Agreed. I have done ALL THAT and will continue . But it is stopping nothing. We need a new game plan. Keep up OUR end,but where is the real power to end this ! Where is it?
Agreed. I have done ALL THAT and will continue . But it is stopping nothing. We need a new game plan. Keep up OUR end,but where is the real power to end this ! Where is it?
Your question about where is the real power is THE question. IF we can make it to the 2026 elections that will solve a lot of the issues, but for many things it is already too late and I don't understand how so many Republicans don't see that. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, which is not exactly a liberal organization, there is a worker shortage in America. You can argue that that only matters because it's primarily in certain industries, but in my mind that is not a very good argument that it is not an issue. So if companies can't currently find workers, and we don't allow anyone from any other nation (and now professional and skilled workers are not going to want to come here from other nations) where are we going to get all the workers to work in all these factories that are going to magically appear (again, what reasonable investor would invest in a factory in a nation as unstable as the US). If Bill Gates is right and a whole lot of the jobs we have now will be done by AI (or is that A One????) we will need well trained folks in the work force to meet the new jobs that AI will create, and we are dismantling our Department of Education and letting the states do their own thing which means very little quality education in the red states. Child labor like they want to reinstate in Florida (maybe they have already passed that law, I don't know) will work for picking fruit and veggies, but not technical stuff like making sure AI programs run correctly. So we seem to have sort of a double issue..how do we end it, and how do we recover? I don't know what good it would do if more elected Dems were more vocal but it can't hurt. I've seen a few of Adam Shiff's talks and I find him very inspiring..he's not loud or obnoxious , but so full of compassion and understanding. I think we need a mixture of the AOCs, Bernies, Crocketts, Pritzkers and the Schiffs. I don't know if it would help if we pressure corporate media to provide more coverage to Dem Governors and the work of Bernie et al and at the same time pressure them to provide honest coverage of what trump is doing, rather than making the news at best seem neither favorable nor unfavorable towards him. And it may very well be that the power is in the states and we really need to work on keeping those that are Blue and getting those purple ones blue.
Agreed. But the party divide is useless. Has been for awhile. We need a NEW AMERICA he has destroyed it so much. Have to start over. If given the chance. I have hope. But lately ,not as much
It certainly is a weird time. In other nations like Brazil there seems to be an increase in democracy and freedoms. I know that in other nations where good things are happening they are happening because citizens did not give up and that helps keep me motivated. However, I do wonder who America really is. The reality is we have a pretty cruel past from the beginning when we stole land from the Native Americans and put them basically in concentration camps eventually, and then the whole slavery, Jim Crow stuff, the horrible meanness shown to immigrants, from the Italians to the Irish to whoever the white men decided to not like at the moment (and even within our nation...in the 1930s California and maybe other states had laws that basically said No Okies Allowed to prevent American Citizens from moving from the dust bowl to California). And of course the Lousanna purchase and how we act like that has always been white man's land.... and let's not evet talk about keeping women as not even second class citizens. So from time to time I mostly as amazed at how, for many years in my life time, things were amazingly good in America. It's horrific that we have gone so far backwards is such a short time, but maybe during those years of greater equality and even greater compassion there have been enough folks that truly bought into those values that we will all band together and not just undo the trump/Republican party damage but even make a better nation. For sure I will not give into the GOPs plan to get me to just give up and I know you won't either. We just have to work together to get more and more folks to realize was can and will make a difference, but only if we do something, no matter how small it may seem.
Agreed. I have done ALL THAT and will continue . But it is stopping nothing. We need a new game plan. Keep up OUR end,but where is the real power to end this ! Where is it?
Your question about where is the real power is THE question. IF we can make it to the 2026 elections that will solve a lot of the issues, but for many things it is already too late and I don't understand how so many Republicans don't see that. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, which is not exactly a liberal organization, there is a worker shortage in America. You can argue that that only matters because it's primarily in certain industries, but in my mind that is not a very good argument that it is not an issue. So if companies can't currently find workers, and we don't allow anyone from any other nation (and now professional and skilled workers are not going to want to come here from other nations) where are we going to get all the workers to work in all these factories that are going to magically appear (again, what reasonable investor would invest in a factory in a nation as unstable as the US). If Bill Gates is right and a whole lot of the jobs we have now will be done by AI (or is that A One????) we will need well trained folks in the work force to meet the new jobs that AI will create, and we are dismantling our Department of Education and letting the states do their own thing which means very little quality education in the red states. Child labor like they want to reinstate in Florida (maybe they have already passed that law, I don't know) will work for picking fruit and veggies, but not technical stuff like making sure AI programs run correctly. So we seem to have sort of a double issue..how do we end it, and how do we recover? I don't know what good it would do if more elected Dems were more vocal but it can't hurt. I've seen a few of Adam Shiff's talks and I find him very inspiring..he's not loud or obnoxious , but so full of compassion and understanding. I think we need a mixture of the AOCs, Bernies, Crocketts, Pritzkers and the Schiffs. I don't know if it would help if we pressure corporate media to provide more coverage to Dem Governors and the work of Bernie et al and at the same time pressure them to provide honest coverage of what trump is doing, rather than making the news at best seem neither favorable nor unfavorable towards him. And it may very well be that the power is in the states and we really need to work on keeping those that are Blue and getting those purple ones blue.
Agreed. But the party divide is useless. Has been for awhile. We need a NEW AMERICA he has destroyed it so much. Have to start over. If given the chance. I have hope. But lately ,not as much
It certainly is a weird time. In other nations like Brazil there seems to be an increase in democracy and freedoms. I know that in other nations where good things are happening they are happening because citizens did not give up and that helps keep me motivated. However, I do wonder who America really is. The reality is we have a pretty cruel past from the beginning when we stole land from the Native Americans and put them basically in concentration camps eventually, and then the whole slavery, Jim Crow stuff, the horrible meanness shown to immigrants, from the Italians to the Irish to whoever the white men decided to not like at the moment (and even within our nation...in the 1930s California and maybe other states had laws that basically said No Okies Allowed to prevent American Citizens from moving from the dust bowl to California). And of course the Lousanna purchase and how we act like that has always been white man's land.... and let's not evet talk about keeping women as not even second class citizens. So from time to time I mostly as amazed at how, for many years in my life time, things were amazingly good in America. It's horrific that we have gone so far backwards is such a short time, but maybe during those years of greater equality and even greater compassion there have been enough folks that truly bought into those values that we will all band together and not just undo the trump/Republican party damage but even make a better nation. For sure I will not give into the GOPs plan to get me to just give up and I know you won't either. We just have to work together to get more and more folks to realize was can and will make a difference, but only if we do something, no matter how small it may seem.