I would like to see the context of the May survey response that "about 40 percent of Democrats say they would support the use of force to remove Trump from office." Was this conditional on, say, "if Trump is impeached and convicted" or "if a Democrat is elected president in 2028"?
Amanda’s: We commit to playing nicer and preserving this great family we have - held together by “democracy”.
The Other: this marriage is over. Our values are irreconcilable differences. A Gwyneth Paltrow style conscious uncoupling must happen or our divorce will be winner-takes-all.
I say this: we need a divorce. We can’t rule each other in these extremes. We need to stop saying this is impossible. It isn’t. We have modern tools to unite networks-of-the-like-minded together so that we can “secede in place” in red and blue run parallel societies.
Donald Trump can run the Red America. Kamala Harris can run the Blue America.
Ditch taxes. Charge subscription fees. Your Blue app gets you into Blue health care facilities with abortions and immigrant and trans care on demand. Your Red app costs less and offers less.
“Oh that’s tooooo hard!” you say. “We prefer democracy and making the other side bend the knee” you say.
Well, friends, democracy got us here. And this happy family is days away from throwing dishes at each other in fits of violent rage as all this turns into domestic violence.
In the real world, we’d be calling divorce lawyers and renting new apartments. Because we know this isn’t sustainable,
Neither is “democracy”. IT ISN’T WORKING. Time to innovate it. Evolve it. It ain’t sacred. It ain’t from God. It’s just another man-made idea - like a King. Or a Pope. Or a Council of Wise Men. Those ran their course too. History is one long innovation. Democracy isn’t the end of history (sorry Francis Fukuyama).
It’s time to rethink how we organize ourselves in 2025. It’s time to rethink “democracy”. It’s time to stop bring children and cry over this relic that no longer serves humanity. Let’s get busy on that!!
Your article does a great job of spelling out that elites, most importantly elected leaders, have the obligation to preserve non-violent democracy. They lead the way. Good ideas on helping them to do that.
Not that it is better or right, but those that freak out about political violence today are likely ignorant of US political history.
However, if we are looking for a culprit... a root cause if you will... it is our disgusting media. It went from being a calming influence to being the source of anger and division. And it is the politicians that exploit the same.
It is the corporate pursuit of more profit and the political pursuit of more power but lacking any pretense to comply with a moral code or even professional ethics. They loot and to prevent the population from calling them on their looting, they foment conflict of political differences as a distraction. It should be the people against them... the corrupt corporate and political power and money... but instead it is the people against the people and random violence erupts targeting people that are really outside of that corrupt money and power.
A "saturation event"? You mean like Germany coming to its senses and throwing the Nazis out after Kristallnacht?
I would like to see the context of the May survey response that "about 40 percent of Democrats say they would support the use of force to remove Trump from office." Was this conditional on, say, "if Trump is impeached and convicted" or "if a Democrat is elected president in 2028"?
Two schools of thought here:
Amanda’s: We commit to playing nicer and preserving this great family we have - held together by “democracy”.
The Other: this marriage is over. Our values are irreconcilable differences. A Gwyneth Paltrow style conscious uncoupling must happen or our divorce will be winner-takes-all.
I say this: we need a divorce. We can’t rule each other in these extremes. We need to stop saying this is impossible. It isn’t. We have modern tools to unite networks-of-the-like-minded together so that we can “secede in place” in red and blue run parallel societies.
Donald Trump can run the Red America. Kamala Harris can run the Blue America.
Ditch taxes. Charge subscription fees. Your Blue app gets you into Blue health care facilities with abortions and immigrant and trans care on demand. Your Red app costs less and offers less.
“Oh that’s tooooo hard!” you say. “We prefer democracy and making the other side bend the knee” you say.
Well, friends, democracy got us here. And this happy family is days away from throwing dishes at each other in fits of violent rage as all this turns into domestic violence.
In the real world, we’d be calling divorce lawyers and renting new apartments. Because we know this isn’t sustainable,
Neither is “democracy”. IT ISN’T WORKING. Time to innovate it. Evolve it. It ain’t sacred. It ain’t from God. It’s just another man-made idea - like a King. Or a Pope. Or a Council of Wise Men. Those ran their course too. History is one long innovation. Democracy isn’t the end of history (sorry Francis Fukuyama).
It’s time to rethink how we organize ourselves in 2025. It’s time to rethink “democracy”. It’s time to stop bring children and cry over this relic that no longer serves humanity. Let’s get busy on that!!
Interesting. I'll be checking out your linked blog in hopes of more ideas in this vein.
Your article does a great job of spelling out that elites, most importantly elected leaders, have the obligation to preserve non-violent democracy. They lead the way. Good ideas on helping them to do that.
Not that it is better or right, but those that freak out about political violence today are likely ignorant of US political history.
However, if we are looking for a culprit... a root cause if you will... it is our disgusting media. It went from being a calming influence to being the source of anger and division. And it is the politicians that exploit the same.
It is the corporate pursuit of more profit and the political pursuit of more power but lacking any pretense to comply with a moral code or even professional ethics. They loot and to prevent the population from calling them on their looting, they foment conflict of political differences as a distraction. It should be the people against them... the corrupt corporate and political power and money... but instead it is the people against the people and random violence erupts targeting people that are really outside of that corrupt money and power.