I just read a message from Laurie of" People Power", she brought up the Defense Budget. We spend billions on a war economy. I believe we need a shift in what we call National Defense. We should be building our infrastructure, ensure the health and welfare of our citizens and continue to development a sustainable energy plan to protect our environment. our defense should only be sufficient to defend our borders. Any involvement in other nations should be support given with diplomacy and economic assistance. My question .How can we move Congress to change their Narrative on National Defense?
They won’t unless the industrial complex changes to other jobs. Plenty of small town economies depend on military bases and manufacturing facilities and the sale of weapons to other countries amasses wealth for upper tiers of our economy. This is the sad truth. We are empire and war based as a country. God help us.
DT & MAGA’s rise to power was a classic ‘mass movement’ ploy but w/ one oddity. People living in bad situations will follow a leader who promises ‘things will get better’ and/or a ‘return to when things were great’. Trump’s oddity was he convinced his core followers things were bad when in fact, things were good. Now he’s faced with convincing the masses things are good/better when in fact they are not. And even he now admits, things will get worse long before ‘his golden age’ begins. Bottom line: reality will win! Convincing people things are bad when they’re good is much easier than convincing people things are good (or better) when they are not. Do y'all agree 'Reality' is not a narrative DT can control?
Problem is GOP is committed to denying the impacts of climate change. So they will refuse to invest in mitigating natural disasters that comes seasonally. Look at the leaked FEMA town hall.
I just read a message from Laurie of" People Power", she brought up the Defense Budget. We spend billions on a war economy. I believe we need a shift in what we call National Defense. We should be building our infrastructure, ensure the health and welfare of our citizens and continue to development a sustainable energy plan to protect our environment. our defense should only be sufficient to defend our borders. Any involvement in other nations should be support given with diplomacy and economic assistance. My question .How can we move Congress to change their Narrative on National Defense?
National defense policy would certainly be on the agenda in a post-MAGA politics. It's hard to see anything happening before then.
They won’t unless the industrial complex changes to other jobs. Plenty of small town economies depend on military bases and manufacturing facilities and the sale of weapons to other countries amasses wealth for upper tiers of our economy. This is the sad truth. We are empire and war based as a country. God help us.
DT & MAGA’s rise to power was a classic ‘mass movement’ ploy but w/ one oddity. People living in bad situations will follow a leader who promises ‘things will get better’ and/or a ‘return to when things were great’. Trump’s oddity was he convinced his core followers things were bad when in fact, things were good. Now he’s faced with convincing the masses things are good/better when in fact they are not. And even he now admits, things will get worse long before ‘his golden age’ begins. Bottom line: reality will win! Convincing people things are bad when they’re good is much easier than convincing people things are good (or better) when they are not. Do y'all agree 'Reality' is not a narrative DT can control?
Problem is GOP is committed to denying the impacts of climate change. So they will refuse to invest in mitigating natural disasters that comes seasonally. Look at the leaked FEMA town hall.
HOW do we support the lawsuits? We don’t even know what they are.
What recourse does the population have to get around RFK’s irresponsible policies about disease outbreaks? For example, hiding H1N1 in humans?
Can all the illegal EOs be completely reversed?