I AM A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT AND I BECOME MORE DISGUSTED WITH THE QUIET ACQUIESCENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S THEFT OF THE US GOVERNMENT.
WHY DO YOU NOT SPEAK OUT?
WHY DO YOU NOT DECRY THIS NEW DSA, A NEW PARTY, A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY?
IT IS TERRIBLE ON ITS FACE.
I'm wasting the morning watching YouTube, and when "The Rest is History" video ended, a documentary about the life of the infamous attorney Roy Cohn began.
While Mr. Cohn seems to be a devious, driven ruthless attorney, I'd like him to be on my side if I were in legal trouble.
What strikes me is the question: "Why is there no 'Roy Cohn-like' person or group of people in my weak, polite, ineffective Democratic Party?"
The last angry Democratic Senator I can recall was Ted Kennedy. Where are the Democratic Ted Kennedy's today?
The Republican Party has innumerable 'Cohn-like' pit bulls and they are quite successfully raping the Republic.
Enough said.
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One after another, these candidates for positions requiring Senate confirmation refuse to answer.
What does this say about the US government?
It's broken.
Recent/current example of why I hate Dem leadership:
Platner can win a Senate seat but since he has been accused of past behavior involving improper activity with females.
What do Dems do?
They light him on fire and forfeit the upcoming election to Sen. Susan Collins. And THIS when the overturning of the Senate domination by Republicans is potentially within reach! Nutso.
That is all that I can think about today because my brain may overheat.
This Platner deal is occurring simultaneously when Senator Mitch McConnell is AWOL and Republican leadership is covering his absence for 3-plus weeks now with all their might. Repubs know how important it is to keep their Senate majority. Dems seem eager to remain minority losers.
That is all.
We could lose the vote...
We could lose Democracy...
They might stop following the Constitution...
They can take away your health care...
Your SNAP benefits might get reduced...
They might just start stopping people on the street because of their color and take them away...
It goes on and on.
What drives me to frustration is that Republicans HAVE LONG AGO done all these bad things and much more.
Our Democrats pretend that these breakdowns are POSSIBILITIES, but we know they occurred steadily and easily and in a pre-planned manner. They even published their Plan 2025 well in advance of the last election.
The country is in a losing position from which the Democrats are way down, losing on a scoreboard, and need to come from behind to restore the Democratic Republic.
A dictator has all the power. No balance of power. Fascism exists. The money supply in the country is NOT circulating among the people. The money is in the possession of the top tier of oligarchs, and that money is NOT available for the rest of the population.
Crime and stealing are so commonplace among the well-connected administration that an average American doesn't even give the stealing of tax money a second thought.
Don't think that 'bad things could happen;' They already have!
I'll just put the link to an AP whistleblower story about how DEA leadership permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl tablets to be transacted in a mobile home park residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
https://apnews.com/article/dea-fentanyl-unseized-drugs-new-mexico-8f5b546e668e5007c64078da74b90903?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
This lack of DEA enforcement takes me back to the NON-ACTION of DEA that allowed the oxycontin crisis to flourish in the southeast US in the 1990s.
Disgraceful.
When have you heard the term "Melting Pot" last?
How about almost never; Maybe I heard it taught in grammar school. It is a good idea for a country. Let's create a national unity and leave ample space for maintaining pride in ethnic and historical pride and traditions.
The existential fostering of divide & conquer that Americans live under is a road to losing the country.
When I was introduced and trained in the military as an eighteen-year-old kid with a 'New Yorker' mentality, I was exposed to young men who spoke and looked and acted so differently than what I knew, that it was an extreme 'wake-up call' to a wider view of the USA and who lived here. It was a very positive experience for me, a merging into one body from disparate parts of the country.
National service of some sort, two years of uniting young adults would certainly benefit the spirit and unity of the country.
I would include a basic school introducing basic American values in line with Civics, the Constitution, and require the training in some specific subject area: metalwork, first aid, hospitality, welding, electronics, power tools, heavy machinery, something specific, so that a young person can begin with: "I'm a cell phone technician; I'm a carpenter; I'm a lighting specialist; I'm a paramedic; I'm SOMETHING.
A beginning, a first step for young people with no clue as to what direction their lives will take.
It's important.
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