2026 isn’t just another midterm. It’s a launchpad. A chance to build a new generation of leaders—and in 2028, defeat MAGA with a vision that finally takes this country somewhere.
If I was to run for office I’d have a simple left wing populous platform consisting of three focus areas: 1) Universal Basic Income, 2) Universal Healthcare, and 3) secondary education (including technical school) for all. How’d I pay for it? Tax the rich! Boom!
This time around, revolution isn’t starting in Congress, it’s starting in the streets. Yesterday’s demonstrations were larger than those of two weeks ago, and the next turnouts will be greater still — and all elected officials are taking notice, with increasing numbers of House and Senate Repubs moving away from Trump. We’re getting closer to the point where Trump can successfully be impeached, convicted, and removed from office — and from our lives. This should happen now; there will soon be no reason to wait for midterm elections that a still- present Trump has said repeatedly could be “canceled.” So, first things first. Dump Trump NOW!
If only! The fear of retaliation among Members--being "primaried" in the mid-terms, for example--is prevalent enough to thwart the votes necessary to bring articles of impeachment, much less a trial and conviction. Much as we would love to see it... :-)
If you want to make Congress less corrupt, we the people must to stop fighting left to right and start fighting bottom to top. Our strength is in our numbers. We must demand representatives put private investments into trusts B4 taking office and part of making that happen is to pay them a lot more. It's hard to be swayed by outside forces when you're compensated well enough as it is. We have to get rid of the lobbyists, and PACs (Citizens United) and shell corps, yeah - but foremost we have to redistribute wealth from the ultra rich back into our society. Tax the rich. Until you tax the rich everything else is just a bunch of words. It isn't the government per se that is rigged it is the economic system. Just saying elect better people and we want these things to happen isn't going to make them happen.
Yay! I just read that the average age of a congressperson is 58, but the average age of Americans is 38. We need the younger people to take charge (and I know there is another revolution taking place in the Democratic Party--YAY). Bernie was lambasted by wimps in '16 because he called for a political revolution, but--9 years later--we are seeing those same people taking to the streets (YAY). We are seeing people on the grassroots levels of government get involved and run for office on every level (which is where it starts). The crowd in Idaho went wild when AOC said, "We are here because you matter." When people realize we are all one, the paradigm will shift, and we won't have to imagine all the people living life in peace cuz it will be a reality! You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one!
We need leaders who aren't afraid to say the "S- word"; SOCIALISM. Real people, not just Bernie Sanders, who aren't afraid to talk about profit sharing, joint ownership between Capitol and organized labor, tax equity, AND NO MORE BILLIONAIRES. Publicly supported healthcare and publically funded defined benefit pension plans. It's time for Americans to cast off our collective hood of white supremacy masquerading as antebellum Southern capitalism and oligarchic bullying.
I really love this vision. There is a missing element we have to have. folks that are not there to make a career out of politics. For instance if we need to overturn citizens united or pack ( right size) the scotus the senator or representative needs to be ok losing their seat in the next cycle ( take the sacrifice) to move the needle forward. With only money & reelection as the main focus the real change never happens. IMHO
Great post, except there is zero hope of changing the Democratic Party from within. That was proved beyond a reasonable doubt in 2016 and 2020.
We're NOT going to be able to vote our way out of this mess, and anyone who urges us to stay within the Democratic Party is nothing but a sheepherder for the kleptocracy.
Dems & Repubs are POLAR OPPOSITES in every way, from policy to tactics. Dems are a good faith party. R's are radical, brainwashed, treasonous, election-thieving, and yes murderous ideologues responsible for 99.99% of all the ills in politics, gov't and society! Dems haven't had the majorities in Congress to fix our problems, particularly when R's aggressively abuse the rules at every turn. Blaming both parties is BS of the highest order ....
Absolutely, the GOP is the arsonist—but let’s not pretend Democrats haven’t been sitting on their hands while the house burns. Calling out both parties isn’t deflection, it’s honesty. The GOP may be leading the charge against democracy, but Democrats have been complicit—too corporate, too cautious, and too cozy with the same donors. We don’t just need resistance. We need a political reckoning.
Dems are just as corrupt as Republicans. We need to throw out the corrupt politicians and those too scared to act. It is time to get a congress that works for the people. I will vote for anyone with the guts and who is proven to fill this need no matter their party.
It may, at times, look like Trump et.al. is not moving their agenda forward but I, perhaps wrongly, have a different perspective. First, Trump is, unfortunately, not the brains behind the agenda. Second, look beyond the immediate distraction(s). While Musk and liberal lawyers celebrate themselves, look at what is happening in the crypto-currency world. My take is that most people aren't involved in it and don't understand it but Trump is getting billions of dollars in payoffs for gutting all forms of oversight and stopping ongoing investigations and criminal cases. (See Molly White at https://www.citationneeded.news.) And second, even if free and fair elections are allowed (unlikely given the halting of the cyber warfare defenses against Russian interference, voter suppression tactics, etc.) the Democrats are incapable of saving us from the chaos of a collapsing democracy they helped undermine. Think war, not politics.
‘If we’re serious about revolution, it’s time we harness the true power of Congress—the power to build the America we deserve.’
Revolution? How? With no word of historical process, of social classes, their relationship to the system of production, of dialectical interactions, irreconcilable antagonisms, of class struggle, of the political independence of the proletariat, no transitional program, nothing on internationalism, or of worker democracy — the list goes on and on.
There is no mention of disenfranchising the ruling class, or a transfer of political power and authority to the working class. So, how is this ‘revolution?’ That is a literary charade, and anyone with a cursory grasp of revolutionary theory sees it at once.
For those of the 298M+/- working class Americans who are committed to revolution, this petit bourgeoisie perspective shows no way ahead.
America was founded upon principles designed to protect the interests of the monied class, first and foremost.
The class lines were determined and applied by congressional ratification controlled by the very same monied overclass.
The latest head politician has altered the simulacra of ordo lege through deception, and false accusations.
From the non-distributive equity model of the late nineteenth century to its current rendition of private ownership incorporating and encompassing the public interest as a cudgel for the increasing of rentier wealth-seeking of and for itself.
Not necessary. Just do it - Run for Office, doesn't even matter which office or party. (I ran under Peace & Freedom Party.) Learn the process. Make a difference by just running and getting out into the public. Debate during the primary and learn what we are up against.
No more parties, no more privileged congress, no more House and Senate rules, no more gerrymandering, no more lobbying, no more backroom deals, NO MORE majority of one or even ten rules anything except who get the toilet break first.
Direct communications between public SERVANTS and citizens. Citizens must all weigh in on pending legislation, and citizen committees decide what needs, not whims/wants/waste, go to the congress to be ironed out so legislation actually works and gets done. The congress is the workhorse, not the master sitting in the walnut coach. Any political influence via money or favors from anyone is punishable by 40 days in stocks in the public square, then stripping of all owned resources and five years cleaning ditches.
The executive is the get-er-done draft horse. No gilded chairs, fancy dinners, private flights, coddling, worshiping, deference to, zero ability to push ANYONE around. Period. Full Stop.
Citizens can immediately recall any politico servant with one percent recall tally. No revolving backdoors, no more private industries or corps. Only corps. that are employee/customer owned are permitted, and all are non-profit, and all wages are set at the lowest wage paid inside the society of working folks. No more private wealth, period.
All citizens vote, or lose all privileges from society. Few excuses, fully vetted. All citizens participate in the determination of problems, analyses, solutions, programs, plans and implementation. No more lollygaging lax citizenry who believes self is more important than the whole. Without a healthy whole there are no parts to pamper. Human society is a 6k year failure. Admit it. Die with it, or overhaul it like your life would depend on it, because it does.
Unless this happens, in 30 years there will not be enough humans left alive to sweep the empty streets of Mumbai.
We also need to implement ranked choice voting, to give third party and independent candidates a chance.
You mean proportional representation and abolishing the Senate
Damn Skippy!!
If I was to run for office I’d have a simple left wing populous platform consisting of three focus areas: 1) Universal Basic Income, 2) Universal Healthcare, and 3) secondary education (including technical school) for all. How’d I pay for it? Tax the rich! Boom!
@Robin Liberte’
100%!!
I would have loved to learn plumbing/electrical/carpentry in school!
Run for office!
This time around, revolution isn’t starting in Congress, it’s starting in the streets. Yesterday’s demonstrations were larger than those of two weeks ago, and the next turnouts will be greater still — and all elected officials are taking notice, with increasing numbers of House and Senate Repubs moving away from Trump. We’re getting closer to the point where Trump can successfully be impeached, convicted, and removed from office — and from our lives. This should happen now; there will soon be no reason to wait for midterm elections that a still- present Trump has said repeatedly could be “canceled.” So, first things first. Dump Trump NOW!
If only! The fear of retaliation among Members--being "primaried" in the mid-terms, for example--is prevalent enough to thwart the votes necessary to bring articles of impeachment, much less a trial and conviction. Much as we would love to see it... :-)
If you want to make Congress less corrupt, we the people must to stop fighting left to right and start fighting bottom to top. Our strength is in our numbers. We must demand representatives put private investments into trusts B4 taking office and part of making that happen is to pay them a lot more. It's hard to be swayed by outside forces when you're compensated well enough as it is. We have to get rid of the lobbyists, and PACs (Citizens United) and shell corps, yeah - but foremost we have to redistribute wealth from the ultra rich back into our society. Tax the rich. Until you tax the rich everything else is just a bunch of words. It isn't the government per se that is rigged it is the economic system. Just saying elect better people and we want these things to happen isn't going to make them happen.
Yay! I just read that the average age of a congressperson is 58, but the average age of Americans is 38. We need the younger people to take charge (and I know there is another revolution taking place in the Democratic Party--YAY). Bernie was lambasted by wimps in '16 because he called for a political revolution, but--9 years later--we are seeing those same people taking to the streets (YAY). We are seeing people on the grassroots levels of government get involved and run for office on every level (which is where it starts). The crowd in Idaho went wild when AOC said, "We are here because you matter." When people realize we are all one, the paradigm will shift, and we won't have to imagine all the people living life in peace cuz it will be a reality! You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one!
Until we get a congress that works for the people, we won't be able to get the corrupting influence of money out of politics.
We need leaders who aren't afraid to say the "S- word"; SOCIALISM. Real people, not just Bernie Sanders, who aren't afraid to talk about profit sharing, joint ownership between Capitol and organized labor, tax equity, AND NO MORE BILLIONAIRES. Publicly supported healthcare and publically funded defined benefit pension plans. It's time for Americans to cast off our collective hood of white supremacy masquerading as antebellum Southern capitalism and oligarchic bullying.
I really love this vision. There is a missing element we have to have. folks that are not there to make a career out of politics. For instance if we need to overturn citizens united or pack ( right size) the scotus the senator or representative needs to be ok losing their seat in the next cycle ( take the sacrifice) to move the needle forward. With only money & reelection as the main focus the real change never happens. IMHO
Great post, except there is zero hope of changing the Democratic Party from within. That was proved beyond a reasonable doubt in 2016 and 2020.
We're NOT going to be able to vote our way out of this mess, and anyone who urges us to stay within the Democratic Party is nothing but a sheepherder for the kleptocracy.
Dems & Repubs are POLAR OPPOSITES in every way, from policy to tactics. Dems are a good faith party. R's are radical, brainwashed, treasonous, election-thieving, and yes murderous ideologues responsible for 99.99% of all the ills in politics, gov't and society! Dems haven't had the majorities in Congress to fix our problems, particularly when R's aggressively abuse the rules at every turn. Blaming both parties is BS of the highest order ....
Absolutely, the GOP is the arsonist—but let’s not pretend Democrats haven’t been sitting on their hands while the house burns. Calling out both parties isn’t deflection, it’s honesty. The GOP may be leading the charge against democracy, but Democrats have been complicit—too corporate, too cautious, and too cozy with the same donors. We don’t just need resistance. We need a political reckoning.
Dems are just as corrupt as Republicans. We need to throw out the corrupt politicians and those too scared to act. It is time to get a congress that works for the people. I will vote for anyone with the guts and who is proven to fill this need no matter their party.
You are correct that Dems are in good faith in making sure the laws they pass benefit their corporate donors.
Chose: Corporate control or billionaire dictator control.
To change Congress:
-Undo Citizen United
Switch to Ranked Choice Voting
Run smart, moral candidates
Yes, but how.
Google:
American Promise
Rank the Vote
Run for Something
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It may, at times, look like Trump et.al. is not moving their agenda forward but I, perhaps wrongly, have a different perspective. First, Trump is, unfortunately, not the brains behind the agenda. Second, look beyond the immediate distraction(s). While Musk and liberal lawyers celebrate themselves, look at what is happening in the crypto-currency world. My take is that most people aren't involved in it and don't understand it but Trump is getting billions of dollars in payoffs for gutting all forms of oversight and stopping ongoing investigations and criminal cases. (See Molly White at https://www.citationneeded.news.) And second, even if free and fair elections are allowed (unlikely given the halting of the cyber warfare defenses against Russian interference, voter suppression tactics, etc.) the Democrats are incapable of saving us from the chaos of a collapsing democracy they helped undermine. Think war, not politics.
‘If we’re serious about revolution, it’s time we harness the true power of Congress—the power to build the America we deserve.’
Revolution? How? With no word of historical process, of social classes, their relationship to the system of production, of dialectical interactions, irreconcilable antagonisms, of class struggle, of the political independence of the proletariat, no transitional program, nothing on internationalism, or of worker democracy — the list goes on and on.
There is no mention of disenfranchising the ruling class, or a transfer of political power and authority to the working class. So, how is this ‘revolution?’ That is a literary charade, and anyone with a cursory grasp of revolutionary theory sees it at once.
For those of the 298M+/- working class Americans who are committed to revolution, this petit bourgeoisie perspective shows no way ahead.
America was founded upon principles designed to protect the interests of the monied class, first and foremost.
The class lines were determined and applied by congressional ratification controlled by the very same monied overclass.
The latest head politician has altered the simulacra of ordo lege through deception, and false accusations.
From the non-distributive equity model of the late nineteenth century to its current rendition of private ownership incorporating and encompassing the public interest as a cudgel for the increasing of rentier wealth-seeking of and for itself.
Welcome to capitalism.
Instead of just "commenting", good people need to RUN FOR OFFICE.
But first make sure you are morally flawless and that you can source funding without AIPAC and survive DNC lawfare.
Not necessary. Just do it - Run for Office, doesn't even matter which office or party. (I ran under Peace & Freedom Party.) Learn the process. Make a difference by just running and getting out into the public. Debate during the primary and learn what we are up against.
No more parties, no more privileged congress, no more House and Senate rules, no more gerrymandering, no more lobbying, no more backroom deals, NO MORE majority of one or even ten rules anything except who get the toilet break first.
Direct communications between public SERVANTS and citizens. Citizens must all weigh in on pending legislation, and citizen committees decide what needs, not whims/wants/waste, go to the congress to be ironed out so legislation actually works and gets done. The congress is the workhorse, not the master sitting in the walnut coach. Any political influence via money or favors from anyone is punishable by 40 days in stocks in the public square, then stripping of all owned resources and five years cleaning ditches.
The executive is the get-er-done draft horse. No gilded chairs, fancy dinners, private flights, coddling, worshiping, deference to, zero ability to push ANYONE around. Period. Full Stop.
Citizens can immediately recall any politico servant with one percent recall tally. No revolving backdoors, no more private industries or corps. Only corps. that are employee/customer owned are permitted, and all are non-profit, and all wages are set at the lowest wage paid inside the society of working folks. No more private wealth, period.
All citizens vote, or lose all privileges from society. Few excuses, fully vetted. All citizens participate in the determination of problems, analyses, solutions, programs, plans and implementation. No more lollygaging lax citizenry who believes self is more important than the whole. Without a healthy whole there are no parts to pamper. Human society is a 6k year failure. Admit it. Die with it, or overhaul it like your life would depend on it, because it does.
Unless this happens, in 30 years there will not be enough humans left alive to sweep the empty streets of Mumbai.