Hello State's side...Regards from Blighty.
Just reading around and viewing media such as the Krugman highlight in a Kos blog today. And have been watching avidly DemocracyNow! and whilst taking in other various feeds and media from over there to here and around. May I allow for a sense of optimism for you.
Being a realist then indeed, you lot (plus us and within the EU) are in a grim situation. What can be done I ask?
It's the plurality of the people you and to extents we are here too, I trust will sort all this. Here, in the Uk we saw as PM May took it upon herself to invite Trump on a full State visit. Well, our commons went into commotion and indeed city center streets filled across the UK when the immigrant and refugee ban etc. was executively ordered the following day.
You are not alone.
This plurality of us as the civil people, across the Democratic world is I think the deciding factor as we rail and resist en mass. And along with your three part government of Executive, Judiciary and Congress there, and us here too being in the Uk in a form of revolt against Trump and too his visit. Well, my optimism follows from all the ready and able amongst us as a resisting force who, and all will, prevail.
Yet the speed, the temerity and the ad hoc approach by Trump, Bannon, now Tillerson and surely Flynn to open their mouths without placing their BRAINS in gear is frankly the stuff truly, of nightmares. They are acting and shifting in the WH etc. with all the panache of being the bricks they are. They believe they are imovable and mighty now they are in place.
Here in the Uk we've just and still are dealing with a government which is incapable of anything but it's ability as legislative force and rule, to attempt even to make deals in a backroom fashion and secret manner. Whilst expecting us to act in our quiet desperation as accepting their even whim.
It is not them to worry of now, they are already their own exampkd of being gone done, expired..I mean for example your man Spicer can emote and cajole and blurt and reprimand in defence of your mentioned above characters. But what I detect is shock amongst the general congress and Judiciary and press too in total. Whilst yet we watch as functionality is bent and again, directed and reformed rapidly and hypocriticaly, and overtly used to slap down the decenting by the GOP handlers of Trump, too.
This is the issue....slapping down the decenters.
What I'm seeing is force of aggressive characters in so called charge. Their type is lit up in putrid radiant glow of their own idiocy. We can all see. The system is not being run but abused by these fellows and our government also here.
So, what's in the optimism I speak of for you folks there and us here?
Simply, they in the WH may be functioning as causes and operators of activities being even zealously carried out by federal agencies. Like ICE or CBP. But these agencies are staffed by real people. It's time to chill this down and as here creatively enact ourselves (UK and EU side also), to outreach with reason and patients to explain to those who carry out orders. That this us not the time to enact them! Work if it's anything is not work to be pernicious and violent!
Optimistically I reckon now, before the conflicts surge and even become rampant. Here in the Uk etc. too. We all, internationally, pull this rug of possibility out from beneath the feet of a goose stepping force in the making. This is so seriously grim we have reached a point of no return. This is as bad as we allow it to get, don't you agree?!
Will it take Judiciary and advocates like the ACLU and I'll say too the representation of NAACP and the likes of wisdom from such ad Amnesty International and Reprieve and etc etc..…their skills and advice and observations.
Will it take the coalescence of individualised local civil groupings across the USA and UK and Europe to act as a critical mass of support for out reaching to others everywhere who need to feel us helping them too.
Yes.
Without Democracy and our sticking with our forms of it in each country, never mind the supporting fiat of capital to run them. Then perhaps we'd experience a catastrophic failure.
But the Demos is us frankly ... it's ours to adhere to or change. Democracy is all of us.
We're ok, friends. That is, to make changes and chill this out. To reach out, call upon all and allow the differences amongst us to enthuse everyone with the fact we've reached a progresing stage of evolutionary societal behavior.
Ok, authoritarian acts, the bullet and gun in law and militia hands. You've to sort that. Whilst we here try and get our government also to kill of the arms sales and skill training in countries Trump has not blacklisted either.
The pressure is on the echelons traditionally leading us. I think we've got the upper hand here. The pressure is surely a game changer here and now.
This is no time for politics as a system to expect to reset itself or save the day, not without us all getting into outreach beyond the ideas we have existed with for an age. And further, redesign with all the factors and abilities we now have available and to achieve this for ourselves.
I'm reaching out here to you folk. Reach back across the pond. I'll reach into Europe too. Perhaps you ought to too. And we'll look-see elsewhere together also, to reach the folks of peaceful, progressive nature's everywhere.
I'm really hoping we do this, sieze the day and make it ours.
Good luck you USA'ers....good luck the Brits. Chill down France, Austria, Poland, Germany, Hungary and the rest. We see you.
Progressive thinking to create the new...it's the only way. We're everywhere in this. Together.
Democracy needs us all.
Thanks.