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...

Monday, April 6, 2020

Judge the Democrats by what they do, not what they say.

When I say things about the Democrats and the Democratic Party this is based on what they do.


I am of the opinion working people need our own party and the Democratic Party is not that party.


We need to create our own working class based people’s party.


With that said, I speak out against what the Democrats do when I feel they are wrong; I support what they do when they do what is right--- unfortunately they seldom do what is right by working people.


And I support and vote for some Democrats quite often because I realize there are many people who still work in, around and through the Democratic Party in an effort to seek justice.


But I certainly won’t support this nonsense of “vote Blue no matter who.” This is no approach to electoral politics for working people; in my opinion working people are entitled to get something of substance in return for our votes.


Once working people accept this crap of “vote Blue no matter who” we declare that we have lost before the struggle for justice even begins. Don’t surrender your vote until you get something of substance in return. If the Democrats really want our votes to defeat Trump they will offer us something more than platitudes and campaign gimmicks.