We face the greatest threat to democracy and our constitution in our lifetime, if not in the history of the republic, and the Democratic “leadership” is AWOL!
A coup has usurped judicial and legislative roles, consolidating them all in the executive branch.
Meanwhile, past presidents are mute; the Senate minority leader has become an enabler; and both parties work primarily for powerful private interests.
The Democratic “leadership” had plenty of time to prepare a robust response to this lawless coup but has failed to.
The regime’s blueprint, Project 2025, was laid out publicly in 2023. The coup has methodically followed its playbook.
DOGE outlaws hack the Social Security Administration database, replace the current operating system with their proprietary one, and can easily crash the whole agency—all of this with barely a whisper from Congress.
Billionaires don’t need Social Security or Medicare; they don’t need national parks or affordable housing; they don’t need consumer protection or public broadcasting; they don’t need the essential services and protections most of us depend on that government agencies provide.
But they do seek lucrative government contracts, a strong national military presence to protect their property, and a business-friendly judicial system to further their interests, paying proportionally few, if any, taxes for this.
Donald Archer
Cambria
This article appears in Apr 3-13, 2025.
Don:
The Democratic Party and it’s politicians will do nothing more than wring their hands about DJT but nothing else. They are just as beholden to corporate interests as the other party. They will only go so far. We need publicly financed elections. Until then, all our politicians will be doing is posturing in public, but dialing for dollars in private. This is how Hitler easily rose to power, through an anemic and discredited liberal class.
The American public is complicit too. No general strike. No mass arrests for civil disobedience. No hunger strikes. During the era that preceded the New Deal, miners, steel workers, and general labor were shot and killed on a regular basis as they attempted to improve their working conditions and change the relationship between management and labor.
Could it be we haven’t done so because we no longer have factories to occupy? Could it be the only thing left of our economy are gyms, nail salons, tattoo parlors, liquor stores, cannabis dispensaries, and taco shops? Could it be that politics have become privatized, that actual voting is nothing more than a cute vestige of an era where voting may have actually mattered?
Where is this era’s FDR? Where is this era’s War on Poverty? Capitalist pigs are blocked from scavenging the rest of the world and have returned home to scavenge what remains of any large pools of public money set aside for social spending i.e. social security and Medicare. What is going to happen when that too is gone? Where will they go? This is class war, ladies and gentlemen.
When a people have nothing less to lose, as history shows, people come together and go after those who hide, like cockroaches, behind the flag and bible. During the French and Russian revolutions, one of the first groups of people the public went after, aside from the aristocracy, were the clergy. We are told our “treasure is in heaven” and to ignore the cries of hunger from our children. How long will people put up with that? How long will congregants allow their leadership to own private jets and live in mansions while they tithe, live in shacks, and starve? The bible I know is revolutionary.
Our economy is on its last legs and people are going hungry. We need to prevent fascism from going farther. Right now, it’s illegal immigrants, tomorrow it may be anyone, such as you or I, with a contrarian opinion. Don’t sell yourselves out for a crust of bread, folks.
They will attempt to pacify the public and delay the inevitable consequences of their decades long theft of our public resources and their destruction of public agencies built to protect the aged and unemployed.
I believe they will use the threat of starting a nuclear war as way to control the public. The federal government is tilting at windmills and I don’t consider a single working class Chinese or Russian as anything other than a comrade whose interests are similar to most people. They want stability, they want social mobility, they want to know that at the end of their lives and decades of contributing taxes, that their government won’t let them starve to death in a ditch. They may speak different languages, but their interests are similar to ours.
I am not a bleeding heart liberal, but I do believe that through mutual respect and diplomacy, humanity can find arrangements that benefit all people.
Well said – thank you!