The American Revolution Isn’t Over!

WE hear daily from both sides of the political spectrum that America is now past the revolution part and on to claiming it’s spot in history…..and from the Left the revolution is still going on until we have equality, rights that are not transient, etc,,,,,,but what is the down and the low?

This is an article from Reason…..to me it sounds like a libertarian site…..(but you decide)….

What was the American Revolution actually about?

We all remember the broad strokes we learned in school: Independence from the British crown. Taxes on tea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But on a deeper level, the American Revolution was—and is—a revolution in political theory, reimagining what a legitimate government is and what its relationship to its citizens should be.

Washington’s troops won the ground war 245 years ago at Yorktown, but the ideological battle continues against forces on both the left and the right who are pursuing a ruthless assault on America’s core values. The American Revolution isn’t over.

Inscribed inside the dome of the Jefferson Memorial are the words: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson wrote that in an 1800 letter, but that feeling of hostility toward the tyranny of a distant monarch is what drove him and his fellow revolutionaries in 1776.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch summarized the Declaration’s core ideas in an interview with Reason: “The Declaration of Independence had three great ideas in it. That all of us are equal. That each of us has inalienable rights given to us by God, not government. And that we have the right to rule ourselves.”

That’s why Jefferson declared that a legitimate government requires the “consent of the governed.” Thomas Paine put it more scathingly in his 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, writing that “government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens.” Monarchy was the Devil’s most effective and enduring form of “idolatry.”

We don’t fret over tyrannical kings in today’s America. Only ceremonial vestiges of hereditary monarchy remain in the modern world. The Revolution achieved a complete victory in that sense.

Yet a counterrevolution is underway, one that views the American Revolution and the republic it birthed as a failed liberal regime that has outlived its usefulness. And these counterrevolutionaries sit remarkably close to the levers of power.

https://reason.com/video/2026/06/29/the-american-revolution-isnt-over

Is this a continuing revolution to guarantee the rights of Americans or just something written to try and calm the rhetoric down?

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Sorry But Democrats Are Losers

In more ways than one.

Yes they lose consistently in the elections but that is not the full extent of their betrayal of the voter….once elected they fall into the same cycle of corruption and deceit.

Dems play to the working class at every election they get equally corrupt labor unions to sponsor them and they go around feeling faux sympathy for the working population….and it is a fake concern.

Working-class voters have been telling pollsters for 60 years that the political system doesn’t hear them. Democrats, over the same period, have grown more comfortable with the institutions working-class voters have increasingly less faith in.

This distrust stems from specific experiences: deindustrialization that happened on government’s watch, trade deals that economists endorsed and workers paid for, a 2008 financial crisis response that saved the banks and foreclosed on their homes, an opioid epidemic that regulators missed entirely.

To be fair, this is precisely what the new crop of reform candidates say they want to fix. The argument that the right candidate can move the needle is not crazy. Candidate quality matters. Personal trust can substitute for institutional trust, at least at the margins.

But economic-grievance politics is a very small slice of what working-class voters are telling us. The data documents a comprehensive, decades-long divergence in how working-class voters and mainstream Democrats understand fairness, government, personal responsibility and social change.

Reducing that to class war jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda rather than taking seriously what they are actually saying.

https://www.alternet.org/democrats-working-class-2677675466

Do you agree with the ‘findings’?

I kinda disagree with the conclusion….I believe it is a class war and the Robber Barons are winning.

That brings us to the real problem….Democratic candidates….are they truly representative of what the people want? Not even close!

Just look at the most recent elections….the vote proved that few wanted Biden or Harris but yet they were part of the ‘good old boys’ club so the nod went to them….Biden won only because he was not Trump, that is not a resounding endorsement now is it?

Democratic voters want a fighter as a candidate yet they do not support a fighter instead the succumb to the blase mumbo-jumbo of centrist cowards.

These are what Dem voters say they want….

The three top attributes that Democrats want in a nominee are:

A fighter for working people (88%).
Who works across the aisle to get things done (76%)
And is authentic in his/her beliefs (72%)

Let’s look closer….

Fighter for working people, whatever the ideology: 88% of Democratic primary voters say they would “vote for someone I don’t agree with on every issue as long as they are strong and will fight for the working people of this country.” Likewise, the most appealing candidate profile was “fighter” (86% appealing):“This candidate has the guts to stand up to Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.”
Authentic: 72% of Democratic primary voters would “vote for someone I don’t agree with on every issue as long as they are authentic and true to what they believe in.” And 59% prefer a candidate who is “authentic, relatable, and down-to-earth, even if they don’t line up with you ideologically on every issue,” over one who “stands with you on most of the major issues.” Moderates (63%) and somewhats (62%) chose authenticity; only socialists chose ideological alignment (57%).
Bipartisan dealmaker: 76% of Democratic primary voters prefer a candidate “who works across the aisle to get things done, even if it means compromising sometimes,” over a candidate “who sticks to their progressive beliefs, even if it means getting less done.”

What crap!

That is what the voter wants if so then name one nominee that has done any of those three desires.

I will admit the centrist try to work across the aisle but that is only for show for they know they will not succeed….but it makes a good show….and authentic? Name me one Dem that has been ‘authentic” once they are elected….I will wait.

Let’s be honest….things will not be different this time around….the nominee will be a centrists and the desires of the working class will be just a memory once they hit the high life.

The DNC makes me sick.

Let’s be honest….Dems are as useful as breasts on a flashlight.

Instead of snuggling up to big business they crap on the working people of this country.

And sadly it will happen again and continue happening until the voter wakes the fuck up.

Educate, Agitate

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To Those That Fear Socialism

The Far Right is pulling no punches to instill fear in the voters because the DSA has made great progress in the elections….they even go as far as saying that people are voting for a Soviet style candidate.

To that I say….total bullshit!

But if they, those that are fearing the “socialist wave”, if you will, there is a simple, maybe not as simple as I make out, to calm the fear….

Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living memory of the various socialist regimes that once dotted the planet, which at best didn’t deliver prosperity to their people and at worst threw them in jail by the thousands, can’t understand how this could be and seem to want to talk endlessly about it.

I, however, marvel at the other consistent result of all these polls, which these people don’t seem nearly as interested in talking about. I refer to the ratings Americans give to capitalism. They’re terrible. A big Gallup poll from last fall is representative. Socialism won the approval of 39 percent, while capitalism’s positive number was 54 percent.

That is pathetic—barely half the country! In the country that invented modern capitalism and where it is worshipped by the elite class! And you know what? It’s entirely deserved. In fact, it deserves to be a little worse (as it is among Democrats). The kind of capitalism we’ve been practicing in this country over the last 40-plus years is cruel, corrupt, and a perversion of what humane capitalism ought to be. The people who are so freaked out about socialism ought to realize that the only way they’re going to arrest its rise is to change capitalism for the better.

From the founding of the country until the stock market crash of 1929, the general belief was that government should be small and markets should not be regulated. Some people say it worked pretty well until 1929, but in fact, that isn’t true. It worked well enough to perpetuate itself, because if capitalism is anything it’s elastic and dynamic, but that’s about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/214122/fear-socialism-try-fix-capitalism

This is saying that capitalism should be fixed and maybe progressives would not be gaining popularity.

I think that is an excellent idea but let’s be honest….the oligarchs have a stranglehold on the economy and the government and fixing the problem will entail some harsh policies….policies that I do not think many will support.

The reality is if profitability drops all reform must disappear. That as it is today is the sad reality. Then the question needs asking….can capitalism be reformed?

My opinion is no it cannot be reformed successfully….if that is the case then we need to replace it.

How about my readers any ideas?

Educate, Agitate

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cogito ergo agito

Great Ideas But Sucky Execution

I have been voting since 1972 and in that time I have only voted for one winner, 1976….not something to be proud of I realize but it also says a lot about the quality of the candidates……basically the quality sucks!

I have said over the years that liberals have great ideas but truly suck at the game of politics. They seem to not have the balls to go after the prize with gusto they sit back and pray for bi-partisanship….a pipe dream.

The New Republic tries to explain why liberals are such pansies when it comes to politics.

The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too sprawling a question rooted in too runny a concept. We have more than just one current battle! Then, after the mystery of the “battle,” there’s the gooey concept of “today’s liberalism.” For this historian, “today” reaches back into the early twentieth century, where “liberalism” as a living, breathing, inspiring-but-myopic phenomenon resides in my own historical imagination. I know histories of liberalism date its origins to anti-monarchy, to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. But in American history, where monarchy was a foreign idea and slaveholding handicapped the Founding Fathers’ civic imagination, liberalism only truly starts to come alive in the Progressive era. The founding of The New Republic in 1914 embodied liberalism institutionally. While definitions of liberalism vary tremendously, The New Republic and its history offer means of thinking about a concept with a political history that is, in large part, a partisan history.

Erstwhile TNR editor Franklin Foer sees former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt as a crucial figure in The New Republic’s birth. Roosevelt’s 1912 National Progressive Party presidential campaign did not succeed, but his campaign platform called for including a minimum wage and “a single national health service.” Roosevelt’s blessing signaled TNR’s founders of the approval, Foer says, of “T.R.’s social set—Harvard and Yale men with an intellectual proclivity and a progressive bent.” At the time, they were most likely Republicans.

TNR’s founders were the crème de la crème of American “progressivism,” a description they initially preferred to “liberalism,” which they associated with Democratic President Woodrow Wilson’s Southern, states’ rights, small government creed. TNR’s founders’ book titles broadcast their optimism: Herbert Croly, a Harvard man married to a wealthy wife, had published The Promise of American Life in 1909 and Progressive Democracy in 1914, both with the Macmillan Company, among the most prestigious publishers of the time. Walter Weyl, a Wharton School-Penn man who also married into wealth, published The New Democracy: An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States with Macmillan in 1912. Another founder, Walter Lippmann, also a Harvard man, had published his influential A Preface to Politics with the New York publisher Mitchell Kennerley in 1913. These were no obscure, self-publishing radicals, and they received sizable and repeated infusions of money from the cotton-gin-Whitney heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her investment banker husband, Willard Straight, a Cornell man.

The Progressive Party’s 1912 platform included a brief “Equal Suffrage” plank advocating voting rights for women but made no mention of the disfranchisement of Black men in the South. This omission carried over in the Progressive Party’s credentials committee’s recognition of white Southern delegates and its refusal to seat Southern Black delegates. This is where early-twentieth-century liberalism gets personal for me.

https://newrepublic.com/article/182384/liberalism-race-gaza-trumpism

A very nice trip down memory lane but it did not address the lack of backbone of liberals once elected.

I think the Progressive Party had great ideas and a goddamn shame they did not get a chance to prove it…..their ideas translate well into the 21st century….and then money happened.

There has always been money in politics I am not naive but the court allowed boat loads of it to travel through the political system…..and when you have that much corruption you get the system as it is today….broken and dysfunctional.

But that is what I think.

Educate, Agitate

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Are Free Markets In Danger?

With the success at the polls of the DSA there are plenty of warnings of Marxists, Communists and most important if they win the free markets will cease to exist.

First of all this whole free market thing is a myth.

Yes, I said a myth!

Capitalism is meant to pivot around the free market. The theory goes that if only the market were rid of government meddling (regulation) then true competition would reign, with corporations battling it out to provide their goods and services to rational, all knowing consumers. This, according to supporters, would provide stable and accurate prices and quality for goods and services as competition would aggregate supply, demand and pricing.

Corporations who provided a good or service which was not wanted, was above the market price or below the market quality demanded by the rational consumer in this open, free market would simply fail and those who met demand would win. Therefore the success or failure of a company would be directly proportional to its ability to meet the needs of its consumer.

So, some might argue that recent failures assigned to capitalism – the bankers bailout, the corporatisation of government, the decline in social mobility – are because we do not have REAL capitalism as outlined above. They might argue we are in fact in a post capitalist, state capitalist of fascist state. There are valid arguments in favour of all these possibilities. But whatever state we are in, it is as a direct and inevitable result of capitalism. These outcomes are not aberrations, but natural and logical given the reward mechanisms of the system itself.

Like unicorns, the 'free market' doesn't exist

Now the part about the DSA would destroy the free markets…

Actually the DSA is a bridge to electoral politics….but what about the fears that we will lose our ‘free markets’?

The DSA champions many views that exist wildly outside the mainstream of American politics, including the abolition of the police, prisons, the Pentagon and the U.S. Senate.

This is all, to borrow a term from social science, bat guano insane. Even if you think such proposals make sense on the merits — I don’t! — politically, this stuff is nuttier than a pool party at Mr. Peanut’s pad. For one, the Constitution effectively bans abolishing the Senate, even via amendment. So expending any political energy on eliminating it is like demanding 2+2 equal 5.

But, man, do some people eat this stuff up. Specifically, fringe left-wing political activists, young and mostly white progressives with useless college and graduate degrees, and the Republican Party. Now, the first two groups eat it up because they love it. The Republicans eat it up because they’re eager to run against it.

Republicans are increasingly insisting that the only way to stop a takeover by “godless communists” is to vote Republican.

“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” President Trump said during a July 3 speech at Mt. Rushmore. “It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor or even 9/11.” (I agree! Barring some time machine shenanigans, Communism is a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor and many other past events.)

“We’re fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic,” House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted. “Or we’re going to trade that in, dismantle the foundations and go down this dark road of death to communism. That is the question on the ballot this fall.”

There’s a “bootleggers and Baptists” dynamic here. The DSA benefits from the attention, and the GOP benefits from the perception that Democrats are either too radical or too cowardly to confront the radicals in their ranks.

https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/democratic-socialists-free-market-analysis

I really like the term ‘bat guano insane’.

You will get so many lies about what the DSA is doing and only people like me want you to know the truth of the matter so that you may make an informed decision.

Any thing?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Can White People Survive Without Racism?

This is a question that needs to be asked….and it is a perfectly timed question.

Let me preface why I am posting this…..I grew up in Spain and at 15 we moved back to the States and Mississippi to be accurate that was 1962 so I fell into the world segregation and racism and I have been living here since those days……so I have seen the awfulness of segregation, the civil rights movement and so on and during all these ‘changes’ one thing has remained the same…..the racism and the hatred of people of color….so the MAGA movement fit into these people’s beliefs perfectly.

I do not do generalities but since I have lived through the changes in the South I feel this is a question that needs and answer…..so I turn to a social historian….

This is not a question of hatred. It is a question of history.

More honestly: can America, and much of the Western world, function without the economic, political, and psychological advantages created by white supremacy?

For more than 400 years, the United States has built wealth, power, and institutional control through systems rooted in racial exclusion. From stolen Indigenous land to enslaved African labor, from redlining to mass incarceration, from the Tuskegee experiment to discriminatory lending, racism was not a side effect of American history—it was a central business model.

The Bible warns in Proverbs 22:16: “Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase… will come to poverty.” America must confront whether its prosperity was built on justice—or theft.

The numbers tell the story.

According to Pew Research Center, the median wealth of Black households remains dramatically below that of white households, while lower-income white households had about 21 times the wealth of lower-income Black households in 2021. This is not accidental. It is the long shadow of policy: slavery without reparations, Jim Crow without restoration, and civil rights without economic repair.

Forty acres and a mule never came.

But redlining did.

Mass incarceration did.

Predatory policing did.

Environmental poisoning of Black neighborhoods did.

HBCUs had to be created because Black people were excluded from predominantly white institutions. Black Wall Streets were built because Black people were denied equal access to white economic systems. Welfare policies often destabilized Black families while industrial policies extracted labor and left fragile infrastructure behind.

And globally, the same pattern exists.

https://eurweb.com/can-white-people-survive-without-racism

This is a situation that use to lie beneath the surface where people at least attempted to hide their disdain for people of color but since 2008 that disdain has grown into the hatred….yes I said hatred….that lives today.

I know we can say that no one is racism free for we all have a twinge of it in some fashion….but what is happening today is not a twinge it is full blown overt racism sprinkled with hatred.

I think the dude that wrote the paper made some excellent points…..meet the man ….

Edmond W. Davis is an American social historian, international speaker, and Amazon #1 bestselling author. He is a global authority on the Tuskegee Airmen and serves as the founder and executive director of the National HBCU Black Wall Street Career Fest. A native of Philadelphia, PA, and current resident of Little Rock, AR, Davis is committed to cultural empowerment and educational equity through storytelling and civic engagement.

What do you think of his piece?

Educate, Agitate

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cogito ergo agito

Democrat Dinosaurs Are Butt Hurt

The corporate Dems are mall flustered by the success the DSA is having in the elections around the country….and the MSM is giving them all the air time they want….this will help the corrupt party win….so they think.

The problem is that the DSA has gained in popularity and the fossils of the party are scared they will lose their dominance….

A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS has found that roughly a third of Democrats now describe themselves as democratic socialists, underscoring the growing footprint of the party’s left flank ahead of November’s midterm elections.

According to the data, those who identify with the label skew younger, are more likely to be white, and tend to earn under $100,000 annually compared with the broader Democratic electorate. The poll also found this group reports being especially motivated to turn out and vote in the midterms, a potential signal of the energy the movement could bring to down-ballot races this fall.

One In Three Democrats Now Identify As Democratic Socialists, New Poll Finds

I have written in the past about Dem strategist Carville….I think it is time for this dinosaur to retire…and take the corporate influence with him….now he is threatening….

James Carville says there’s one Democratic Party he won’t belong to—and it’s one where left-wing Twtich star Hasan Piker holds sway. The veteran strategist told Fox News on Sunday that if Piker becomes a meaningful force inside the party, “I’m out of here.” The comments come ahead of Michigan’s closely watched Democratic primary on Tuesday pitting moderate Rep. Haley Stevens against progressive Abdul El-Sayed. Piker has been a prominent supporter of El-Sayed, who holds a double-digit lead in the polls, notes the Hill.

“I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy,” said Carville of Piker, adding that he thinks the “overwhelming majority of Democrats agree with me.” The clash comes as progressive and democratic socialist candidates, often aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, notch primary wins over establishment-backed Democrats. Piker made the case to CNN that Democratic voters want alternative candidates after losses at the federal level by Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. “There are a lot of people who are just like, ‘This is not working.'” But Carville pointed to Bernie Sanders’ losses as well. “I have one simple philosophy about politics: Winning is everything, stupid,” he told CNN.

My first thought was….Bye now….do not let the door hit you in the ass.

He had his day with Bubba Clinton and like Bubba it is time for him to STFU and fade away.

Go away and let this country move forward.

This country needs progress not regressive corruption that he represents…

Realizing the goal of a universal, high-quality, Medicare For All health care system for all.
Advancing the right of every American to retire with security and dignity.
Ending poverty and income inequality and securing a living wage for all people.
Protecting the fundamental right to organize.
Ending mass incarceration and advancing equal justice under the law.
Taking urgent, inclusive, and transformative action on climate change.
Upholding the fundamental reproductive rights of all people.
Ending our forever wars, cutting the bloated Pentagon budget, and prioritizing diplomacy.
Advancing humane, fair and just immigration laws.
Advancing racial justice and equity.

There is more so read on…..

This is what the voter is looking forward to not the same stale policies that this man represents.

Time for the country to move on.

Educate, Agitate

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

cogito ergo agito

More Fearmongering From The Idiot Right

I am sure everyone knows just how scared the Right is because of the last couple of elections….and they have unleashed their noise machine to cloud the issues for the rest of the election cycle.

This is another one of those ‘people’ that I post about as an FYI for my readers to see what garbage is being spread.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/09/urban-class-democrat-socialist

No need for them to worry about the urban class for they have the rural class to embrace their form of fascism.

Please know that I do not agree with anything this person has to say….to me he is just a fearmonger doing his job….spreading as much bullshit as he can.

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“lego ergo scribo”

The Reconstruction Papers

Just like the 1870s the US will need a reconstruction period after we successfully remove the hemorrhoid of a president ….lots of work will be needed to repair a struggling nation.

First of all I hate the word ‘liberal’ it does not describe anything other than opposition of conserv policies.

This is a paper brought to you by Liberal Currents….

Liberal Currents publishes writers of diverse perspectives who share an unflinching commitment to freedom, pluralism, and democracy, in opposition to authoritarianism at home and around the world. Our mission is to create a home for mere liberalism, where the many conflicting currents of the liberal tradition can enter into productive conversation.

Liberalism around the world is facing its greatest crisis since the 1930s. If we rest on our laurels, we will be overtaken. We must be bold. We must exercise creativity and ingenuity. But we must never lose sight of the liberal values we seek to promote in doing so. To meet this moment, Liberal Currents promotes thinkers who advance ambitious agendas to foster a truly open society.

Click to access The-Reconstruction-Papers-7.pdf

This paper covers many subjects and issues, all 184 pages, it is a bit much for those that could care less but for those that truly care about the direction of this country it is a source of information.

Personally I think the agenda should be more radical…..fight radicalism with radicalism….mamby pamby issues will do little to repair this nation….but that is just me.

Please let me know what you think of the paper and the ideas it puts forth.

There are movements that are fighting back…..

It is difficult to find inspiration on this Juneteenth. We are still living in difficult times. In the last year, hundreds of thousands of African Americans have lost jobs. Some state legislatures in the South — Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi — have sought to dilute Black political power after the Supreme Court issued its Louisiana v. Callais decision. Meanwhile, this new administration has enacted a white nationalist immigration policy — effectively closing the Southern border; throwing undocumented people into prisons and camps; deporting thousands, including children; and unleashing the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) onto blue cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis. However, there is hope to be found even in the bleakest of times, as our strong movements continue to challenge growing authoritarianism.

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While we live in a more reactionary moment, we are also witnessing powerful collective actions and expressions of solidarity. What is demonstrated in the current opposition to this administration’s mass deportation strategy and its support for anti-Black policies is the willingness of more people to not just engage in important mass protests like “No Kings,” but also to engage in ongoing collective self-defense. Many participants in political struggle demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice for the greater purpose of defending and protecting vulnerable people.

Despite the State’s Attempts to Stamp Out Opposition, Our Movements Persevere

It is time for the real patriots to step up…..stop whining and get involved….and for god’s sake pull your head out of the sand and stand proud.

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Lose The Senate

One plank in the DSA platform is to get rid of the Senate….and there has been a wealth of ink wasted on this idea by MAGA propaganda rags.

Get rid of the Senate?

Now there is a novel idea. (sarcasm)

I have advocated getting rid of the Senate and become a unicameral government….and boy did I get push back years ago when I wrote about the idea….that was 7 years ago.

We can explain the Senate thusly….’where great ideas go to die’…the Senate has been dysfunctional for many decades…..if it cannot get its shit together why not just get rid of it?

As a matter of fact (you guessed it….I wrote about it)…..

Against Bicameralism

I bring up my thoughts because apparently the DSA has added this into their 2026 platform….

Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.

I believe the UK is doing something along this line with the House of Lords (any UK readers want to expand on this for us)…but here it will be an uphill struggle.

The DSA is saying the same thing….this from their new platform….

Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.

I have no problem with this issue.

Let’s be honest….is the senate really necessary?

American democracy has a big problem. It’s called the U.S. Senate. The United States Senate was explicitly designed to be undemocratic: It represents states, not people. Some states have as many people as a city, while others have as many as a large country. The great state of Wyoming is home to fewer people than any one of the nation’s most populous 25 cities. More people live in California than either Canada or Australia. But each state gets two senators, regardless of population. The result? Half of the nation’s people have only 18 senators representing them, while 52 senators represent just 18 percent of Americans.

The skew isn’t random. White Americans have on average nearly twice as much representation in the Senate as Black and Hispanic Americans. That’s because the large and growing states — California, Texas, Florida, and New York — are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, while many small states are staying white. Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont are among the smallest and the whitest states.

This representation gap in the US Senate is only getting worse. As big, diverse states continue to grow, their people will get even less say in Congress. In 20 years, one-in-three Americans will be represented by just six out of one hundred Senators.

The answer to my question is….NO we do not need the Senate…..the place where good ideas go to die…..we need functioning representation.

What do you think?

Educate, Agitate

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“lego ergo scribo”

cogito ergo agito