Absolutely. Perhaps creating a Project 2029 not unlike the despicable project 2026. Only this time being conscious of the rule of law, how it has been mishandled and how it can be repaired in explicit detail so the blueprint is available when the time is ripe.
Pete Buttigieg has been talking about a Project 2050. I've been thinking we need to develop a plan for the 22nd century. What I don't understand is why our D leaders are not listening to folks like Rachel. Our D leaders seem to be in the fetal position other than a few like Jon Ossoff.
Project 2025 and earlier long term actions of the right Neoliberals that are bearing fruit for them today and those with Billions of dollars have been designed to bring down our Democracy and take the government of America AWAY from the Citizens of America.......and that is what is happening today. For too long, too many politicians and too many Americans have been asleep at the wheel (and being brainwashed) into thinking, acting, and believing that the status quo is working......it is NOT and there MUST be change to fix the damage or it will just get worse than it is now......and it is bad..........
A year ago, almost to the day, I wrote a piece called "Blueprint For A Salvage Job," which included this idea: "We cannot wait until the Trump regime collapses. We need plans, ideas, and strategies, bearing in mind that no matter how terrible things are, there will be a large constituency who will fight to maintain the tried and true; those with money and privilege may agree to tinker at the margins, the way Democrats do when they have political power, but the natural inclination to resist change must be overcome."
Doc Bitecofer has laid out some of the specifics here. One aspect that struck me was gerrymandering, and how it has produced a Congress almost completely unresponsive to the will of voters -- save the loud minority. Gerrymandering has flipped the incentives, made them perverse and radical. There's so much work to do.
Maybe it’s time to consider a Constitutional Convention. Or, through the threat of one, to propel a Democratic Congress to propose the Amendments we need to correct our democracy as happened in the 1920’s era that gave us a series of progressive amendments. The major issue now would be keeping a new convention majoritarian by executing a strategy to protect it from the billionaires and pressure groups like ALEC who want one to ram through their minoritarian agenda and quash “we the people”. Lawrence Lessig discusses this possibility in an article:
I still don’t understand how the Convicted Felon and his party can’t stop the millions of illegal voters. I would never vote for such a bunch of weak people who do nothing but complain. Where are all the court cases with the illegal voters? The courts would be doing nothing all day but hearing these cases. You know what I hear? Crickets! I ask my Rape-ublican voters why on earth would you cast your valuable vote on such a weak-ass idiot with no power to solve your problems!!!! So much winning.
Absolutely. Perhaps creating a Project 2029 not unlike the despicable project 2026. Only this time being conscious of the rule of law, how it has been mishandled and how it can be repaired in explicit detail so the blueprint is available when the time is ripe.
Pete Buttigieg has been talking about a Project 2050. I've been thinking we need to develop a plan for the 22nd century. What I don't understand is why our D leaders are not listening to folks like Rachel. Our D leaders seem to be in the fetal position other than a few like Jon Ossoff.
Project 2025 and earlier long term actions of the right Neoliberals that are bearing fruit for them today and those with Billions of dollars have been designed to bring down our Democracy and take the government of America AWAY from the Citizens of America.......and that is what is happening today. For too long, too many politicians and too many Americans have been asleep at the wheel (and being brainwashed) into thinking, acting, and believing that the status quo is working......it is NOT and there MUST be change to fix the damage or it will just get worse than it is now......and it is bad..........
Brilliant essay. Thank you for your thoughts.
Impressive Rachel! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Excellent ideas once again, every single one of them.
A year ago, almost to the day, I wrote a piece called "Blueprint For A Salvage Job," which included this idea: "We cannot wait until the Trump regime collapses. We need plans, ideas, and strategies, bearing in mind that no matter how terrible things are, there will be a large constituency who will fight to maintain the tried and true; those with money and privilege may agree to tinker at the margins, the way Democrats do when they have political power, but the natural inclination to resist change must be overcome."
Doc Bitecofer has laid out some of the specifics here. One aspect that struck me was gerrymandering, and how it has produced a Congress almost completely unresponsive to the will of voters -- save the loud minority. Gerrymandering has flipped the incentives, made them perverse and radical. There's so much work to do.
Yes. And expand the Supreme Court.
Maybe it’s time to consider a Constitutional Convention. Or, through the threat of one, to propel a Democratic Congress to propose the Amendments we need to correct our democracy as happened in the 1920’s era that gave us a series of progressive amendments. The major issue now would be keeping a new convention majoritarian by executing a strategy to protect it from the billionaires and pressure groups like ALEC who want one to ram through their minoritarian agenda and quash “we the people”. Lawrence Lessig discusses this possibility in an article:
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/17/making-a-constitutional-convention-safe-for-democracy-lessig/
I still don’t understand how the Convicted Felon and his party can’t stop the millions of illegal voters. I would never vote for such a bunch of weak people who do nothing but complain. Where are all the court cases with the illegal voters? The courts would be doing nothing all day but hearing these cases. You know what I hear? Crickets! I ask my Rape-ublican voters why on earth would you cast your valuable vote on such a weak-ass idiot with no power to solve your problems!!!! So much winning.