Solutions, Not Status Quo
By: Jean Hhricik
Tags: Government, Bernie Sanders, Solutions, Health, Howie Hawkins

Solutions, Not Status Quo

Heads Up — This is not a news report. This is opinion developed from many sources, many of which are included for clarity, transparency, and rebuttal, and is the Free Speech that shares ideas.

Solutions, Not Status Quo….

First, tell capitalistic hierarchical Establishment it cannot inflict their privilege against the rights of the public — -

https://pandemicprofiteers.com/?source=direct_link&referrer=group-common-defense&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/em20200405-aocjointpet--PETITION---Now we just learned that not only did Sen. Loeffler sell off an additional $18.7 million worth of stock, she also secretly made big purchases BEFORE the crisis — buying stakes in companies that make medical personal protective equipment and body bags.

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This is a reason that “running government like a business” does not take the place of a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic with Representatives of The People held to standards of their Oath Of Office. Establishment politicians have sold their services to big-money interests, while using the authority of legislation to undermine human, environmental, and civil rights.

We The People who understand the depravity of our current system, support democratic (small d) socialism or eco-socialism, and here’s an explanation of the reason — -https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-and-road-to-extinction/

Our Reality Show President is unabashed in broadcasting the depravity that is “running government like a business”. But he is not the first to so insinuate policies of turpitude as governance — — https://popularresistance.org/the-decade-of-transformation-remake-international-relations/--The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying the cruelty of US foreign policy. The economic collapse is showing the failure of neoliberalism and how the empire-economy is not working for the people of the world, including the United States.

The US is losing its global dominance as it demonstrates its own incompetence in response to the pandemic and its viciousness in the midst of this crisis. Other countries are showing leadership and solidarity while the US is escalating its attacks.

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Previous neo-liberal Administration imposed the same standards of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment presumption in place of principles of a democratic (small d) Constitutional republicanism. The joke of economic globalism devoid of democratic (small d) principles personified in the collaboration between the Hillary Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation, acting outside of the laws of the USA, but using profits to promote personal interests and Democrat corporation interests within the USA, among We The People, who were required to maintain lawful behavior according to the laws within the borders of the USA.

The excuse that “everyone does it”, as apologist Zurlina Maxwell expressed, is no longer acceptable. Explanations are required from these characters, including Jim Clyburn who is a friend of big-money interests, as suggested by those from whom he accepts campaign contributions, and who endorsed another friend of big-money interests Joe Biden, as suggested by those from whom he accepts campaign contributions. That one sycophant endorses another sycophant should be questioned, rather than taken as principled works of governance — -https://www.postandcourier.com/health/clyburn-has-taken-more-than-million-in-pharma-money-in/article_62b10180-d956-11e8-9122-4f50316f66fa.html

Joe Biden doesn’t wish to debate Bernie Sanders for good reason — -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDV8pAcEx8w--Bernie Says Victory Is Still Possible

https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/04/04/bernie-sanders-refuses-to-play-by-the-medias-rules/----Sanders support could give him a win on any of the Democratic, General, Independent, or Green tickets.

Let’s stop rallying around the worst among us — -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0saoqIprD0--New Rule: Worst Responder | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Infuriating is watching the approach of disaster, raising one’s voice in warning, and watching doe-in-headlights public fall for the propaganda of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment who tell the public, don’t look at the catastrophe, look at the dancing clown I’m showing you.

These are sweet ideas as to how to navigate the pandemic — -http://email.momscleanairforce.org/q/122ktIQA6ZyKE0dJbNmv/wv---Mom'scleanairforce offers excellent views about the pandemic. More crucial would be voting for Representatives of The People, including a President, who is not in the back pocket of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment.

Vote for Bernie Sanders or Howie Hawkins for President, for a start.

As Clyburn/Biden worry about profits for insurance companies, Bernie Sanders works on comprehensive public health and well-being policies — — SIGN IF YOU WISH, to balance equality toward We The People — -

https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/coronavirus_next_phase/?source=em200405-1-15&refcode2=7850.105164.q6mJRJ&t=2&akid=7850%2E105164%2Eq6mJRJ--Bernie Sanders outlined six core provisions that must be included in the next legislation Congress passes to support working people during this horrific crisis:

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We are “running government like a business”, oligarchs inform We the Public — -https://www.laprogressive.com/jared-kushner-coronavirus/--

Thanks to some thorough reporting by Politico, we now know that Jared Kushner is running a shadow COVID-19 response team alongside the official task force led by Mike Pence. Pence once characterized his group as an “all-of-government response,” but Kushner’s team is an “all-of-private-sector response” full of private equity executives and health care profiteers. That “all-of-private-sector” line isn’t me being snide: it’s how some of the anonymous White House officials in the report characterized their own colleagues. — -end of laprogressive info —

The R branch of the Capitalist Party D&R collaborates with the D branch of the Capitalist Party D&R in disenfranchising We The People. Who could have foreseen the physical manifestation of the pay-to-play health system that functions in the USA in place of a comprehensive public health policy? The wealth transferred from the 100% to the 1% by this system has nothing to do with public health. Add to this the pay-to-play system is used to legally but illegitimately control the electoral process via Citizens United. One awaits the explanation from Jim Clyburn who Chairs the Coronavirus Response Committee, in an absolute caricature of governance, takes big-money donations, and then endorses the pro-health-insurance candidate Joe Biden for President — -https://ctmirror.org/2018/12/02/democrats-taking-key-leadership-jobs-pocketed-millions-pharma/

We The People need to recognize the tactics used by Establishment in order to maintain control. C-Span offered a timely discussion about First Responders during the pandemic — https://www.c-span.org/video/?470911-5/washington-journal-steven-casstevens-discusses-policing-coronavirus---

Steven Casstevens on Policing During Coronavirus

International Association of Chiefs of Police President Steve Casstevens talked about policing during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Law enforcement that “serves and protects” the public is the ideal that cannot be relinquished, or abused by Establishment to their own end. The pandemic has highlighted the propaganda from Establishment characters, which lies must be challenged. Several thoughts on that topic — -

*One is unaware of any simmering tension between the public and law enforcement in Broome County, NY, yet The First Responders Act was passed that raises the specter of such tension — -https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/binghamton/news/2019/12/20/emergency-first-responders-act-passes-in-broome-county

*Local first responders may be as lacking in PPE as anywhere, and placed in danger by negligence of thoughtful governance, more surely than any assumed tension between the public and first responders

*Misuse of $10,000,000 to renovate the NYSEG Stadium months before the baseball league decided to pull out of Broome County due to low attendance by the public, raises the question of governmental approval of this project, who were the happy recipient of the funds, and the reason a baseball team was deemed to be more important to the public than would have been a comprehensive health care policy that would have been capable of handling the current pandemic

*The C-Span discussion with Steven Casstevens raises the fact of lack of PPE for first responders, including law enforcement

*Medical personnel also are lacking PPE, putting their lives in jeopardy

*Capitalistic hierarchical Establishment politicians taking big-money campaign contributions making them loyal to demands by commercial interests and undermining civil rights, express support for law enforcement, make laws causing tension between law enforcement and the public using baseless claims, and ignore the health and welfare of the public and first responders alike

*Trump talks about his concern and admiration for first responders, while doing nothing to protect and support them; similar to local politicians controlled by big-money interests

By the way, what Establishment wants us to forget…..we’re all first responders.

Explanations should be forthcoming from local politicians and Federal politicians alike, about the dictatorial practices described above.

Also forthcoming should be an imagining of a society that isn’t constricted by Establishment hubris. Oligarchs should not be aggrandized, but should be considered an anomaly of greed that they are. We The People must be the subject, not the object.

The USA has the highest incarceration rate on the globe. American people are not that violent. First responders during this pandemic bemoan lack of PPE that put their lives at risk. Incarcerated people are at risk during the pandemic, as are first responders. The lawsuit in Miami-Dade is predictable — -

http://communityjusticeproject.com/metrowestlawsuit--MIAMI — Today in federal court, Advancement Project National Office, Community Justice Project, Civil Rights Corps, GST LLP, and Dream Defenders, filed a lawsuit against Miami Department of Corrections calling for the release of vulnerable people inside the city’s jail and arguing that Miami’s Metro West Detention Center is risking the lives of everyone inside because of their deliberate indifference illustrated by their failure to respond to the threat of COVID-19.

— end of communityjusticeproject info — PETITION---https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Ff64301b0a28c%2Fflorida-needs-each-of-us-to-get-involved-341860--We have a moral calling to our community, which includes people behind jail walls, in the midst of this pandemic. Continued incarceration will be a death sentence. We must stand with the most vulnerable and take action.

Sign our advocacy form and fuel the fight.

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The rhetoric of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment during political campaigns must be called out and challenged. During the pandemic, actions by Governor DeSantis don’t seem logical. Yet his lackeys denigrated opponent Andrew Gillum during the 2018 campaign, because honest and concerned citizens in the Dream Defenders supported Andrew Gillum. This type of politics has become normalized when it is underhanded. The Dream Defenders should not be demonized by Establishment hierarchy, and when they are this underhanded and sleazy tactic must be challenged as censorship — — https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article218998125.html

Censorship of political expression undermines our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic. Now is the time to expand ideas — — https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/19/the-radical-work-of-healing-fania-and-angela-davis-on-a-new-kind-of-civil-rights-activism/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20200406&utm_content=YESDaily_20200406+CID_be888372ecbef990012857b35713b083&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the%20full%20story

This is the reason one demands an explanation from Jim Clyburn about his endorsement for candidate Biden who promotes a policy of health insurance ownership rather than a comprehensive policy of health care in the USA. The time to let stand such garbled political messages must end — — https://www.laprogressive.com/biden-must-step-aside/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=f7fb768c96-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-f7fb768c96-286972237&mc_cid=f7fb768c96&mc_eid=e213faa886

Rema, thanks for sharing — -https://truthout.org/articles/historic-injustices-against-native-people-put-them-at-greater-risk-of-covid-19/-- The first person to die of the virus in Oklahoma was a Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma citizen. On April 1, the number of cases in Indian Health Services (IHS) had risen to 276 with 14 confirmed deaths; 214 of these cases are on the Navajo Nation reservation.

— end of truthout info--https://www.facebook.com/rema.loeb/posts/3437446316272011

The imperialism and violence continues unabated — -http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html--When Christopher Columbus first set foot on the white sands of Guanahani island, he performed a ceremony to “take possession” of the land for the king and queen of Spain, acting under the international laws of Western Christendom. Although the story of Columbus’ “discovery” has taken on mythological proportions in most of the Western world, few people are aware that his act of “possession” was based on a religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Discovery. Even fewer people realize that today — five centuries later — the United States government still uses this archaic Judeo-Christian doctrine to deny the rights of Native American Indians.

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These are reasons many people support Bernie Sanders for President — --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUTJKYR2BE&t=248s---Bernie Sanders has a plan to “prevent the collapse” of the U.S. economy

Another viable option for President is Green Party Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins — -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqJOhq5YeE---How Does The Green Party Grow? w/ Howie Hawkins

The Solution Is Green

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Suppression begins with the political debates that exclude 3rd-Party candidates. Included in the Democratic and Republican Presidential Debate, should be Green Party Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins, who actually has public policies to discuss. Excluding one with actual plans in place, will guarantee a Reality-Show Presidential Debate stand-up comedy routine, if the debaters are Biden and Trump.

One has come to realize the extent of the censorship of Speech in the USA pertaining to debate restrictions. This seems to be the reason Independent Party Presidential candidate has attempted to champion the voices of the majority of voters outside of Democratic Party domination, by running for President in the Democratic Party.

However going forward, the key will be to demand Free Speech in Presidential debates, along with other political races across the nation. If we do not demand this freedom of Speech, our elections will remain as laughable as the elections of the Former USSR in which one candidate was presented for whom to vote.

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx----

RepublicansIndependentsDemocrats%%%2020 Feb 17–283039292020 Feb 3–163339262020 Jan 16–293042272020 Jan 2–15274527

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And many of the most non-Establishment voters are in the Green Party.

**************************************As a Green Party registered voter routinely, one re-registers every 4 years into the Democratic Party to be able to cast a vote in the Democratic Primary for Bernie Sanders. One is positive one is not alone in doing so.

Lost in the fog of political corruption over several decades, is the fact that the Presidential debates were once in the capable hands of the League of Women Voters — --https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud----Most objectionable to the League, Neuman said, were conditions in the agreement that gave the campaigns unprecedented control over the proceedings. Neuman called “outrageous” the campaigns’ demands that they control the selection of questioners, the composition of the audience, hall access for the press and other issues.

“The campaigns’ agreement is a closed-door masterpiece,” Neuman said. “Never in the history of the League of Women Voters have two candidates’ organizations come to us with such stringent, unyielding and self-serving demands.”

Neuman said she and the League regretted that the American people have had no real opportunities to judge the presidential nominees outside of campaign-controlled environments.

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In other words, (paraphrase) patriarchy says, “we’ll handle it from here, little ladies” — -

https://straty.com/controlling-outcomes-controlling-table-stakes/---After studying the election process in 1985, the bipartisan National Commission on Elections recommended “turning over the sponsorship of Presidential debates to the two major parties”. The CPD was established in 1987 by the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties to “take control of the Presidential debates”. The commission was staffed by members from the two parties and chaired by the heads of the Democratic and Republican parties… (wikipedia)

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https://www.debates.org/---The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure, for the benefit of the American electorate, that general election debates between or among the leading candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States are a permanent part of the electoral process. CPD’s primary purpose is to sponsor and produce the quadrennial general election debates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) corporation, sponsored all of the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016

— -end of debates info — -The Commission on Presidential Debates, replacing the League of Women Voters, controls who can debate and on which topics. They call this educating the public, others may see this as brainwashing. The CPD would profit by hearing from We The People, as to concerns about censorship. The censorship seems to have become so blatant, that petitions to the CPD have reached into the hundreds of thousands. PETITION — — -https://www.change.org/p/commission-on-presidential-debates-get-joe-rogan-to-moderate-the-2020-presidential-election/u/25040294--------Thank you all for continuing to share and support this petition. Within the last couple of days, I have composed and sent an e-mail to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The message reads as follows: — — end of change.org info — -

This also filters out any other than Democratic Establishment and Republican Establishment views. This means We The People have nothing to say in our own governance.

Consider the large number of voters who do not embrace the policies of either of the Democratic Establishment or Republican Establishment, and the fact that the Democratic Establishment and Republican Establishment have swindled the American electorate out of unbiased information directly from possible Presidential choices; often outside of the Capitalist Party D&R. Since these disgusting events in the ‘80’s, state-run/corporate-owned MSM has consistently indoctrinated We The People into accepting the falsehood that “we are a 2-Party system”. This has had the effect of rending illegitimate, the deeply legitimate tradition of free, clean, and fair elections.

In other words, politicians are now choosing their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians.

Acting on the human frailty of ignorance combined with arrogance, and using as an example the Democratic Establishment, one recognizes what is called a Democratic Base that believes in their right to dictate to others, their voting choices.

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https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/influence-on-democracy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIDtvTydkU&t=638s

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www.catskillmountainkeeper.org

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