General Discussion

We can continue to fool ourselves and that will be pointless. These senators had a caucus some weeks ago and this was decided. Look who voted for this, people who would not be up for election for 4 years. Fetterman, I could understand as he has become nothing more than a Republican in sheep's clothing but the others no. They have destroyed the political mandate the voters gave them, in essence their base, the ones who took to the streets in protests. Look how mainstream democrats were against that wonderful young New York mayor. We must see it for what it is, the Democratic party is beholding to corporations and the wealthy and not the little guy anymore, it has been corrupted. This is exactly why we lost so many working-class people to trump. It started with Clinton. Obama and Biden attempted to change it but to little avail. It will take great suffering of the masses before they realize the power they hold to overturn this. In this day and age, I doubt a revolution is possible. If people take to the streets, our government has weapons that could neutralize the masses instantly, microwave weapons and sound weapons and I am sure things we do not even know about, so much for your guns. What would work would be a general strike and consumer boycotts, but will people do it while it could be effective, I don't know. As time goes by even that will not work if what economists are warning us about, the real condition of this nation, we are probably heading for a depression not a recession and no one will have money for boycotts to work or jobs to strike at. Basic education and critical thinking have been lacking for some time in America. We have been dumbed down. Civics is no longer taught in high school much less the understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Many Americans don't even know the name of the fifty states or where they are located never mind the rest of the world. They don't know the basics of science or math so how in God's name do we expect them to vote properly. Many don't vote and those uneducated ones who do vote, vote against their own self-interest. If you wonder, why the old folks took to the streets more than the young kids, it is because we were better educated in school. I' m afraid time is running out for our democracy, and I am terribly sorry for our younger generations and the rest of the world.