Again we must see that money is at depth one of the main reasons for this belief in incremental change. The consultants,the planners , all those who keep making money by slowing things down are one of the blocks we must blow up! Again we must get the old farts out of the way and let the youngsters lead! Did anyone else feel excited while reading this? Boy I did! Before I die I want this country to have a coast to coast high speed rail system so I can see the country and visit loved ones whenever I want. This can be done!🎈
YES! Absolutely. Please see my comment(3 above yours)and look up those movers and shakers to learn what they are doing, their firm belief in their vision(like yours!)and how well they are already doing to bring it into realization.
It is really hard to think of any post Corbin has produced that is more dead on than this one. #KingCorruption Trump managed to bankrupt a casino about as fast and he definitely is working to destroy America in record speed. I'm guessing MAGA Mike Johnson, the Christian hypocrite, is working hard to prove everything in Revelations. Atlantis, now understood to be potentially very real, would have sunk from natural causes. We don't need a volcano or an earthquake, we have Trump and Republicans.
I know for a fact that societal change can happen in an instant, but first we have to choose and prioritize it, both, from the top, down, AND, the bottom, up.
Please, give me one societal change that has happen in an instant. Certainly not racism. Nor slavery. Nor union busting or fair wages that respect worker contribution. Not classism. Those are enduring. The interstate highway system and electrification of areas, sold as leaps in and glorification of human evolution, were industrial changes with societal impacts, but the driving forces for those leaps were devised by and intended to benefit big business and capitalism which is the one of the worse societal changes we’ve adapted to since climbing down from the trees.
I agree in part with your talk of 'societal change'. Which is why we must encourage one another to look deeper...into what we Really want....how we want to live....what is important to us.
To push back just a little, the rejection of gay and lesbian couples--let alone marriage--was not an 'overnight' change, to be sure, but look how quickly the majority of our fellow citizens have not only accepted but celebrated this rather big societal change.. It came about because people who were most affected had a vision of how it could be... because of their conviction of the rightness or their cause. They saw, believed, hoped and fought. And won.
Really well put post! The great untold story of the modern version of capitalism is that it is, above all, waste based, a gigantic churn and burn operation that produces wealth entirely divorced from human needs,and that can simply produce more money from money itself from the magic alchemy of a super financialized economy. As I understand Keynesian economics the essential thing to creating a virtuous cycle of supply and demand can be ANYTHING including paying somebody to dig a hole and then paying someone to fill the hole - this gets money circulating for people to buy stuff they need which someone then creates because they will earn money by providing it etc etc... The fantastic arms build up for and during WW2 was jaw dropping proof of how well this worked - and also proof how you can create wealth from ANY FUCKING THING including death and destruction. This is still huge - the military industrial complex ! - but nowadays our overlords create wealth from poverty - the prison/cop/law industry and nonprofit crumbs for social problems industry- and illness -the health care industry - along with vast armies of people with pointless jobs maximizing inefficiency.
On top of which there is the problem of training people to get their pleasure in life from consuming crap (which clearly doesn't work) On top of which the owning class has its "free lunch" program of loaning people money who don't have enough - ever more people!- and collecting interest, and buying up assets like housing and sitting back and collecting rent. So capitalism has become mostly just a giant extractive racket whose real job is the grow the army of have-nots to extract from. I could go on about the huge wealth crisis of our time - how we became so rich that utopian possibilities started to seem almost inevitable and so had to be crushed through manufacturing poverty, but enough of my ranting.
This describes to a "T" what our civil justice system has become. As a plaintiff's lawyer, I try desperately to engineer a good result for my client as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, the defense bar, which bills by the hour, has no such incentive, and our courts simply let them get away with it. The longer a case takes to resolve, the more money they make, and the impact on our civil justice system be damned. I am working on a case now that was filed in 2012. Justice takes too damn long and the people know it.
The same can be said of toppling the DNC leadership and replacing it with doers who are on the same page about building. Can happen fast if organized and compelling.
What takes time is the transformation of the Democratic Party and we don't have the time to do it. (I don't know that it's even possible.) We need to primary every corporate Dem. We need to explore other political options in states where the Democratic Party is functionally useless. We need to promote independent candidates when that's a viable option. More than anything, there needs to be an identifiable political organization or movement that hits on all the points Corbin makes in this post and others. This organization/movement would be parallel to the Democratic Party. In other words, we need our version of the Tea Party.
Justice Democrats is a fundraising group and that's fine. But it is neither a mass organization nor a movement. The protest groups (Indivisible and 50501) seem indifferent to electoral politics. There's DSA, but it's hampered by the usual sectarianism from ultra-left factions.
I really like this post and was thinking just this last night after being inspired to envision the future we want, dare to hope for it and put that hope into action...not by reacting to what is going on in the federal destruction regime, but by building community, mutual aid, etc, and Going for it!
I appreciate the message and I agree with it overall. In truth, some of the changes you cited that appear rapid actually took many years of activity behind the scenes. The New Deal was the culmination of decades of mobilization on the part of Progressive Era labor leaders and workers. America’s industrial surge during WWII was possible thanks to decades of mass electrification and innovation. Etc. But your larger point — that with decisive public action and government will/ambition, we can achieve great things as a society (better and faster than the market can alone) — is spot on.
America's slowness is the result of entrenched interests (like those blocking high-speed rail) weaponizing democratic mechanisms exploiting permitting and eminent domain for delay and profit.
While America may disagree with elements of China's politics, their infrastructure speed shows the value they place on completion and a streamlined approach to land acquisition.
How do we learn from China's focus to achieve speed and efficiency without completely eschewing the property rights and democratic checks that define America?
China is using a system we designed. They are just making it better and better. I wrote about our historic capacity, current capacity and Chinese capacity.
Socialism for the connected and wealthy - Social Darwinism for the working classes and poor. Best thing about the current system? No one responsible bares any responsibility for anything.
As someone who loves building things this rings true with me. It's never made c sense to me why we quit making things in favor of pushing paper and juggling money around.
Insurance companies, banks, hedge funds, Wall St. investment banks and huge corps. who dictate what the Pentagon makes CONTROL the political class and the supreme courts of most states and the federal system. Some things happen at the speed of electrons in wires or microwaves in light matter. Muck sends space junk into the ionosphere almost daily, only to have it faal back in a few. O and G pump/ship/refine fuels that are burned by so many govt/corporate planes flying non-stop 24/7. Food is carried from one end of the country to the other non-stop. Pollution and waste flow down to the masses and the planet while bucks float to the top 0.01 percent at light speed. Who says things cannot be done in a heartbeat?
Prejudice, bigotry, rage, hatred, oppression, misogyny, child abuse, violence ALL travel at light speed across interconnected waves of electrons NON STOP. Cops cannot keep offenders in jail until a trial, but federal thugs can 'disappear' thousands of persons a day, never to be seen or heard from again. Who says the economy of hegemony is slow to work?
The volume and intensity of LIES could sink Greenland in a day. No lack of ambition and production there. MSM generates AV garbage endlessly. Data centers consume water and electricity faster than both can be generated and fed to the Hive. There are more junk movies made each day than veterans, poor folk or abused kids can get to a doctor or a safe haven.
Corbin. You cannot build what you cannot finance, and nothing happens there until the deck chairs on the Titanic are shuffled and re-shuffled to ensure that the parasites are well fed. ICE is eliminating the only persons who know how to work and can do that work. White 'murkans for the most part all want to be supervisors, so they can be online during working hours keeping their paranoia in top shape.
Face facts. The latest Rome must fall. It is so top heavy and its infrastructure is crumbling. The levels of corruption make sure that happens. There is little community left, the internet assures that. Avarice rules, hatred is fueled by it, wetiko ensures that self-destruction is painted over, like Black Widow Barbie's face, to appear as if beauty and horror must exist together, bombs and drones and beatings are sure signs of empathy for those most deserving. Immigrants built this nation, and now immigrants are being eliminated so 'murka can fall to pieces and carpetbaggers scoop up the ruins. Gaza will become a resort/refuge for the playboy crowd, and Ukraine will feed the wealthy off its fertile soils. Who says humans cannot build anything? And speed? The parasite class is wiping out the lives of 300 million humans right now, in less than one year. Now that is speed.
All true. But. What are You going to do...about your life? Resign? Or fight for what you hope for..........or die trying. I've got, at most, another 10 years above the grass, but the former is my choice in light of all you said.
Campaigns are insular things. The staff and the candidate become islands. I've been there in Justice Democrats, AOC, and Bernie's 2 campaigns. Breaking through the barriers to talk to a candidate is very tough.
Again we must see that money is at depth one of the main reasons for this belief in incremental change. The consultants,the planners , all those who keep making money by slowing things down are one of the blocks we must blow up! Again we must get the old farts out of the way and let the youngsters lead! Did anyone else feel excited while reading this? Boy I did! Before I die I want this country to have a coast to coast high speed rail system so I can see the country and visit loved ones whenever I want. This can be done!🎈
YES! Absolutely. Please see my comment(3 above yours)and look up those movers and shakers to learn what they are doing, their firm belief in their vision(like yours!)and how well they are already doing to bring it into realization.
It is really hard to think of any post Corbin has produced that is more dead on than this one. #KingCorruption Trump managed to bankrupt a casino about as fast and he definitely is working to destroy America in record speed. I'm guessing MAGA Mike Johnson, the Christian hypocrite, is working hard to prove everything in Revelations. Atlantis, now understood to be potentially very real, would have sunk from natural causes. We don't need a volcano or an earthquake, we have Trump and Republicans.
Don't have to read this beyond the tag line.
I know for a fact that societal change can happen in an instant, but first we have to choose and prioritize it, both, from the top, down, AND, the bottom, up.
Please, give me one societal change that has happen in an instant. Certainly not racism. Nor slavery. Nor union busting or fair wages that respect worker contribution. Not classism. Those are enduring. The interstate highway system and electrification of areas, sold as leaps in and glorification of human evolution, were industrial changes with societal impacts, but the driving forces for those leaps were devised by and intended to benefit big business and capitalism which is the one of the worse societal changes we’ve adapted to since climbing down from the trees.
I agree in part with your talk of 'societal change'. Which is why we must encourage one another to look deeper...into what we Really want....how we want to live....what is important to us.
To push back just a little, the rejection of gay and lesbian couples--let alone marriage--was not an 'overnight' change, to be sure, but look how quickly the majority of our fellow citizens have not only accepted but celebrated this rather big societal change.. It came about because people who were most affected had a vision of how it could be... because of their conviction of the rightness or their cause. They saw, believed, hoped and fought. And won.
Really well put post! The great untold story of the modern version of capitalism is that it is, above all, waste based, a gigantic churn and burn operation that produces wealth entirely divorced from human needs,and that can simply produce more money from money itself from the magic alchemy of a super financialized economy. As I understand Keynesian economics the essential thing to creating a virtuous cycle of supply and demand can be ANYTHING including paying somebody to dig a hole and then paying someone to fill the hole - this gets money circulating for people to buy stuff they need which someone then creates because they will earn money by providing it etc etc... The fantastic arms build up for and during WW2 was jaw dropping proof of how well this worked - and also proof how you can create wealth from ANY FUCKING THING including death and destruction. This is still huge - the military industrial complex ! - but nowadays our overlords create wealth from poverty - the prison/cop/law industry and nonprofit crumbs for social problems industry- and illness -the health care industry - along with vast armies of people with pointless jobs maximizing inefficiency.
On top of which there is the problem of training people to get their pleasure in life from consuming crap (which clearly doesn't work) On top of which the owning class has its "free lunch" program of loaning people money who don't have enough - ever more people!- and collecting interest, and buying up assets like housing and sitting back and collecting rent. So capitalism has become mostly just a giant extractive racket whose real job is the grow the army of have-nots to extract from. I could go on about the huge wealth crisis of our time - how we became so rich that utopian possibilities started to seem almost inevitable and so had to be crushed through manufacturing poverty, but enough of my ranting.
This describes to a "T" what our civil justice system has become. As a plaintiff's lawyer, I try desperately to engineer a good result for my client as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, the defense bar, which bills by the hour, has no such incentive, and our courts simply let them get away with it. The longer a case takes to resolve, the more money they make, and the impact on our civil justice system be damned. I am working on a case now that was filed in 2012. Justice takes too damn long and the people know it.
The same can be said of toppling the DNC leadership and replacing it with doers who are on the same page about building. Can happen fast if organized and compelling.
You couldn't be more right.
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/a-plan-to-save-democrats-and-democracy
You didn’t mention how Wes Moore repaired the Maryland bridge much faster than expected. A good example of what we can do when we want to.
That is a good point
There's no reasons but laziness or idiocy. If you don't believe it, look at how fast the Chunky Cheeto and his thugs are dismantling our country.
...and illness (in all forms) intentionally being infected into our populations
What takes time is the transformation of the Democratic Party and we don't have the time to do it. (I don't know that it's even possible.) We need to primary every corporate Dem. We need to explore other political options in states where the Democratic Party is functionally useless. We need to promote independent candidates when that's a viable option. More than anything, there needs to be an identifiable political organization or movement that hits on all the points Corbin makes in this post and others. This organization/movement would be parallel to the Democratic Party. In other words, we need our version of the Tea Party.
Justice Democrats
Justice Democrats is a fundraising group and that's fine. But it is neither a mass organization nor a movement. The protest groups (Indivisible and 50501) seem indifferent to electoral politics. There's DSA, but it's hampered by the usual sectarianism from ultra-left factions.
I really like this post and was thinking just this last night after being inspired to envision the future we want, dare to hope for it and put that hope into action...not by reacting to what is going on in the federal destruction regime, but by building community, mutual aid, etc, and Going for it!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Profiting off Inaction.
The perfect definition of what government and corporate do now. You might add planned technological obsolescence to that.
We can't wait until 2028 to fix this truckload of shit, we have to DO IT NOW.
Agreed:
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/the-problem-with-waiting-for-2028
I appreciate the message and I agree with it overall. In truth, some of the changes you cited that appear rapid actually took many years of activity behind the scenes. The New Deal was the culmination of decades of mobilization on the part of Progressive Era labor leaders and workers. America’s industrial surge during WWII was possible thanks to decades of mass electrification and innovation. Etc. But your larger point — that with decisive public action and government will/ambition, we can achieve great things as a society (better and faster than the market can alone) — is spot on.
America's slowness is the result of entrenched interests (like those blocking high-speed rail) weaponizing democratic mechanisms exploiting permitting and eminent domain for delay and profit.
While America may disagree with elements of China's politics, their infrastructure speed shows the value they place on completion and a streamlined approach to land acquisition.
How do we learn from China's focus to achieve speed and efficiency without completely eschewing the property rights and democratic checks that define America?
China is using a system we designed. They are just making it better and better. I wrote about our historic capacity, current capacity and Chinese capacity.
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/the-death-of-american-capability
Socialism for the connected and wealthy - Social Darwinism for the working classes and poor. Best thing about the current system? No one responsible bares any responsibility for anything.
As someone who loves building things this rings true with me. It's never made c sense to me why we quit making things in favor of pushing paper and juggling money around.
Insurance companies, banks, hedge funds, Wall St. investment banks and huge corps. who dictate what the Pentagon makes CONTROL the political class and the supreme courts of most states and the federal system. Some things happen at the speed of electrons in wires or microwaves in light matter. Muck sends space junk into the ionosphere almost daily, only to have it faal back in a few. O and G pump/ship/refine fuels that are burned by so many govt/corporate planes flying non-stop 24/7. Food is carried from one end of the country to the other non-stop. Pollution and waste flow down to the masses and the planet while bucks float to the top 0.01 percent at light speed. Who says things cannot be done in a heartbeat?
Prejudice, bigotry, rage, hatred, oppression, misogyny, child abuse, violence ALL travel at light speed across interconnected waves of electrons NON STOP. Cops cannot keep offenders in jail until a trial, but federal thugs can 'disappear' thousands of persons a day, never to be seen or heard from again. Who says the economy of hegemony is slow to work?
The volume and intensity of LIES could sink Greenland in a day. No lack of ambition and production there. MSM generates AV garbage endlessly. Data centers consume water and electricity faster than both can be generated and fed to the Hive. There are more junk movies made each day than veterans, poor folk or abused kids can get to a doctor or a safe haven.
Corbin. You cannot build what you cannot finance, and nothing happens there until the deck chairs on the Titanic are shuffled and re-shuffled to ensure that the parasites are well fed. ICE is eliminating the only persons who know how to work and can do that work. White 'murkans for the most part all want to be supervisors, so they can be online during working hours keeping their paranoia in top shape.
Face facts. The latest Rome must fall. It is so top heavy and its infrastructure is crumbling. The levels of corruption make sure that happens. There is little community left, the internet assures that. Avarice rules, hatred is fueled by it, wetiko ensures that self-destruction is painted over, like Black Widow Barbie's face, to appear as if beauty and horror must exist together, bombs and drones and beatings are sure signs of empathy for those most deserving. Immigrants built this nation, and now immigrants are being eliminated so 'murka can fall to pieces and carpetbaggers scoop up the ruins. Gaza will become a resort/refuge for the playboy crowd, and Ukraine will feed the wealthy off its fertile soils. Who says humans cannot build anything? And speed? The parasite class is wiping out the lives of 300 million humans right now, in less than one year. Now that is speed.
All true. But. What are You going to do...about your life? Resign? Or fight for what you hope for..........or die trying. I've got, at most, another 10 years above the grass, but the former is my choice in light of all you said.
Hope you will have a chance to talk with James Talarico from Texas about these ideas. Bold plans are needed!
Campaigns are insular things. The staff and the candidate become islands. I've been there in Justice Democrats, AOC, and Bernie's 2 campaigns. Breaking through the barriers to talk to a candidate is very tough.