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Civic Justice

(870 posts)
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 08:58 AM Apr 2018

The Madness Promoted within "Tweets" has blinded up while Policies Devastate Us

WARNING: If you have little patience for reading, thinking and writing, this post will not be suitable to you.

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Every Day... we get caught in the spins of a Mad Man... pushing out "a few lines of insidious text" to further incite a confused society. He does so, that he might continue to dominate the headlines and control the subject matter of the day, while a barrage of slap stick comedic comments wrapped in sarcasms achieves absolutely nothing to deal with the erosion of our nations system of governance and our structure of society.

The clouds of confusion has over taken the Democratic Mind, that it no longer promotes its Own Narrative. It is in a spin and dive of being a "responder to madness", rather than a promoter of the values, morality, ethics and dialog that propels us to think and promote the policies that represent the Party's Platform.

It's only a matter of months before November- and we have no front runner who speak of Policy that embraces the concerns which benefit society and its people.

We DON'T speak of the need to Invest in "Small Business Development" in every corridor of this nation, We Don't speak of changing the nature and structure of Medical Services, to include empowering Nurse Practitioners to set up shops in every community within the country, where people can visit and have their medical concerns addressed.

We Don't think or talk about establishing across this country, "multi unit" testing facilities, that have no one, but many MRI Machines, Ultra Sound Machines, and CT Scan Machines and take the control from the Hospitals, who exaggerate the cost because they control the only facilities that are known for having these units. We could lower the cost where every person can get a Scan, and we can push to train people who can "read these scans" and coordinate with the limited Amount of Doctors we have, yet, we have digital technology that can make it feasible and functional.

We Don't think in terms to engage a building boom of "Senior Care Facilities" and "Extending Living Facilities for the elderly", and train people in this "specialized care". Yet our Medicare and Medicaid Monies go only to a few, who "over charge", and "under-deliver on quality care" while they "under pay the nursing staff who works these facilities". We have facilities who take every dime of income from every senior who enters the existing facility, while still billing Medicare and Medicaid with exaggerated billing so a few owners can live in a luxury off of the diminished care they provide for the seniors. Yet, our senior population increase everyday, and over time; we too will be of the advanced senior age, likely needing this type of care.

We never stop to think, 'we while we have vigor and ability, are the ones who must be responsible to think of these needs, as the elderly when they reach the age to need these facilities, are too frail and challenged to fight for themselves. Yes, it can be our parents, grandparents and ultimately ourselves, who will need these facilities. Yet.... while we have vigor and ability, we give none of it into considering these things, nor considering this serious need in America.

One must be broke to the point of being indigent, or they meet with denial of services, if they have any possession, but not enough to actually pay. They must dispose of everything to get access to these facilities. One should ask, why must one be put in a position to accept being indigent which robs their last esteem and force their minds to accept 100% dependence as being incapable and without resources. What a tragedy when they have spent their lives, with the aims to cling to what they earned and achieved. Yet... they must now say, "they have nothing"!!! to gain access and assistance within these facilities. Why have we become a people, who have not thoughts about such things.

We watched with open eyes, the give away of Trillions in Tax Money to the Wealthy, followed by Right Wing Republican who now claim they must cut the services even more. We watched... as they promoted a Health Bill, that was designed to bring suffering to the poor and death to the destitute and disgrace and horrors to the children, by the policy and bill they promoted. We watched them attack, and contribute nothing for six years and make back room deals with Insurance and Medicine Industry to raise the cost and increase the rates, as a direct aim to damage the ACA program, in aims to turn people against it. While they boasted with pride filling the court rooms for 6 yrs of evil attacks upon a program that was of design to help American People.
We know "the historical policies of racism" is always at the core, but its not just racism against minorities, it is too, the same historical policies against poor whites whom the ideals have been to afford them equally so... Nothing!!!

Daily we get caught in the spin of madness by a man who has demonstrated he has no morals, he posses no sense of decency or dignity, he is only a full representation of the Pompous Madness of a Money Obsessed Mad Man. His history is filled with racist discrimination, ethnic and racial bias in every step he has taken, he has no regard for the service to nation, which was his draft dodging process, along with being well groomed by a father who fleeced the government to divert money to his personal enterprise, to the fact of seeing him extort cities of tax concessions, by threats of lawsuits upon people who could not mount a defense of themselves, we'd seen him fleece the IRS by turning Construction and Development projects into a paper shuffle to avoid taxes, while filing bankruptcies to avoid paying his debts. We've seen the cycle of money laundering to foreign collisions of any sort for financial backing as a game of cleaning money for other system abusers. Now, we stand around "playing slap stick sarcasm" while he denigrates every Department and Division of our Governance system, and has stripped away our system of Foreign Ambassadors, while doing all he can to Disparage our Intelligence Community, to the disregard for a Department of Justice, and launching continual Assault upon our FBI.
Still... we make a few slap stick comments and push a bit of sarcasm, and fell we've done enough.

Our schools have been overtaken by a Nut Case, who is step by step destroying one of America's Greatest Institution which is Public Education. Instead of strengthening it, she makes steps to weaken it day by day and then step back and have pride in her destruction, while Republican Congressmen sanction every bit of the madness. We have allowed no more real education, we only now "train kids to take a test", because congressmen want to Measure Schools, as a means to play games with funding. This too has been no different than the Separate but Equal Lie that was engaged until Brown vs Board of Education, and now the reversal is in overdrive to recreate the past, yet, we remain unaware. We are unaware this process further divides society, between the "Have's and the Have Not"... with a class-ism now being built into our System of Education for K-12th Grade all across America. We stand back and accept it, based on the use of "buzz words"... such as "School Choice", which is nothing more than a "covert wording for Re-Segregation", only this time its not just racial, its segregating the POOR from the Well To Do. And we remain blind, unaware and accepting, because we refuse to think, and then we are driven to continue the long history of denial and lying, and blinding ourselves to the real truths.

We are being Overcome by Conservative Mentality, which is the same as it was from the Days of Confederacy, it is today the Modern Day Confederate Ideology which is called "Conservative Agenda"!!! It is nothing more than the Principles of the Civil War being RE-Fought in our own United State Congress and this very Day within our offices of the Presidency.

It is not trying to remake the devastation and vile of raw slavery, but to promote a system of "full indenture" of the poor, which has been relegated to a wage structure that is no more than it cost to house and feed a slave in this modern day society, and promote a continuing "Credit Debt" culture within the ranks of the poor, that supersedes skin tone, and is driven to consider the Poor as being working poor whites, working poor minorities, destitute whites and destitute minorities and women in general. It's the same as the old system, of they days when "white men, claimed themselves the only "person" recognized by the U.S. Constitution and the Systems and Policies of America, under the cloud of White Male Dominance. Again, it is based on "Who's Got Money". This is not the basis of Democracy, but the Framework of PLUTOCRACY.

We see Gerrymandering, and Voter Obstruction, and it increases rather than decrease. When our system should have everyone "registered to vote" at the age of 18 as a Mandatory policy, the same as we once had a draft that was able to log and process every male at the age of 18. Therefore, we can't say that is not possible, because a system of the past has already demonstrated it is possible.

Be blinded and consumed by the "distraction" and "mis-directions" of daily tweets, while behind the scenes, Republican are pushing Policy, that is designed for the Wealthy to Determine who gets what, and how much, and who is to be omitted and who is to be made to submit. We are daily having Right Wing Judges setting precedents that will increase the damage of our offspring for generations to come. The planned usage of "tweets" is a game that has prove it can "distraction" and continue its act of "mis-directions" on a daily basis, and people fall for it over and over and over.

Trump considers himself smarter than all, because his antics continue to achieve what he intends it to. That is "distraction" and "mis-directions", and it has done it so well.. that he now "administers" via "tweets"... and hire and fire people by the use of Tweets, that by pass every system and structure of process that has long been established as protocols in our governance system.
Some take it as a laughing matter, and cast a few jokes and push a bit of sarcasm and think they are being clever... while such acts continue to Erode not just our Democracy, but the processes of our Governance Systems and how it was designed to operate.

So, crack jokes and push sarcasm and in doing so, you damage your life and that of your offspring's or future offspring's, all for the sake of feeling elated by ones own absorption into thinking ones self to be a master of "wit and quips"...
Continue to "ignore dialog" and continue to "avoid engaging in promoting dialog" and being without concern to support narrative; and when time opens ones eyes; they must then come to face the fact: they were a bigger problem unto themselves and their offspring's all for a momentary ego flicker, of being a master of "wit and quips", wrapped in sarcasm, while being silent and too impatient to write, and speak about the real truths in daily interactions. Thus, willingly forfieting the ability to control the narrative in society. For many, they don't have the time or patient to respect the society and themselves to indulge and promote the "right things" nor the "truths"... to some, they simply think it too taxing on their brain to do so. For many, they simply can't be bothered, as they must get back to the gaming console, or boast about some material objects, of who's almost naked in public, and which entertainer showed more skin than the other. Some are hoodwinked, to think any skinny woman in a posed picture is a image to emulate. To the point people have forgot that a shapely body, does not means the mind is not in a full spin mess. Value of dignity is replaced by provocative poses, and presentations for voyeuristic attraction, until even our young pre-teens are now damaged, by external imagery expectations, rather than being focused on 'character development". Our lust for external measure, has elevated "bullying" into an American past time, while kids are killing themselves, because they were not taught to value their character more than to try and meet some external image or possess some material object. Before kids can learn whom they are and appreciate their God Given uniqueness, they are swamped with fake hair braided onto their heads, and clothing that feeds the fancy of child molesters. they are measured by "their provocativeness"... and trained to ignore character development, and we wonder what has happens to the concern for dignity and integrity. We are as much the problem as we are the problem makers, when we submit ourselves to such cycles of incessant ignorance, which we feed and breed into society.

Delight in being of a short attention span, and continue to boast about how impatient one is to read, and how much delight one takes in selective amnesia... and being filled with haughtiness to the point and consumption that nothing matters, other than the moment and ego elation of ones self.

The Madness Promoted within "Tweets" has blinded us while Policies Devastate Us

We are now regressive in Educational Ranking:
https://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/tag/education/

U.S. now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in Education
http://hechingerreport.org/u-s-now-ranks-near-bottom-among-35-industrialized-nations-math/

We can't build anything and we can't even maintain what those who came before us built.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210451533

Yet.. we spin and find ourselves consumed with The Madness Promoted within "Tweets" has blinded us while Policies Devastate Us

We accept our Official in Governance is being Disgraced with the usage of Tweets to remove people from appointed office, and we 'crack a joke" rather than to be outraged as the disgrace that is being done to our system of governance.
We've accepted Dictatorship... and think it to be something to make a joke about and then spin in denial, while daily, the acts of a Dictator is being accepted as the ways of our Governance.

WHAT DO WE WANT
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210402680


The Madness Promoted within "Tweets" has blinded us while Policies Devastate Us
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The Madness Promoted within "Tweets" has blinded up while Policies Devastate Us (Original Post) Civic Justice Apr 2018 OP
Time to ignore hair twitler and educate people to GOTV BSdetect Apr 2018 #1
Unsuitibly long. Undeniably dense. Irredeemably wordy. Someone's playing a joke on us. marble falls Apr 2018 #2
You were respectfully warned !!! Civic Justice Apr 2018 #3
No..... marble falls Apr 2018 #4
That's it. DV1 Apr 2018 #5
We have to "think through things" and engage dialog that helps us move forward Civic Justice Apr 2018 #7
The Ways if the Trumpster are very simple. gordianot Apr 2018 #6
We allow Trump to control the dialog of the nation Civic Justice Apr 2018 #8
k and r MariaCSR Apr 2018 #9
the young kids from Parkland knew how to make functional use of tools of communication Civic Justice Apr 2018 #10
something for those who want to think ahead Civic Justice Apr 2018 #11
 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
3. You were respectfully warned !!!
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 09:43 AM
Apr 2018

in case you missed it:

WARNING: If you have little patience for reading, thinking and writing, this post will not be suitable to you.


Thank you for contributing ABSOLUTELY Nothing to the subject matter. Why embarrass yourself in such ways. with intent to seem witty, sarcastic and clever, which validates points already made within the writing.

marble falls

(57,106 posts)
4. No.....
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 09:45 AM
Apr 2018

Thank you for contribution (of) ABSOLUTELY Nothing to the subject matter.

You might want to go through your entire mishma, starting with the title and fix more of your mistakes. Pack a lunch.

DV1

(34 posts)
5. That's it.
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 11:06 AM
Apr 2018

That's it.

The question then is whose fault is it that a particular segment of American culture still believes in such? Most readers of DU won't have a difficult time answering that for themselves. But whatever the preferred answer, it's more than clear that such regressiveness has no place in the world at large. If it did, then America's standing in the world would be as relevant as an episode of Duck Dynasty.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
7. We have to "think through things" and engage dialog that helps us move forward
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 01:33 PM
Apr 2018

Last edited Sun Apr 8, 2018, 02:30 PM - Edit history (1)

As a Party as a whole, not just those who engage this website, but the general public as a whole who makes claim to support the Democratic Party...

The best way to help unify is to address the issues that people avoid, face the truths that have been pushed back, avoided and in some cases denied. That takes "dialog"... One liners won't do it, they only patronize those who are within the site, it takes dialog, to discuss the elements and move it into general conversation within the broader public. That means, share links, open subject matter, pursue information and review history and not run from what history has saddled us with. That take courage to address, especially within a society that has been groomed "not to talk about it", "not to review and learn" and "not to consider the value benefit of exposing historical grooming of a prejudice based madness that once swept the country and filled the homes and minds of those within the homes.

That takes "communication" which is willing and ready to be "honest"... it means "changing the paradigm of public dialog"... it means acknowledging what must be acknowledged within society and within ourselves, before we can even begin to fix it.
Un-acknowledged things have not chance of being mended and made better. We as a society move forward with dialog, via the great gift of communication, and we have been blessed to have many means to communicate.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210460510

gordianot

(15,240 posts)
6. The Ways if the Trumpster are very simple.
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 12:11 PM
Apr 2018

Every day Trump is not broke or in jail he wins. This is all about Trump winning he knows he is a crook and he wins with a con. Some dark part of his psyche concedes he is not immortal and like his forebears wants to continue the Trump brand. Trumpism is chaos and the ultimate expression of hedonistic behavior. Unless a lawful Society can stamp out the Trump brand it will return or be replaced by something worse.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
8. We allow Trump to control the dialog of the nation
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 02:00 PM
Apr 2018

Because we don't engage expanding and taking control of our own narrative, far and beyond this website. Many within the site are quick to say... Members of DU know this or that... well why preach to the choir only, when the broader public is not getting the information. Share Links... with those who have never heard of this site, and those who fail to research on their own, and those who have been averse to thinking of the political dynamics. It means, open up conversation and together we take and control the dialog which promotes the narrative.

It can't be done by "one liner's" and those who want to be slap stick comedians... It takes "dialog" which others can engage within their circles and expand beyond their circles.

Sadly, we can do that with "everything Trump says", but we fail to do that with our own dialog, and the support and promotion of our own dialog to open peoples minds, bring them to acknowledge what they may have not acknowledged, and to speak of the truths many have long been groomed to gloss over, push to the back and simply deny. We can talk about any vile and belligerence that Trump says and does, but we can't talk about the vile and belligerence of a past history that led to the existence of Trump being in office and supported by those who refuse to look back at history and see the wrongs.

This site and many within it are quick to talk of their dedication and some come here to push contention upon dialog and any attempts to promote dialog. Some come here as if this is an English class where they can grade grammar, RATHER than engage points and factors to promote the dialog. If one is so smart to see a grammar error, then within their minds they should equally be smart enough to make the mental correction and digest the points and factors. Rather than grandstanding to try and point out some grammatical error. Such infantile insidiousness is among the reasons we have lost control of the public narrative.

Those new to understanding politics and the history of whom we became so distributed, would gain nothing of such, if people continue to come here and not talk about it.

Being a Democrat is more than just saying one is, it is promoting dialog in being a Democrat that others may embrace with those who engage in being a being a Democrat.

Dr. King did not just march.. He talked!!! and He wrote!!! he did not just sling out catch phrase, he explained the make up of what the phrase represents. He did not just talk to the people in the church building, he spoke to people across the nation .... "DIALOG" !!! HE UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF IT.... he did not just glide on assuming and knowing that people knew racism was real... the talked about the ramification of racism and the details of the conduct of racism, and the destructive forces of the presence and acts of racism.... This site often misses it own objective, by being content with "one liner slap stick, while being consumed in being a "responder to Republican Dialog", "rather than a promoter and generator of Democratic dialog. No game is ever won, by being consumed only in playing defense.

No matter how twisted Republican Ideology and Dialog is, they don't attack each other, they are not envious of each other based on who speaks... but this site is full of such... it's too much its own enemy in too many ways that it should not be.
Those who've been here for a term are too busy thinking they are more important than new arrivals, as if they think it a matter of who's got the most credited comments. Rather than focusing on the content and the value of the Democratic Narrative and how to get control of it and promote it.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
10. the young kids from Parkland knew how to make functional use of tools of communication
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 02:28 PM
Apr 2018

We should learn much from them... they took the media apps and used them to build a coalition of following and they did not do so with "slap stick comments", they did with actual "dialog"... "they communicated", they expressed their thoughts, they did not assume everyone knew or everyone was on the same page, they took actions to engage dialog, to promote it and spread it about.

People criticize black people who march and protest, but they know the value of "dialog", a long history of abuse and madness has embedded the understanding of necessity of dialog. many who've never had to face various things, and those who've gotten by on "slap stick comments' and pun and humor... do not realize, when faced with vile and malice of every sort... slap stick does not achieve anything nor does it move the dialog forward about the principles and matter, and it certainly will not command control over the narrative.

IF this party does not learn that and learn it quickly, and take example from the young kids of the value of dialog... then when November comes, we may be faced with the same fragile overconfidence that overtook us in 2016, and brought about a split in the vote that was of the greatest disaster of the 2nd decade of this 21st Century.

the one liner mentality left may to be "swayed by the Republican Drama Spins", and people got caught up in the "name labeling childishness of Trump, and "fell for the fictions about emails"... and never realized they had been set up a year or more ahead by the "drama spins of Benghazi"... which resulted to prove Republican were the responsible ones who should have provided funding for better security... Yet.. people had been INFLUENCED by the incessant Republican control of a smear narrative against Hillary.. that people could not get out of their minds to see the real truths.
We are now nearing a Year and 1/2 and Trump is still controlling the Public Narrative. We can't rely on our Media, it spins every 15 minutes to the next drama spin, and as if they function by daily affliction of Amnesia, they can't remember or carry forth what they presented 2 days ago... They "are selling commercials" at our expense and we fall for it, as if we quickly "forget" becasue we've been groomed to be filled and driven like cattle, because of "Selective Amnesia".

President Obama listed this country out of economic distress, while fighting off republican madness every step, and before his own mid terms, Democrats had forgotten what it took for hims to lift us up, or what it took for him to restore diplomacy internationally, and become over confident and comfortable and lost the Mid Terms. They became Bullied by the Tea Party dominated the Narrative and infecting their minds with doubts... and just like any Bully, they win by making other silent.
Our own Democratic Politicians sat out on the side line, and allowed Tea Party Republican to Control the Narrative, and none would stand up and talk about the achievement of the President Obama's Administration nor talk about the work he did in the face of incessant Republican attacks. We are a greater problem to ourselves, with overconfidence, failure to promote narrative and being bullied into silence by a rabid Republican Machine...

We have a site with the name Democratic Underground, but people will vote more about who cooked a piece of ham, or some silliness about a fact everyone knows, that Trump slept with porn stars and anyone else he could impress with money. many are so afraid that someones post may have lasting power to communicate points and factors, until they refuse to vote, as a means to try and bury it.

Likely, we will see the same conduct at the ballot box... because we have not figured out the value of promoting and controlling the narrative.

Right now we only have a few Democrat Politicians that speak up... the bulk sit silent as if their concern is to protect the gravy train that feeds them in their seat. We can't and don't even know who is a front runner for the Party.
Sander is not it. He's an Independent and only a few days ago blasted the same party he hitched a ride upon, but did not bring his voters to fully support the Democratic Nominee. He instead stayed in the race up to the Convention, when the point of the Convention was to rally around and behind the Nominee. He came with a sour face, as if he was more concerned about his own ego, than the Party Agenda and the Narrative that should have been promoting the Agenda.
Instead, he kept pushing his Independent agenda, until a mass of his voters refused to even vote, others tossed their votes away by casting it to people who had not a snowball in hell's chance to win anything.

We had better figure out what is the value of dialog, and how to promote the narrative of the Party's Platform Agenda items.

Rather than being a reactionary slap stick brigade... to Republicans control of the narrative.



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