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Monday, March 17, 2025

Bottom-Up Is The Only Way To Preserve Democracy - Top-Down Is Always Elitist and Exclusive

Bottom-Up Is The Only Way To Preserve Democracy

Be honest the voting public is fairly evenly divided. There seems to be two edges on the current division that may be pursuable to vote in one group or another. These are, the euphemistically the independents.

Which way they vote is incredibly important!

Can we assume they vote selfishly in their own interest unless they understand a broader message.

The House of Representatives is a disaster either way, left or right. The GOP has given its vote to the top-down elites. The Democrats sat on their hands because they didn't think Trump-Johnson could pull off a CR (Continuing Resolution) budget. Now the House Democrats blame the Senate Democrats for the budget.

That's the wrong focus. The budget is what it is.

The Democrats can build a bottom-up consensus coalition. How?

Townhall meetings, creating that bottom-up consensus and understanding that top-down always only serves a few.

There needs to be a drive to show that even if those of us in the bottom 95% have more in common with each other than we do with the elite 5%. The 5% elite is using it's megaphone to confuse and mislead us.

The elite version of selfish interest says if you don't have the money you can't have a secure life. That is the message!!!!

Democrats ... fan out and do Townhall Meetings relentlessly! When the GOP sees the effect they will start to waver on supporting Trump ... so will Trump! The locals will create their grass-roots

Bottom-Up Is The Only Way To Preserve Democracy - Top-Down Is Always Elitist and Exclusive

Townhall meetings - Bottom-Up Is The Only Way To Preserve Democracy - Top-Down Is Always Elitist and Exclusive

Townhall meetings Relentlessly - Bottom-Up Is The Only Way To Preserve Democracy - Top-Down Is Always Elitist and Exclusive

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Voting for Shimel is like voting for Elon Musk for being on the Supreme Court

A vote Shimel is a vote for Elon Musk

New York Times

Reid J. Epstein has covered Wisconsin politics on and off since 2002.

Feb. 26, 2025

A super PAC funded by Elon Musk has in just the past week spent $2.3 million on text messages, digital advertisements and paid canvassers to remind Wisconsin Republicans about the April 1 election, which pits Brad Schimel, a judge in Waukesha County and a former Republican state attorney general, against Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who represented Planned Parenthood and other liberal causes in her private practice.
The spending by Mr. Musk, the tech billionaire who is leading President Trump’s project to eviscerate large segments of the federal government, comes as Judge Schimel and his Republican allies have spent more money on television ads than Judge Crawford and Democrats have — a remarkable turnaround in a state where Democrats have had a significant financial advantage in recent years.

Voting for #Shimel is like voting for #Elon #Musk for being on the #WI #SupremeCourt

A #vote NO #Shimel - It is a vote for #Elon #Musk

Sunday, March 2, 2025

J. D. Vance thinks he can take Donald's Superman Cape !

Why was Zelenskyy insulted by Vance in the White House on Friday!

Long term positioning whether Trump knows it or not. Vance wants to inherit MAGA.

Doesn't J.D. look like a 'Donald'. So tough!

Executing the 25th Amendment is going to be real tough. Autocrats tend to prefer dynastic succession plans if at all, even those tend to make them a little more paranoid

#Vance wants to inherit #MAGA. Long live the ...

#Vance wants to inherit #MAGA. Long live the ... think he can pull off the #25th ...

Friday, February 28, 2025

Do you think the " politicians " have figured out what the billionaires are REALLY afraid about? I don't!

What is your "one" word guess ... and it is not "entitlements"!

Do you think the " politicians " have figured out what the billionaires are REALLY afraid about?

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Reflect: The Ugly American - Irony

Reflect: The Ugly American - 1958 Irony 2025

"The Ugly American" The history of a phrase tells us much about the collapse of US foreign policy Dan Gardner Feb 04, 2025

In the form of a novel, Lederer and Burdick were making a policy argument — that the United States was doing foreign affairs in south-east Asia all wrong. Set aside smug superiority, they urged. Stop lecturing. Be curious. Learn. Be helpful. Make a real difference. That is how — to borrow a phrase from a later era — America will win hearts and minds.

And keep the Communists out.

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The controversy wasn’t limited to foreign policy circles, however. The Saturday Evening Post — the magazine of middle America — serialized the novel. The Ugly American became a huge bestseller, eventually selling more than four million copies.

A young senator by the name of John F. Kennedy was particularly taken with the novel. He bought copies to give to every one of his colleagues in the Senate.

When Kennedy became president in 1961, he created the Peace Corps to advance the vision of Lederer and Burdick. He also collected the various foreign aid programs developed under Dwight Eisenhower and consolidated them into a new agency called the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.