they were afraid to question. According to the Christian Bible, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21). You can understand why anyone might be afraid of this God. <br />
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God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses (Joshua 6). In Judges 21 He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be raped and forcibly married. God also told men to hide alongside the road and kidnap virgins to rape and forcibly marry. <br />
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In just about every other page of the Old Testament, God is killing somebody. In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church. In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered. <br />
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God allows for slavery, including the selling of your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 & Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9). The "Word of God" condones slavery in the New Testament. "Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” (1 Peter 2:18) <br />
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God (in the Bible) is indirectly and directly responsible for pillage, plunder, mass-murder, rape, ritual human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, and child abuse. ...and, has no problem with slavery, yet does seem to have a problem with disobedient slaves. <br />
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Why go to church? <br />
Here are some other good questions. <br />
Why don’t we celebrate women who drown their children in bathtubs? After all, God told them to do it. Why do you need proof? Don’t you have faith? Abraham almost killed his son because he heard a voice in his head. This act should not have inspired religions. Abraham should’ve been arrested and his son given a lifetime of therapy. <br />
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In order to be a Christian, you have to believe in the efficacy of ritual human sacrifice (not as a metaphor, but as the actual murdering of the innocent), as atonement for sin. From Abraham to Jesus, ritual human sacrifice is a mainstay of Christianity. If this act was never effective (which it wasn’t), then the crucifixion was not only pointless, but just another sin committed by God (or men, since God was nowhere to be found). Why choose to believe in a god who also just happens to be a big fan of humanities worst ideas? <br />
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Luckily for us, this immoral god doesn’t exist. If God is Love, then Love would never do these things, let alone, require us to believe absurdities without proof, or damn us to eternal torture for rejecting ridiculous claims. If God exists, she clearly doesn’t want us to know it, and has never authored a known book. Faith is required because there is no proof, logic, evidence, or reason to believe. Faith, or belief without reason, is extremely dangerous, especially when placed in such a violent book. Sure, the Bible has some good verses alongside a ton of life destroying nonsense, but it only takes one flawed immoral passage to prove it’s not the infallible word of almighty Love. And, there are many. This is why you can be certain that the truth will set you free from religion, if you let it. <br />
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Of course, there are good people who happen to be Christian, but no one’s perfect. <br />
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By picking and choosing, you can make the Bible say whatever you want, but it’s impossible to accept every contradictory verse and still claim to be coherent. Talk about no absolutes. Religious texts were meant for a time when most people couldn't read, so that the elites could control the masses. With all of its obvious flaws, it’s easy to see that the Bible is not a good guide for life. Why be involved with an organization or associate with a group who uses this book as their guide, or claims it’s infallible or sacred? <br />
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So, why go to church? Why go, when they refuse and are afraid to edit out the obvious immoral flaws in their own book? Why go to church, when not going is clearly the moral choice?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>2017: A Dumb All Over Year in Review<span style="color: #666666;">...ish</span> </b>[ Ep.49 ] <br />The last show of 2017 Tom and Austin talk about their thoughts on this past year. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It's been quite a crazy year, but despite many of the horrible things that have happened, we are very happy to have found a great podcast community. They also invite some old "guests" back on the show and also listen to what Pastor Manning has to say about the end of the Obama administration. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">● Demonizing The Left : <i>destroys democracy</i> </span><br />
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<b>Decades of demonizing</b> the left has had an effect. The effects for the most part have been devastating to communities and the economy as a whole. Cutting programs and regulations that help the poor, middle-class, workers, and consumers, while simultaneously cutting taxes for the rich and giving government handouts to the wealthiest 0.1%, has decimated the public sphere. Giant multinational corporations lease the public airwaves for free. They dominate the discussion with the bias of the corporate elite. And, this devastation did not come about by accident. It has been a well thought out plan and very successful campaign by the extreme right. <br />
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After the great depression, parties on the left organized. It was a time when practically everyone had joined a workers’ union. Two socialist parties, the communist party, and the workers’ unions got together to pressure Franklin Delano Roosevelt to implement the New Deal. There was talk of revolution across the country. In 1944, FDR proposed a tax increase of 100% on the top marginal tax bracket of the time, which was income over $25,000 per year (<i>$400,000 in today’s terms</i>). He went to the wealthiest people (<i>the people who had benefited the most from the system</i>) and told them, if they don’t give something back, they could stand to lose it all. They settled on a tax of 94% on the top marginal tax bracket. And, that paid for the programs that gave us the Golden Years of Capitalism. The New Deal was a half measure. It was not socialism. It merely saved capitalism. One of the conditions, was for the organized left to stop talking about revolution. And they did, but the enraged right began to plot their revenge. <br />
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Equality feels like oppression to the privileged. They couldn’t accept the fact that everyone was doing better and that they themselves were still benefiting the most from society. The generation that elected FDR understood the lessons their children never learned. The top marginal tax rate stayed in the ninety percentile throughout the 1950’s and into the 60’s. By the 1970’s, it was in the seventy percentile. The wealthiest are generally able to subtract 40 to 50% off the percent they owe, so when they were supposed to pay 90%, they ended up paying 40% on income above the top rate. So, now that they’re supposed to pay 39%, they actually pay nothing, while still receiving huge subsidies to their businesses and districts, not to mention the bailouts when they fail. Over the longterm, Republicans cut taxes for the rich, and increase taxes on the lower 90 percent, while Democrats tax the rich a little more and the majority a little less. The Corporate Democrats have damaged the economy in a similar way as Republicans, but to a lesser degree. If an establishment news anchor attempts to relay this information to the public, they’re quickly removed, as we have seen with Dylan Ratigan, Ed Shultz, and others. <br />
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Some think that war is good for the economy, but World War II did not save the economy after the depression. Our longest war is the Afghan War, and it’s obviously not helping anyone but the rich. Only war profiteers benefit from war. Even if war helped society (<i>which it doesn’t</i>), it would be the most immoral solution ever devised. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us of the growing military-industrial complex, but the Traditionalists and Baby Boomers didn’t listen. Although, the Baby Boomers did make great contributions to society with the civil rights and women’s rights movements, which came out of the more stable more equal New Deal economy. Practically, everything good that we have today can be traced back to the progress of the left, and likewise, most setbacks can be traced to the achievements of the right and the decimation of the New Deal. As we take from the poor and give to the rich, inequality increases. It’s very predictable and easy to understand, unless you’re being informed by those who benefit from your misunderstanding. If you’re angry at the poor, it’s because you’re being informed (<i>actually manipulated</i>) by the rich. <br />
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In 1976 and 1978, the conservatives in the Supreme Court passed laws declaring that corporations are people and money is speech, making bribery legal through campaign donations. Since, we’ve shifted from a Keynesian economy to a Friedmanist economy (<i>or Reaganomics</i>), CEO pay has gone through the roof, while working conditions and wages have gone down for the majority. Worker productivity has gone up, but due to the rollbacks in regulations, workers receive no benefits from their increased productivity. Now, the wealth of the world sits stagnant in the Cayman Islands or other offshore accounts. Giving to the rich has done nothing the right had claimed it would, and yet has done everything the left predicted. The Millennials who grew up with the internet, have not been so easily indoctrinated, and hence the left can be demonized no more. <br />
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The decades’ attacks on unions, socialists, and the left altogether, has been disastrous to democracy, civic engagement, and collective action as a whole. In other words, community interests have been forgotten in our political system, while private profits for the rich have taken center-stage in national and international decision making in the United States. Although, there may be one small, yet not completely insignificant, side benefit to all of this demonization and marginalization. And that is, for the past several decades the left has had to continually rethink and reevaluate its principles and positions. But now, there is practically no extreme left. Bernie Sanders is less of a Socialist than Eisenhower. Eisenhower taxed the rich more than Bernie has ever suggested. That's how far to the right we have gone. That which is generally considered to be the extreme left, are merely basic new deal economic policies, the lessons the Traditionalists forgot. Although hopefully, what we are left with, are more well thought out ideas. Yet, there's still much to figure out as we navigate through and, with any luck, out of this corporatists neoliberal era. Conceivably, the decades of reevaluation could help in some way, but if nothing else, it has certainly made the criticism from the right, laughable.
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">How to Protect Your Privacy at a Protest <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=6FS0Y7TwArE" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=6FS0Y7TwArE</a> </span></span><br />
Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance that you could get detained or arrested, and your devices could get searched. <br />
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Prepare your phone before you go to a protest to safely communicate with your friends and document the event, and know what to do if you get detained or arrested. <br />
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Whether your private conversations are personal, professional, or political, what you say or type into your phone may be of interest to snooping governments, both foreign and domestic. <br />
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Fortunately, privacy is a fundamental human right. Unfortunately, most ways that people communicate with their phones — voice calls, SMS messages, email, Facebook, Skype, Hangouts, etc. — are not as private as you might think. <br />
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But it’s possible to make sure that your private conversations are actually private. It starts with installing an app known as Signal, and getting your friends to install it too. <br />
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More detailed instructions for using Signal can be found on our website at: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/01/cybersecurity-for-the-people-how-to-keep-your-chats-truly-private-with-signal" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2017/05/01/cyber... </a> <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> has</span><span style="color: #999999;"> usurpe</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">d our gov</span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">ernment. </span><br />
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<b>The corporate form</b> has evolved into something quite different from its beginnings. Corporations originally were required to serve the public good. And now, it is required by law that profits for investors precede everything, including the public good. Today, the largest corporations receive huge subsidies, while paying next to nothing in taxes. Our tax system, by the way, is very progressive only up to about one million per year. After that it drops, so that billionaires pay nothing. Our system is regressive at the top, therefore it’s regressive overall. The public pays for research and development, and as soon as the technology becomes profitable, it’s handed over to big business for free. We pay and they profit. From aviation, computers, the internet, GPS, and cell phones, these all have taken decades <span style="color: #666666;"><i>(30 years each)</i></span> of publicly funded research and development. They get it for free <span style="color: #666666;"><i>(or in exchange for campaign donations/bribes)</i></span>, they profit, and receive far more subsidies than they ever pay in taxes. We pay to develop new technology, and then we pay again to use it. They receive the returns on our investment. What ever happened to their bootstraps? <br />
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With all of their unfair advantages, they easily destroy medium & small businesses and real jobs, as if they never existed in the first place. And, most of the jobs created by big business do not pay enough to support a single person, let alone families. The corporate hierarchy is as extreme as a totalitarian state, with all of the power at the top. After decades of over regulating the middle class and poor, while deregulating big business, we’ve ended up with corporations more powerful than most countries, virtually above the law. Fines are not frequent or large enough to be deterrents. Externalities require the public to pay most damages. They influence elections and have acquired the rights of immortal persons. They are undemocratic and unaccountable. We need to hold them accountable. <br />
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History has given us clear examples of what works and what doesn’t work. The economy we have now is as reckless as the economy leading up to the Great Depression. The New Deal regulations saved the economy after the Great Depression and gave us a stable economy up until the Reagan Revolution destroyed it. We are still fully in the grips of Friedmanism. The policies of John Maynard Keynes gave us a strong middle class and five decades of no crashes on Wall Street, while Milton Friedman’s policies have given us four decades of one disaster after another. Conservatives still push for more austerity, privatization and deregulation, but: <br />
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This would all be common knowledge, if the private media had an interest to inform the public. Even the left wing of the corporate media has corporate <span style="color: #666666;"><i>(in other words, right wing)</i></span> interests at its core. The Orwellian framing of the establishment media as a liberal media, urges the public to act against their own interests. Progressives understand this, but Republicans and Centrist Corporate Democrats are still deluded by the corporate propaganda of the corporate media. <br />
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Where do we go from here? <br />
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This election hit me hard. I had planned on writing a piece about what strategy Progressives should take when dealing with a center-right Clinton Administration. Needless to say, that piece went straight out the window around 9:30ish Tuesday night. 11/8/2016. It's a night I don't think I'll ever forget. I sat and watched in horror as the most dangerous demagogue to ever run for President of the United States received the necessary number of electoral college votes to claim the office. I honestly couldn't believe it was happening. How could we elect this spray tan monster to the highest office in the country, and arguably the most powerful position in the world? I'm still not quite sure.<br />
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To be honest, this whole election cycle was about so much more than a Trump victory and a Clinton loss. This election was about lies, manipulation, hate, fear, anger, ignorance, and hubris. The thing that really stood out to me, maybe above all else, was the stunning way in which the Democratic Party simply ignored the voices of millions of people. They did this willfully and with full knowledge of what they were doing. They thought they could coast to victory on rhetoric about Donald Trump, while intentionally not discussing or highlighting policy. Some of the reason they may have done that is because half of Clinton's policies would have been very beneficial to party and financial elites. I'm positive she would have pushed for TPP, and more intervention in relation to foreign policy.<br />
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Countless pieces have been written about the policies of the Clinton campaign and the horrifying and non-existent policies of the Trump campaign (now administration, I suppose) so I don't want to relitigate the election. I want to focus on where we go from here. After a couple of days of wallowing in the mire of the reality of th situation, I began to see small slivers of hope in the future. This is not the way I hoped things would have played out, but I do believe there can be a small island of good in this ocean of darkness.<br />
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<u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">First</u>: let's dismantle the establishment of the Democratic Party and rebuild it. The Clintons, and even Obama (to an extent) have spent 20 years talking the party to the right. That time has now passed. Their way was an abject failure. There is no way around that truth for the remains of the party now, so this is our time to change it.<br />
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<b><i><u>Second</u></i></b>: We need to organize and make our voices heard. There is one truth that rings louder now than ever before: <i>SILENCE IS DANGEROUS</i>. We cannot be silent. Every group that is non- white, male, or christian is going to be under vicious attack and we cannot stand by and allow it to happen. We need to continue to protest, we need to continue to speak out, but most of all we need to get out and fucking VOTE. Vote for progressives in local, state, and national election. If you can, go out and run for something. Work to change local governance, and work to build a real progressive movement to take back the Congress in 2018, and the White house in 2020.<br />
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<u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Third:</u> This is the most important one, get money out of politics. Real change will be nearly impossible as long as there is an unlimited flow of money into politics. Trump has said he wants to "drain the cesspool" of corruption in Washington, but anyone with half a brain knows he won't do a damn thing about it, but we can do something about it. We can change the status quo. For more in depth information and an action plan visit <a href="http://wolf-pac.com/" target="_blank">www.wolf-pac.com</a> .<br />
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Of course, I am sure many people have a million other valid ideas as well, these are just a launching point. I find them to be a good motivator to keep me from losing sight of the goal of a more fair and just society.<br />
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Now that all of that is out of the way I want to leave you with these thoughts. This is going to be a tough time for those of us who do not fall into the traditional power group of white christian men. It is also going to be hell for anyone with a conscience, but life does indeed go on. This whole election and its aftermath have reminded me how much I love this country and how much I hurt when it doesn't live up to the ideals I have always attributed to it.<br />
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I want everyone to remember how powerful love is. No matter how much hate is thrown our way, we must continue to love one another. To those in the African American community, I love you and will stand proudly with you as we go through these next few years. To those in the LGBTQ community, I love you and will stand and fight with you to make sure you keep your rights and are respected as you deserve. To the Hispanic and Latino community, of which I am a member, we must stand together with the other communities and I believe they will stand with us, because they love us too. Together we can persevere, we can be the change that we so desire. Together we can make the world a little less dim. <br />
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As a parting gift, I'll leave you with my favorite scene from <i>Synecdoche, New York. </i>I'm not sure why, but it always makes me feel better. <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Funeral Monologue : Synecdoche, New York</b></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i>#WhoToBlame #2016 </i></span><br />
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<b>Who To Blame for Trump: in order . . . </b>
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<li><b>GOP & the donor class <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- obviously </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>The Corporate Media <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for its corporate bias </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>Republican Voters <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- obviously </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>liberal non-voters <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for masking laziness with self-righteousness</i></span></b> * </li>
<li><b>conservative non-voters <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for having opinions </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>The DNC <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for sabotaging their best candidate </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>Centrist Democratic Voters in the primaries <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for ignoring the issues, strategy, and what it means to be liberal </i></span></b></li>
<li><b>conservative 3rd party voters <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for voting while not believing in it </i></span></b></li>
<li> <b>liberal 3rd party voters (<span style="color: #444444;">in swing states</span>)</b><i><b> <span style="color: #666666;">- for feeling good about doing nothing to stop this tragedy on the one day they could’ve done something</span></b></i></li>
<li><b>ourselves <span style="color: #666666;"><i>- for not doing enough </i></span></b></li>
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* If you’re in a non-swing-state, that’s <br />
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* If you don't believe in voting, you're <br />
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Yes democratic progressives, you were right during the primaries. You were right to vote for Bernie Sanders, both on the issues and strategically. We know now and we knew at the time, that the polls showed that Bernie would do better than Hillary in the general election against Trump. If independents could’ve voted, Bernie would’ve won. If Bernie had gotten half the media time as Hillary or Trump, Bernie would’ve won. If the democratic party didn’t funnel money and resources (designated for both campaigns) to Hillary, Bernie would’ve won. If the democratic party didn’t sabotage Bernie’s campaign, he would’ve won. I agree with Jill Stein on practically every issue. I voted for her (in a non-swing-state) in 2012. Yes, you were right to vote for Bernie in the primaries! It’s true that the corporate centrist democrats and the racist republicans put us in this horrible position.<br />
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If you wanted to have hope months ago that Jill Stein had a chance, that’s fine and even good, but not now. Polls are not 100% right, but they can be trusted to a degree, and Jill Stein will NOT win this election. There are the issues and there is strategy. Now is the time for strategy. If you’re serious about supporting the Green Party, make a vow for the next 4 years, and start on November 9th.<br />
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Hillary is a corporatist, but Trump is a new level of danger to our democracy. He talks like every dictator rising to power. So, don’t be surprised when he starts arresting journalists, because he said he would. He will resort to violence. He said he would. Dictators are idiots, who don’t know how to govern rationally. They are good at rallying crowds and rolling back rights, but not even Trump understands how bad he will be in office. But, those of us who know what dictators sound like, are fully aware of the danger. The famous last words of people who elect tyrants, “We never thought it could get that bad.”<br />
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So, if you are in anything remotely resembling a swing state, and you don’t vote against Trump by voting for Hillary, you are flirting with the worst case scenario. Progressives, we have to be humble. We lost this one. The question on the 8th is, how badly do we want to lose. Trump is a loss we may never come back from. You can disagree with Jill Stein on one thing. Make sure Trump doesn’t win. Join Jill Stein and the Green Party on the 9th and do the hard work of fighting for the next four years, or hopefully, for the rest of our lives, in an environment in which we are able to fight.
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Hillary Clinton will lose in November, if the DNC continues to dismiss progressives. <br />
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Hillary Clinton will lose in November, if the DNC continues to dismiss progressives. In light of the 20,000 emails released Friday, July 22nd, by WikiLeaks, it’s clear that the Democratic Party worked behind the scenes to give Hillary an unfair advantage by fabricating lies in an attempt to discredit and defeat Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party was perfectly aware of all the polls showing that Bernie Sanders was their best chance at beating Trump, and still they worked to sabotage the Sanders campaign. They decided that corporate interests are more important than winning the presidency and reforming the party. <br />
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So, when she loses, don’t blame progressives, the very people she and the party have worked to undermine. Don’t blame Bernie, when he was the party’s best chance of winning. Blame the DNC for their poor judgement, deceitful actions, and for refusing to support real democratic policies. If you have to blame a segment of the population, blame the centrists she’s pandering towards, for not being swayed. It makes little sense to blame those who she and the party have continually dismissed. If she wanted Bernie supporters, she could’ve picked him as her running mate. If she wanted progressive votes, she could’ve at least picked Elizabeth Warren. But, she went the other way, despite all the polling and all the momentum of the movement. <br />
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It’s incredibly naive to think that Hillary will deviate from her warmongering, climate-devastating, anti-labor, pro-corporate-welfare agenda. It’s a fantasy to think that centrists will put any pressure on her. Therefore, it’s solely up to progressives, knowing she won’t budge if she thinks she has our vote. So, she doesn’t have our vote. The ball's in her court, but she seems to not want to serve. <br />
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Bernie Sanders didn’t go too long, he gave up too soon. He could have, and should have taken Jill Stein’s offer to continue the movement with the Green Party. This is a movement, not of a person, but of the public, driven by principled policy positions. As Sanders steps down, Stein steps up. Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party are splitting the vote on the right. With still months to go, this is not the time to ask the Green Party <span style="color: #666666;">(<i>the only real opposition party</i>)</span> to back down. Al Gore lost in 2000 because he refused to work with Ralph Nader and the Green Party. Gore pandered to the right, took on a conservative running mate, and refused to take on progressive policies that poll well with the public. We have to stop blaming people with principled positions. Nader was not a spoiler, he offered to work with Gore, and Gore refused. Democrats have to learn that opposing progressives is a losing strategy. And, they have to learn that before November, or they will lose. <br />
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This thought provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative film, explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. // Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, Canada, 2003, 145' // Half of all proceeds from the rental of this video go directly to the artist, and half go to support the work of Cinema Politica. To find out more about our work, visit: <a href="http://cinemapolitica.org/" target="_blank">http://cinemapolitica.org</a> .<br />
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<b>NYC, You've Failed Us!</b> <br />
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New York City, you’ve disappointed your own state and the nation, if not the world. Now, the cities in New York state are more conservative and less informed than the rest of the state? New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester failed Tuesday. <br />
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Hillary is the most hawkish candidate, even more than Trump or Cruz. Her record is clear. She is a warmongering corporate politician who is against progressive policies. You can’t both claim to be liberal and simultaneously support Hillary. Yes, she can be effective and get the job done for her donors, but not for the public. <br />
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Throughout her career she has been wrong. While Bernie marched with Martin Luther King Jr., she campaigned for Goldwater. She has campaigned for some of the worst policy decisions since Jim Crow. From mass incarceration, the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, to NAFTA, she has been wrong and behind. She only came out for gay marriage after it became embarrassing for her not to. She has been wrong or behind on the issues throughout her career. She’s not a leader. <br />
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All the polls show Bernie as being more electable nationally. So, even in terms of strategy, it’s a fail. <br />
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Sure, voting for Hillary is understandable when you have no other choice. But, this time we had another choice, and we failed. <br />
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New York Primary Results <a href="http://nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york" target="_blank">http://nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york</a> <br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>●</b> </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Love exceeds . . . </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><b>●</b> </span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Love outshines . . . </span></span></span></span><br />
<b>Love Conquers Hate</b> ---◘ <br />
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<b>Love Transcends Hate</b> ---◘ <br />
It’s too soon to give up.<br />
If Sanders takes New York on the 19th, he will probably be our next president. And then, real reform will be possible. <br />
Bernie Sanders has been right for decades. <br />
Hillary has been a Corporatist for decades. Both of their records are clear. <br />
From the crime bill to welfare reform, Hillary Clinton devastated black America.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“In her support for the 1994 crime bill, for example, she used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals. ‘They are not just gangs of kids anymore,’ she said. ‘They are often the kinds of kids that are called super-predators. No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.’<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span>”<a href="http://thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes" target="_blank"><sup>1</sup></a> The Nation <a href="http://thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes" target="_blank">http://thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes </a></span></div>
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Draw the line between elected officials who represent private corporations, and our public representatives who actually represent the public. Bernie Sanders & Jill Stein are not afraid to stand up to big multinational corporations and hold them accountable, in favor of human rights. Both, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein have demonstrated that they can't be bought, and will not be bought by corporate interests. Hillary & the Republicans are already corporate bought! That’s why it’s imperative that Democrats vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries. Let the Democrats in Washington know that there will be no vote for corporate interests in 2016. The Choice will be between Bernie Sanders of the Democrats or Jill Stein of the Green Party.<br />
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<b>Draw The Line in 2016 ✄---</b> <a href="http://uresist.org/vote/2016">uResist.org/vote/2016</a> <b>--- </b>✔ Make this Election about public rather than private interests, with democratic-socialism. <br />
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Love exceeds, surpasses, outshines,<br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. -Martin Luther King, Jr., <span style="font-style: italic;">Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?</span>, 1967. </span><br />
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When he stood for peace, equality, workers rights, and against war and poverty, the 1% had had enough. <br />
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the civil rights movement in the USA. King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, spoke out against the Vietnam War, and his efforts led to the March on Washington (<span style="font-style: italic;">August 28, 1963</span>), where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, he became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means, including civil disobedience. Dr. King raised public consciousness and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. He was a chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism and protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. After he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.<br />
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In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.<br />
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The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination, was signed into law in 1983, and was first observed in 1986, but was not officially observed by all 50 states until the year 2000.<b><br />
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full Speech] <br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>●</b> </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Draw The Line </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><b>●</b> </span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Throw Your Vote </span></span><br />
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<b>2016:</b> The Line ---◘ <br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="266" src="http://youtube.com/embed/rtBVuye4fZQ?rel=0&autoplay=0" title="YouTube video player" width="425"></iframe> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Bernie Sanders Tells the Truth</b> ◘ <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=rtBVuye4fZQ" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/rtBVuye4fZQ</a> </span> ◘ </span> <br />
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<b>Don’t throw your vote away.</b> Many people say that when you vote for a 3rd party, you are throwing your vote away. But, it can also be argued, that when you vote for someone you don’t really believe in, you’re throwing your vote away. In other words, voting for the lesser evil, is still a vote against your own interests. When an election has a low turnout, people sometimes imply that voters are making a statement, by not voting. But, that’s exactly what big business wants. Polls show, that the more people vote, the more progressive the outcome. So, when people don’t vote, they’re unwittingly yielding to corporate interests. If you vote for the lesser evil, or decline your vote, you are actually being manipulated by the 1%. One way of looking at it, is that the only way to completely throw your vote away, is to not vote. Just think, if everyone who didn’t vote in 2000 <span style="color: #666666;"><i>(because they were fed up with the two party system)</i></span>, voted for Ralph Nader of the Green Party. What would've happened? Bush still would’ve won, but the Green Party would be a viable party today. We would have a three party system by now, and that would be a major accomplishment! That would be a far greater accomplishment, than electing the Wall Street Corporate Drone Captain/Deporter in Chief, Barack Obama. <br />
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2016 Primary Schedule <a href="http://uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar" target="_blank">http://uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar </a> <br />
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Both corporate parties keep moving to the right. So, we have to draw the line somewhere. We can draw the line between elected officials who represent private corporations, and our public representatives who actually represent the public. Bernie Sanders & Jill Stein are not afraid to stand up to big multinational corporations and hold them accountable, in favor of human rights. Both, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein have demonstrated that they can't be bought, and will not be bought by corporate interests. Hillary & the Republicans are already corporate bought! That’s why it’s imperative that Democrats vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries. Let the Democrats in Washington know, early on, that there will be no vote (for Hillary) for corporate interests in 2016. The Choice will be between Bernie Sanders of the Democrats or Jill Stein of the Green Party. <br />
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Draw The Line in 2016 ✄--- <a href="http://uresist.org/vote/2016">uResist.org/vote/2016</a> --- ✔ Make this Election about public rather than private interests, with democratic-socialism. <br />
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● <a href="http://uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar" target="_blank">2016 Primaries </a> <br />
● <a href="http://democracynow.org/topics/2016_election" target="_blank">2016 Election </a> <br />
● <a href="http://democracynow.org/appearances/bernie_sanders" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders </a> <br />
● <a href="http://democracynow.org/appearances/jill_stein" target="_blank">Jill Stein </a><br />
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