Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Please note I have a new phone number...

512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Friday, March 22, 2019

Democracy U.S.A. style...

Democrats in Texas and around the country are complaining because they have been out gerrymandered by the Republicans.


And these Democrats have the nerve to talk about elections in other countries, like Venezuela, being undemocratic when there is all this gerrymandering taking place that creates rigged elections and outcomes right here in our own country.


Between big money influence in elections and the gerrymandering of districts one would be hard-pressed to find a country where the elections are more corrupt and undemocratic than right here in our own country.


Oh, but wait... then we have the Democrats and Republicans working together in collusion to deprive other parties and independents from obtaining ballot status.


And, on top of this, we have the local Democratic Party (just like the Republican Party) organizations conspiring to prevent democratic primaries where like we had with the Beto O’Rourke campaign for Senate where the local and state organizations protected Beto from having to debate his primary opponent Sema Hernandez thereby freezing voters out of the democratic process.


And then the voters are blamed for the losses because they don’t turn out to vote because they feel, and justifiably so, they have no say or a voice in anything.