Deserving our democracy

None of us is really alone.

Are we looking at many many decades of capitalism for its own sake - it's own enrichment? Which has become corporate capitalism in all it's ingloriousness, using the structure of democracy as a springboard and an excuse for rampant richiness. When corporations are so-called people it makes them untouchable in any serious way. These are part of the description of the inner workings of economic moral and Evangelical corruption that is so accepted and so embedded inside so-called accepted law such as Citizens United, Dobbs, Presidential Immunity…each one of these is a bad idea. And why? Because they affront, damage, even disable the ability of this country's citizens to fairly, to hopefully, to more cleanly, to more clearly and easily access the rights and possibilities also clearly intended at the founding of this nation. Do we want to keep it or not?

There is no right to bully people. There is no right to shame people. There is no right to cheat. No right to dominate people. Apparently there is a technical right to lie, and we have to address that one. Seems like a more advanced democracy can be addressing what you might call the finer points like the classic free speech conundrum of yelling fire in a crowded theater, which any sane person would understand is a form of dangerous if not criminal behavior. It seems we quibble over more minor things in order to avoid the major ones. Let's all grow up more, shall we? This New Deal baby anyway has been fed up for quite a long time over stupid ideas that do not nourish the world's original democracy.

I'm pretty sure that a majority of people in this country want to improve all these things. And a lot of the others may just follow when they see the benefits they either take for granted, do not understand, and don't want to do the work to grasp their importance. How about a national all-encompassing movement to help people understand how governments actually work, in reality, for the good of all, at their best and with more involvement from the citizens who are helped by having government that works. It often does and most people who complain simply don't understand that part. Whining. Really? GTFU.