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a single garment of destiny whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly it is so brilliant and spot on the wounds of some affect the health of all it is one of the best analyses of america s situation i have read this line really resonates and says so much about why the us is where it is instead we are the cancer patient who took too low a dose of treatment and stopped the treatment too early i would add that after every attack by the disease the nation refused to exercise and take other preventative steps to ward off the next one they could have stamped it out after the civil war but the warfighters were so relieved thinking the fight was over and stayed home while the south rose again rachel maddow s ultra series talks about how america just forgot about fighting its internal nazi collaborators after winning wwii allowing them to grow into what we are seeing now as he wrote we will not get over it until the nation commits itself fully to the work of healing our collective wounds and reconciliation a moral revolution the country needs a full truth and reconciliation commission full accountability for the crimes and corruption preventative measures to protect the future and finally the country must come to full recognition of the disease coming up with a preventative prescription to fight inevitable future attacks from the fascists monarchists psychopaths and the rest of that crowd that infect humanity maybe use tests at birth and move them to a well guarded secure island where they can enjoy being cruel to and fighting with each other maybe give them toys to accumulate and hoard and fight over that is my vindictive light that shows the way forward author dave johnson posted on may 6 2026 categories department of democracy government for the people leave a comment on a call for a moral revolution the old enemies of peace welcome their hatred the old enemies of peace business and financial monopoly speculation reckless banking class antagonism sectionalism war profiteering fdr in 1932 fdr campaigned asking for help so he could win and restore america to its own people after taking office his administration began working to help the population start to recover from the ravages of depression caused by unregulated banks and stock market speculation campaigning for reelection in 1936 he delivered his final campaign speech at madison square garden he talked about the changes his government had made and the struggle that lay ahead to continue with that struggle he described the struggle he and the public faced saying we had to struggle with the old enemies of peace business and financial monopoly speculation reckless banking class antagonism sectionalism war profiteering they had begun to consider the government of the united states as a mere appendage to their own affairs we know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today they are unanimous in their hate for me and i welcome their hatred the old enemies of peace are back business and financial monopoly speculation reckless banking class antagonism sectionalism and war profiteering let s welcome their hatred and send them off author dave johnson posted on may 1 2026 categories economy government for the people leave a comment on the old enemies of peace welcome their hatred hard to imagine democracy i haven t posted here at imagine democracy for a while because it is hard to imagine democracy with everything that is happening i ve been writing a lot over at government cheese chronicling the collapse of democracy because the collapse of democracy so imagine democracy suppose we the people manage to get control of the united states again what s it going to take to get america back on its feet the world will need an ironclad guarantee it can t happen again we the people are going to have to make changes that provide the entire world with an ironclad assurance that this all cannot happen again can not the level of systemic reform required before any country business or anyone dares to trust the us again will be enormous the damage done by tariffs threats withdrawal of assistance bombs and otherwise is just huge why would any country agree to any kind of arrangement with the us without some kind of ironclad guarantee this is real right now the eu is talking to the uk about deals opening up more trade and a few other things in those talks the eu is asking for the agreement to include reparations payments if the right gets control of the uk again and undoes these agreements again even domestically suppose you re thinking about joining or rejoining the dept of justice without such a guarantee you are not only facing the possibility of being tossed out in 4 years if the nutcases get control again you are also facing the possibility of being indicted for trying to help the country recover suppose you re a scientist thinking of coming back to help fight the climate crisis same deal you could get indicted for that or worse if they get back in that s a lot of work there to undo the ways the system is rigged against the public how do you get government back under the control of we the people most important get money out of the election system ban it ban corporate money from being used for any purpose other than running the corporation getting the money out might give the public a chance to start righting the ship get rid of the electoral college it s a leftover from the slave state system make the senate represent their share of the population instead of two senators for a state with the population of one county in a state like california bring in some kind of preferential ranked choice voting system to stop current vote for the lesser of two evils system get corporations under control re regulate them and put stakeholders on boards completely reform and expand the corrupt republican supreme court somehow restore an honest system for the public to get reliable news information that stops the ability to propagandize the public maybe a super and expanded version of public broadcasting govt funding for news outlets and local news outlets implement ironclad ways to make sure democracy is understood respected and protected including a department of democracy so many things will have to be done but seriously why should anyone trust the us system again without this level of real reform after what happened with japan and germany this is the level of change that had to happen complete transformation it didn t happen after the soviet union fell and look where they are now author dave johnson posted on april 10 2026 categories government for the people imagine leave a comment on hard to imagine democracy why is it called public transit why is it called public transit if it s built by the government but charges people money to use it shouldn t the public be able to just use public transit what would democracy do aren t we the people supposed to be in charge author dave johnson posted on october 20 2025 categories we the people wwdd leave a comment on why is it called public transit what we re fighting for i think it s hard for regular people to imagine having no empathy or guilt or any use for other people whatsoever beyond as vehicles for getting what they want even at my age i am still constantly astonished to know there are people who target the elderly with scams or beat people up to get their wallet and celebrate themselves for getting one over on them but isn t that the whole point of the ideal of the america we are fighting for monarchies were based on that thinking and they had the right to do anything to peasants we overthrew that that s why the first three words in the constitution are so big we the people wealthy landowners had slaves we had a civil war that overthrew that capitalists made people work in mines until they died from it we formed unions that made that better and fdr strengthened them the south had apartheid we had a movement that stopped that tobacco companies convinced people to kill themselves slowly while handing over their money and energy companies are knowingly destroying the planet what we are seeing is the reaction to our trying to stop them author dave johnson posted on march 16 2025 march 16 2025 categories imagine we the people 1 comment on what we re fighting for welfare and entitlements welfare and entitlements these words are examples of the power of propaganda over reason for people who didn t learn what a dictionary is welfare means the health happiness and fortunes of a person or group putting it in the us constitution s first sentence was a way of providing a clue as to the point of the country they had founded the first three words being huge was another the point of the constitution was to form a self government that took care of the public and protected the public from the rich and powerful entitlement literally means things we the people of the united states are entitled to from our shared prosperity the fruits of self government that protects the people from having their wealth drained by the rich and powerful how could welfare and entitlements have come to be applied negatively you re supposed to be ashamed if you and look down on people who benefit from the fruits of democracy decades of well crafted conservative movement anti government anti democracy propaganda reversed people s understanding that the point of the founding of the united states was to stop the world s long history of systematic oppression of regular people by those who would seize control of the systems of power for their own benefit words from one of the better summaries of the point a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth and another author dave johnson posted on february 17 2025 february 17 2025 categories government for the people propaganda we the people leave a comment on welfare and entitlements my prescription for the uk economy building on public investment is the way forward for the uk the first task of the new government is get people back on their feet and get them fed fast send stimulus checks asap then inject funds into the economy through public investment rebuilding infrastructure including potholes seriously invest in rebuilding the nhs and in a big hurry get things moving fast big that will bring the return that funds it the alternative is to fail and usher in fascism which is happening in so many countries that refuse to spend on making people s lives better i have spoken author dave johnson posted on july 6 2024 july 6 2024 categories economy leave a comment on my prescription for the uk economy public investment is the way forward for the uk the uk has ended an experiment in conservative governance backed by private investors the government withdrew support for public services public investment public everything they pretended private investment would pick up the slack instead and of course the wealthy staged a bust out of the country a fraud tactic commonly used in the organized crime world wherein a business assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of insolvency the privatized water companies are a good example of how the country was managed under conservative governance public assets were turned over the private investors the investors borrowed heavily with those assets and their income stream as collateral they paid themselves handsomely with minimal investment in maintenance and capacity eventually there was insufficient water supply to support increasing housing stock and raw sewage was being dumped into the country s rivers of course there was no government enforcement of rules that would have prevented this or prevented the resulting pollution that would be labeled interference in the private sector private investment does not provide public returns the only interests of private investors is private return the only way forward for uk governance is public investment the way forward for uk governance is public investment in infrastructure education healthcare services law enforcement addressing inequality investment over time public investment will result in a booming economy and a prosperous public it always does everywhere look at the countries that follow this formula the infrastructure is maintained and modern education and healthcare are first class the economies prosper the people are more equal happier and prosperous take all the propaganda labels socialism capitalism neoliberalism etc out of this equation and look at it for what it is public investment pays off for the public private investment only pays the already wealthy private investors for the many not the few investment pays dividends down the road let the public collect those dividends author dave johnson posted on july 6 2024 july 6 2024 categories economy government for the people imagine we the people leave a comment on public investment is the way forward for the uk progressives that s not how money works there is a nytimes guest essay what kind of country do you want start with taxes supposedly a progressive answer to republican tax cuts for the rich their corporations nonsense it actually reinforces conservative arguments about government spending the essay amplifies conservative propaganda about the price tag of government tax cuts and spending it uses conservative terminology like revenue borrowing and fiscal crisis this wording keeps people trapped in a medieval conservative gold standard thought system about money that limits what governments can do to make people s lives better the us dropped the gold standard some time ago in a modern economy the government issues currency period the us government is not funded and certainly doesn t have to round up or borrow gold before it can do things it is not in debt think about what bankrupt means to a country that prints its own currency it certainly doesn t mean we can t find enough gold to hand over and have to sell off the washington monument or the us capitol actually congress has already sold itself but that s another post taxes are not revenue taxes do not raise revenue taxes balance income and wealth distribution and bring fairness they incentivize desired behaviours but they do not fund the federal government the us government is not a family around a kitchen table scraping together a few dollars to pay for food it manages a modern economy instead of the current medieval based system of superstitiously limiting spending in case doing so might trigger inflation governments must do actual work to plan spending according to production capacities available labor available resources etc in order to keep inflation at bay free your minds understanding how modern money and budgeting works frees prog...