Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

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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...

Thursday, February 6, 2020

It's time for Democrats to show some respect for the concerns of the American people.

The Democrats blew the election in 2016 by running Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders against Trump.


These same Democrats blew the opportunity to impeach and remove Trump by not bringing forward ALL of his crimes and impeachable offenses from his instigation of racist and religious bigotry and hate to his litany of lies to his use of his office to further enrich himself and his family to all the havoc he is causing in the world through embargoes and sanctions to outright mafia style murder and his immoral behavior to his phony “peace plan” in the Middle East which he has been working on behind the backs of Congress and the American people.


Now, again, this same powerful reactionary faction in the Democratic Party aligned with, and bribed by, Wall Street’s Military-Industrial Complex intent on insisting we remain on this dangerous course leading us into more and bigger wars... is once again trying to shove losing candidates like Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden down our throats when a Sanders-Warren or Warren-Sanders ticket would be acceptable to most Americans, if, for no other reason, to get rid of this turd on November third.


And now again, we have these same corrupt elements in the Democratic Party being so selfish they even have tried to undermine democracy by “fixing” the results of the Democratic Party Caucuses in Iowa.


These corporate Democrats beholden to Wall Street should just do what is right in get their dirty hands out of politics and let us common people do what is right.


Look, I have no use for the Democratic Party but I am willing to work with honest people sincerely seeking peace, an end to racism and social and economic justice and I am even willing to put up with candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who I know are only bringing forward campaign gimmicks as “promises” they never intend to deliver on but use opportunistically to get votes and I think most Americans probably feel the same way.


So I can go along with “voting blue but it does matter who” in an effort to get rid of Trump so we can buy ourselves a little time to figure out what direction we all want to see our country moving in...
most people in this country want what people all over the world want: PEACE... so let’s start there.
Peace and disarmament with the wealth of the Nation being used to solve the problems of the people- quality integrated public schools (free for all, pre-school through university), good health care, decent jobs with real living wages and a voice at work and in our communities, decent housing and livable neighborhoods and communities with people working together to solve the problems of climate change and people want real living incomes from Social Security.


We are living in the richest country in the world and the working class has created every bit of this wealth yet the millionaires and billionaires, this extremely small minority, has made the decision to squander this great wealth of our Nation on militarism and these dirty never-ending wars nobody wants.


This election should be about democracy and the common people. This is what we must insist on.


If the Democrats can get their house in order and get rid of these corrupt elements aligned with Wall Street, so much the better. But if they can’t we are most likely in for another rough four years.


I’m not voting for any warmongers. That is my bottom line.


Let Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren meet and sort this out and provide a united front against war, racism and corruption; against Trump and against the warmongers in the Democratic Party, too.


Henry Wallace, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Claude Pepper and Martin Luther King had a vision for America where democracy meant the common people would rule... it should be possible for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to bring forward, together, such an outlook to politics.


Quite frankly, I will vote for Howie Hawkins for president if the Democrats try to shove some warmongering Wall Street shills down our throats and then tell us this crap about “vote blue no matter who” when it does matter who.


Don’t allow the Democrats to blow it again. We don’t have to take this crap.