Not since grade school have I believed that America was a melting pot.
Boiling Pot is more like it.
When I talk about the power being with the Working Class People, I do
not fool myself into believing that we will unite in some mighty
righteous Army, refusing to do our Masters bidding. Too many years
have gone into spreading the Empire's Spell, misdirecting us down dead
end paths that only lead to hopelessness.
But nonetheless, the fact is that we are our only hope. Are we so
dulled down that we can no longer take the hands of others, and
together stand against the Empire? Has there ever been a successful
uprising that ended in a better life for the Masses? If so, it has
been well covered over by those who do not want it known. Even such
amazing events as the end of the British Rule in India, through
peaceful means, has not produced a better life for the countless
millions of poor.
While there is life, there is hope. I never give up hope, but right
now it is a distant fading light. Since I'm not in any shape to do
more than offer my body as cannon fodder, I do feel frustrated. But
much of that frustration is directed to those who stick their youthful
heads in their iPhones or other gadgets, and pass the time in escape
mode.
Finally, to end on a positive note, I am positive that I smell the
strong scent of Fascism across our Great Land. And where are those
lovers of democracy and keepers of freedom who will unite to keep the
world free?
Carl Jarvis
On 11/20/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Who is ,"we",? What do you propose that we do? I mean, really, we can
sign
petitions and those of us who are healthy and young can demonstrate In the
streets, up to a point, until They shoot us. And they will shoot us. The
police have been militarized. The fusion centers exist. In the very rough
urban high school that I attended, the school administration took the
toughest kids and put them in charge of behavior in the hallways by
deputizing them as school monitors. You didn't want to mess with those
guys.
The Trump administration has all those gun loving White nationalist,
malitia
types, all those guys who volunteer at our borders, the cops, the returned
vets. We'd like to believe that we are all brothers and sisters, who can
work together to protect us all. But all it took was Trump to show us, how
naïve we were, how fragmented this country is, how ready people are to
attack each other. If not the blacks, the immigrants. If not the
immigrants,
the Muslims, if not the Muslims, the gays, lesbians, or trans people, and
then waiting in the background, apparently, still, the Jews.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 4:08 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic
Leader at the Worst Possible Time
IF the Trump administration has the power to ram your list down our
throats, then shame on us. We, the People hold the real power. We have
simply been brain washed to believe the old saw, you can't fight city hall.
The fact is, whether we call it socialism or People Power, we will only
move
events if we stand together. If not, well what we have is the result of
not
standing together. And if, as will probably happen, we turn upon one
another when our personal turf is violated, then life will become very hard
for the Working Class.
What I fear mostly are the people who become backed to the wall and fearful
for their own survival, turning upon other groups of people who are equally
feeling the wall at their backs. And all because we buy the crap spread by
the Ruling Class. We'll not see them suffer.
Their children will not be forced to take up arms or live in the streets.
Their grandparents will not huddle in drafty, smelly old hovels, wondering
if they will find enough food for today. And by the way, we stop by some
of
these hovels, providing a free service from the government, and these
confused people curse the government, and rattle their brooms and mops at
those "rag heads and illegals.
They will accept the services we offer, never understanding that these very
services were fought for by the very sort of people they curse.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/20/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Look, it's time to set aside the socialist rhetoric, true as it mayfuture.
be, if we are to be realistic about what is facing us for the immediate
Although I blame the Democratic Party for having put our country inparties.
the position where the Republican Party won this election, the fact is
that there are vast differences in the social values that underlie the
Our country may be run by corporations and the war machine and ObamaSanders, who took very little of the "tainted"
may have deported more immigrants than any other president, but
whatever has been done so far, pales in comparison to what this new
administration plans.
You're going to see an increase in jailing of people for small crimes,
a decrease in taxes paid by the rich, an end to legal abortion, a
legalized explicit registration of, an possibly imprisonment of huge
numbers of Muslim Americans, an increase in killings by police of
people of color, a privitazation of social security medicare, and
medicaid, an end to financial assistance to poor people, an increase
in the powers of the surveillance state, an increase in our country's
military activities, an explicit governmental approval of torture, a
disappearance between the state and institutionalized Christianity, an
increase in fossil fuel production and the production of nuclear
weapons, and appointments of ultra conservative judges throughout our
federal system. A new law has already been proposed to criminalize
public demonstrations. The US is going to withdraw from all world
climate agreements. Net neutrality is ending. And that's just the
beginning.
Miriam d
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 11:00 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible
Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
Too bad we keep getting stuck on Party Labels. Given the fact that
both Major Political Parties are bankrolled by mostly the same money
sources, there is a guarantee that the rich will remain in control.
Why is it so difficult for many American working class people to
understand that when both major parties are beholden to Wall Street
and the huge War Profiteers, that they, the Working Class, will be
left to rummage among the crumbs. The Oligarchy will do all it needs
to do in order to protect its control. And that control especially
includes the lives of the Working Class.
How much we receive back as our share of the profits from our labor,
the quality and affordability of our medical care, the safety we have
in our streets, the privacy of our working class people from spying by
the Oligarchy, the cost, always rising, of educating our children, the
kinds of work our children can expect to secure, the safety of
products and goods sold in our marketplaces, the cost of security in
our old age, in other words,Our Quality of Life is totally controlled
by that entity we know as, "The Government". But this fully owned
political body is merely the front organization for the Oligarchy,
freeing their greedy hands to do as they please. None of the major
political parties will risk biting the hand that feeds them. Even Bernie
money, could not have changed much in this "Safe Haven" of the Rich.Partnership.
It is past time for us to examine ways of changing our value system,
so that money is no longer the bottom line. Quality of Life for All
should be our new bottom line. By changing what we define as,
"Success", we could turn the present Ruling Class into a very small
Minority. If we turned their vast hordes of wealth into a liability,
insisting that they spend down through heavy taxes, to rebuild our
nation's infra structure, provide quality schools and free education,
cover the increase of the living wage, and provide medical care for
all, their life style would not change significantly, but ours would
improve immensely. And before someone protests that this would amount
to robbing the rich, remember, they became rich by taking most of the
profits from our labor. Of course, since the Oligarchy owns both the
House and the Senate, and controls the Supreme Court, and now the new
president, we have only one choice. That choice is not a violent
overthrow. Violent overthrows always end in disaster. We need to
establish a priority list, rolling up our sleeves and preparing for
hard work. We can change the consistency of this unfriendly
government by supporting like-minded candidates at the ground level.
By training ourselves to be involved, we will set a new standard. We
will have a vested stake in a new government. Properly arranged, our
involvement could take less time each week than we use to read wordy
emails...like this one.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/19/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dick, That's only because you don't like either. But I don't thinkoffice.
that all of the Democratic party are worthy of contempt, only the
corporate Democrats. I want to support the progressive wing of the
party. That's why I'm opposed to Schumer. He is like an old fashioned
Republican. Old fashioned Republicans cared about business interests,
but not about everyday people like my family and me. My father was a
factory worker.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard
Driscoll
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 10:12 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible
Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
All:
I voice an opinion to the effect that the election of Charles Schumer
to the Minority Leader of the Minority Democrat Party in the Senate
are truly worthy of each other.
Richard
On 11/18/2016 7:40 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
And for some of those reasons, I voted for the Green PartyAmerica."
candiddate for the US Senate in New York.
Miriam
Schwarz writes: "When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York
Sen.
Chuck Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority
leader
- and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in
Senator Chuck Schumer. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst
Possible Time By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept
18 November 16
When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck
Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader -
and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in
America.
That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
for opposition to Donald Trump:
. Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on
the SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was
elected to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at
29, and the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside
elected
office.credit.
. He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary
Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
. Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
Glass-Steagall Act in
1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
. Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
. Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
"most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
. In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
chemical and nuclear weapons."
. Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
. Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer
was running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did
vote against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade
deals since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.
Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his
And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which youvalid.
might see as good or bad, depending.
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18 November 16
hen Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck
Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader -
and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in
America.
That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
for opposition to Donald Trump:
. Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on
the SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was
elected to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at
29, and the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside
elected
. He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary
Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
. Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
Glass-Steagall Act in
1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
. Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
. Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
"most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
. In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
chemical and nuclear weapons."
. Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
. Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer
was running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did
vote against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade
deals since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific
Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to hiscredit.
And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which you
might see as good or bad, depending.
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