not sure i entirely agree. sometimes you have to cut your losses and try to start over. “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”
Trump has been blatantly provoking our allies in his efforts to impress his idol Putin. He's been inciting the country by attacking the American people - putting our very livelihood at risk, knowing people will revolt. Obviously his goal is to put the country under martial law - throw him out!
Don’t give up and don’t don’t just sit there. Apathy is killing our democracy. Find, join and learn from the fighters. Keep your wits about you. Learn to be cunning, brave and resilient. ACT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
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That’s a good way to think about democracy. It’s evergreen and needs to change to reflect the times we’re in. An argument could be made that over the last 10 years we haven’t practiced democracy in a way that nurtured and developed the ideals and lead us to where we are today.
I swear it’s hard sometimes not to give up. Then I realize it’s bigger than me and there’s a fighting spirit in me that just won’t stop. I’ve seen and heard the negativity, but for some crazy reason I keep getting up to fight for the rights of myself and others.
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Good morning from Arizona, Joyce! Thanks as always for sharing.
I have a question for you today; Could we potentially classify Trump, Musk, and the other Project 2025 acolytes as domestic terrorists as a means to gain legal leverage? To me, their every action has been meant to disrupt and cause fear
Won’t give up, first we need to kneecap the felon’s regime and his pet muskrat from monetarily raping the federal coffers and obliterating anyone who gets in their way. So pay attention to three special elections. If these candidates win Democrats can deny rebups control of House of Representatives.
Trying to keep this in mind as I wonder what my senators and some of my reps from NY are doing to keep democracy alive. Cause I'm not sure they haven't thrown up their hands in abject surrender.
No matter how much individuals 'practice' democracy, if its governance, institutions, or economy are structurally flawed, progress will remain out of reach.
True democratic improvement isn’t just about effort, it requires systemic reform, accountability, and equal access to participation.
Trump’s first 100 days are already hard to come back from. We need a decisive NO from the people, the legislative branch and the courts. We are up to the WTH phase but not a strong HELL NO yet and he keeps going to worse everyday.
I hope today’s economic protest has big impact and we keep going.
Sounds profound, but in fact practicing law or medicine is actually this definition of practice, "to carry out or perform (a particular activity, method, or custom) habitually or regularly" as in, "we still practice some of these rituals today."
So let’s practice democracy in that sense. And while we’re at it, let’s engage in the practice of compassion. And throw in the practice of common sense and a sense of proportion.
Today, after the embarrassing behavior of Trump and Vance, I believe more than ever we need to fight on. Midterms are coming. Vote Democratic up and down ballot. The only way to get rid of Trump now is impeachment.
Civic responsibility is difficult to conceptualize for the half of the voting public which thinks politics is a fearful and malicious reality tv show. Narcissists all, I’m not sure they can be reasoned with. It’s an intractable problem.
Activists are FAILING us!! Please @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov
Please lead people to the streets of DC. We have to show the world, federal employees and each other that we care.
Why isn’t the ABA speaking against what is going on? Where is their passion for honest and decent lawyering? Where are the multi-million dollar salaried lawyers? They could speak out without losing much of anything.
Let’s write a series of easy read books that help clarify the law. Suggest that we begin with an explanation of “Blind Justice”, take the mystery out of your profession. We get a bad rep often as many don’t understand how to “Code”. Is it “Justice” or “Just Us”.
If 170,000,000 voters were online with the right tools they could instantly reflect way more power than piddly politicians including a so called "supreme" court. we need a billionaire to fund that .... did I say it would be instant ?.... compared to 275 year old current republic?
Sounds like good advice to me. We need to use what tools we have with available resources in the best possible way. What can we call the counter to DOGE?
Encouraged by our European allies stepping up. If Donald tries to back out of NATO or fails to support Ukraine, he’ll lose standing. Starmer def appeased Donald’s ego; smart/worth it given what’s at stake. Zelenskyy will make clear to DJT Ukraine has full EU support and will be a NATO member soon.
Great quote! I have always said we should learn from them because they went through a great deal of suffering, yet they persisted! So shall we! We shall persist!
Well, when the take away affordable food & housing, healthcare, & daycare. When we can’t get vaccination for preventable diseases, it becomes difficult to mount an effective descent!
The time to protest & fight for our rights & our freedoms is NOW!!
I love how this sounds in theory, but in reality (especially in a place like NC where we have been under GOP rule from a gerrymandered legislature for 15 years and counting), the evolutions that occur from the lessons we're learning take decades to come to pass.
In truth, our sclerotic institutions and the failures of the law make oppressive, undemocratic conditions the norm in our society. If we are "practicing" democracy and the law, then it is only so that some distant future generation will benefit.
What is happening today is UNBELIEVABLE! #StandWithUkraine
I wish it were possible to:
1) Expel Trump's co-conspirators from the House
2) Likewise, impeach/remove Trump & his complicit Senators
3) and STOP Elon Musk & his DOGE brigade
same with science, medicine. It boggles my mind that people want instant answers to diseases like COVID. Many years will pass and we will still be learning. But, for jerks like RFK Jr to take us BACK in time is outrageous.
URGENT ACTION: Make 5 calls to your electeds every day to demand a paper audit of the Nov. 5 election in all swing states. https://www.electiontruthalliance.org
Feb. 28 National boycott of ALL BUSINESSES needs to happen, especially if a company like Tesla PAID ZERO FEDERAL TAXES IN 2022 AND 2024 after getting billions in profits!! Wake up America!!!!
Besides today, Feb. 28th being honored as an economic blackout day, there is also a Facebook blackout today in which l participated too as well. Hit them all in their pocket.
The founders were worried about small factions taking over and acting against the larger interest. They worried about bad actors. They worried about the wealthy having too much influence. They relied on a homogenous group to act in the common good.
The one thing I know about democracy is that it is fragile and often in peril. It must be protected from greed, hate, corruption and partisan ambition. We are in the middle of a monumental coup and most of us don’t realize it.
Problem is, I don’t want a Doctor who is still practising and hasn’t gotten really really really good yet. I also don’t want a pilot who is practicing. I want highly skilled people in both those areas.
it's NOT working! Getting it wrong then better would have us in a "more perfect union" This is two steps forward and THREE steps back as the fucking GRIFTERS hack away at OUR system. It's a Fight and they have every incentive to take as much as they can from US! We must not pretend it's a fair game.
We have had an undereducated population for most of our nations history along with bs press. The difference now Trump fed every single divisive ideal at once and grew them so enough voters only saw him.
Biden wasn’t a perfect president but the kind of milquetoast we needed to come back stronger.
Agree completely regarding the crisis now.
Think about what led us here though.
We have to learn from how we got here to try and prevent it happening again (and I believe we will get out of it eventually).
That is practising democracy as the OP shared.
And how an evolving society works.
Yes, agreed.
I said that I believe the current crisis will end eventually.
It might not be in our lifetime or it might be by the end of this year.
I too am doubtful that it will end at the ballot box (and I never said it would).
Both education and medicine are practices, too. As an educator, I often pull the two together because they deal with people who are not simply cogs, and while there are scientifically proven "best practices,". There always has to be room for alt. pathways. It takes constant learning.
If the American “WE THE PEOPLE” on all sides don’t come together in MASSIVE PROTESTS & BOYCOTTS NOW, given everything WE have witnessed since Trump’s first day in office, our government takeover by the NEW NEO-NAZA PARTY WITH MUSK LEADING THE WAY,OUR DEMOCRACY WILL BE HISTORY IN VERY SHORT ORDER!
Every attack on the rule of law, every billionaire tax loophole, and every effort to dismantle government oversight isn’t about patriotism—it’s about profit. The real "steal" is happening in broad daylight.
We can think about democracy that way all we want but if those in charge are hell bent on destroying it, it feels like we have 3 options- take to the streets which will require mass amounts of people to make a difference
Make plans to get out of the country before it’s too late or submit.
Joyce,
Disinformation is the main tool for dismantling democracy. A falsehood-spreading oligarch with deep ties to Russia has embedded 20 operatives in the White House.
And the same goes for science. We "practice medicine", always looking for new evidence to support new hypotheses. Science changes and so our democracy evolves. We cannot choose which science or which laws we obey.
we have 40% of the country that still wants to practice fascism... Those that support democracy cast their votes to reflect that desire. Those that were fascism-curious, voted for their desire. The "I didn't vote for him to do THAT!" crowd do not get a pass. They voted for fascism. We all know it.
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Our mistakes don't involved ripping apart the Government and creating chaos for American citizens and the world.
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Small acts that build muscle memory until we figure out how to stop this coup. Then watch out!
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Show our people power!!
I have a question for you today; Could we potentially classify Trump, Musk, and the other Project 2025 acolytes as domestic terrorists as a means to gain legal leverage? To me, their every action has been meant to disrupt and cause fear
Well, it just means they selectively Forgot about #SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump the First time.
So they're all getting their Comeuppance here the Second time.
NOT Too Late for Everyone to ADMIT IT, and Do Right For America!
ACT RIGHT NOW!
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It was their original intent
True democratic improvement isn’t just about effort, it requires systemic reform, accountability, and equal access to participation.
I hope today’s economic protest has big impact and we keep going.
Activists are FAILING us!! Please @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov
Please lead people to the streets of DC. We have to show the world, federal employees and each other that we care.
The time to protest & fight for our rights & our freedoms is NOW!!
#Resist
#HowAmericaFell
I wish it were possible to:
1) Expel Trump's co-conspirators from the House
2) Likewise, impeach/remove Trump & his complicit Senators
3) and STOP Elon Musk & his DOGE brigade
Is rarely practice by Republicans, especially in the last 18years
Love is a practice as well, we are heavy under adversity
Watch out for sharp objects, primarily, the Swamp gutting, our safety nets, so they can feed the rich
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To Practice: Bachelors, law degree, bar certification ($200K+ investment)
To Enforce: A GED and 6-8 weeks of paid training
To Write: Zero qualifications, just need billionaire money
The founders were worried about small factions taking over and acting against the larger interest. They worried about bad actors. They worried about the wealthy having too much influence. They relied on a homogenous group to act in the common good.
That’s OVER.
“He who acts to save his country from tyranny, terrorism, and radical right wing criminals, violates no laws.”
What a mess that can be made of your current system in just a single month.
The mango-hued malcontent acting as fascist leader has a 7yr olds understanding of the presidency. He thinks he’s king, & is trying to rule as one!
#Resist
An uneducated, misinformed populace has the potential (as we’ve seen) to elect an anti-democratic authoritarian.
We have to work on the education part.
Teri Kanefield has a great series of posts on this.
https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/
Biden wasn’t a perfect president but the kind of milquetoast we needed to come back stronger.
Further extended, all democracies have an infection of fascism, and must maintain sufficient antibodies to keep it in check.
In our case, the billionaires killed our immune system.
Think about what led us here though.
We have to learn from how we got here to try and prevent it happening again (and I believe we will get out of it eventually).
That is practising democracy as the OP shared.
And how an evolving society works.
Get over the idea that we’re voting this out of office. They didn’t do all of this to simply lose it to some people casting ballots.
I said that I believe the current crisis will end eventually.
It might not be in our lifetime or it might be by the end of this year.
I too am doubtful that it will end at the ballot box (and I never said it would).
Make plans to get out of the country before it’s too late or submit.
Disinformation is the main tool for dismantling democracy. A falsehood-spreading oligarch with deep ties to Russia has embedded 20 operatives in the White House.
We can only stop them by recognizing the enemy and defending democracy daily.
https://medium.com/illumination/10-strategies-the-kremlin-utilizes-to-destroy-democracy-ac66c57fe74e?sk=e2ab10931f3d4c4deb565fc5a912ed21
Talk about the malevolent lawyers ?