Amen! We used to talk about publicly funded elections! Now, that’s never even considered. Money in politics is a fundamental cancer on our society. All elections should be publicly funded. The Supreme Court should not be allowed to operate as an oligarchic institution with no real checks on their authority and power. No political party should be allowed to draw congressional boundaries. These are fundamental changes that would help to curtail the open usurpation of democracy in this country and would slow the growth of Americans who yearn for authoritarian leaders to “protect” them. Economically insecure people are people who can be convinced to follow authoritarian con men like Trump and DeSantis. Corporate Democrats and DINOs like Manchin, strip the already disenfranchised and disaffected populace of the feeling that they are being heard and that their leaders are actually advocating for their best interests. Once that happens, they are much more likely to turn to Con men who use fear and division to keep the working classes (I include in this the “middle class” which is a BS term used to divide the working class against itself) fighting* amongst itself so that they don’t rise up against the wealthy, who are the ones that are ACTUALLY stealing jobs, suppressing wages, and destroying economic mobility. Money in politics is the root of all evil.
As someone who has engaged in the process of a Presidential campaign Marianne of all ppl should know that everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, is about the almighty dollar.
Do you actually believe that Biden analyzed this deal down to the detail of sick leave benefits? C'mon.
He and his spxperson couldn't even agree if he was directly involved.
The beat goes on, rage against the Left, rage against the Right, but the ppl pulling the strings are both and neither.
"The entire system needs to be challenged." And those changes must start in the American home. Where the potential of all our children to live deeply meaningful lives is nurtured and no longer squandered.
So grateful for your wisdom, intelligence, deep understanding of the truth and your responsiveness to your call to speak it. may you be held and kept and blessed mightily "until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream".
poverty, homelessness, under employment, mental illness and other realities have been criminalized. We are not sitting by and watching, we write, we march, we send money, we vote, we volunteer and we pray endlessly and yet it the circus is always in town when it comes to serving the people. There are glimmers of hope here and there, so we grab on to them and say, "Well if not today, perhaps tomorrow". Thank you Marianne.
Economic inequality has gone viral, because politicians can easily be bought and controlled. Unless we have election finance reform, nothing will change. We must also reform our department of justice, which is controlled by the same self-serving people who own our government. Just follow the money.
One of the non-profit organization I support provided this definition of Corporate Capture\ n: the means by which an economic elite undermine the realization of human rights and the environment by exerting undue influence over decision-makers and public institutions.
“Today, the poor, the near poor, and the afraid-of-becoming poor make up a third of our population. 63 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” … (The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little) … “The entire system needs to be challenged … SOON!'
I'm an Englishman but I love America- or rather I love the TRUE America. I'm very concerned as things are and I see Biden as a stumbling idiot. Paradoxically the USA was founded on Republican principles and those core fundamentals made America a wonderful nation. Corruption and greed always destroy purity, love and truth. There have only been a handful of Presidents that had the grit and the ethical standards badly needed to set America free. All I can do is pray. I'd love to see Marianne Williamson as president, That would definitely "drain the swamp" forgive the Trumpism, but he was right.
We need to BE the Truth. Every oligarch who thinks that they need a bigger yacht is proof that the pursuit of "getting stuff" (no matter how you affect those that you get it from) is not a way of getting happiness that works for ANYONE, let alone a few. But the majority of the many, including those with little, still imagine that getting stuff will bring happiness. It does not work. But there are no quick fixes when the solution is changing what we think we are. We just have to learn individually that putting our effort into giving is the ONLY way to "get" happiness. Only then will the getters question themselves. We must each set to the task of finding happiness by making our lives about giving before we can let our lights shine to attract other people out of the darkness of getting.
Marianne: Solidly researched and brilliantly presented, this exquisitely and heartfelt composition is deserving of my full congratulations/kudos.
By referencing the current shit, sad, sorry state of the Democrat party (no longer democratic, I mourn) and comparing this compound of bribery, blackmail and greed to the forthright messages (and frequently actions) by FDR for the two-thirds of the American people who are NOT benefiting from contemporary economic reality, is in MHO totally spot-on and deserves far broader circulation than on this, your blog site.
The precipitative action which tore the Democrat party away from its previously democratic roots was the utterly egregious "ruling" by the "Supreme" Court in the terrible "Citizens United" case, where corporate interests, masking themselves as "citizens" rather than stooges for the ultra-rich investor class, succeeded in bribing and/or blackmailed a thin majority of the Nine BlackRobes to make this contra-Constitutional ruling which allowed corporations (including non-American ones) to throw uncountable millions into election campaigns.
All that filthy lucre, inveigled the alway suspect DNC (Democrat National Committee)...reminding me distinctly of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...to go whole hog for all those nice campaign contributions. Those contributions even included tens of millions from wet behind the ears Bankman-Fried of FTX infamy to become the second most prolific contributor to the DNC cause to none other than Little Georgie of Our $orrow$.
If one considers the supposedly independent three branches of the federal government: Congress, Administration and Judiciary to be mutually balanced against each other rather than becoming a unified juggernaut on behalf of Big $$$ interests; one would become extremely disappointed.
"Our" government is totally out of the control of We The People and has become nothing more than a cash-cow for a myriad of special financial and corporate interests. Unfortunately, those who have been (s)elected by the voters to become our civil servants, as representing the American people; have instead grabbed and clutched onto the Big Brass Ring. When Congresspersons like Nancy Pelosi and Senators like Mitch McConnell become bipartisan grifters whose net worth, well into the hundreds of millions, could never have been accumulated via their government compensation for their participation in the Congress and the Senate; all awakened and aware Americans should have come to the realization that (quoting Shakespeare's "Hamlet", that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark". Unfortunately for we Americans, the rotten state is these days not that little land on the Baltic Sea, but right here in "the land of the free and the home of the brave".
There are precious few brave individuals amongst our office-holders and unfortunately, very few amongst the administrative bureaucrats. As for freedom....fill in the blanks.
I watched CBS Sunday Morning today and was shocked how a black woman’s child wad taken away and the corruption of Child Welfare in The United States! It’s horrible what they have gotten away with towards the poor and minorities. This woman lost custody and was studying to be a nurse and this too was taken from her!
I am an elder--the Dems have not been the party of the 'working class' for a long time. Our 'belief' structures and loyalties die hard. And, of course, in a lock-down imposed by one unelected official. no one will be going to work--sick or not! The bottom is falling out of this system.
What can I say? just please don’t stop speaking truth to power. Thank you!!
Amen! We used to talk about publicly funded elections! Now, that’s never even considered. Money in politics is a fundamental cancer on our society. All elections should be publicly funded. The Supreme Court should not be allowed to operate as an oligarchic institution with no real checks on their authority and power. No political party should be allowed to draw congressional boundaries. These are fundamental changes that would help to curtail the open usurpation of democracy in this country and would slow the growth of Americans who yearn for authoritarian leaders to “protect” them. Economically insecure people are people who can be convinced to follow authoritarian con men like Trump and DeSantis. Corporate Democrats and DINOs like Manchin, strip the already disenfranchised and disaffected populace of the feeling that they are being heard and that their leaders are actually advocating for their best interests. Once that happens, they are much more likely to turn to Con men who use fear and division to keep the working classes (I include in this the “middle class” which is a BS term used to divide the working class against itself) fighting* amongst itself so that they don’t rise up against the wealthy, who are the ones that are ACTUALLY stealing jobs, suppressing wages, and destroying economic mobility. Money in politics is the root of all evil.
*edited to fix an autocorrect error.
As someone who has engaged in the process of a Presidential campaign Marianne of all ppl should know that everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, is about the almighty dollar.
Do you actually believe that Biden analyzed this deal down to the detail of sick leave benefits? C'mon.
He and his spxperson couldn't even agree if he was directly involved.
The beat goes on, rage against the Left, rage against the Right, but the ppl pulling the strings are both and neither.
"The entire system needs to be challenged." And those changes must start in the American home. Where the potential of all our children to live deeply meaningful lives is nurtured and no longer squandered.
So grateful for your wisdom, intelligence, deep understanding of the truth and your responsiveness to your call to speak it. may you be held and kept and blessed mightily "until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream".
poverty, homelessness, under employment, mental illness and other realities have been criminalized. We are not sitting by and watching, we write, we march, we send money, we vote, we volunteer and we pray endlessly and yet it the circus is always in town when it comes to serving the people. There are glimmers of hope here and there, so we grab on to them and say, "Well if not today, perhaps tomorrow". Thank you Marianne.
Economic inequality has gone viral, because politicians can easily be bought and controlled. Unless we have election finance reform, nothing will change. We must also reform our department of justice, which is controlled by the same self-serving people who own our government. Just follow the money.
One of the non-profit organization I support provided this definition of Corporate Capture\ n: the means by which an economic elite undermine the realization of human rights and the environment by exerting undue influence over decision-makers and public institutions.
“Today, the poor, the near poor, and the afraid-of-becoming poor make up a third of our population. 63 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” … (The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little) … “The entire system needs to be challenged … SOON!'
WONDERFUL WRITING!
I'm an Englishman but I love America- or rather I love the TRUE America. I'm very concerned as things are and I see Biden as a stumbling idiot. Paradoxically the USA was founded on Republican principles and those core fundamentals made America a wonderful nation. Corruption and greed always destroy purity, love and truth. There have only been a handful of Presidents that had the grit and the ethical standards badly needed to set America free. All I can do is pray. I'd love to see Marianne Williamson as president, That would definitely "drain the swamp" forgive the Trumpism, but he was right.
We need to BE the Truth. Every oligarch who thinks that they need a bigger yacht is proof that the pursuit of "getting stuff" (no matter how you affect those that you get it from) is not a way of getting happiness that works for ANYONE, let alone a few. But the majority of the many, including those with little, still imagine that getting stuff will bring happiness. It does not work. But there are no quick fixes when the solution is changing what we think we are. We just have to learn individually that putting our effort into giving is the ONLY way to "get" happiness. Only then will the getters question themselves. We must each set to the task of finding happiness by making our lives about giving before we can let our lights shine to attract other people out of the darkness of getting.
Marianne: Solidly researched and brilliantly presented, this exquisitely and heartfelt composition is deserving of my full congratulations/kudos.
By referencing the current shit, sad, sorry state of the Democrat party (no longer democratic, I mourn) and comparing this compound of bribery, blackmail and greed to the forthright messages (and frequently actions) by FDR for the two-thirds of the American people who are NOT benefiting from contemporary economic reality, is in MHO totally spot-on and deserves far broader circulation than on this, your blog site.
The precipitative action which tore the Democrat party away from its previously democratic roots was the utterly egregious "ruling" by the "Supreme" Court in the terrible "Citizens United" case, where corporate interests, masking themselves as "citizens" rather than stooges for the ultra-rich investor class, succeeded in bribing and/or blackmailed a thin majority of the Nine BlackRobes to make this contra-Constitutional ruling which allowed corporations (including non-American ones) to throw uncountable millions into election campaigns.
All that filthy lucre, inveigled the alway suspect DNC (Democrat National Committee)...reminding me distinctly of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...to go whole hog for all those nice campaign contributions. Those contributions even included tens of millions from wet behind the ears Bankman-Fried of FTX infamy to become the second most prolific contributor to the DNC cause to none other than Little Georgie of Our $orrow$.
If one considers the supposedly independent three branches of the federal government: Congress, Administration and Judiciary to be mutually balanced against each other rather than becoming a unified juggernaut on behalf of Big $$$ interests; one would become extremely disappointed.
"Our" government is totally out of the control of We The People and has become nothing more than a cash-cow for a myriad of special financial and corporate interests. Unfortunately, those who have been (s)elected by the voters to become our civil servants, as representing the American people; have instead grabbed and clutched onto the Big Brass Ring. When Congresspersons like Nancy Pelosi and Senators like Mitch McConnell become bipartisan grifters whose net worth, well into the hundreds of millions, could never have been accumulated via their government compensation for their participation in the Congress and the Senate; all awakened and aware Americans should have come to the realization that (quoting Shakespeare's "Hamlet", that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark". Unfortunately for we Americans, the rotten state is these days not that little land on the Baltic Sea, but right here in "the land of the free and the home of the brave".
There are precious few brave individuals amongst our office-holders and unfortunately, very few amongst the administrative bureaucrats. As for freedom....fill in the blanks.
I watched CBS Sunday Morning today and was shocked how a black woman’s child wad taken away and the corruption of Child Welfare in The United States! It’s horrible what they have gotten away with towards the poor and minorities. This woman lost custody and was studying to be a nurse and this too was taken from her!
bullseye
I am an elder--the Dems have not been the party of the 'working class' for a long time. Our 'belief' structures and loyalties die hard. And, of course, in a lock-down imposed by one unelected official. no one will be going to work--sick or not! The bottom is falling out of this system.
Amen!!!!