Fair Elections Are the Basis of Democracy

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Sunday August 21, 2022 · 8:27 AM PDT

2022/08/21 · 08:27

It is interesting, considering how elections are so sacred to our mythology, that there is no ruling nor legislation requiring the electoral parties to be honest, fair, and transparent, and to be forbidden to lie, cheat, and steal, or forbidden to accept foreign influence or funds.

Vote for peace not war

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Wednesday July 13, 2022 · 5:47 AM PDT

2022/07/13 · 05:47

I will vote no to war and world domination

Over the last 50 years the Democratic party has become the party representing the neoliberal cause of ‘world domination’ and colonialism, championed mass incarceration, Russia hate & Ukraine-Nazi love, whistleblower persecution, corporate profiteering, and they are now totally aligned with the Pentagon and the security state apparatus. We support headchoppers, jihadists, and terrorists in the middle east, attacks on Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, and the ongoing annihilation of the Palestinians.. Our diplomats have become a source of threats, smears, and hubris that have replaced diplomacy, mutual understanding, or any attempt at coexistence. The Democrats have become the party of Dick Cheney, he hasn’t changed, the Democrats have.

It’s no wonder that the Democrats support is hemorrhaging among the peace-loving working folks. I for one can not vote for more hate, war, and colonialist domination. I’m hoping this party can come to their senses and come back to the fight for the working people and peace instead of the national security state and world domination.

Who voted for war against Russia, China, et al?

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Tuesday March 29, 2022 · 6:46 AM PDT

2022/03/29 · 06:46

Are any other Democrats bothered by the Biden administration’s drive to accept the Rand Corporations ‘dominate’ the world narrative, and to create as enemies Russia, China, and all others who won’t take direct demands and orders from our state department as if they were vassal states? How many Democrats are actually in favor of causing the rest of the world to understand the dubious safety of western financial institutions by the completely illegal seizures of ‘enemy’ assets (on which we have not declared war). These are actually all aggressive acts of war, which are illegal by international law, which I think most Democratic voters aren’t in favor. When did the Democrats decide to believe and follow Clapper/Bremen crew into war, when they had lied to them time and again? Anyone else concerned by this administration’s lack of diplomatic language? Voicing threats, smears, hate, and ultimatums isn’t any way to let others know you want to coexist in peace. Who voted for expediting WWIII when you voted for the Democrats?

Bipartisan congress of grifters

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Wednesday February 02, 2022 · 7:49 AM PST

2022/02/02 · 07:49

no image description available — The biggest grifters in congress

We all see the self interest, double dealing, and corruption on every level. Which party of corporate shills and pentagon vassals shall we vote for? In both parties, the corruption and their self-delusions seem too endemic for mere voters to overcome, as we watch both parties fight tooth-and-nail against the wants, needs, or desires of their constituents . For most of them, their only concerns are the profits they can garner from bribery (oops campaign contributions), influence peddling, and insider trading. I believe a clean party that supports the peoples interests would sweep up both parties disgruntled voters and end up with the largest constituency merely by going peaceful, green, and honest.

Did Trump rip the masks off or the blinders?

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Saturday January 22, 2022 · 9:11 AM PST

2022/01/22 · 09:11

Each of our institutions is debased before our eyes. Money as our god, showered upon the wealthy, trickled upon the poor. The union asunder. The Catholic church revealed as pederasts. Colonialism revealed as plunder. The Pentagon revealed as war criminals. Our military revealed as menacing. Corporations revealed as earth destroyers. Our elections revealed as a sham. Our Justice revealed as unjust. Many Police revealed as criminals. The drug war revealed as evil, while marijuana was revealed as not. The Supreme Court revealed as a product of partisan manipulation. Both Parties and Congress openly revealed working for corporations and foreign powers, even to pledges of loyalty to their donors. The truth tellers like Assange persecuted and in prison, while the Iraq liars are on TV and lauded. The media revealed as players on the ‘Mighty Wurlitzer” tasked with telling how evil those ‘enemies’ are. Bombing Afghanistan for more than 40 years and then taking all their money upon departure. Bemoaning the starvation and poverty of those we besiege. Aficionados of war, assassination, torture.

American citizens support their government’s policies least among all the countries in the world’s citizens.

Will the Democratic disdain finally lose it the progressive vote?

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Tuesday November 23, 2021 · 6:17 AM PST

2021/11/23 · 06:17

Did the Democratic constituents vote for a continuation of Trump’s corporate friendly policies and belligerently threatening foreign policy? We are seeing the same central bank policies, corporate subsidies, corporate tax breaks, and even negotiating to meet the insurrectionists halfway. Biden’s term has been highlighted by pandering to lobbyists and corporate leaders to get this big package of corporate friendly subsidies passed under the name of ‘infrastructure’, but the sidelining of the most important issues of voting rights, democratic institutions, bias and false information on the public airwaves, the role of money in politics and elections, and election regulations and fairness. The Democratic party doesn’t seem to want it’s own progressive voters, but continues to try to appeal to the Republican’s voters. I wonder if the progressives will need to form another party if they ever expect to have representation or will the Democratic party finally implode from their failure to attract the Republican voters to whom they have been trying to appeal.

the monopolies

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Sunday November 06, 2011 · 5:31 PM PST

2011/11/06 · 17:31

It should come as no surprise that the economic opportunities for small business and the working man should decline precipitously just as the revival of the global monopolies are gaining full control over the worlds resources.
Monopolies are ever thus. Three "competitors" are just as much a monopoly.
Shortages generated by a lack of competition are common in many markets. Three or four companies divvying up each pie isn't capitalism.
As with species, it takes a large gene pool to obtain "free-market competition".
Excessive profits and executive pay and bonuses are symptoms not the problem.
We must find a way to bring back competition, to counteract the "economies of scale" and provide the need for "domestic" production in every country. Free trade isn't free, after all, the importing country's taxpayer pays porting, inspecting, and security costs even as the multinationals make the profits.
Look at the innovations that came from the breakup of ATT.
Bring back anti trust. Support a universal import duty.

This is where we've come to

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Wednesday September 14, 2011 · 3:31 AM PDT

2011/09/14 · 03:31

So now we've come to cheering executions and death and the impoverishment of the many for the gain of a few? The hollowing out and stripping of America, indeed the world, for corporate profits? Isn't it time for corporations to serve mankind and not the other way around? But we have no leaders. Where are the Democrats? Bought and paid for by the corporations is the answer.
How did we get here? Oliver Wendell Holmes said "Taxes are what we pay for civilization". Civilization and government's real role is simply protecting the weak from the strong, and creating order from chaos, all else is barbarism. The strong disdain government and the limits it places on them.
Impoverishing mankind for corporate profits is hardly American, and definitely not Christian.
So how do we fix it?
Free trade feeds corporate profits but takes away from countries, taxpayers, and their people. Imports aren't free, ports must be built, containers inspected, and government paid for.
The corporations and their minions have had their way in the world of late and we've seen their means and methods, playing desperate people against their brothers, and its not just, nice, or decent, but it is profitable and comes with a low tax rate.
Where are the Democrats with their ideas to bring shared prosperity back to our country? Have the corporations taken their voice permanently?
Do not forget that our revolution in 1776 was to get out from under corporate rule. We had to fight the British when they went to bat for their corporations that ruled over us.

Just say no to inciting violence

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 4:59 AM PDT

2008/10/11 · 04:59

Every decent person must repudiate the use of invective that incites anger, violence and racial hatred, especially in electoral politics. Any politician that uses their platform to incite evil and violence unleashes forces that are not easily stopped.

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Sunday February 10, 2008 · 8:48 AM PST

2008/02/10 · 08:48

The use of super-delegates and the winner-take-all delegate counting belies a patently undemocratic streak in the Democratic Party.

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Saturday January 20, 2007 · 6:22 AM PST

2007/01/20 · 06:22

Democracy begins and ends with self determination, therefore "allowing" each precinct, township, and province to chart their own future is paramount in producing a democratic government. The American effort to force a top-down system of government on the Iraqi people is undemocratic and destined to failure.

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 5:52 AM PDT

2006/10/01 · 05:52

The solution to the pervasive problems with electronic voting machines is to vote absentee, thereby providing a paper trail for subsequent recounts.
This would sidestep attempts by those who would use Diebold's machines to manipulate elections and the vote count.
Let's begin a campaign by all voters, Democratic and Independent, interested in insuring their vote gets counted (and recounted) to vote absentee.
If we all vote absentee, providing a paper trail they can't miscount, we can overcome much of the potential voter fraud thats been used in the last elections.

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Fair Elections Are the Basis of Democracy

Vote for peace not war

Who voted for war against Russia, China, et al?

Bipartisan congress of grifters

Did Trump rip the masks off or the blinders?

Will the Democratic disdain finally lose it the progressive vote?

the monopolies

This is where we've come to

Just say no to inciting violence

but is it democratic?

partition is the only solution

vote absentee to make your vote count