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David Osinga's avatar

I follow and read Americas Undoing because I appreciate your lucid reasoning and straight talk...

There are some fundamental structural impediments in America's 2 party electoral system system designed to block public participation at every turn Inc...

The DNC (and RNC both registered as private corporation's) who construct performative political theater to defend their corporate patrons...

Our 2 party electoral system has been playing good cop / bad cop for 50 Yrs...

The Electoral College, the challenges in place to block the inclusion of 3rd party participation in governance, the uphill battle progressive political challengers face to to unseat the incumbents against the big donor's who control and benefit from our two party system, the corporate capture of mainstream Media, and internet algorithms that are essentially corporate censorship by technocrats.

To grok how America was really built and operates to this day...

Read or stream the Book Ghost Forest by Greg King, example after examples of the Robber Barrons that have fleeced Americans since the 1800's, footnoted, with citations...

This is not a new story, it's "the" American story, that's been deliberately excised with a longstanding pattern of gaslighting the public with bread and circus.

I think we are in a constitutional crisis hiding behind a flag...

While Americas Got Talent's 13 Yr old baton twirler tap dancing to yankee doodle dandy in a star spangled leotard...

I have no optimism that either party will do anything about it, and nothing short of constitutional amendments are going to allow us to shift course.

I don't know where it's going, or how it ends, but I'm not going down on my knees!

I think its gonna take a working class backlash to big to stop, shift this 50 Yr slide...

literally millions of working class American's angry at the Investor class instead of picking on each other...

decentralized across America in groups of thousands, requiring such a dispersion of police assets that there's not enough of them to go around.

The unemployed, the Under employed, people loosing, civil servants, teachers, nurses, Vets in the streets...

Enough strikes, enough people boycotting corporate businesses and shopping locally instead, to bring corporate profit's to a standstill, and wall street to their knees, and re-unionizing!

Thats what it's gonna take, cause nobody's coming to save us!

Call it what you will, I'll call it Civil Disobedience...

and as history would suggest the investor class will call any threat to their established power a violent insurrection!

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Robin Liberte’'s avatar

The Democratic base wants the Party to be a left-wing populist party but its leadership and the majority of its members don’t. They want politics-as-usual…the status quo…even though their opposition party has turned far-right. They think (foolishly) that there still exists a center in this country and that’s how you win elections. They’re dead wrong, and that’s why they’ll lose the mid-terms and the next national election…that, and because they forced David Hogg out of the DNC because gawd forbid he wanted to run challengers against dead-wood Democrats. Say goodbye to the youth and progressive votes, and with it, our democracy.

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