WE HAVE A PURPOSE
And it's a higher one
As the saying goes, what you resist persists. But I’ve always had a problem with that idea. One hand, yes - but not not always. An oncologist doesn’t say to a Stage One cancer patient, “Let’s just not do anything; after all, what you resist persists.”
I’ve seen a lot of things since this campaign began, and a lot of it isn’t pretty. I’ve come to realize that there are indeed forces that would shut down our democracy, in areas that you and I might have thought were pretty safe from assault. I’ve seen the free press abuse its power, I’ve seen a political party try to rig its own primaries, and I’ve seen a system that operates without honor. Resisting those things is right and proper.
There have been hours when I’ve thought, “There’s no way, just give it up.” The message in the ethers couldn’t be louder, “You go home now, little girl.” But something in me has always made it through those hours, to the point where I’m committed to hang in there as long as I possibly can, spending whatever resources I have, because this matters.
I do not believe Joe Biden is a strong candidate in a race against Donald Trump, or against Nikki Haley either. And clearly, many agree. His approval rating is at 37%, and over 70% of Democrats say they’d like to see another choice. The majority of Americans are frustrated at the idea that it’s going to be Trump-Biden again. There is a hunger in this country for something else, something more inspiring, something that leads us out of our national malaise and puts us on a better track.
And I feel that I fit that bill. I’ve had more than a forty year career being very up close and personal with people at some of the hardest times in their lives, and I’ve learned a lot about enduring and transforming states of crisis. Our nation is in crisis now; and the same principles that apply to the journey of an individual apply to the journey of a nation. Why? Because a nation is simply a group of people. We need more than external change in America. We need, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “qualitative shifts in our souls as well as quantitative changes in our circumstances.” I know about both.
I’ve had a lot of experiences in my life, and that includes quite a bit of time around politicians. I’ve known some wonderful people among them, just as there are wonderful people everywhere. But I will tell you this: there is a Wizard of Oz narrative that needs to dissolve, if this country is to thrive. Our politicians, particularly today, are no different or better or wiser that anyone else; behind that curtain there are simply people, not wizards. The idea that someone has to have been part of some “political class,” with “political experience,” in order to lead this nation is preposterous. The more I have seen, the more I have thought that traditional political experience is more of a hindrance than a help in gaining the wisdom and perspicacity that this country needs now.
I’m plenty experienced, thank you. I’m simply experienced in a different way. We don’t need more political car mechanics in this country, because the problem isn’t mechanical; it’s that we’re on the wrong road. We don’t need another technocrat; we need a visionary. And while I’m not the greatest visionary in the United States, I’m the only one running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Yes I know that’s outside the box, but what is inside the box is toxic now. And weak. It’s time for a new beginning in America. That’s the antidote to fascism. It’s the antidote to Trump. It’s the antidote to fear.
We can do this. Please help me try.
The legalization of bribery by unconstitutional precedents; '76 Valeo, '78 Bellotti, '10 Citizens United, '17 McDonnell, '23 Cruz; leads inevitably to that merger of State and corporate power that Mussolini called fascism. The MAGA Party, formerly Republicans, offers full-up fascism. And the DNC is offers no more opposition than the WWII Vichy's in France. Behind the kayfabe, Biden's actual record on Climate and his knee-jerk genocidal response to Gaza marks both as specicidal. Marianne, you are our only hope. But even if impossibly you win, you cannot succeed without restoring the Constitution that the Court, by the above and myriad other vile precedents, has shredded.
I define my platform by what Must be done rather by what Can be done. That every aspect of it is impossible, assures me that I am on the right track. I invite you to join me. 352-514-5467 Tom@TomWellsForCongress.com
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Supreme Court Crushing OUR Rights
Take Back the Court - A3S1:
Judges shall serve on good Behaviour
Ergo, shall be fired on bad Behaviour
Revoke False Precedents
-$s are not Speech nor Corps people-
That rot bred present fascism!
The Fix: Public Funding of Elections
$200 Voter Vouchers - Nothing Else!
DC will work for us & our children:
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CO2e Tax $400/ton Funding UBI
-Market Forces Drive Solar/Wind
-Initial UBI ~$1,000/month
WWII Level Funding, Taxes, Effort
-42% GDP = 8T$/yr for 5 years
-95% Max TaxRate over 4M$/yr
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Why? Gotta Save the Whole World
Make Friends, Not War
DC will pass: iM4A, Union Rights,
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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 is unconstitutional because it is not an amendment, and yet it bypasses Article 1 Section 8 Clause 5 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to create money. By giving this power to a private banking cartel, they have turned our currency creation into debt creation to the tune of almost $34 trillion, and yet our GDP is only $23 trillion. They literally loan us our own currency with interest, which we pay back with our income, and we need more debt to pay off the past debt. It's insane. We need a debtless currency like the colonies' Scrip, Lincoln's Greenbacks, and Kennedy's U.S. Treasury Notes.
They have also devalued our dollar via massive inflation over the past 110 years, and incomes have not kept up so everything is more expensive, especially buying a home. We don't deflate the currency because big corporations bribe our politicians with the current campaign and lobbying system for tax cuts. Reagan, Bush Sr., Trump, and the Republicans have cut the top tax brackets to big corporations, who then buy up the media, real estate, hard assets, and smaller companies. By not taxing big corporations to deflate the currency, this has created the massive inflation we have.
This also removed the incentive for big corporations to invest in their employees via higher salaries, health benefits, and pensions to reduce higher tax brackets, so the burden to take care of workers has fallen on the government, which is then attacked by the right as being "too socialist." They can't have it both ways, but they act like they can.
Reagan and Bush also got rid of the Fairness Doctrine, which required news to be balanced like a jury trial, so now the country is divided via a polarized court of public opinion. A democracy cannot stand without balanced and open information about what our politicians are doing and not doing.
Lastly, without a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as proposed by Thomas Paine, and most recently, Andrew Yang, we will never abolish poverty, and automation will continue to push people out of work. Unemployment has never been even close to zero. Even Richard Nixon proposed the Family Assistance Program, which would have give monthly checks to families. It passed the House but failed in the Senate. The UBI would unleash human innovation and creativity. It is the most untapped resource because so many people are living in survival mode.
We basically need a new Bill of Rights.
Without addressing and fixing these core issues, then we are just putting lipstick on a pig, and rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.